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More from Nabeel S. Qureshi

Principles

// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.

3 months ago 43 votes
Reflections on Palantir

A retrospective of an eight-year stint.

6 months ago 28 votes
The Serendipity Machine

Notes on Using Twitter

a year ago 21 votes
Notes on Puzzles

1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a way I don’t like — but one habit I’ve retained is solving puzzles.

a year ago 16 votes
May Updates + New Essay On Moral AI

A few months back, I read a tweet from Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) which stuck in my mind: “the long term goal is to build AGI that loves people the way parents love their children”.

a year ago 18 votes

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The Intuit vs the government cage fight

Daniel Boguslaw: Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers Even when the Biden administration broke through in the Inflation Reduction Act to fund a pilot program for Direct File, which expanded to 25 states this tax season, Intuit didn’t stop fighting. Instead, it continued

2 days ago 5 votes
Eurorack Knob Idea

[Hardware] An idea for knobs for synthesizers.

2 days ago 10 votes
Robot Dexterity Still Seems Hard

You can’t throw a rock these days without hitting someone trying to build humanoid robots.

2 days ago 7 votes
Fire In The Hole, We’re Breaching The Vault - Commvault Remote Code Execution (CVE-2025-34028)

As we pack our bags and prepare for the adult-er version of BlackHat (that apparently doesn’t require us to print out stolen mailspoolz to hand to people at their talks), we want to tell you about a recent adventure - a heist, if you will. No heist story

2 days ago 8 votes
Reflecting

I know there’s been a lot of frustration directed at me specifically. Some of it, I believe, is misplaced—but I also understand where it’s coming from. The passing of Pope Francis has deeply impacted me. While I still disagree with the Church on many issues, he was the Pope who broke the mold in so … Continue reading Reflecting →

2 days ago 6 votes