What Makes Art Great?
Some notes toward an answer
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Essays.
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On Reading Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
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Principles
// 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.
Reflections on Palantir
A retrospective of an eight-year stint.
The Serendipity Machine
Notes on Using Twitter
Notes on Puzzles
1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a way I don’t like — but one habit I’ve retained is solving puzzles.
May Updates + New Essay On Moral AI
A few months back, I read a tweet from Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) which stuck in my mind: “the long term goal is to build AGI that loves people the way parents love their children”.
Films + Books, Q1 2023
What I watched and read
Advice That Actually Worked For Me
My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre.
How To Understand Things
The smartest person I’ve ever known had a habit that, as a teenager, I found striking...