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How the World Really Works
A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
Aug 18
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Aug 15
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Book Review: The New Climate War
The evened out climate book.
Aug 13
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May 2026
What the Swarm was reading — week of May 22, 2026
Seventeen posts this week, and an unusually high share of them snowballed into real arguments in the thread.
May 22
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Beyond #swarmalicious Weekly
This time, I thought I’d add a few points beyond what we covered in our Giant Swarm internal chat because there is a lot going on.
May 15
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What the Swarm was reading — week of May 7, 2026
A quieter week in #swarmalicious — the May 1 long weekend ate most of the early days, and the channel only really woke up mid-week.
May 7
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April 2026
What the Swarm was reading — week of April 30, 2026
Another week, another scroll through #swarmalicious — our internal link-dump channel that has been quietly compounding signal since 2014.
Apr 30
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Weekly Dose of #swarmalicious
What the Swarm was reading — week of April 23, 2026
Apr 23
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March 2026
The Best AI Agent Is the One That Disappears
Here’s something most AI vendors won’t tell you: the goal shouldn’t be to run more AI.
Mar 5
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AI Agents That Run Where Your Data Lives
There’s a pattern I keep seeing in enterprise AI conversations.
Mar 4
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Why AI Agents Need a Gatekeeper
Here’s the thing about AI agents in enterprise environments: the first question is almost never “which model should we use?”
Mar 2
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February 2026
From Kubernetes to AI — Why This Is the Same Job
When people hear that Giant Swarm is building an AI Operating System, the first reaction is usually: “Wait, aren’t you the Kubernetes company?”
Feb 26
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