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"The telecom bust featured substantial industry overcapacity, falling prices, heavy debt, and the bankruptcy of Global Crossing."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE The Naughty Bill

Source title Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc.

Source authors U.S. Government Accountability Office

Source year 2002

Confidence high

Importance high

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"The dot-com bust erased nearly $6 trillion from U.S. household net worth between 1999 and 2002 through falling stock values."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE The Naughty Bill

Source title Dr. Econ, can you show me a chart of personal income and net worth of U.S. households? Has the recent softness in the housing market and the economy affected personal income and household net worth?

Source authors Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Source year 2007

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Berkeley’s RISC research received support from DARPA."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Can You Feel the AGI?

Source title A RISCy Approach to Computer Design

Source authors David A. Patterson

Source year 1982

Confidence high

Importance high

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"Modern global supply chains depend on information technology as well as standardized physical container infrastructure."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Tight Braid

Source title Episode 180: Transcript

Source authors Annalee Newitz; Charlie Jane Anders; Alexis Madrigal

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

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"Italian Futurism called for a break with older conventions and embraced speed, technology, and dynamism."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES Abstractions Change, Headaches Don’t

Source title Nuts and Bolts: Machine Made Man in Films from the Collection

Source authors The Museum of Modern Art

Source year 2009

Confidence high

Importance high

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"Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of Le Figaro in February 1909."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES Abstractions Change, Headaches Don’t

Source title A Revolution in Language

Source authors Jennifer Farrell

Source year 2016

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Paul Graham argues that people who are very good at their work often develop a hobbyist’s interest in it and want to talk about it with genuinely interested people."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES A Pint Is All You Need

Source title How to Do Great Work

Source authors Paul Graham

Source year 2023

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"The SWE-chat paper was submitted on April 22, 2026 and initially analysed 6,000 real coding-agent sessions containing more than 63,000 user prompts."

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Location Prologue: The “Hello, World!” Trap

Source title SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the Wild

Source authors Joachim Baumann; Vishakh Padmakumar; Xiang Li; John Yang; Diyi Yang; Sanmi Koyejo

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Book / Offline paper

"Peopleware reports average productivity of 8.0 for 19 programmer-estimated projects, 6.6 for 23 supervisor-estimated projects, and 7.8 for 16 jointly estimated projects."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Hitting the Target

Source title Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 3rd edition

Source authors Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister

Source year 2013

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Hofstadter’s Law says tasks take longer than expected even after accounting for that tendency."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS When Deadlines Become a Plan

Source title Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1945 - )

Source authors Mathematical Association of America

Source year 1979

Confidence high

Importance mid