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Explaining the word "pylocatabasist" in my bio.
Comes from a rather fun excerpt from Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum."
Saving things by a hair is the leitmotif of my career, basically.
And I'd have to agree: It's *not* a "completely useless" skill. 💪🤓🤘
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We're looking for business writers!
Works in Progress is expanding into coverage of business and finance, and we're looking for freelance authors for extended feature-length pieces of 2,000-6,000 words. We will eventually be hiring full-time employees on this beat.
Find the most interesting company in the world, a brilliant financial model, or a telling and relevant piece of business history. Tell us why we should be fascinated by it too.
It could be the geography of an industry, like how Morocco grew to become an massive exporter of cars, or why Bangladesh can do in electronics what it has done with its massive textiles industry. It might be a piece on a new kind of business, like the firms trying to perfect proof of personhood in a world of super-powerful AI. You could write about unsung but vital pieces of hardware, like compressed air and industrial gas, which keep the most advanced manufacturing sites in the world going.
The subject can be lighthearted or momentous, but the piece should cover something you haven't seen everywhere else, which advances an argument and marshals strong evidence. It should be relevant to a broad group of intelligent readers, and enduring rather than short-lived. And we're absolutely definitely not looking for traditional PR pitches. A sense that you've read and understand something about WIP's output goes a long way.
If this sounds like your kind of thing, please send us 1-3 short paragraphs summing up your idea. If we're intrigued by your idea we may ask you for an outline over a page or two. We pay competitive rates to authors.
Email us at [email protected] and [email protected].
I remember dating in the Bay Area (mid-90s to mid-00s) as pretty awful. Now you have to be worried if the person who showed interest in you is a foreign agent.
Also... They were warned. Remembering this piece from 2018:
politico.com/magazine/story/… @zachsdorfman
RIP the "Incel Camino."
wired.com/story/cybertrucks-…
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One person. One agentic SEO skill with hundreds of tools and checks built in. 28x more daily search clicks for @Eco in a little over a year.
Fortune, Yahoo Finance, and even arXiv research have cited our articles, and dozens of companies have asked to be featured.
None of it was easy. All of it is replicable. Here’s how you can do it too.
I started by pulling apart every component that drives SEO growth. You’ll never know the algorithm for certain, but there’s a ton of tooling and research that gets you close. Lean on search and GEO tools like @ahrefs, @gauge_sh, @Google Search Console, and @Bing Webmaster Tools.
Backlinks, internal linking, orphan pages, content structure, search intent, answer-first formatting, freshness and fact accuracy, cannibalization between your own pages, and whether AI search actually cites you. There are so many variables, and the hard part is isolating which one actually moved your clicks.
Then, you test workflows to find articles that work. Early on it’s a high volume, trial and error game. Refresh or merge what’s decaying.
Most of these SEO and GEO tools have APIs or MCPs. Wire them in and your agents pull the data and run the audits themselves.
The most important part is having your agents monitor wins and losses, and making sure every audit produces an insight the next article builds on.
Once the skill runs faster than a human can, each loop finishes sooner and the next article starts smarter. Keep publishing, keep auditing, and it compounds. Use loops.
Increasingly, I've come to the belief that the only moral tax is on the unimproved value of land that someone owns. The Georgist view. Don't tax anything that is created from human labor.
Can we agree now that "Citizens United" is not a big deal and it never was? For as much handwringing that has gone into that ruling, even some of us back then were predicting results like this. Hell... *Let* your opponents overspend.
Too many of you are going to wring your hands about "What do the election results mean for crypto and Bitcoin!?!"
You should instead be asking "What are the reasons I got into this ecosystem in the first place?"
I'm saddened that @JoeNakamoto received such hate for a piece that offered both honesty and soul. In my own experience, joining the BTC ecosystem fulltime from the DeFi world meant that the death threats went to zero.
"Software is eating the world" turned into "software keeps the world from eating."
cnbc.com/2026/11/02/cyberatt…
I managed to find the exact place and approximate time at which @chicago’s leaf-clearing budget ran out. More taxes coming. 💸💸
Help me out: Son’s friends says that zombies cannot navigate doors that must be pulled rather than pushed. Debate.
Proton’s reported executive communication and “AI struggle sessions” charitably rise to “maladroit” at best but there isn’t much to object to in the CTO’s note when you get to the bottom of it.
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By this time next year, it will be almost impossible to safely use the internet.
- Instant messaging will be rife with fake or hacked accounts.
- Social media will be 99% AI-generated content, perfectly designed to maximise your addictive response.
You'll be forced to employ an AI "food taster" - much like spam filters do for your email - to to ensure you are safe while you browse.
Alternatively, you could unplug from the internet, connect with your community, and touch grass.
My guess is people are going to be doing much more on both.