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Graham shares the four truths that Alpine is using to guide its decisions as we navigate this tech revolution. This was speech was recorded at Alpine's 2025’s Growth Summit.

De facto exclusion of vulnerable populations from markets for energy-efficient technologies can result in multiple barriers to access. For example, exclusion can lead to limited knowledge about available products, an inability to distinguish high-quality from low-quality devices, and limited options for financing, making products seem unobtainable. However, behaviorally informed interventions can offer promising solutions in such contexts, even where exclusion is the result of structural causes. This paper uses a randomized control trial to consider the potential of such interventions for refugees in Uganda in the context of certified solar markets. We evaluate a behaviorally-informed information and savings session embedded in Village Savings and Lending Association (VSLA) meetings, finding evidence for increased pursuit of certified solar products in the treatment group two months later. Results manifest through the barriers described, with increased knowledge, trust in solar companies, financial inclusion through savings group support, and aspirations mediating effects.

💡Putting yourself out there increases the surface area for potential opportunities

"The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated."

An illustrated therapy session between Humanity, Capitalism, and Post-Capitalism.

We are still in the "touching the elephant" phase of the "ideological mindsets" that emerge from "The Transition" (away from late-stage-capitalism at the birth of the internet). In other words, we don't yet know what the most coherent and powerful mindsets are. https://twitter.com/iiterature/status/1048301983109668864We can view

In-depth report on Building the Wisdom Age and creating the Wisdom Economy.

1/ Maps are one of the most effective ways to communicate Here's a 🧵of maps, starting with everyone's favorite — memespace maps https://xkcd.com/802/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/you-are-here/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/19/sentimental-cartography/ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WzPJRNYWhMXQTEj69/a-map-of-bay-area-memespace

Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their ideologies. Where do these ideologies come from, and how do they influence what’s accomplished?

Almost everything in life must be done with others. If you learn to relate well to others, you increase your professional leverage and the emotional health of your relationships. I. Understanding Others The first step to relating well to others is understanding them. The first step to understanding others is

1. Stop Comparing Yourself Against Old Models You might be unconsciously following the path of your parents like a doctor or lawyer. Don't. Optimize for rate-of-learning [https://rooteco.notion.site/What-Roote-Hires-For-f21facf226e248e6af61551ef182c933] and consciously reject the paths given to you. Patrick Collison gives this advice [https://patrickcollison.com/advice]: > If you're

The philosopher Kwame Appiah writes that “in life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.” When I try to figure out what game I’m playing, I see that for the last 25 years I have been playing […]

I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up...

One of the most powerful ways to build agency is to have "almost too much self-belief." But this can go badly quickly: look at how SBF and Elizabeth Holmes built reality distortion fields around themselves, defrauded everyone, and ended up in jail. Some reality distortion is good—we want to

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In summary: * Write for a specific reader. * Write concisely. * When editing, look to cut. * Write in chunks. * Have fun with it. * Leverage the computer with tools like Grammarly, hotkeys, and ergonomic keyboards. 1. Alex Danco's 5 Writing Tips Write in parallel tracks using "meanwhile". Meanwhile establishes parallel tracks of thought.

For the first 30 years of my life, I coasted and procrastinated often. I am pretty ashamed of it. 😔 In the last few months, I've beaten procrastination. I'm proud of this! ❤️ Here's how I did it. I hope it helps you. 1. Procrastination Is A Harmful Positive Feedback Loop Procrastination

I've previously written a piece on Why [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/anki/] You Should Use Anki. [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/anki/] This piece is how. 1. Understand your why. Why do you want to remember anything? For me, it was reading lots of books but forgetting them. What's your goal?

If you're a knowledge worker doing Tyler Cowen calls an intellectual athlete training [https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/07/learn-like-an-athlete-knowledge-workers-should-train.html] , you should use Anki or some other form of spaced repetition. See the responses to Michael Nielsen's tweet here for all the other great folks that do this: > The

1. First, remind yourself that the goal is not to simply to consume, but to contribute back to society. Build, write, teach, help others. That's why you learn in the first place. 2. Use Anki. Here's why. Here's how. 3. Join Twitter. Use these tips. Join these communities. Follow the

Why it's worth trying to make the world more optimistic

It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.

More than half of young people think "humanity is doomed" due to climate change. We need to reframe the narrative from doom and sacrifice, to one of opportunity.

I have edited and expanded this in a newer post, you should read that instead: School is Not Enough

Some examples of people with high stamina. Inspired by /fast. * Beyoncé: As a child: "When some of us wanted to go to the movies, when we did have our off time, she was in the studio sitting there by herself writing a record. I’ll never forget, were at an

Don't "work harder." Instead: Cut away distractions. Stop doing fake work. Ask for help. Plan. Solicit criticism. Automate what can be automated. Engage your mentors. Exercise. Get more sleep. Whatever you do, don't "work harder." It's pretty much never the answer.

A list of things you're allowed to do that you thought you weren't, or didn't even know you could.

Nostalgia for another way of working

Yesterday I had lunch with a former Ph.D student of mine, who is now highly successful and tenured at a very good school.  I was reminded that, over twenty years ago, I was Graduate Director of Admissions.  One of my favorite strategies was to take strong candidates who applied for Masters and also offer them […]

// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.

@_TamaraWinter: Recently I’ve gotten a lot of inbound from new grads asking for career advice, so I wrote down a list of things I wish I’d internalized sooner. The key thing: being precocious has an expiration...…

I give you permission. Permission to be ambitious. Permission to lead. Permission to apply for that fellowship, drop out of school, and start that startup.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. — Socrates Compounding is everything. Compound interest dominates financial markets, compounding network effects dominate business, and compounding yourself dominates all other self-work you can do. So how do you compound yourself? We know what compounding looks like—an

An interesting note: I asked many people I respect to also share their advice, and most of it ended up being completely different from what both I wrote and within the group of respondents. So, I...

Ideas for getting into compilers and programming languages

We present the technical report for Arcee Trinity Large, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 400B total parameters and 13B activated per token. Additionally, we report on Trinity Nano and Trinity Mini, with Trinity Nano having 6B total parameters with 1B activated per token, Trinity Mini having 26B total parameters with 3B activated per token. The models' modern architecture includes interleaved local and global attention, gated attention, depth-scaled sandwich norm, and sigmoid routing for Mixture-of-Experts. For Trinity Large, we also introduce a new MoE load balancing strategy titled Soft-clamped Momentum Expert Bias Updates (SMEBU). We train the models using the Muon optimizer. All three models completed training with zero loss spikes. Trinity Nano and Trinity Mini were pre-trained on 10 trillion tokens, and Trinity Large was pre-trained on 17 trillion tokens. The model checkpoints are available at https://huggingface.co/arcee-ai.

User-value is a determining factor for product acceptance in product design. Research on rural electrification to date, however, does not draw sufficient attention to the importance of user-value with regard to the overall success of a project. This is evident from the analysis of project reports and applicable indicators from agencies active in the sector. Learning from the design, psychology and sociology literatures, it is important that rural electrification projects incorporate the value perception of the end-user and extend their success beyond the commonly used criteria of financial value, the appropriateness of the technology, capacity building and technology uptake. Creating value for the enduser is particularly important for project acceptance and the sustainability of a scheme once it has been handed over to the local community. In this research paper, existing theories and models of value-theory are transposed and applied to community operated rural electrification schemes and a user-value framework is developed. Furthermore, the importance of value to the end-user is clarified. Current literature on product design reveals that user-value has different properties, many of which are applicable to rural electrification. Five value pillars and their sub-categories important for the users of rural electrification projects are identified, namely: functional; social significance; epistemic; emotional; and cultural values. These pillars provide the main structure for the conceptual framework developed in this research paper. It is proposed that by targeting the values of the end-user, the key factors of uservalue applicable to rural electrification projects will be identified and the sustainability of the project will be better ensured.