Good post on what the meaning of heritability.

Only a crazy person should do any given job

A while back I noted that everything sleeps. Now here some recent work on the why.

Memory in cells

As I noted a while back, inflammaging is not an intrinsic feature of aging; rather it is a byproduct of industrialized lifestyles and most likely just obesity (which increases with age in industrialized countries)

On China's shipbuilding industry

SSC reviews Steven Byrne's work on AI

Against outsourcing, for vertical integration

Dwarkesh on the LBJ biographies

Facebook's questionable business tactics

RCT testing a core woo caim (that a lot of chronic pain is in your head and thus can be treated with psychotherapy), woo succeeds.

50 things Cate Hall knows. Some to disagree with "Ideas are cheap and easy to find; execution is everything" This is very wrong; lots of good ideas go around untried because though some are aware of it, not enough are feeling their truths in their bones. To me there's a big gap between "finding/being aware of an idea" (easy, cheap) and being so convinced to want to go all in into it (hard, the bottleneck). Execution, comparad to that, is easy.

The original Flexport pitch

Making mercury from gold?

Can goodness compete?

SaaS didn't turn out to be as good of a business model as originally thought.

AI coding tools considered harmful

I recorded a new podcast

I ask Twitter for iconic company culture handbooks