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Who's a better writer: AI or me? Part 2
The NYT says people can't tell AI from human writing. We disagree. A close reading that will ruin AI writing for you forever.
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What Could Happiness Cost—$10 Million?
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The Permanent Underclass Has Good GMAT Scores
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How To Spend Your 20s & 30s in the AI Era
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Dropping Out and Other Low-Risk Life Decisions
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Dropping Out and Other Low-Risk Life Decisions
Risk has never been cheaper, yet commitment has never been harder. On the Thiel Fellowship, the dizziness of freedom, and Silicon Valley accidentally…
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Keeping your head on straight between credentials and Claude Code. tldr; go swimming anyway
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It be like WHAT sometimes
On the limits of meme-speak and why we don't just say what we really mean
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What Could Happiness Cost—$10 Million?
How Silicon Valley's wealth culture distorts our definition of "enough," and how ambition might regain its imagination.
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What I Learned from Two Years of DisOrientation
A last lecture on having the courage to ask who you're writing your story for and rewriting it, even if it feels too late
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Who's a better writer: AI or me? Part 2
The NYT says people can't tell AI from human writing. We disagree. A close reading that will ruin AI writing for you forever.
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Who's a better writer: AI or me?
We took the NYT's viral AI writing quiz and (surprise!) have many, many thoughts
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