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Every Decision Has Three Costs: Time, Focus, and Optionality

Every Decision Has Three Costs: Time, Focus, and Optionality

Why Decisions Are More Expensive Than You Think

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The Eagles’ Struggles Are Simply Offensive

The Eagles’ Struggles Are Simply Offensive
All was well with the Philadelphia Eagles in the first half of Sunday's game. The defense looked dominant again. The offense, which had struggled in low-scoring wins the past two weeks, was churning again. The Dallas Cowboys’ first drive of the game ended on downs. Another s...

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Inside Uber’s Multicloud AI Reality: The Gap Between Data and Compute

Andrew Leung of Uber and interviewer at KubeCon North America 2025.

Uber, one of the original ride-hailing services, developed a distributed infrastructure before most anyone even considered it for their enterprise.

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Fifteen Years

"Want to feel old?" "Yes."

Post Reports
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You can avoid overspending on the holidays. Here’s how.

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year and, if you’re not careful, it could be the most expensive. The day after Thanksgiving has historically been the official start of the holiday shopping season, but we’ve been seeing Black Friday deals advertised earlier each year. Mo...

WIRED
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Trump Is Boosting MAGA X Accounts Operating Overseas

A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway.

The Brian Lehrer Show
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Monday Morning Politics with Leader Jeffries

Hakeem Jeffries, U.S. Representative (D NY-8th, Brooklyn) and House minority leader, offers his take on how the meeting between President Trump and Mayor-elect Mamdani went, and more national political news.


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Brandon Nimmo Will Now Do His Sprinting To First Base In Texas

Brandon Nimmo Will Now Do His Sprinting To First Base In Texas
Apparently someone at MLB headquarters turned the stove on and accidentally left it going. On Sunday, ESPN's Jeff Passan reported that the Texas Rangers and New York Mets were finalizing a straight-up player swap of Marcus Semien for Brandon Nimmo. Semien will be taking his ...

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The Rise of RFK Jr.

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Tracing the dramatic and controversial rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., FRONTLINE examines how the scion of a storied dynasty endured tragedy and scandal, broke with the Democratic Party and his family, stoked conspiracy theories, and is reshaping government and public health.

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World of Frozen opening in Disneyland Paris in March. Really impressed with the new robotic Olaf. ☃️

WIRED
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Our Favorite Unbound Merino Wool T-Shirts Are on Sale for Black Friday

WIRED's pick for the best travel T-shirt is on sale for Black Friday. Expand your merino wardrobe with these deals.

Fresh Air
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Brendan Fraser Has Everything & Nothing To Prove

In his new film, 'Rental Family,' Brendan Fraser plays an actor in Tokyo who takes a job with a rental family service. It's based on a real phenomenon in Japan: companies where you can hire someone to fill a gap in your life. Fraser spoke with Tonya Mosley about shooting in ...

McSweeney’s
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Thanksgiving’s Going to Be a Tough One This Year, Charlie Brown

Making popcorn again, huh, Snoopy? Keep it up. Sounds like pure nostalgia, especially with the way this year’s been going. I bet Linus would’ve called those popping kernels “little pangs of painful joy,” or something equally poetic, but of course, he’s not coming this year. ...

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Anthropic’s New Claude Opus 4.5 Reclaims the Coding Crown From Gemini 3

Anthropic today launched the latest version of its flagship Opus model: Opus 4.5. The company calls it its most intelligent

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America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle

America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle

The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

The Brian Lehrer Show
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Mayor-Elect Mamdani's Meeting With President Trump

Jeffery Mays, New York Times metro politics reporter, recaps Mayor-elect Mamdani's Friday meeting at the White House with President Trump, where the two spoke well of each other and pledged to work together.


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Deepnote CEO: Why Notebooks Are the ‘Perfect User Interface’ for AI Agents

Deepnote founder and CEO Jakob Jurových Speaking at JupyterCon, he explained that existing notebook formats weren’t built for the fast, iterative workflow of data exploration, where there’s no clear endpoint and analysts constantly shift directions.

When Jakob Jurových and his team started building Deepnote in 2019, they saw a gap between two computational worlds that

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Kubernetes at the Edge: Lessons From GE HealthCare’s Edge Strategy

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For highly regulated companies with distributed architectures, such as health care, financial services, telecom and manufacturing, operating at the edge

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J.J. McCarthy Is Not Beating The “Sucks” Allegations

J.J. McCarthy Is Not Beating The “Sucks” Allegations
If current trends continue, historians will look back on Nov. 2, 2025, with consternation and confusion. Entire careers of PhD candidates at major universities will be devoted to the mystery of this one day. There will be theses and dissertations, essays and thinkpieces, all...

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I like this quote from Jony Ive in the conversation:

There’s not a lot of humor in the products that are being designed and made, particularly in this area. I really sense very clearly there is a huge desire for us not to take ourselves quite so seriously, even though these are serious times.