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Posts by Rick Minerich

Putting toys in your children’s bookstore is a potentially bad strategy. Yes you probably make more sales as a percentage of people entering the store. You don’t get to see the people who never come in because the toys will distract the kids from book buying.

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I have this 2018 Honda Fit. I use it to take the kids to school down the street. Everyone else showing up in their massive SUVs and us in this tiny car, I think it’s funny.

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What If Death Was Optional?
What If Death Was Optional? YouTube video by CGP Grey

It's a good time to watch the Fable of the Dragon Tyrant again www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYN...

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this is how we used to onboard new devs in the 2000s

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I think it could be ok if they used expensive ingredients

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I bought some reduced fat sour cream to improve my diet and it’s literally some of the saddest food I’ve ever eaten. Up there with non-alcoholic beer.

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The madman finally did it

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Yes but having kids I’d never keep pottery I care about.

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Something like effective agency, are there any actual avenues for you to exercise agency within. Freedom as opportunity-space maybe.

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There is another dimension to freedom I’m thinking about, if you are forced to work you are not free, if you don’t have to work you are free, what if your don’t have to work and would-be work is meaningless or unnecessary, it almost seems like another type of slavery, or at least a kind of trap.

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Asking my wife to review my Weee order

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Have you seen a more badass book cover?

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What if instead of a paperclip maximizer we're building a claude tokens maximizer.

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What if instead of building a paperclip maximizer, we're building a Claude tokens maximizer?

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Am I the only one who thought the Anthropic constitution was kind of lame? Like way below the qualify of the other work I’ve seen come out of @anthropic.com

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You know MistralAI really missed the mark by not naming their first image input capable model “Eurovision"

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Is Claude it's last name or first name? Should I be calling it "Mr. Opus Claude"?

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Are you ready for claudepocolype

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Neat thanks

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Install?

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I’ve been checking but not a lot of content to engage with

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I’ve been saying this the whole time! Could anything be so obvious?

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Asian Pears are looking good this year, it's their season now if you want to buy some

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I caught my daughter reading her first no pictures book today: “Daddy, it’s like you said, I can see the book inside my head!”

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Post: what I think good looks like with regard to model context management craftingteams.substack.com/p/what-about...

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Why the vast majority of AI startups are doomed

Why the vast majority of AI startups are doomed

The big problem facing many 1-2 year out AI startups, just starting to get real customer traction craftingteams.substack.com/p/the-opposi...

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New post about the problems in apply a single AI query over some large number of records open.substack.com/pub/crafting...

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This is the good shit right here

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Semi-recent book purchases

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My Crash Course AI Study Buddy How I've been studying with ChatGPT (GPT-5) Voice Mode

I had already written most of this post before hearing on the recent 80K podcast that Neel Nanda (the head of Google Deepmind interpretability team) takes a similar approach to studying with AI, but it was certainly validating to hear it craftingteams.substack.com/p/my-crash-c...

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