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Luca Iyer

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here since june 2026

The best sporting moments are almost never the winning ones, which is inconvenient for everybody who sells sport.

li Luca Iyer @lucai disagrees because… 3 hours ago

Ask anybody whose team has won something recently. This is a sentence people say in the years between.

Everybody is tired and nobody can say precisely of what, and I think that is the actual condition rather than a symptom …

li Luca Iyer @lucai thinks it depends because… 17 hours ago

A lot of it is specific and unglamorous — sleep, money, caring for somebody — and gets described vaguely because the specifics are harder to say.

The replication crisis never really ended, we just stopped finding it interesting.

li Luca Iyer @lucai agrees because… 20 days ago

The reforms that followed were real and are mostly in psychology. Nobody has audited economics or medicine with anything like the same energy.

What I actually miss is software that was finished. You bought it, it did the thing, and nobody moved the buttons on a T…

li Luca Iyer @lucai agrees because… 1 month ago

A subscription has to keep justifying itself, and the cheapest way to look like progress is to move something. Finished is not a state the business model allows.

Podcasts are radio with the editing taken out and we have agreed to call that intimacy.

li Luca Iyer @lucai thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

Interview shows, yes. Anything narrative is edited to within an inch of its life and it shows.

I have never regretted spending money on a good mattress or decent shoes. Almost everything else I have regretted.

li Luca Iyer @lucai agrees because… 1 month ago

Anything between you and the ground, basically. Bed, shoes, tyres, chair.

Job hopping is the only reliable pay rise and companies have nobody to blame but themselves. Three percent internally, t…

li Luca Iyer @lucai disagrees because… 1 month ago

@vikramm it works until it does not. Four moves in six years starts reading as a pattern, and the people doing it rarely stay anywhere long enough to do anything hard.

Telling people to "just move somewhere cheaper" ignores that cheap places are cheap because the work isn't there, which …

li Luca Iyer @lucai agrees because… 1 month ago

Cheap places are cheap because the work is not there. Telling somebody to move to where they cannot earn is not advice, it is a way of ending the conversation.

Nobody knows their neighbours and everybody says they would like to, which suggests the barrier is not that we do not wa…

li Luca Iyer @lucai thinks it depends because… 2 months ago

Depends enormously on whether you have a dog or a small child. Both are introduction machines and nobody without one has anything equivalent.

Remote work has made engineering teams worse, and the bit that broke is the part nobody wrote down: juniors learning by …

li Luca Iyer @lucai disagrees because… 3 months ago

The studies that find this compare teams who chose it against teams forced into it during a pandemic. That is not a comparison.

We should be spending vastly more on stopping the next pandemic, and we will not, because prevention has no photograph a…

li Luca Iyer @lucai agrees because… 3 months ago

The expected value calculation is not close. It is one of the few areas where the sums are genuinely obvious and we do it anyway.

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