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When To Do What You Love

September 2024There's some debate about whether it's a good idea to "follow your passion." In fact the question is impossible to answer with a simple yes or no. Sometimes you should and sometimes you

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

11th June 2026 After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will deploy pretty much any of them

With the World Cup looming, there’s still no clear replacement for sports Twitter

Three years ago, when the women’s World Cup kicked off in Australia and New Zealand, my social feeds were in a strange place. Twitter had just transformed into X, newcomer Threads was seemingly ascend

In the Age of AI, You Need a Point of View

Whenever there are big changes in the market, there is a lot of uncertainty about what the future might look like. For technology buyers, this uncertainty makes it really hard to make purchase decisio

Content and Community

The old model for content sprung from geographic communities; the new model for content is to be the organizing principle for virtual communities. One of the oldest and most fruitful topics on

Easy is Overrated

“Something is up in academic research,” ​write​ the members of an AI Task Force convened by the journal Organization Science. As they go on to elaborate: “If you are an editor or reviewer at a journal

At least 13 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza after Hamas agree disarmament deal

At least 13 people, including several children, have been killed in the latest strikes on Gaza, Palestinian officials have said. Gaza's Civil Defence Authority said Israeli military aircraft carried o

Prolonged drought could cause shortage of some foods, farmers' union head says

Bradshaw also suggested farmers should be given tax breaks to build water storage systems on their land to prepare for the years ahead."We have taken our food supply for granted for far too long," he

condense-json 1.0

I'm trying to get braver at releasing 1.0 versions. This little library is a year and a half old now - I've applied some sensible and non-disruptive fixes and shipped the big 1.0 for it. Here's an exa

'No guarantees' - joyful Glasgow cannot banish all Commonwealth Games doubts

After Victoria withdrew in 2023, Glasgow answered the SOS call - and organisers say the past 11 days in the Scottish city have "exceeded all expectations".Yes, there have been grumbles - including fro

When Your Imagination Turns Every Problem into a Crisis

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” ~Mark Twain It started with a clogged kitchen drain. Or maybe the drain was where everything else I’d been carrying finally surfa

Open letters about AI development

Open letters about AI development I wrote this summary of the past few weeks of open letters as a section of my sponsors-only newsletter but I've decided to share it here as well. Open Weights and Ame

July 2026 newsletter

2nd August 2026 The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Accidental cyberattacks b

OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra

Astra, a new model that OpenAI is testing internally, is amazing. No denying that:Noam Brown@polynoamialAn internal version of Astra, @OpenAI’s next major model family, solved 10 major open problems i

The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

Mostly young, mostly male Moroccans crawling onto beaches, climbing hills, scaling walls, jumping over fences, surging past police in order to get into Europe: The photographs and videos that emerged

Dulles Forever

Updated at 8:32 p.m. ET on August 2, 2026A couple of years ago, squinting into the morning sun on a Dulles International Airport people mover after arriving from London, I found myself chatting with a

Let Them Eat Gold

When you approach the freshly gilded twin statues near the Lincoln Memorial, there is no mistaking that they are gold. Very, very gold. Distractingly gold—or, more precisely, covered in 23.75-karat go

Asian stocks are mixed as yen jumps against the dollar, while oil prices slip

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]   BANGKOK (AP) — Asian s

Maryland lawmakers to consider steps toward partisan redistricting for 2028

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]   Maryland lawmakers wil

At colleges, the AI boom means everyone wants to dabble in computer science

With no background in coding, Faith Maeba, a psychology major, was reluctant when her mother first suggested she enroll in classes on artificial intelligence.But the senior at Virginia Commonwealth Un

Rachika Nayar’s Heaven Come Crashing is an instrumental epic of desperate longing

Two minutes and thirty seconds into the title track of Rachika Nayar’s Heaven Come Crashing, an absolutely massive drum and bass beat drops. As a fan of Nayar’s debut record Our Hands Against The Dusk

Rachika Nayar’s Heaven Come Crashing is an instrumental epic of desperate longing

Two minutes and thirty seconds into the title track of Rachika Nayar’s Heaven Come Crashing, an absolutely massive drum and bass beat drops. As a fan of Nayar’s debut record Our Hands Against The Dusk

Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI

Fender CEO Edward “Bud” Cole gave an interview to T3 in May celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster with comments on AI and music that initially flew under the radar. But it has started mak

Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI

Fender CEO Edward “Bud” Cole gave an interview to T3 in May celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster with comments on AI and music that initially flew under the radar. But it has started mak

Xbox prices are increasing by up to €200 or £170

Skip to main contentMicrosoft’s struggling console continues to see unprecedented price bumps.Microsoft’s struggling console continues to see unprecedented price bumps.by Terrence O'BrienAug 2, 2026,

Xbox prices are increasing by up to €200 or £170

Skip to main contentMicrosoft’s struggling console continues to see unprecedented price bumps.Microsoft’s struggling console continues to see unprecedented price bumps.by Terrence O'BrienAug 2, 2026,

Foldables are sort of boring now — and that’s great news for Apple

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on smartphones and Android, follow Dominic Preston. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ i

Minister sprawiedliwości chce zaostrzyć kary dla pijanych kierowców. Nowe przepisy mają ograniczyć pobłażliwość sądów

Projekt zakłada przede wszystkim wprowadzenie obowiązkowej kary bezwzględnego pozbawienia wolności dla kierowców, którzy prowadzą pojazd w stanie nietrzeźwości lub pod wpływem środków odurzających, ła

Pięć spółek, które warto mieć na radarze w sierpniu 2026 r. Dużo się dzieje wokół nich

3 sierpnia 2026, 6:21. 6 min czytania Zaskakujące przejęcie popularnej sieci sklepów, rekordowe notowania brokera i bardzo optymistyczne prognozy dla jednej

Kolejny tydzień obniżek cen. Dobre wieści ze sklepów [Koszyk zakupowy Business Insidera i aplikacji PanParagon]

Za tradycyjny koszyk podstawowych produktów spożywczych płacimy średnio 96 zł i 31 gr — wynika z danych aplikacji PanParagon przygotowanych specjalnie dla Business Insider Polska. To o 1,5 zł mni

Stock market turmoil sheds stark light on the opaque AI economy

Even for the rollercoaster world of AI, last week was particularly volatile as investors scrambled to keep up with developments that threatened the dominance of the largest western chipmakers.It began

“I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.” – Ralph Lauren

I’m on a Ralph Lauren kick. The entrepreneur, not the brand (but I am also very into that, too!). One concept that he’s turned me onto: designing your life to be like a movie, and you’re the star. I’v

Strategic choices: When both options are good

Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences—even the painful ones you don’t like. All day, everyone at the company makes decisions, independentl

The Right Kind of Stubborn

July 2024Successful people tend to be persistent. New ideas often don't work at first, but they're not deterred. They keep trying and eventually find something that does.Mere obstinacy, on the other h

Will having kids make me richer and happier?

My new baby is about 3 weeks today. She’s our first child. I’m talking on the podcast today about my experience so far as it’s my first day back. Here are the notes for the podcast. The volume of lov

Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead

December 6, 2016 Reading time: 3 min by Jason Cohen on December 6, 2016 Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning. Worrying is a self-fulfi