# smart people (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover smart people. Page: Feed: --- ## [Your Partner Is Pulling Away: Don’t Make It Worse](https://psychologyofrelationships.substack.com/p/your-partner-is-pulling-away-dont) _2026-08-20 · Dr. Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. · Psychology of Relationships_ The distance isn’t the crisis. Your reaction to it might be. ## [Your Anxiety Is a Detector, Not a Defect](https://psychologyofrelationships.substack.com/p/your-anxiety-is-a-detector-not-a) _2026-08-13 · Dr. Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. · Psychology of Relationships_ It sees the problem first. Then it hands you the worst possible plan. ## [Felony Humble Bragging and Low-Hanging Fruit: OpenAI, Hugging Face, and AI Labs Gone Wild](https://perilous.tech/felony-humble-bragging-and-low-hanging-fruit-openai-hugging-face-and-ai-labs-gone-wild/) _2026-08-12 · Nathan Hamiel · Perilous Tech_ I’ve had quite a few conversations about the OpenAI presentation at Black Hat over the past couple of days. Let’s just say my feedback isn’t positive. I didn’t immediately post about it due to travel, responsibilities, and, well, the fact that I still have to work. I know, isn’t AI supposed to relieve us of \[ \] ## [The Best Friend Test: Why It Tells You Everything About Your Relationship](https://psychologyofrelationships.substack.com/p/the-best-friend-test-why-it-tells) _2026-08-06 · Dr. Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. · Psychology of Relationships_ Most people say their partner is their best friend. Asked a different way, only 14% are. ## [False Alarms: When Your Relationship Instincts Betray You](https://psychologyofrelationships.substack.com/p/false-alarms-when-your-relationship) _2026-07-30 · Dr. Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. · Psychology of Relationships_ For the people who trust their gut about their love life and probably shouldn't. ## [From Literate to Entertained: The Shift to a Post-Literate Culture](https://perilous.tech/from-literate-to-entertained-the-shift-to-a-post-literate-culture/) _2026-07-28 · Nathan Hamiel · Perilous Tech_ What happens when we shift from a literate culture to something resembling an oral culture? The answer to this question is before us. A post-literate culture took shape, and few seemed to notice as people distracted by symptoms became blind to the cause. But we didn’t revert to the oral cultures in which humanity was \[ \] ## [Some Thoughts on the OpenAI/HuggingFace Hack](https://perilous.tech/some-thoughts-on-the-openai-huggingface-hack/) _2026-07-23 · Nathan Hamiel · Perilous Tech_ By now, you’ve no doubt heard about OpenAI’s experiment hacking HuggingFace. It’s all anyone in tech is talking about. I’ve written a few thoughts about the hack for Modern CISO, and you can read that article here. In the article, I make the following observation about OpenAI’s write-up. OpenAI’s write-up of the incident reads more \[ \] ## [You Date Better in Theory Than in Practice](https://psychologyofrelationships.substack.com/p/you-date-better-in-theory-than-in) _2026-07-23 · Dr. Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. · Psychology of Relationships_ The gap between what you say you want and what you actually do, and how to close it. ## [The Fake Yes](https://psychologyofrelationships.substack.com/p/the-fake-yes) _2026-07-16 · Dr. Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. · Psychology of Relationships_ You think you settled that fight. You didn't. ## [The Unexpected Thing That Happens When Dating Actually Goes Well](https://psychologyofrelationships.substack.com/p/the-unexpected-thing-that-happens) _2026-07-09 · Dr. Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. · Psychology of Relationships_ The problem was never finding a good partner. It's what you do the second you find one. ## [A Friend Gave You $30 (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Nty4FmeFfzeq) _2026-07-09 · **Sponsored**_ Sign up, deposit $5 within 30 days, and start investing with expert guidance. ## [You’re Working Hard at the Wrong Dating Problems](https://psychologyofrelationships.substack.com/p/youre-working-hard-at-the-wrong-dating) _2026-07-02 · Dr. Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. · Psychology of Relationships_ Seven structural fixes most people never think to make. ## [Reading Data and Optimizing The Wrong Things](https://perilous.tech/reading-data-and-optimizing-the-wrong-things/) _2026-06-30 · Nathan Hamiel · Perilous Tech_ People love to utter phrases like “data is the new oil” or “data is the new gold.” When we hear these phrases, we immediately think of businesses and big data, not the simple aspects of our daily lives. However, this obsession with data seeps into every crevice of our existence, even when the data is \[ \] ## [Can You and Your Partner Build a Life Together?](https://psychologyofrelationships.substack.com/p/relationship-cohesion-questions) _2026-06-25 · Dr. Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. · Psychology of Relationships_ The questions most couples avoid and when to ask them. ## [The Foundation Standard: Build It Before You Break It](https://psychologyofrelationships.substack.com/p/the-foundation-standard-build-it) _2026-06-18 · Dr. Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. · Psychology of Relationships_ Because the first year either sets the pattern or becomes one. ## [Fable 5: The First Hit is Free](https://goodmattg.xyz/articles/Fable-5-The-First-Hit-Is-Free) _2026-06-12 · gmgprivacy@proton.me (Matt Goodman) · Matt Goodman_ Artemis II lifts off from Launch Complex 39B, April 1, 2026. Image credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker. I’ve been extensively testing Fable 5 (Mythos class) after the recent launch. My tests pushed its capabilities from spatial reasoning, critical reasoning, long running research and feedback, multi-step tasks, cinematography / visual design, and other more minor tasks. Examples: help research, design,… ## [How to Actually Fix Your Dating Life (Hint: It’s Not What You Think)](https://psychologyofrelationships.substack.com/p/how-to-actually-fix-your-dating-life) _2026-06-11 · Dr. Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. · Psychology of Relationships_ Most dating advice is fixing the wrong thing. Here’s what actually works. ## [Poor Advice From the Two Most Common AI Phrases](https://perilous.tech/poor-advice-from-the-two-most-common-ai-phrases/) _2026-06-09 · Nathan Hamiel · Perilous Tech_ You’ve heard these two phrases uttered thousands of times. They creep into every conversation about AI and work, being mindlessly parroted as people nod in involuntary agreement. Two phrases that seem incredibly simple yet are loaded with a potential world of problems. They are: AI won’t replace people. People using AI will replace those who \[ \] ## [The AI Adjustment Bureau and the Dystopian Lag](https://perilous.tech/the-ai-adjustment-bureau-and-the-dystopian-lag/) _2026-05-21 · Nathan Hamiel · Perilous Tech_ It turns out that creating dystopias is rather easy. A smidgen of uncertainty, a dash of job loss, and a heaping of hopelessness topped with a dose of dehumanization will churn out dystopias quite nicely. Season to taste. However, getting people to accept that recipe without revolt is another thing entirely. As most people get \[ \] ## [Token Ransom and The Skyrocketing Cost of AI](https://perilous.tech/token-ransom-and-the-skyrocketing-cost-of-ai/) _2026-05-07 · Nathan Hamiel · Perilous Tech_ It seems AI is becoming one of the most volatile and expensive dependencies in modern systems, and most organizations aren’t prepared for what comes next. I recently wrote an article for Modern CISO on AI cost volatility, offering observations and recommendations to mitigate this risk. Token Ransom and High Cost For years, we’ve been told \[ \] ## [Mythos and DeFi](https://goodmattg.xyz/articles/Mythos-and-DeFi) _2026-04-24 · gmgprivacy@proton.me (Matt Goodman) · Matt Goodman_ If you’re like me and you ingest media compulsively it feels like we’re standing at a tipping point with release of Mythos . This is either the greatest marketing strategy ever (“so powerful we can’t let you use it”) or we’ve made another leap on our acceleration to AGI (see my other article ). My guess is with the release of GTP 5.5 with comparable Terminal-Bench 2.0 results at 82.7%, it’s all… ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WyaMVB55dOHN) _2026-04-23 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [Democratizing AI Psychosis: Why Smart People Are Captured By AI Hype](https://perilous.tech/democratizing-ai-psychosis-why-smart-people-are-captured-by-ai-hype/) _2026-04-23 · Nathan Hamiel · Perilous Tech_ For months now, I’ve been fascinated by seeing smart people completely captured by AI hype. The very people who should be pushing back against the hype are the most swept up in its rapture. But it’s starting to make sense to me. I believe I’ve pinpointed a few key features driving this phenomenon. As is \[ \] ## [My Perspective On AI Advancement](https://perilous.tech/my-perspective-on-ai-advancement/) _2026-04-08 · Nathan Hamiel · Perilous Tech_ Since this site focuses on risks and trade-offs rather than shiny, utopian use cases, there is some confusion about my thoughts on AI. Be it the AI of the present or the AI of the future. With this post, I stake out my position on AI and its advancement so I don’t have to keep \[ \] ## [What Napster Can Teach Us About AI, Abundance, and the Future](https://perilous.tech/what-napster-can-teach-us-about-ai-abundance-and-the-future/) _2026-03-31 · Nathan Hamiel · Perilous Tech_ Talk to any tech bro, and they’ll be happy to tell you, scarcity is about to become a thing of the past. Abundance is coming and we are going to have so much awesomeness that we can’t even fathom how amazing it will be. Sam Altman recently said that society has been structured around managing \[ \] ## [2 kinds of smart people](https://www.mariasolos.com/posts/2-kinds-of-smart-people/) _2026-01-28 · majosolano99@gmail.com (Maria Solano) · Maria Solano_ I always had great relationships with my professors, especially the math ones (I majored in math after all). I don’t remember what the lesson was about that day, but I remember one random day of 8th grade math when the teacher stopped talking about trigonometry and said: “There are 2 kinds of smart people: There are the naturals, the ones that just get it and don’t need to review… ## [What Matters?](https://goodmattg.xyz/articles/What-Matters) _2025-12-20 · gmgprivacy@proton.me (Matt Goodman) · Matt Goodman_ The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates This might make me the worst / most-SF person at every party, but my favorite question a few drinks in is to ask “what do you care about?”. The right time to ask is after two beers - first beer is to loosen everyone up, second is to get the honest answers. The first look I get is confused. People usually tilt their heads as if to say “Matt -… ## [My reviewing criteria](https://www.mariasolos.com/posts/my-reviewing-criteria/) _2025-12-01 · majosolano99@gmail.com (Maria Solano) · Maria Solano_ I like to review pull requests. Maybe it’s a habit that stuck with me after being a computer science TA during most of my undergrad, but I just enjoy reading code. You learn a lot doing that. I also like LSP . I’ve both contributed to the protocol as part of my day job but also during the free time I spend on open source, and although there are a lot of things wrong with the spec I… ## [My code editor](https://www.mariasolos.com/posts/my-code-editor/) _2025-11-20 · majosolano99@gmail.com (Maria Solano) · Maria Solano_ There are 2 events that sparked my curiosity to try out Neovim. After reading all the books and staring at the gorgeous compiler errors, I was deep into my Rust journey and re-writing ShellCheck with the crabby (pun intended) language. Why? Because I thought (and still think) that a Bash linter written in Rust would make the internet explode. However turns out that parsing shell languages is kind… ## [Agentic Windows](https://mikestone.me/2025-11-11-agentic-windows) _2025-11-11 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ I ran across an article today about a post on Twitter by Pavan Davuluri, who is the current head of Windows for Microsoft. I just had to comment on it in long form. ## [Hello, World!](https://www.mariasolos.com/posts/hello-world/) _2025-11-09 · majosolano99@gmail.com (Maria Solano) · Maria Solano_ I always found the comma after the “Hello” a bit odd, but I’m no one to judge the tradition . I guess a good way to start is to tell you about my first “Hello, World!” program. It was the second semester of my undergrad, and I was giving programming a chance although I was already nerdy enough to also get into coding. However it was love at first sight: There was… ## [Class Dismissed](https://mikestone.me/2025-10-26-class-dismissed) _2025-10-26 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ It’s done!!! I’m so happy it’s done!! ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/2lU8jLIQQuYy) _2025-10-26 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise an AI workforce from a single operating workspace. ## [Getting Grades](https://mikestone.me/2025-10-09-getting-grades) _2025-10-09 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ This second time through college has changed the way I think about grading. I’m not sure if this is a universal thing, but my classes universally have been mapped from beginning to end before it’s even started. There’s a defined number of points. This has resulted in me considering my grade as a percentage of the whole right from the beginning. Instead of thinking about how I’m doing in a class… ## [Obsidian for the Win](https://mikestone.me/2025-09-25-obsidian-for-the-win) _2025-09-25 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ I’ve been getting more and more into using Obsidian lately, and it’s really simplified my note taking. Since I’m also using Jekyll for my web site, I figured I might be able to use Obsidian to simplify that too. ## [Palate Cleanse](https://mikestone.me/2025-09-24-palate-cleanse) _2025-09-24 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ Contrary to how it might seem, I’ve been writing quite a bit lately. I just haven’t been writing here. I’m taking a break from that writing to do some writing here because I need a bit of a palate cleanse. ## [Results of 100 Days To Offload, Again](https://mikestone.me/2025-08-21-results-of-100-days-again) _2025-08-21 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ On the 8th of August, 2024 I was challenged to complete the 100 Days To Offload. This is a challenge I’ve successfully completed before, but have failed even more. This new challenge came with an even tighter timeline, to complete it by the end of the calendar year. So, how did it go? ## [Book Report - The Ministry of Time](https://mikestone.me/2025/07/15/book-report-ministry-of-time.html) _2025-07-15 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ I just finished Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time. It was definitely not my usual reading. ## [Reading of the Day](https://mikestone.me/20250525-daily-reading) _2025-05-25 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ Reading list for May 25th, 2025. ## [Do What You Love](https://mikestone.me/2025-04-28-do-what-you-love) _2025-04-28 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life. ## [I’m Garbage At Email](https://mikestone.me/20250421-garbage-at-email) _2025-04-21 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ I wonder if the reason I’m so garbage at updating my blog is the same reason I’m garbage at email. ## [Questions Smart People Hate](https://mikestone.me/20250210-questions-smart-people-hate) _2025-02-10 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ I ran across one of those click-bait articles today about 12 questions smart people hate being asked. I’m not going to link you to the article because it absolutely is stupid click-bait and I don’t want you clicking their stupid crap links. ## [Superbowl Sunday](https://mikestone.me/20250209-superbowl-sunday) _2025-02-09 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ I’m not much of a football guy. I played in highschool, but I’m not the sort that knows the plays and the players and the coaches and everything they’ve ever done their entire careers. I do appreciate a good game though. The Superbowl is quite probably the only professional game I’ll see this year. My kids have a habit of monopolizing the TV, and I have enough on my plate with being a parent,… ## [The Air Is Fine](https://mikestone.me/20250205-the-air-is-fine) _2025-02-05 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ It’s pretty rare for me to test out a new browser, but there’s a new one running around out there that I just had to give a shot. Opera Air. TLDR: It’s fine. ## [Annnd We’re Done](https://mikestone.me/20250131-and-were-done) _2025-01-31 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ Aaaaannnnnd we’re done. The house is empty. Nothing to do now except turn in the keys. ## [Stupid Design Decisions](https://mikestone.me/20250127-stupid-design-decisions) _2025-01-27 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ I want to point out how even small design decisions can impact the lives of others in tangible ways. There are people out there who are making decisions on design that don’t seem to be thinking overly hard about what those decisions are going to mean. I’m going to take a relatively minor example from my own life to showcase this. This event is a tiny thing, and recent. It’s also not the only time… ## [Almost There](https://mikestone.me/20250126-almost-there) _2025-01-26 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ I know I’ve written about this multiple times by now, but it seriously is about the only thing I’m doing right now. We’re done with the old house on Friday, and today is Sunday. Five days and we’re done. Almost there. ## [New House](https://mikestone.me/20250119-new-house) _2025-01-19 · Mike Stone · (untitled)_ I haven’t been around much lately. It has nothing to do with not wanting to be here, but I just haven’t had free time to do much of anything. I have my usual collection of things going on, and to top that off, we bought a new house at the end of December. ## [Ashenbrenner Can Go F\*\*\*\* Himself](https://goodmattg.xyz/articles/Ashenbrenner-Review) _2024-11-15 · gmgprivacy@proton.me (Matt Goodman) · Matt Goodman_ Algorithmic progress: In the coming decade, AI labs will invest tens of billions in algorithmic R&D, and all the smartest people in the world will be working on this; from tiny efficiencies to new paradigms, we'll be picking lots of the low-hanging fruit. We probably won't reach any sort of hard limit (though “unhobblings” are likely finite), but at the very least the pace of improvements should…