Don't fall into the trap of trying to motivate kids like they're little adults. Preschoolers don't understand the abstraction of "if I memorize these letters today, I'll be able to read in 6 months". Preschoolers barely understand the cause-and-effect of "if I jump off the

In the 1950s, Frank Sinatra sang hundreds of times per year at local nightclubs and theatres. He never made more than $1 million dollars per year. Today, when Taylor Swift or Beyoncé go on tour, they're hitting the $1 billion dollar mark. Sherwin Rosen captured this idea in his

"There are currently almost 20,000 men under the ground, right at this moment, all digging coal?" Mr. Qi smiled and nodded. "Yes that's right". In Off the Beaten Track this week, I visited a coal mine in China's famous Ordos City in Inner Mongolia. Here's what I found.🧵

Me: if there’s anything you learn from this kitchen, son, it’s that you measure garlic with your heart. 16 yo: with my heart. Me: yes. Some recipes will tell you some nonsense of “1 clove of garlic minced” and that is a cold-hearted person. 16 yo: they do not understand the

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Dan Wang is the best writer when it comes to understanding China. His 2022 letter is a work of art and now he's writing a book for us. danwang.co/2022-letter/

We report the first physiological benefit of ascorbate/vitamin C deficiency: protection from a major human parasite which needs it for development. We propose that this can explain why ascorbate became a vitamin (its synthesis was lost) in humans and many other animals.

The people need a Wob-vestigation Rob Perez Did skinny Luka finally discover Ozempic? Or do they just put that stuff in the vitamins in LA

Waiting for GPT-5 feels like lining up at the bookstore overnight for Harry Potter vol. 5. I can't wait to feel the magic again.

Wow they are really running a bunch of experiments on the timeline right now. Mine went from 100% video slop (fight videos, etc.) back to the text and conversations that I actually want to see overnight. Like there's an engagement switch that they're just dying to flip.

I'm pretty sure AI won't kill us all, but I tremble at the thought of an AI that actually tracks whether you're paying attention to the online HR safety training.

Interesting that Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ sniffed out the wildly implausible firewood economics stat but got tripped up by this doctored graphic. The same first principles thinking applies here. China, a country of 1.4B people has only 10-50k companies being founded each year? And the

I'm not sure if the Gaza footage is real or fake, but this Twitter IQ test definitely passes the eye test Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ Paul Graham

The FDA is sitting on a goldmine of drug development data — 10,000+ page dossiers detailing how drugs are designed, made, tested, and approved. Big Pharma has these in-house. Startups? Locked out. It’s time to fix that. Read my proposal for IFP on how. ifp.org/biotechs-lost-…

One of the most insane consequences of an IVF embryo selection world is that nature's perfect 50/50 sex ratio at birth will be permanently disrupted. Our collective choices will never land on exactly 50/50. If current preferences continue, then western countries will be

Just collecting my daily micropayments on Singapore's version of Amazon as I wait for the melatonin to kick in. Is this bad sleep hygiene?

In high school I had a physics class where the teacher had us do the experiments *before* explaining the concepts they were meant to demonstrate, as God intended. So we measured the temperature of a hot glass of water and a cold block of aluminum of equal mass, then put the