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.
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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.
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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:.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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bigger firms are higher productivity; helping them get big is a great economic intervention
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4/7 - Book Review: The Rise Of Christianity - @slatestarcodex . super long but mildly interesting; it is crazy that this religion went from 1k to 6M followers in 300 years.
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super long but mildly interesting; it is crazy that this religion went from 1k to 6M followers in 300 years
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