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2026 5

  1. #34: Bitter Lessoned in Automated Theorem Proving
  2. #33: Interviewing Patrick Wolff for California Insurance Commissioner
  3. #32: Contra Citrini7 (Repost)
  4. #31: Open-Source Software in the Age of AI
  5. #30: A Plea for Silicon Valley to Enter Politics

2025 5

  1. #29: Poison, Poison Everywhere
  2. #28: Sovereignty in the Age of LLMs
  3. #27: Long Google
  4. #26: Bitcoin Without a Fight
  5. #25: Nobody's Thinking Enough About AI

2024 10

  1. #24: Insurance for AI: Easier Said than Done
  2. #23: How to Write a Good Pitch Deck
  3. #22: A Bubble is Rarely A Bubble
  4. #21: Everything we know about LLMs doing Arithmetic
  5. #20: No More EU Fines for Big Tech
  6. #19: Waymo the Leapfrog
  7. #18: The End of Schematic Businesses?
  8. #17: Seriously, what is Intelligence?
  9. #16: Notes on Arithmetic in GPT-4
  10. #15: Maybe You Should Invest in Translation

2023 12

  1. #14: Why Europe Fails to Create Wealth
  2. #13: A Timeline of the OpenAI Board
  3. #12: What I Wanted from WeWork
  4. #11: Approaches to Software Engineering that Worked For Me
  5. #10: Why is there no Government-Built Social Media?
  6. #9: 15 Years of Market Gaps for Browsers and Browser Extensions
  7. #8: Bundling and Unbundling of Email
  8. #7: AI Creates Returns to Taste
  9. #6: Avoid Polish to find Product-Market-Fit
  10. #5: SVB and to Build on the Shoulders of Giants
  11. #4: Bring Back Idiomatic Design
  12. #3: Commonalities among Founders in Music and Software

2022 2

  1. #2: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  2. #1: Facebook's Intimacy Trap