The Verification Bottleneck: Why AI's Real Cost Is Human Attention
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BlackRock Steps Back from ESG Push
Raj Shekhar
In a recent interview, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, signaled a shift in tone. The firm, once a strong advocate of ESG and DEI, is now taking a more “pragmatic” approach. Fink described the “woke” phase as part of a cycle and suggested it may have gone too far. Looking past the word soup: what...
The power of trust in global Influence
Raj Shekhar
From the Bloomberg opinion piece: America Is Depleting a More Powerful Weapon Than Its Missiles (the answer is: belief in the truth of what the leader of the US tells the world about the war, peace and everything else.) an interesting tit-bit: Contrary to the illusion held by many Americans,...
Tiny transmitter could help scientists understand surprisingly social wasps
Raj Shekhar
https://spectrum.ieee.org/rf-tags-wasps An ultralightweight radio-frequency tag designed to be worn by a paper wasp may help scientists get a glimpse at some basic behavioral information that’s long been missing: where do the animals go when they leave the nest? Getting the right...
AI is for humanity
Raj Shekhar
Interesting reflection from , John Palfrey after attending the AI summit in Delhi: In Delhi, the big sessions had thousands. And the man who ran the event told me that more than a million people, mostly from India, had passed through the gates of the massive convention center during the week....
Don’t let the llm rush you
Raj Shekhar
Sage advice from scripting.com A bit of general advice about using ChatGPT et al, never let it rush you. You do the thinking, it does the stuff you ask it to do. If you’re not careful it’ll quickly start giving you orders.
Postmortem from 2028
Raj Shekhar
From The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis: A Thought Exercise In Financial History, From The Future What follows is a scenario, not a prediction. [...] A competent developer working with Claude Code or Codex could now replicate the core functionality of a mid-market SaaS product in weeks. Not...
Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS
Raj Shekhar
Mind blown by this sneakiness Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger who wrote a post in 2023 about the mysterious website’s anonymous maintainer....
ops is not a dirty word
Raj Shekhar
From https://charity.wtf/2026/01/19/bring-back-ops-pride-xpost/ What’s wrong with operations? Ops is not a synonym for toil; it literally means “get shit done as efficiently as possible”. Every function has an operational component at scale: business ops, marketing ops, sales ops, product ops,...
The Hidden Tax on Indian Ambition
Raj Shekhar
Photo by Lukas Kienzler on Unsplash I spent years losing time I'll never get back. In Bangalore, 117 hours a year stuck in traffic. In Delhi, 76 hours. That's nearly three full days annually spent breathing exhaust fumes, watching productivity evaporate, and feeling ambition slowly suffocate...
Link: I lost 40 pounds on Ozempic. But I’m left with even more questions.
Danny Silverman
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Link: I’m a Climate Scientist. I’m Not Screaming Into the Void Anymore.
Danny Silverman
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/opinion/climate-change-report-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU0.X2G8.juviC_9Iv2fT&smid=url-share A smidge of hope for a better future.
Link: The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think
Danny Silverman
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Link: Heather Armstrong, a.k.a. Dooce, was real and raw. And we loved her.
Danny Silverman
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/10/heather-armstrong-dooce-death-suicide/
Link: The ‘End’ of COVID Is Still Far Worse Than We Imagined
Danny Silverman
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/covid-pandemic-end-worse-than-flu/671514/ A brief, no-nonsense rundown of the various stages of the pandemic leading to the “new normal” of today. My biggest takeaway from the article is the reinforcement of the idea that neither total...
Link: What my garden taught me about infertility
Danny Silverman
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/08/gardening-infertility-nothing-grows/
Link: The Case Against Crypto
Danny Silverman
Link: https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/against-crypto.html
Link: Flowers in the dark – notes from the infusion center
Danny Silverman
Link: https://www.flowersforsickpeople.org/ A poignant meditation on living with chronic illness.
Link: The FDA vs. cost-benefit analysis
Danny Silverman
Link: https://www.slowboring.com/p/fda-cost-benefit “In the long run, I think the way technocratic institutions safeguard their independence and build their legitimacy is by doing a good job. You want people to think ‘these guys seem like they know what they are doing.'”
Link: Instagram Has Become SkyMall
Danny Silverman
Link: https://clivethompson.medium.com/instagram-has-become-skymall-68b9f2fbbc30 “Maybe this is a glimpse of the inevitable heat-death of ecommerce: Bots trying to convince other bots to buy stuff no humans would ever click on.”