Good tokens 7-11-2026

Worth your time

Lyman Stone on where modern parents are wasting their efforts. Peer effects are very strong and you have decent control over your children’s peers (and your own peers too).

I sell onions on the internet.

Climate change probably won’t kill us all.

Uri Bram: The gods hate hoarders, said my excellent one-time poetry teacher, and grant creativity only to those who trust them to grant more, and so I ultimately think my previous policy was sacrilegious.

What’s going on with the taste of chocolate?

Some thoughts about Anthropic’s new cryptanalysis results. My takeaway from this is that at least with current models, LLMs and human expertise are complements rather than substitutes.

The science of going viral.

Friend of the blog Kenneth Auchenberg: AX is not the new DX, it’s the new UX. This has been incredibly influential on me as I build Moviestar and Agentcad.

Things I learned

I’m facing the realization there is unlikely to be a 52 things I learned in 2026 this year. I’ve been spending more time building with AI and less time reading / writing and it shows.

60% of all Pokemon cards were printed in the past 5 years. Crémieux.

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