Jeremy Allen retweeted
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 wip-pitches@stripe.com and mike@worksinprogress.co.
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 wip-pitches@stripe.com and mike@worksinprogress.co.
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Jeremy Allen retweeted
One of my favorite research practices I learned at @inkandswitch is “preinfusion”. The term comes from espresso (I believe @pvh coined it?) - and the original meaning is that you have a lower pressure soak before you turn on the high pressure and pull the shot.
The way it works at the lab is that you patiently let a cluster of ideas slowly form and develop, meandering somewhat in the background, and you lay the groundwork to work on them more seriously… before starting an intense high-pressure sprint. Could be a few months of part-time preinfusion before a hardcore 3 month project.
This really helps avoid the problem where you’re trying to sprint, but you don’t actually have enough clarity to know where to run.
I think this applies in many other contexts. Preinfuse before trying to write an essay. Preinfuse before raising money for a company. A slow and patient preparation can enable swift follow through.
The way it works at the lab is that you patiently let a cluster of ideas slowly form and develop, meandering somewhat in the background, and you lay the groundwork to work on them more seriously… before starting an intense high-pressure sprint. Could be a few months of part-time preinfusion before a hardcore 3 month project.
This really helps avoid the problem where you’re trying to sprint, but you don’t actually have enough clarity to know where to run.
I think this applies in many other contexts. Preinfuse before trying to write an essay. Preinfuse before raising money for a company. A slow and patient preparation can enable swift follow through.
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Jeremy Allen retweeted
💜⚔️ Still thinking about why this @valkyries championship means so much to me. In theory, expansion teams are supposed to spend years losing.
Instead:
- Zero #1 picks and zero All-@WNBA selections on the roster, no one was another team's first choice. Veronica Burton was a @YMCA, thinking she might never get the chance to play again.
- Coached by 5'2" Natalie Nakase, a walk-on to the @UCLA team (!!), whose playing career was cut short by injury. She literally worked her way up from being a *video coordinator* for the @LAClippers, and is also the first Asian American head coach in WNBA history.
- First game 7 in @WNBA history, with an absolutely absurd second half (go Gabby!!!!). Gabby Williams is also vegan, which (if anything!) seems to help rather than hurt her gameplay.
- Fastest team in major sports history to win a title (year 2!!)
Proof that grit, culture, and a room full of underdogs who believe in each other and who care about each other beats pedigree every single time. So, so inspiring.
Really hoping someone is already working on the book or @Netflix @PrimeVideo documentary; day-one pre-order from me! 📚
Instead:
- Zero #1 picks and zero All-@WNBA selections on the roster, no one was another team's first choice. Veronica Burton was a @YMCA, thinking she might never get the chance to play again.
- Coached by 5'2" Natalie Nakase, a walk-on to the @UCLA team (!!), whose playing career was cut short by injury. She literally worked her way up from being a *video coordinator* for the @LAClippers, and is also the first Asian American head coach in WNBA history.
- First game 7 in @WNBA history, with an absolutely absurd second half (go Gabby!!!!). Gabby Williams is also vegan, which (if anything!) seems to help rather than hurt her gameplay.
- Fastest team in major sports history to win a title (year 2!!)
Proof that grit, culture, and a room full of underdogs who believe in each other and who care about each other beats pedigree every single time. So, so inspiring.
Really hoping someone is already working on the book or @Netflix @PrimeVideo documentary; day-one pre-order from me! 📚
Built together. Crowned together.
Game 7 in Boohalla. 🏆
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rstickr.dev is live whenever it is Sunday for you. How many #RStats package and function names can you find?
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Jeremy Allen retweeted
Some big personal news: I'm moving to join Works in Progress as executive editor, starting next month. I have been hoping for an opportunity to work with @bswud and @s8mb for more than a decade, and I'm incredibly excited to finally have one.
WIP is expanding on every front right now. We'll soon begin coverage of business and finance, as well as putting out more reported features. To that end, we'll be hiring more writers and reporters in the year to come. I'm planning to remain based in the US to help build out our presence here.
The print edition of WIP has existed for less than 12 months, but sometime in the next week or so we will reach our 10,000th paying print subscriber. It's a group that now includes people who've been at the highest echelons of government and who run the world's biggest public companies. We’re already on track to 3x that number next year. We'll be in store at Barnes & Noble, Hudson News and independent newsagents next week too.
I think WIP is providing something that people are craving from physical media right now: fewer, extremely well-crafted pieces in a beautifully designed form. Issues now feature an amazing group of columnists, including Tyler Cowen, Dan Wang and Stephen Kotkin. Each edition is better than the last.
You'll see us in more and more places next year too. In January, our new weekly documentary films will launch on YouTube. We're expanding into the events space, with a new series in North America. The sky is the limit from here on out.
WIP is expanding on every front right now. We'll soon begin coverage of business and finance, as well as putting out more reported features. To that end, we'll be hiring more writers and reporters in the year to come. I'm planning to remain based in the US to help build out our presence here.
The print edition of WIP has existed for less than 12 months, but sometime in the next week or so we will reach our 10,000th paying print subscriber. It's a group that now includes people who've been at the highest echelons of government and who run the world's biggest public companies. We’re already on track to 3x that number next year. We'll be in store at Barnes & Noble, Hudson News and independent newsagents next week too.
I think WIP is providing something that people are craving from physical media right now: fewer, extremely well-crafted pieces in a beautifully designed form. Issues now feature an amazing group of columnists, including Tyler Cowen, Dan Wang and Stephen Kotkin. Each edition is better than the last.
You'll see us in more and more places next year too. In January, our new weekly documentary films will launch on YouTube. We're expanding into the events space, with a new series in North America. The sky is the limit from here on out.
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Jeremy Allen retweeted
At posit::conf this year, Sara and Simon from Posit's Core AI Team shared a new R/Python package #commons that helps data scientists build trustworthy data agents. Live follow-up Q&A on Oct 28th at 11amET. You can sign up here: pos.it/workflow-demos
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Jeremy Allen retweeted
Our new website is live!
At the AI Objectives Institute, we're studying the economics of transformative AI, from its effects on labor markets to the broader economic and policy implications.
Explore our research: ai.objectives.institute/ai-and-markets
At the AI Objectives Institute, we're studying the economics of transformative AI, from its effects on labor markets to the broader economic and policy implications.
Explore our research: ai.objectives.institute/ai-and-markets
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documenting and sharing is so important right now
💯 Co-sign.
For those of us who are mid- or late-career engineers and managers, the mandate shifted quite a while ago. We have decades of context on system design, software failures, architectural "taste", how to handle failures in distributed systems...
...but if you aren't modeling curiosity and pushing your teams and colleagues to build with AI - as well as sharing what you've discovered, attempting to inspire folks to experiment and to learn more - you're doing them a massive disservice.
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I can't remember the last time I tweeted about a Google product update. I bet they never planned on it being this one. Will be such a QOL improvement
We are making Markdown files work natively across Google Drive and Docs.
You can now preview .md files in Drive, open them in Docs, edit them, comment on them, and collaborate without converting the file into a Google Doc!
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Jeremy Allen retweeted
We are making Markdown files work natively across Google Drive and Docs.
You can now preview .md files in Drive, open them in Docs, edit them, comment on them, and collaborate without converting the file into a Google Doc!
You can now preview .md files in Drive, open them in Docs, edit them, comment on them, and collaborate without converting the file into a Google Doc!
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And I have nested subdirectories each with their own CLAUDE.md so depending on where in the tree I am working the model has a different system prompt.
it's basically impossible for someone to just "show you their prompt" now, because everything is about references, skills and examples
I often ask my agent to look at 3 other repos I've made first, search the web for references, use other AI APIs, etc.
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claude opus 5.5 on medium has been really fast and plenty intelligent for me. I grimace when I have to watch someone use sonnet 5 xhigh and it just spins and spins. is opus 5.5 medium cheaper than sonnet 5 xhigh?
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I created a new large language model called Bev. You give Bev a list of dinner options and it returns equal probability for all. It then asks you which you prefer, and when you pick one it then discloses a preference for another one.
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