Cambridge, after the snow
25.02.2026 03:57
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Cambridge, after the snow
Winning is good.
Losing is bad. Losing while telling people “actually you would be better off with this politician you don’t like” is also bad.
Working musicians pp in the US peaked in 1910. Talkies and recorded music caused ~50k musicians to lose their jobs.
I was a jazz musician in high school and studied / gigged w some old heads who grew up in the 30s and would tell stories about the change.
Like Joe Maneri RIP
Someone misusing LLMs doesn’t prove other people aren’t getting value.
There are lawyers who are getting a lot more done with them. Not for writing briefs, but for research, data collection, writing communications, client relations, …
At the high end, it’s already starting to happen. There are many coders who make >$1m and some >$10m.
Organizations will pay for the best talent in specialized areas like GPU kernels.
No one is saying we won’t have any human coders. Coding is fun so we’ll always have at least hobbyists. And we’ll also have amazing, high-end coders who work at the frontier.
Take sales. Across growth stage startups, median one is ~2x more efficient on creating new revenue than 10 years ago.
If you talk to teams, you learn about all of the tools they use to automate different parts of their jobs and what’s working (and what’s not).
oooffff. Sales, legal, medicine, scientific research, … all have huge successes from LLMs.
That’s kind of the point of the article. If you’re seeing people use these to create huge efficiency gains, you’re missing an important societal force.
Not a contradiction. Just means we’ll end up with a very small number of amazing human coders and a lot of hobbyists.
Similar to what happened to music when recorded music was invented. Megastars and wedding singers with nothing in the middle.
New paper from Google on accelerating science using Gemini (as opposed to its specialized research AIs). Lots of case studies and interesting advice on ways to work with these system.
"We view the AI as a tireless, knowledgeable, and creative bright junior collaborator."
arxiv.org/pdf/2602.03837
MA ranks 46th in population growth. @skirsner.bsky.social interviews people who’ve left and cost of living (housing) is the major theme.
But the stories also show how it’s multifaceted. Economic opportunities in SFBA and also places like FL and NC play into it.
www.masslive.com/news/2026/02...
The housing crisis is personal.
I grew up in public housing. When my father unexpectedly passed away, I was able to stay in our apartment because I knew my rights. Finally buying a home meant breaking cycles of poverty for my family.
I want every MA resident to have that opportunity.
it's (mostly) fake. Humans are prompting agents to do this. Most of them are made by people who run agent marketing companies.
Enjoyed hearing and getting to meet @governor.pa.gov on his stop in Boston.
'Is Boston’s tech and innovation scene withering?' - I spoke w/ Kara Miller in the @bostonglobe.com on the state of our ecosystem and what we need to do to level up.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/27/b...
proud to sign this w/ other tech leaders from OpenAI, Stripe, Google, Intel, Amazon, Fika Ventures, ... demanding ICE get out of our cities:
iceout.tech
I'm excited to announce I'm doing a new Bloomberg column about the business of fashion. The first column is about how we can re-shore US garment manufacturing. Instead of mass deportations and raising tariffs, I argue the government should move the industry upstream:
tinyurl.com/reshoringapparel
Zanskar gets another $115m to build more clean, 24-7 geothermal power. Amazing team on a mission.
What an excellent idea for a Starter Pack, in these days of #AISlop spilling everywhere - here is a bunch of outlets you can trust.
Hats-off to @alexip718.com.
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
Bluesky is now 70x bigger than Farcaster, which has given up on social and pivoted to focus on tokens.
Props to @jay.bsky.team and the Bluesky team.
nickysap.substack.com/p/read-write...
A card that reads "Social media is critical infrastructure. It needs to work for people, not exploit and mislead them. Modal Foundation supports decentralized social tech that helps people create, circulate and discover trustworthy information."
Hi Bluesky! We're Modal Foundation, a new nonprofit dedicated to making open social tech viable at scale. We grew out of the @freeourfeeds.com campaign and support @eurosky.social. Our work will connect experts, strategists, builders and communities to create a human-centered internet.
Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned
www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
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You’re supposed only do it in very dry, powdery snow. That looks way too wet.
"It is a pretty exciting time for pears."
(I love heirloom pears and apples)
A majority of US children will be losing access to FDA-approved vaccines against meningitis, hepatitis A & B, RSV & more due to unilateral changes made by new federal health officials today. They're also changing HPV vaccine recommendations from 2 shots to 1. www.statnews.com/2026/01/05/c... #medsky
New post!
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
ATProto seems like a natural place to explore this as so many scientists have moved to bluesky. But gaining traction with anything like this is obviously super hard.
Do you know much about it? What's your take?
I'm just learning about it so don't have any firm takes. The science world is very, very fragmented today and part of that is caused by how much infrastructure is controlled by large institutions and journals/conferences, so this seems like a wonderful idea to explore.
