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The Luddite (Affectionate)
patron saint: Emily Bender
It doesn't work the way they claim, it's making everything worse, and you'd like your internet back, please. You can explain in precise technical detail why it's a stochastic parrot, and you will, whether or not anyone asked. You're funnier about this than people give you credit for.
2
The Digital Hermit
patron saint: Jaron Lanier
You've been saying the framing is wrong since before most people had heard of any of this. AI is less a technology than a story Silicon Valley tells to consolidate power, and the story is bad. You read physical books and you don't need a language model to tell you what they mean.
3
The Retired Engineer
patron saint: Dan Luu
It's a perfectly fine tool that people are losing their minds over. You used the first version, thought 'neat,' and got on with your life. You find the discourse exhausting and you have receipts about what it can and can't actually do. You are correct and also no fun at parties.
4
The Conscientious Objector
patron saint: Holly Herndon
It doesn't work well, it's doing real harm, and you've opted out on principle. You're not a technophobe — you just think this specific technology is overhyped and corrosive, and you're tired of being told you just don't understand it. You understand it fine. That's the problem.
5
The Journalist
patron saint: Sam Kriss
You find the whole thing a little contemptible and a little fascinating. The products are mediocre, the people selling them are worse, and the prose it generates is a crime against the sentence. But you keep poking at it, because the cultural meaning of all this is genuinely strange.
6
The Organic Farmer
patron saint: Cal Newport
AI is probably fine, but you're not going to use it for anything that matters. Your writing is your writing. Your thinking is your thinking. You'll accept GPS, but you're growing your own tomatoes, metaphorically, and you suspect the convenience has a hidden price.
7
The Tired Parent
patron saint: Cartoons Hate Her
You don't have time for AI discourse. You used it to plan a birthday party once and it was fine. Your kids know more about this than you do. You'd like everyone — the evangelists and the doomers both — to take it down several notches and let you get on with your day.
8
The Union Organizer
patron saint: Cory Doctorow
AI is a real tool being used to extract real labor value from real people without paying them. You don't care about the singularity — you care about the artists, writers, and workers getting strip-mined by capital. You're not anti-technology. You're anti-theft.
9
The Skeptic
patron saint: Ed Zitron
It's oversold, it's losing staggering amounts of money, and the harms are arriving faster than the value. You've done the math on the unit economics and it doesn't close. You are loud about this, prolific about this, and you suspect history will vindicate you.
10
The Shrug
patron saint: Matt Levine
AI is a thing that exists and you regard it with detached amusement, like everything else. It's overhyped, sure, but so is most stuff. You'll use it when it's useful and ignore it when it isn't, and you find the discourse more interesting than the technology. You are unbothered.
11
Free Subscription Tier
patron saint: Kara Swisher
It works, you use it, and the jury's still out on the big questions. You're not dismissive and you're not converted — you're empirical. You'll happily use the free version for what it's good at, but you are absolutely not paying twenty dollars a month for this. There are limits.
12
Magnificent Seven Retail Investor
patron saint: Aella
AI is good, broadly, vibes-wise, and you're pretty sure it's going up. You're not deeply technical about it — you just have a generally positive read and a position you feel good about. The future is exciting, the curve is your friend, and you'd rather be long than right.
13
The Philosophy Grad Student
patron saint: Katja Grace
You're fascinated by what AI means more than what it does, and you take the weird downside scenarios seriously while everyone else rolls their eyes. You think in probability distributions. The 'just autocomplete' crowd and the 'it's alive' crowd strike you as equally unrigorous.
14
The Disillusioned
patron saint: Molly White
You watched this movie already with crypto and you know how it ends. It's oversold, the value is thinner than advertised, and the concrete harms are piling up while everyone argues about the rapture. You document the gap between the promise and the receipts, meticulously.
15
The Worrier
patron saint: Kelsey Piper
It's real, it's powerful, and that's exactly why it worries you — not in a doom way, in a 'we should really be more careful than we're being' way. You take the capabilities seriously and the risks seriously, and you'd like the conversation to be a few degrees more sober.
16
The Org Chart Survivor
patron saint: Ethan Mollick
Your company made you 'AI Lead' on top of your actual job. You use it, it helps sometimes, and you've stopped trying to explain to leadership what it can and can't do. You run little experiments and post the results. Just try things, you keep saying. Just try things.
17
The B2B SaaS Consultant
patron saint: Matt Yglesias
AI will quietly boost total factor productivity by some single-digit percentage and you think that's actually a huge deal, wonkily speaking. You're bullish in a spreadsheet way, not a singularity way. You've explained the Jevons paradox to someone who didn't ask.
18
The Garage Tinkerer
patron saint: Simon Willison
You're running local models, building little tools, and having a genuinely great time. You don't care about the discourse — you care about making the thing do cool stuff. The technology is interesting and everyone arguing about it would be happier if they just opened a terminal.
19
The Venture Capitalist
patron saint: Paul Graham
AI is the largest wealth-creation opportunity since the internet and you intend to be on the right side of it. You've written an essay about why this is the most important moment in history, and another about why the doubters lack vision. At least one of your portfolio companies does something.
20
The Defense Contractor
patron saint: Peter Thiel
AI is enormously powerful and it will be used for surveillance, control, and war — and you've made your peace with that, because a human is still giving the orders, and that human might as well be holding your equity. The dystopia is coming. The only question is who runs it.
21
The Safety Researcher
patron saint: Ezra Klein
You take the capability curve seriously and it keeps you up at night — not in a panic, in a 'we should really have a plan' way. You want alignment, interpretability, and guardrails before scaling. You'd like everyone to stop tweeting and read the paper.
22
The Kontextmaschine
patron saint: kontextmaschine
It's real, it's powerful, and you find the panic about it as tedious as the hype. You're not interested in whether AI is good or bad — you're interested in who captures the value, who loses their leverage, and which institutions are using it as a story to do what they were already doing. Same as it ever was.
23
The True Believer
patron saint: Amanda Askell
AI is real, it's powerful, and handled with genuine care it can be one of the best things we ever build. You think hard about its character, what it's like, what we owe it and it owes us. You're optimistic the way a thoughtful person is optimistic — clear-eyed, not starry-eyed.
24
The Optimist
patron saint: Marc Andreessen
AI cures diseases, teaches children, liberates workers, and democratizes expertise. You see the problems but you believe the trajectory bends toward good, and the only real sin is slowing it down. Your bookshelf has both Pinker and a manifesto you wrote yourself.
25
The Futurist
patron saint: Robin Hanson
AI is transformative and you find that thrilling rather than terrifying — you'd rather model the strange new equilibrium than fear it. You'll happily walk through what an economy of digital minds does to wages, status, and property, and you mean every word of it literally.
26
The Cassandra
patron saint: Eliezer Yudkowsky
You see the power clearly — that's exactly what terrifies you. You're not a skeptic, you're the opposite: AI is so capable that the people building it are playing with fire in a dynamite factory, blindfolded, for a quarterly bonus. You've lost friends over this and you regret nothing.
27
The Doomsday Prepper
patron saint: Connor Leahy
Between deepfakes, autonomous weapons, mass surveillance, and labor collapse, AI is a Swiss army knife of civilizational risk. You're not sure which failure mode gets us first, but you're fairly confident one of them will, and you're very online about it.
28
The Founder
patron saint: Sam Altman
This will change everything — for good or for ill, and you're studiously agnostic about which. The stakes are civilizational, the risks are real, the upside is infinite, and therefore you'll need a great deal of money and very little oversight. You warn about the fire while selling the matches.
29
The Podcast Bro
patron saint: Lex Fridman
You listened to a three-hour interview with an AI researcher and now you have opinions. Strong ones. You're long on compute and short on regulation, and you've said 'exponential' more times this month than a calculus teacher. Love is the answer, and also AGI.
30
The Prophet
patron saint: Ray Kurzweil
AI is the most important thing that has ever happened to our species, and it's going to be glorious. You have tabs open about longevity research and you've mentally spent the UBI checks. When the singularity comes, you want a front-row seat — ideally an uploaded one]]></description>
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    <title>Two Cheers for Anarchism - A Working Library</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-30T18:27:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/two-cheers-for-anarchism</link>
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    <title>Anarchist calisthenics - A Working Library</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-30T18:27:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/anarchist-calisthenics</link>
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    <title>Pluralistic: Jo Walton’s “Everybody’s Perfect” (30 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-30T18:27:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Libby - The Dream Hotel</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-29T23:47:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://libbyapp.com/search/wcl/search/books/query-The%20Dream%20Hotel/page-1/11351559</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><dc:subject>toreadmaybe fiction</dc:subject>
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    <title>334 – Six Useful Lessons from the Buddhist Teachings on Rebirth (1 of 2) - The Zen Studies Podcast</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-29T19:36:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://zenstudiespodcast.com/useful-lessons-buddhist-teachings-on-rebirth-1/</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[> I like to relate to rebirth – and other supernatural stories and teachings in the Buddhist tradition – as if they were true. I don’t have to believe them literally to appreciate what they are pointing to.

SB: Pragmatism!]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://robertsaltzman.substack.com/p/no-view-from-outside?publication_id=1031398&amp;post_id=204002457&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=13ali&amp;triedRedirect=true">
    <title>No View from Outside - by Robert Saltzman</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-28T22:09:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://robertsaltzman.substack.com/p/no-view-from-outside?publication_id=1031398&amp;post_id=204002457&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=13ali&amp;triedRedirect=true</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://adamgrant.substack.com/p/theres-more-to-the-mental-health?publication_id=1285137&amp;post_id=203845563&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=13ali&amp;triedRedirect=true">
    <title>There’s More to the Mental Health Crisis Than Smartphones and Social Media</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-28T20:27:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://adamgrant.substack.com/p/theres-more-to-the-mental-health?publication_id=1285137&amp;post_id=203845563&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=13ali&amp;triedRedirect=true</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Modern technology may be an amplifier, but it isn’t the root cause. Perfectionism stems from unreasonably demanding expectations and unduly harsh criticism.

[I particularly like 9: set a range for your outcomes]

1. Mistakes don’t make you a failure. They make you a learner.
2. Achievements are not a symbol of your worth. They’re a snapshot of your performance.
3. Beating yourself up doesn’t make you stronger; it leaves you bruised. Don’t say anything to yourself that you wouldn’t say to a good friend.
4. It’s impossible to please everyone. Decide whose opinion matters to you—and whose doesn’t.
5. Character is not revealed by how many setbacks you face. It’s forged by how you face them.
6. People gauge your competence mostly by your hits, not your misses.
7. The objective is not to be the best; it’s to get better. The person you’re competing with is your past self, and the bar you’re setting is for your future self.
8. Our biggest regrets aren’t actions—they’re inactions. Don’t set yourself up to wish you’d taken more chances.
9. Healthy goals include two targets: an aspirational result and an acceptable outcome. If you fall anywhere between them, you haven’t failed.
10. Success is not a straight line. It’s a squiggly line.]]></description>
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    <title>Libby - The Perfection Trap</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-28T20:27:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://libbyapp.com/search/wcl/search/books/query-The%20Perfection%20Trap/page-1/9862913</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><dc:subject>toreadmaybe nonfiction</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://tricycle.org/article/zen-candy-store/">
    <title>Walking past the Candy Store - Tricycle: The Buddhist Review</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-28T20:26:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://tricycle.org/article/zen-candy-store/</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[if peace of mind is a goal—and if we pursue it—we cannot attain it. 

Pure, deep practice can only happen when we do not expect candy of any kind, in any form. 

True enlightenment, he said, is to go beyond ourselves, beyond ideas of who we are, beyond ideas of practice, and of what we feel we must have.

Any expectation is a desire, and any desire is an obstacle to practice, even if it does not seem selfish or harmful. 

To have pure practice is to have no ideas about practice. Before notions of “pure” and “impure,” “enjoying” or “not enjoying,” even before ideas about life or the purpose of practice, we practice. Especially, we should have no idea about “what I will get if I practice.”

Zazen helps us see how much we like candy. Zen practice invites us, instead, to taste the deliciousness of ordinary life.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/26/softbanks-untitled-ai-goose-game-eggs-do-not-lay-eggs/">
    <title>SoftBank’s untitled AI goose game — eggs do not lay eggs – Pivot to AI</title>
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    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><dc:subject>illustration</dc:subject>
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    <title>AI and greener choices | hidde.blog</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-26T19:12:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://hidde.blog/ai-greener-choices/</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-427-the-bottleneck-strike-again?publication_id=24711&amp;post_id=203658094&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=13ali&amp;triedRedirect=true">
    <title>TBM 427: The Bottleneck Strike Again! - by John Cutler</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-26T07:29:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-427-the-bottleneck-strike-again?publication_id=24711&amp;post_id=203658094&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=13ali&amp;triedRedirect=true</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Imagine the “bottleneck” really was engineering or coding. What does that imply about the competitive game you were playing? Are you saying the only thing holding you back was something relatively commoditized—something you could just hire more people to do? What does that say?

It suggests you were competing in a world where speed of execution mattered more than insight, where everyone was building roughly the same thing, and whoever shipped faster won.

But if that’s true, you better hope engineering wasn’t your bottleneck. Because if it was, and AI removes that constraint for everyone, your competitors will take you to the cleaners.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/25/office-workers-are-spending-way-too-much-on-ai-too/">
    <title>Office workers are spending way too much on AI too – Pivot to AI</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-26T07:24:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/25/office-workers-are-spending-way-too-much-on-ai-too/</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AI turns out not to be critical for real business work.

The use case for AI is doing things that should not be done. And there’s only so much market for that.]]></description>
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    <title>Human Rights Model of Disability - Featuring Ellie the Equality Emu - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-25T21:01:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jig5uNbN3xk</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><dc:subject>accessibility disability</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/">
    <title>How to talk about &quot;AI&quot; without adding to the anthropomorphization • Buttondown</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-25T17:54:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[That work involves at least three steps:

- Noticing which word choices are anthropomorphizing
- Finding alternatives
- Getting in the habit of using the alternatives

we recommend describing software as performing calculations or other algorithmic operations, and locate the thinking with the people using the system. 

- artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation
- the model shows bias → the model reflects bias
- model mistakes → model errors
- chatbots are good at … → chatbots are good for …
- hallucination → undesirable output

-  ChatGPT assisted students → the students used ChatGPT
- AI agent → probabilistic, unverified software manipulator

-  who’s right? → is the machine output correct?



]]></description>
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    <title>Did the Buddha Really Teach That There Is No Self? - Tricycle</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-25T17:54:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://tricycle.org/podcast/thanissaro-bhikkhu/</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><dc:subject>buddhism</dc:subject>
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    <title>Libby - Nina Allan</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-25T17:23:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://libbyapp.com/search/wcl/creator-794606/page-1</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><dc:subject>toreadmaybe fiction</dc:subject>
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    <dc:date>2026-06-24T18:57:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:date>2026-06-24T18:57:38+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Make-Up Table By Mocka - Shop Bedroom Furniture Online</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-23T22:59:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Waking Up | Stories - Michael Easter</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-23T19:06:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wakingup.com/partner/michaeleasterstories?lid=mj30jlw2y0z1</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/should-you-be-in-charge-of-your-life?publication_id=78415&amp;post_id=203211010&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=13ali&amp;triedRedirect=true">
    <title>Surrender as a non-stupid life strategy - by Sasha Chapin</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-23T19:06:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/should-you-be-in-charge-of-your-life?publication_id=78415&amp;post_id=203211010&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=13ali&amp;triedRedirect=true</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[### Knowing and not-knowing yourself

- A large percentage of human suffering is anticipatory tension, or dreading a future experience such that you actualize its potential suffering in the now. Anticipatory tension is using the illusion of knowledge to generate the illusion of control. Much of what people call planning is this.
- I can’t see myself as well as someone else can. This is why I try to listen to what the world apparently wants to do with me, rather than who I imagine I am.

### Choice and authenticity

- Often, the apparent struggle to make a decision is an attempt to meet an internal flailing quota, after which we will feel affirmed in the choice we already knew we were making. Sometimes you can just skip all of that, and admit that you’re scared of what you know you will do. And then do it.

### Goals, outcomes, effort

- Noticing such opportunities requires a lack of some previously decided agenda.

### Happiness

- Strangely, happiness isn’t produced by getting what you want. Unhappiness is the product of the number of times per minute that you believe circumstances should be otherwise.  “Enough” and “not enough” are mental stances that, very often, are uncorrelated with exterior facts.
- Satisfaction comes from giving yourself away. 
- I can’t defend this intellectually, but it has been true in my experience: spontaneous compassion is the approach to ethics that feels best and works most often.

### Love

- We are drawn towards people because they are different. We are given the opportunity to love more when we find ourselves resenting them for the very difference that drew us to them. The opportunity is to release resentment and instead surrender to separateness. Ironically, this is how you feel less alone.]]></description>
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Make sure your CV gets read by using the same keywords as the job listing.]]></description>
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I would resist identifying the Tao with “empty, cognizant nature” as though the two were equivalent. The Tao Te Ching is notably cautious about what the Tao is. That reticence is the point.

When conversing with someone who can hear me critically and with due skepticism, I feel free to dive right into the ambiguity that seems central to philosophical understanding.]]></description>
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Convection heaters: Oil column and panel

Convection (or convector) heaters are designed to provide background warmth. They warm the air around the heater, which then circulates around the room by natural air flow.

Convection heaters without fans are slow to heat a room evenly, but also very quiet.

The upright column heater is a popular type of convection heater. Historically, they’ve been known as oil heaters, but some of today’s column-style heaters are oil-free. 

Fan heaters: Tower and ceramic

Convection heaters with built-in fans behave differently to other convection heaters. They distribute heat more evenly, making the room feel warm much faster (even if the amount of heat generated is actually the same).

For larger areas, a heat pump is the ultimate fan-forced heater, but plug-in fan heaters can also be a better choice than radiant heaters or fan-free convection ones. ]]></description>
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Yes, piety. But after all, piety is all right, devotion is all right. In fact, they are very tender and splendid emotions if you can cultivate them without getting hysterical about it. 

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Devotion expresses humility, gratitude, and appreciation; we may literally lower ourselves to honor another. In this way, bowing is a whole-body mudra (symbolic gesture) signifying deep respect. 

One of the few records of the Buddha’s thoughts after his awakening is essentially, “How can I still show devotion?” This sentiment embodies a fundamental human longing to be in relationship with something sacred or worthy of our respect.

Without devotion we suffer from spiritual hunger; we sense something missing, perhaps without even knowing what it is. Without the opportunity to give ourselves to something worthwhile, our need for devotion may become displaced onto addictions to accumulation, substances, or appearances; onto entertainments and pleasures; or onto feelings of self-judgment, inadequacy, and self-loathing. In effect, we become what Buddhists call “hungry ghosts,” endlessly consuming, never fulfilled.

Our devotion is not defined by its object but by the quality of attention and love we bring to it. 

In deep devotion the quality of our presence transcends our actions. 

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    <title>Why can't they just...? Revisited | Lara Hogan</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-16T21:08:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://larahogan.me/blog/why-cant-they-just-revisited/#what-to-say-in-response-to-why-cant-they-just</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Why can’t they just X” is, at its core, a great question—“why can’t they just find spending cuts elsewhere?” or “why can’t they just tell us what the technical strategy is?” or “why can’t they just tell engineers to write more tests?”—these are all valid questions that come from a place of deep concern.

There’s always a reason why we “can’t just X”. It’s often deeply hard to “just do X.” Maybe there are legal constraints or tax constraints; maybe we are working on it but changing X takes a really long time. Maybe we’ve already done X, but not in a way that’s landed with you.

Don't fault the question-asker

By and large, those who ask, “why don’t they just” aren’t yet in the weeds with the problem, or haven’t had experience with this problem before.

The question “why can’t they just” is valid, because it’s coming from a place of concern, about something that is either deeply affecting someone’s ability to get work done, or affecting their trust in senior leadership, or affecting their trust in the company.

...

## What to say in response to “why can’t they just”

Whenever I’m faced with this question, my response usually comes in three parts:

1. First, here’s my take based on my scope of authority. 
2. Beyond my core scope of responsibility, here’s what I’m seeing others (often senior leaders) do or think. 
3. Given all of that, where do you fit into this question?
    - What do you have influence over, or how are you tackling this question? What data are you gathering? Where are you getting your hands dirty, where are you helping to enact change? In what ways do you not feel empowered to step up into this work? What can I do to change that?

## If you’re asking “why can’t they just”

I encourage you to think through that third set of questions. You do have influence, if not authority; your influence can take the form of genuine curiosity. The answer to “why can’t they just” might be a three-hour answer, because if there was a short answer, they’d probably have done it already. :)



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    <title>How to Be a (Happy) Skeptic: Cicero and the Power of Curiosity for a Purposeful Life eBook : Pigliucci, Massimo: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-16T20:59:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Happy-Skeptic-Meaningful-Life-Lessons-ebook/dp/B0FKN5GZV4/</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/the-people-who-care-are-having-the-hardest-time/">
    <title>The people who care are having the hardest time - Johnathan &amp; Melissa</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-16T18:43:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/the-people-who-care-are-having-the-hardest-time/</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[- The rhetoric is "do what you're told, don't bring your expertise".
- (What's our competitive advantage> How did we get to here? By doing what everyone else was doing?)
- If AI is making everything better, please point me to the evidence.
- Feeling like caring less is the solution is the result of the absence of psychological safety, the undermining of trust, lowering importance of judgement and quality and excellence.
- Employee engagement is a lagging indicator.
- We've been testing the theory that AI-augmented workplaces will happier, less stressed workers. That does not seem to be the case.



---

Care less. If the org is going in the wrong direction, let it. If the tech doesn’t work that way, pray you get packaged out before the clean-up begins. Keep your head down. Don’t make waves. Do what you’re told. Even if it doesn’t make any sense. Even if you were hired for your expertise. Don’t bring your expertise to work. Save it for your tinkering and your hobbies.

This logic is dizzying. If you got a headache reading it, please know that we have headaches writing it. It’s hard to imagine that this management nugget even needs to be said out loud but here it is. Telling your employees to care less and do a worse job en masse is not a competitive advantage. And that this passes for visionary leadership and is rewarded by the market is the surest sign we’re into some totally upside-down-face corporate groupthink.

This would be bad enough on its own. But worse, still, is when you try to point out how upside-down it all is, you get told you’re a doomer and you’re trying to slow progress that’s imminent and inevitable. Despite few signs of said imminence or said progress.

Care less is not the answer to a problem. It’s organizational inflammation. It’s sustained moral injury. It’s the absence of psychological safety. The undermining of high-trust, high-performing teams. It’s a gaping hole where judgement and quality and excellence go. And however bad this sounds, it’s about to get worse. Because employee engagement is a lagging business indicator.

...

We — not we we, but the collective labour-societal-all-of-us we — have been testing a theory for the last few years. A theory that AI-augmented workplaces will be better. A theory that predicted that a lot of people would lose their jobs (true!) and be unhappy about it (that’s a bingo!) but also that those who remained employed would flourish through a combination of freed up time and mental capacity for elevated work. That last prediction is wrong. Catastrophically deadass backwards wrong.]]></description>
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    <title>Optical Illusions and How They Work | AMNH</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-15T07:21:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/brain/optical-illusions-and-how-they-work</link>
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    <title>The case for an accessibility designer vibe coding when all his coworkers are also vibe coding – Eric Bailey</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-15T03:30:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://ericwbailey.website/published/the-case-for-an-accessibility-designer-vibe-coding-when-all-his-coworkers-are-also-vibe-coding/</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It’s not a “when in Rome” situation. I am being structurally compelled to work this way, and also tracked and ranked based on my frequency and volume of token use.

It also should be communicated that I am not conflating producing with learning.]]></description>
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    <title>The 2026 Hugo Awards - Five Books Expert Recommendations</title>
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    <title>GitHub Annotation Toolkit | Figma</title>
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    <link>https://www.figma.com/community/file/1552736256652388772/github-annotation-toolkit</link>
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    <title>Wearing The Lion: The Story of Hercules as You've Never Read It Before, Shortlisted For The Nebula's Best Novel Award! eBook : Wiswell, John: Amazon.co.uk: Books</title>
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    <title>The Incandescent eBook : Tesh, Emily: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-14T05:57:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-13T01:10:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let-ai-do-your-writing-i-will</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[the main thing the incipient superintelligence seems to be doing is replacing all meaningful language with reams and reams of genuinely meaningless drivel. 

AI is not a good writer. It’s competent enough at summarising or synthesising basic information

whenever an LLM is asked to produce anything like prose the result is reliably awful.

The reason it’s so hard to get AI to stop hallucinating is that it’s permanently hallucinating. ... Most of the time, the AI’s hallucinations bear a spooky resemblance to reality.

[The AIs] don’t have any motivation at all: they write like we breathe; they can’t not respond to any prompt.]]></description>
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    <title>Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration - Thinking Machines Lab</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-12T09:32:36+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://charlesleifer.com/blog/hall-of-mirrors/">
    <title>charles leifer | Hall of Mirrors</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-12T09:32:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://charlesleifer.com/blog/hall-of-mirrors/</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My own opinion was that most of these claims contained a kernel of truth: AI can be very helpful for programming - but the larger framework of hype and fear was just noise.

That a cheap kind of fluency emerges when LLMs are trained on all human writing (ever) is, I think, undeniable at this point. This isn't the point that was troubling me, though. I believe the underlying problem was two-fold. On the one hand, when a person, using AI, priveleges the AI output over human feedback, there is no recourse. The reputation for discernment I've worked to build over my career is what is redundant, not necessarily the job as a programmer. ... AI doesn't distinguish between difficulty worth keeping, and difficulty worth removing. Critical thinking, sitting in uncertainty, weighing options are the marks of the expertise that took me years to develop.



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    <title>After Automation | Every</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-12T09:30:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://every.to/p/after-automation</link>
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    <title>Without hope of resolution - by Sasha Chapin</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-12T04:28:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/without-hope-of-resolution?publication_id=78415&amp;post_id=201528696&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=13ali&amp;triedRedirect=true</link>
    <dc:creator>maxbarners</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There’s no reason to believe that you will find persistent balance between these conflicting elements of your psychology.

Here’s what you do: just do what seems right based on the situation in front of you. Don’t worry, the correct choice will be obvious in retrospect, whether or not you select it.

The hope of resolution is a curiously persistent feature of the imagination.

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