Weekend Reading & Selected Links
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Happy weekend! Here are some links to things I've been reading, watching or listening to that you might also enjoy:
- OpenAI's new o1 model solves Matt Clifford's granny's never-before-seen cryptic crossword questions.
- A new tool for figuring out whether anyone has done something before.
- 'The YIMBYs Won Over the Democrats', a recent Atlantic article by Jerusalem Demsas.
- Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen on Fast Grants.
- Statecraft interview with James Phillips on the inner workings of British government.
- ‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’, an oral history of 9/11 compiled by Garrett Graff.
- In case you missed it: 'Founder mode', the new Paul Graham essay.
- David Chapman on nobility. ("Nobility is the aspiration to manifest glory for the benefit of others.")
Have a great weekend,
Joe