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The website thesephist.com is authored by Linus Lee, who is known for his work in software development, design, and writing. The site often features articles and projects related to technology, programming, and personal insights.

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2025-05-05 • technology history art culture

The text discusses the historical significance of Rockefeller Plaza, particularly Radio City, as a symbol of the optimistic, progressive, and humanist perspective on technology and its collision with culture. It emphasizes the hum...

2025-04-12 • productivity creativity wonder ai

The text discusses the author's fascination with the concept of wonder and its role in guiding their search for meaningful problems to work on. It delves into the idea of wonder as a life force propelling people through their days...

2024-09-11 •

The author has joined Thrive Capital as an EIR and advisor, after leaving Notion's AI engineering team. He will be working on AI interpretability, knowledge representations, and interface design. The author expresses gratitude for...

2024-08-08 •

The text discusses the concept of virtuosity and open-endedness in creative tools, using the example of the acoustic guitar and Guitar Hero. It explores the idea that great creative tools allow for mastery and nuanced expression, ...

2024-08-03 •

The blog post discusses the concept of a human interface and how it extends beyond software interfaces. It explores the qualities of a good user interface and how it allows users to see information clearly from different perspecti...

2024-08-01 •

The blog post discusses the concept of human interfaces to knowledge and tools, using the example of a map of New York City. It distinguishes between instrumental interfaces, which are goal-oriented, and engaged interfaces, which ...

2024-07-30 •

The blog post is a beginner's guide to exploration, discussing the internal conflict of navigating hazy idea spaces, the importance of intuition, and the process of exploration. It emphasizes the value of incremental work and the ...

2024-07-28 •

The post discusses the author's career in investigating how computers can aid in the thinking process, particularly through advancements in machine learning. It explores the idea of creating a computational notebook for ideas, tre...

2024-07-22 •

The text discusses the importance of building technology that is intertwined with human life and emotions, rather than being seen as separate from it. It references a talk by Steve Jobs and a rant by Ursula Le Guin to emphasize th...

2024-07-08 •

The blog post discusses the differences between DALL-E 2 and Midjourney v6, two text-to-image AI systems, in terms of creativity, color, and composition. It explores the impact of preference tuning on the outputs of these systems ...

2024-07-06 •

The blog post discusses the author's collection of quotes that serve as virtual post-it notes on his desktop wallpaper. The quotes cover a range of topics including truth, harmony in chaos, sci-fi stories, tool building for expert...

2024-06-23 •

The blog post discusses the history of music and writing, and how understanding sound and ideas as mathematical objects has expanded our vocabulary and enabled new creative forms. It explores the impact of synthesizers on music pr...

2024-06-22 •

The blog post discusses the challenges of understanding and interacting with foundation models and embeddings, and proposes a scalable, automated way to probe embedding vectors representing sentences in a small language model. It ...

2024-06-15 •

The blog post discusses the personalization feature launched by Midjourney, contrasting it with direct manipulation interfaces for AI systems. It explores the concept of instrumental and intrinsic interfaces, and the idea of measu...

2024-06-10 •

The blog post discusses applied research problems in machine learning, focusing on foundation models and the gap between what is known about them and what is needed to build valuable tools. It covers topics such as modeling and da...

2024-05-28 •

The blog post is a compilation of various snippets from Neal Stephenson’s essay 'In the Beginning… Was the Command Line' with minimal commentary. It discusses the business of selling software, people’s relationship to technology, ...

2024-05-24 •

The text discusses the mechanization of energy supply and the potential impact of the mechanization of intellectual labor. It compares manual supply to rocks and mechanized supply to water, and explores the potential of AI as a ne...

2024-01-01 •

The author reflects on how his approach to setting goals has changed over the years, from making extensive lists of 10 goals each year to focusing on less than a handful of areas of his life. He discusses the three categories that...

2023-01-17 •

The author reflects on his year of independent work, discussing the life cycle of ideas and the importance of execution and distribution in bringing good ideas to billions of people. He expresses his fulfillment in working on the ...

2023-01-11 •

The blog post discusses the concept of direct manipulation interfaces and programmatic interfaces, and explores the idea of combining the benefits of both. It provides examples of how backpropagating changes through the computatio...

2022-07-16 •

The author reflects on the concept of economic scarcity and its relationship to human conflict, wealth accumulation, and the value of ideas. He discusses the effectiveness of corporations in creating large-scale societal change an...

2022-06-20 •

The blog post discusses the concept of designing software interfaces with materials rather than features, using examples from various software applications. It explores the idea of software interfaces as users interacting with wel...