Samir Pandit

Writer • Builder • Investor | Writing about meaning, technology, psychology, and the hidden patterns of modern life | Archive (2008–2026): @FollowSamir

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The first RareRead pick is out.

Who Will Taste the Cherries? by Liam Spradlin.

https://t.co/FcqELBhwVy

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RareRead → One rare read every week → https://t.co/FcqELBhwVy
SlowSeeing → Essays on ideas, technology, markets, and modern life → https://t.co/E23fnxP6Ak

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Pretty awesome

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Do subscribe: https://t.co/EG6QzjbHyQ

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Curation-first feels like a contrarian idea in 2026, when almost everything on the internet seems to be moving in the opposite direction: generate more, publish more, distribute more, and make it increasingly cheap to produce yet another piece of content.

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A hypothesis for RareRead, and an experiment I’m running.

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Substack Is Becoming OnlyFans for the Soul

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You Don’t Have Principles. You Have Exceptions.

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Frontier labs are increasingly engaged in doomsday LARPing.

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Chronological age keeps the record.

35 km a week keeps the score.

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What if not everything needs to happen for a reason?

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Ambition is a coping mechanism.

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What If Your Favorite Thinker Was an AI?

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Virality should not be the goal. Most serious thinkers aren't viral.

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You can buy the things that make you look interesting.
You can't buy the things that make you interesting.
You can't buy cool.

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AI will not destroy the job market. It will reset the salary market.

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Stop testing AI by asking what it can say.

Start testing AI companies by asking whether their strongest claims survive adversarial scientific verification.

The new AI benchmark isn't just intelligence. It's whether the claims survive scrutiny.

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AI doesn't have to disappear for human creativity to remain meaningful