<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>nem035</title><description>Keeping a beginner&apos;s mind. Curious about subtleties.</description><link>https://nem035.com/</link><item><title>How Claude Code Works, Part 2: Context, Control, Configuration</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/how-claude-code-works-part-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/how-claude-code-works-part-2/</guid><description>How three agent codebases converged on the same patterns for context engineering, skills, hooks, custom subagents, and the Agent SDK.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>how-llms-work</category></item><item><title>How Claude Code Works, From Tokens to Agents</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/how-claude-code-works/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/how-claude-code-works/</guid><description>A visual walkthrough of what happens inside AI coding tools, built up layer by layer from a basic prompt to a full agent loop.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>how-llms-work</category></item><item><title>Value Decides, Design Differentiates</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/value-decides-design-differentiates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/value-decides-design-differentiates/</guid><description>For things we don&apos;t buy for their looks, people choose based on perceived value, and design only tips the scale when that value is roughly equal between options.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>strategy</category><category>creativity</category></item><item><title>The comprehension debt</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/the-comprehension-debt/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/the-comprehension-debt/</guid><description>AI makes you faster but you might understand less of what you build. The long-term cost of that gap is still unclear.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-productivity</category><category>software-craft</category></item><item><title>Keeping Taste Alive</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/keeping-taste-alive/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/keeping-taste-alive/</guid><description>Taste works like a metabolism, not a permanent acquisition. It requires constant fuel from both consumption and production.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>creativity</category><category>learning</category></item><item><title>LLMs Are Not Conscious</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/llms-are-not-conscious/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/llms-are-not-conscious/</guid><description>LLMs reproduce a narrow slice of what minds do. They don&apos;t learn, remember, or act on their own.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>how-llms-work</category></item><item><title>The Real Barrier to Fully Automated Software</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/the-real-barrier-to-fully-automated-software/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/the-real-barrier-to-fully-automated-software/</guid><description>Software creation stays heavily assisted, not fully automated, as long as a human carries responsibility for the outcome.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-reliability</category></item><item><title>The Real Bottleneck Is Not Review, It Is Reliability</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-code-review-reliability-bottleneck/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-code-review-reliability-bottleneck/</guid><description>AI code reviewers do not solve the core problem. Reliability and earned trust are what actually matter.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-reliability</category></item><item><title>You Can&apos;t Fix AI Reliability With More AI</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/you-cant-fix-ai-reliability-with-more-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/you-cant-fix-ai-reliability-with-more-ai/</guid><description>Having one AI review another AI&apos;s work just pushes the problem further down without solving it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-reliability</category></item><item><title>Software Engineering Can&apos;t Be Solved</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/software-engineering-cant-be-solved/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/software-engineering-cant-be-solved/</guid><description>Every solution creates new problems. The idea that software development will be &quot;solved&quot; misunderstands the nature of problems themselves.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>software-craft</category></item><item><title>CLAUDE.md Is Not the Problem</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/claude-md-is-not-the-problem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/claude-md-is-not-the-problem/</guid><description>The problem with CLAUDE.md is the same problem code comments have. Most of them are noise.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-productivity</category><category>software-craft</category></item><item><title>LLMs can&apos;t introspect</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/llm-introspection-illusion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/llm-introspection-illusion/</guid><description>Every LLM self-explanation is drawn from training data and prior tokens, same as everything else it says.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>how-llms-work</category></item><item><title>Agent-First Development and the Cloud Shift</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/agent-first-development-cloud-shift/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/agent-first-development-cloud-shift/</guid><description>When agents become the primary interface for building software, local machines become the bottleneck.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-productivity</category><category>software-craft</category></item><item><title>AI gave us a faster brush</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-faster-brush-same-canvas/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-faster-brush-same-canvas/</guid><description>The joy of coding was never in writing code itself, but in solving problems and creating on an infinite canvas of bits.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-productivity</category></item><item><title>The Biggest Misconception About LLMs</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/the-biggest-misconception-about-llms/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/the-biggest-misconception-about-llms/</guid><description>The simplest way to understand a large language model is this - it works like an extremely smart printer</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>how-llms-work</category></item><item><title>The Illusion of Software Automation</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/the-illusion-of-software-automation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/the-illusion-of-software-automation/</guid><description>Productivity and output does not scale with token budgets as the bottleneck is (and remains) human comprehension.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-productivity</category><category>strategy</category></item><item><title>Learn to Code</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/learn-to-code/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/learn-to-code/</guid><description>Coders will take everyone else&apos;s jobs long before anyone takes theirs. AI amplifies software literacy more than it replaces it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-jobs</category><category>strategy</category></item><item><title>The Comprehension Bottleneck</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/the-comprehension-bottleneck/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/the-comprehension-bottleneck/</guid><description>Generation has a clear target. Comprehension does not. That difference explains why AI accelerates one and barely touches the other.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-productivity</category><category>strategy</category></item><item><title>Why AI Won&apos;t Kill SaaS</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/saas-in-the-age-of-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/saas-in-the-age-of-ai/</guid><description>AI makes building easier. That is exactly why you should not build.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>strategy</category></item><item><title>The Attention Trap</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/the-attention-trap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/the-attention-trap/</guid><description>Organizations fail not from lack of effort, but from systematically focusing on what&apos;s easy to measure instead of what matters.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>strategy</category></item><item><title>Bertle</title><link>https://nem035.com/projects/bertle/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/projects/bertle/</guid><description>Email your ideas, AI organizes them into living documents with research and insights.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-productivity</category></item><item><title>Why Technical Skills Matter More in the Age of AI</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/why-technical-people-with-ai-are-unstoppable/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/why-technical-people-with-ai-are-unstoppable/</guid><description>AI amplifies vibe coders, but production reliability still belongs to engineers who know how things actually work.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-jobs</category></item><item><title>Lound.ai</title><link>https://nem035.com/projects/lound-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/projects/lound-ai/</guid><description>Voice journaling app that turns spoken thoughts into organized insights.</description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-productivity</category></item><item><title>Two-stage AI calls for structured output</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/two-stage-ai-calls-for-structured-output/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/two-stage-ai-calls-for-structured-output/</guid><description>Unless latency is critical, use 2 AI calls to generate structured output.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-productivity</category><category>software-craft</category></item><item><title>A major edge human coders have over AI is short-term memory in the form of intuition</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/human-coders-short-term-memory/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/human-coders-short-term-memory/</guid><description>Human developers build an intuitive cache for codebases that AI lacks, creating a significant advantage in development speed and understanding.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-productivity</category><category>software-craft</category></item><item><title>Perceived Intelligence Is The Lowest Common Denominator</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/perceived-inteligence/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/perceived-inteligence/</guid><description>We may not see a big jump in perceived model intelligence from here.</description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>how-llms-work</category></item><item><title>Perfection is the precursor to automation</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-experties/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-experties/</guid><description>You can’t disrupt a field by automating expertise because judging the automation also requires expertise.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-reliability</category></item><item><title>AI LLMs think out loud</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-llms-think-out-loud/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-llms-think-out-loud/</guid><description>If you don&apos;t see its thoughts, it isn&apos;t thinking. It&apos;s just recalling information.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>how-llms-work</category></item><item><title>AI Honeymoon Phase</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-honeymoon-phase/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-honeymoon-phase/</guid><description>AI is undeniably a productivity boost, but there&apos;s many more bottlenecks to overcome</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-productivity</category></item><item><title>AI gives devs more leverage</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-gives-devs-leverage/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-gives-devs-leverage/</guid><description>There&apos;s never been a better time to get into software engineering.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-jobs</category></item><item><title>Why Now is the Best Time to Learn to Code</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-swe-open-doors/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-swe-open-doors/</guid><description>AI turbocharges SWEs, but it&apos;s not a replacement for human developers</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-jobs</category></item><item><title>How to Talk to GenAI</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/how-to-talk-to-gen-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/how-to-talk-to-gen-ai/</guid><description>Great prompting is just good communication. Be clear, give context, and treat AI like a smart assistant, not a mind reader.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-productivity</category></item><item><title>There&apos;s never been a better time to learn to code</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-software-jobs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-software-jobs/</guid><description>AI will unlock more dev jobs than ever before</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-jobs</category></item><item><title>AI doesn&apos;t have to make you lazy</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-does-not-make-you-lazy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-does-not-make-you-lazy/</guid><description>AI is a tool. It&apos;s up to you to use it to be lazy or not.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-productivity</category></item><item><title>AI Might Like 🍝 Code</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-might-like-spaghetti-code/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-might-like-spaghetti-code/</guid><description>Why AI systems might prefer what humans call &quot;spaghetti code&quot;</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-productivity</category><category>software-craft</category></item><item><title>AI is a tool, not a human</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-is-a-tool-not-a-human/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-is-a-tool-not-a-human/</guid><description>You need the same skills to use AI as you do to write code.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-jobs</category></item><item><title>AI tools will create more coders, not less</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-tools-will-create-more-coders/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-tools-will-create-more-coders/</guid><description>AI assistants do not displace coders, they amplify them.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-jobs</category></item><item><title>Hands-off Leadership Transition</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/leadership-transition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/leadership-transition/</guid><description>The struggle of stepping back and trusting your team.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>leadership</category></item><item><title>AI and Knowledge Work</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-knowledge-work/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-knowledge-work/</guid><description>AI will not replace knowledge work, it will increase output / time.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-jobs</category></item><item><title>Learning to code is like learning a human language</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/learning-to-code-human-language/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/learning-to-code-human-language/</guid><description>Understanding the parallels between programming and human languages makes coding more approachable.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>learning</category><category>software-craft</category></item><item><title>How does an LLM perform actions?</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/how-does-llm-perform-actions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/how-does-llm-perform-actions/</guid><description>The LLM doesn&apos;t perform actions itself; it facilitates the actions through textual commands.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>how-llms-work</category></item><item><title>Why AI Won&apos;t Replace Developers</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-replaces-all-jobs-when-replacing-coders/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-replaces-all-jobs-when-replacing-coders/</guid><description>Focusing on AI replacing software engineering jobs is like focusing on the fact that a flood in your city will damage your house while ignoring the effect on the city as a whole.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>ai-and-jobs</category></item><item><title>Threads vs Insta</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/threads-vs-insta/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/threads-vs-insta/</guid><description>How Threads improved upon Twitter&apos;s social dynamics by removing the following count from profiles.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>product</category></item><item><title>7 Powers by Hamilton Helmer</title><link>https://nem035.com/notes/hamilton-helmers-7-powers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/notes/hamilton-helmers-7-powers/</guid><description>How companies achieve persistent differential returns against their competitors, and do so sustainably.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>strategy</category></item><item><title>Network Effect vs Trend</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/network-effect-vs-trend/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/network-effect-vs-trend/</guid><description>Network effects participants increase utility, trend participants increase growth.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>product</category><category>strategy</category></item><item><title>You love what you become good at (even though you suck at it at first)</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/all-skills-take-time/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/all-skills-take-time/</guid><description>The path to our calling is far less obvious for most of us.</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>learning</category></item><item><title>Every output of an LLM is a hallucination</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/llm-always-hallucinates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/llm-always-hallucinates/</guid><description>LLMs don&apos;t do anything different when they &quot;make up&quot; information because they always &quot;make it up&quot;.</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>how-llms-work</category></item><item><title>Work Life Balance</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/work-life-balance/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/work-life-balance/</guid><description>Extraordinary results do require extraordinary effort but a happy life comes in many forms.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>psychology</category></item><item><title>Mastery</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/mastery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/mastery/</guid><description>Success means ignoring your brain&apos;s persistent attempts to provide comfort in failure.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>learning</category></item><item><title>Reading code like a human</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/javascript-story/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/javascript-story/</guid><description>One unique aspect of JavaScript I personally appreciate is its flexibility in function declarations.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>software-craft</category></item><item><title>Everything humans do is natural</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/everything-humans-do-is-natural/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/everything-humans-do-is-natural/</guid><description>It&apos;s a silly, self-centered mind trick to call anything we do as &quot;natural&quot; 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How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus | Huberman Lab Podcast</title><link>https://nem035.com/notes/huberman-podcast-adhd/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/notes/huberman-podcast-adhd/</guid><description>Notes from Huberman Lab Podcast</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>health</category></item><item><title>How to Increase Motivation &amp; Drive | Huberman Lab Podcast</title><link>https://nem035.com/notes/huberman-podcast-motivation-and-drive/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/notes/huberman-podcast-motivation-and-drive/</guid><description>The chemistry of motivation is tightly wound in with the neurochemistry of movement. 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GMT</pubDate><category>health</category></item><item><title>How Your Brain Changes: Neuroplasticity | Huberman Lab Podcast</title><link>https://nem035.com/notes/huberman-podcast-neuroplasticity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/notes/huberman-podcast-neuroplasticity/</guid><description>Our brains have the ability to change their internal circuitry in response to experiences.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>health</category></item><item><title>Over-communication is far cheaper than the wrong direction.</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/over-communication/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/over-communication/</guid><description>As a default, it&apos;s better to repeat yourself when unnecessary than to risk not saying something that should be heard.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>leadership</category></item><item><title>Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio</title><link>https://nem035.com/notes/principles-world-order-ray-dalio/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/notes/principles-world-order-ray-dalio/</guid><description>Ray Dalio explains the big cycle of economic order of empires and how to deal with the changing world order.</description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>economics</category></item><item><title>How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio</title><link>https://nem035.com/notes/how-the-economic-machine-works-ray-dalio/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/notes/how-the-economic-machine-works-ray-dalio/</guid><description>Ray Dalio explains how the economy works</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>economics</category></item><item><title>Knowledge Checkpoints</title><link>https://nem035.com/thoughts/knowledge-checkpoints/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/thoughts/knowledge-checkpoints/</guid><description>Breadth is achievable through sequential units of depth.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>learning</category></item><item><title>Mental Models #1: Address &quot;Important&quot;; Ignore &quot;Urgent&quot;</title><link>https://nem035.com/notes/peter-hollins-mental-models-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/notes/peter-hollins-mental-models-1/</guid><description>Separate priorities from impostors</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>thinking</category></item><item><title>Mental Models #10: What Would Bayes Do</title><link>https://nem035.com/notes/peter-hollins-mental-models-10/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/notes/peter-hollins-mental-models-10/</guid><description>Calculate probabilities and predict the future based on real events</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>thinking</category></item><item><title>Mental Models #11: Do It Like Darwin</title><link>https://nem035.com/notes/peter-hollins-mental-models-11/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/notes/peter-hollins-mental-models-11/</guid><description>Seek real, honest truth in a situation</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>thinking</category></item><item><title>Mental Models #12: Think With System 2</title><link>https://nem035.com/notes/peter-hollins-mental-models-12/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/notes/peter-hollins-mental-models-12/</guid><description>Think analytically instead of emotionally</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>thinking</category></item><item><title>Mental Models #13: Peer Review Your Perspectives</title><link>https://nem035.com/notes/peter-hollins-mental-models-13/</link><guid 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GMT</pubDate><category>thinking</category></item><item><title>Mental Models #2: Visualize All the Dominoes</title><link>https://nem035.com/notes/peter-hollins-mental-models-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/notes/peter-hollins-mental-models-2/</guid><description>Make decisions as informed as possible</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>thinking</category></item><item><title>Mental Models #3: Make Reversible Decisions</title><link>https://nem035.com/notes/peter-hollins-mental-models-3/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nem035.com/notes/peter-hollins-mental-models-3/</guid><description>Remove indecisions and have a bias to action</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>thinking</category></item><item><title>Mental Models #4: Seek &quot;Satisfiction&quot;</title><link>https://nem035.com/notes/peter-hollins-mental-models-4/</link><guid 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