It's the McMindfulness guy, nice to see that he is still kicking around.
In Empire of AI, she shows how CEO Sam Altman cloaks monopoly ambitions in humanitarian language—his soft-spoken, monkish image (gosh, little Sammy even practices mindfulness!)
lol ofc he does
If you liked Brooks, you might give Gerald Weinberg a try. A bit more folksy / less corporate.
I associate Clausewitz (and especially John Boyd) references more with a Palantir / Stratfor / Booz / LE-MIC-consulting class compared to your typical bay area YC techbro in the US, and a very different crowd over in AU / NZ where grognards probably outnumber the actual military. LWers never bring up Clausewitz either but love Sun Tzu. But as far as software strategy posts go, I'd much rather read a Clausewitz tie-in than, say, Mythical Man Month or Agile anything.
Pam Samuelson (UC Berkeley) has a nice explainer on AI copyright - https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/does-using-in-copyright-works-as-training-data-infringe/
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/michigan/miedce/4:2025cv11168/384571/176/
Consistent with Magistrate Judge Patti’s warning that each AI citation might incur a cost of $200 per citation, the court adopts that amount and imposes a fine of $300 per Plaintiff (a total of $600) for three misrepresented, AI-generated citations.
lol
He came by campus last spring and did a reading, very solid and surprisingly well-attended talk.
Bubble or Nothing | Center for Public Enterprise h/t The Syllabus, dry but good.
Data centers are, first and foremost, a real estate asset
They specifically note that after the 2-5 year mini-perm the developers are planning on dumping the debt into commercial mortgage backed securities. Echoes of 2008.
However, project finance lawyers have mentioned that many data center project finance loans are backed not just by the value of the real estate but by tenants’ cash flows on “booked-but-not-billing” terms — meaning that the promised cash flow need not have materialized.
Echoes of Enron.
Best part is the footnote:
About 20 years ago, some spammers came up with a bright idea for circumventing spam filters: they took a bootleg copy of my book Cryptonomicon and chopped it up into paragraph-length fragments, then randomly appended one such fragment to the end of each spam email they sent out. As you can imagine, this was surreal and disorienting for me when pitches for herbal Viagra and the like started landing in my Inbox with chunks of my own literary output stuck onto the ends. Come to think of it, most of those fragments actually did stop in mid-sentence, so I guess if today’s LLMs trained on old email archives it would explain why they “think” I write that way.
He somehow did an ad read in the middle of a substack post. Sign of the times.
Corey Quinn wrote a spite-driven-dev cli for it - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/coquinn_im-humbled-to-announce-that-after-launching-activity-7397400805458395137-73Ua
h/t YT recommender, mildly unhinged: The Secret Religion of Silicon Valley: Nick Land's Antichrist Blueprint
Well, that explains things.
Is this some CCRU lore I'm not aware of?