Nate Foss
@_npfoss
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MIT '20, cofounder emeritus at @gather_town. too busy learning and building to tweet
head in clouds, feet on ground
Joined October 2021
Signal boosting some stuff I found novel and/or interesting in the past few months some real bangers this month: media manipulation, megaprojects, strategy gospel, and great civilization cycles https://t.co/UFvqtXUrMG
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optimized for "novel and interesting"
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I’m excited today to share Grapevine, a system that makes it really easy for AI agents to search company knowledge across, Slack, Notion, codebase, and more. The first app we’re launching with it is a company GPT that works remarkably well, better than any alternative today.
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Alarmingly plausible timeline I'd expect it to play out a bit slower than they do, but the overall trajectories seem pretty convincing actually?
A year before ChatGPT Daniel wrote "What 2026 Looks Like" which foretold the rise of chatbots, chain-of-thought, inference scaling, and more. But it stopped before AGI. Now I've worked with him to write a sequel. Read AI 2027 to see how AI takeover could actually happen.
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bonus shoutout to the new @SentinelTeamHQ newsletter -- really high quality, better signal-to-noise ratio than any news publication by far a massive public good I'm proud to do my part in supporting
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Signal boosting some stuff I found novel and/or interesting in the past few months quality takes on nuclear waste, construction costs, AI, individualism, DOGE, startups, energy, cults, sci-fi, cities, and catastrophic risk https://t.co/8XtqiCMo0j
reading-log.npfoss.com
optimized for "novel and interesting"
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I've been collecting these notes and ratings for four years -- and everything is in a nice, searchable table here: https://t.co/swjKH9StRI
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This is my curated personal reading log; a collection of media I thought was worth saving because it was novel, interesting, thought provoking, or well written. I read a lot, but less than 10% of...
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7/7 - Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed - @RayDalio best articulation of this I've heard; very important https://t.co/i3BWOnl4zY
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best articulation of this I've heard; very important
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6/7 - Amp It Up! eloquent and forceful emphasis on performance culture https://t.co/kwC2fcDoUn
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eloquent and forceful emphasis on performance culture
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4/7 - How to activate your investor network ask questions, targeted ones, and do it well https://t.co/iB3EsObUx1
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ask questions, targeted ones, and do it well
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4/7 - Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review - @Cloudflare mildly interesting internet traffic stats https://t.co/c5dswoSZ4c
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mildly interesting internet traffic stats
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4/7 - Escape to the country - @WorksInProgMag England tried to make a bunch of New Towns, but only the ones close to big cities did well https://t.co/qABh4tp40a
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England tried to make a bunch of New Towns, but only the ones close to big cities did well
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4/7 - Do US states have different recoveries from economic shocks? - @BrookingsEcon yes; varies because of industry composition; but that has been homogenizing and variance decreasing https://t.co/P9E4HgjPbe
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yes; varies because of industry composition; but that has been homogenizing and variance decreasing
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5/7 - Desalination: a Future of Infinite Water - @tomaspueyo desalination is cheaper than the current cost of water in many large cities, by a meaningful factor https://t.co/R3rOLeDjAV
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desalination is cheaper than the current cost of water in many large cities, by a meaningful factor
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4/7 - ARM & SoftBank - @AcquiredFM Arm is a pretty interesting company, they're everywhere https://t.co/phL7sGv7P3
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Arm is a pretty interesting company, they're everywhere
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5/7 - It’s the Corruption, Stupid - @ezraklein good perspective from Rahm Emanuel, accomplished Democratic strategist https://t.co/SgyiLh6fyh
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good perspective from Rahm Emanuel, accomplished Democratic strategist
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6/7 - Prison And Crime: Much More Than You Wanted To Know - @slatestarcodex excellent review which actually was quite dense and told me exactly the amount I wanted to know. conclusion: police are more cost effective than prisons anyway https://t.co/cVm1ZC3lIq
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excellent review which actually was quite dense and told me exactly the amount I wanted to know. conclusion: police are more cost effective than prisons anyway
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4/7 - The Wrong Kind of City? - @asteriskmgzn differences between cities that grow and cities that don't https://t.co/pRly7DsXOV
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differences between cities that grow and cities that don't
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5/7 - Want Growth? Kill Small Businesses - @asteriskmgzn bigger firms are higher productivity; helping them get big is a great economic intervention https://t.co/KCKRPR6Yyw
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bigger firms are higher productivity; helping them get big is a great economic intervention
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