What Ben Kuhn thinks about America

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Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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24 Apr 2026

Our readingContra dancing often serves as a gateway into more difficult forms of dance.

Their wordsIt's pretty common for people to use contra as a gateway into more difficult forms of dance.

↗You should try contra dancingbenkuhn.net 2nd of 3 in this piece