Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.

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  Office 365

  Their words

  When I have to use Excel, Word or PowerPoint I have an Office 365 subscription.

  usesthis.com

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  Nvidia GTX 1070

  Their words

  I also use a PC with an AMD Ryzen 1800X, 64GB DDR4 3000Mhz RAM, 512GB SSD, 2TB SSHD, and Nvidia GTX 1070 (8GB) running Windows 10.

  usesthis.com

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  AMD Ryzen 1800X

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  I also use a PC with an AMD Ryzen 1800X, 64GB DDR4 3000Mhz RAM, 512GB SSD, 2TB SSHD, and Nvidia GTX 1070 (8GB) running Windows 10.

  usesthis.com

Civil engineer and land use planner, founder and president of Strong Towns, author of Escaping the Housing Trap. Argues that the American pattern of development since the Second World War does not generate enough wealth to maintain the infrastructure it obliges cities to keep.

From one piece The Power of Growing Incrementally 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  We admire people for taking bold action with public money who in an earlier age would have been called hustlers.

  Their words

  So whether it is Robert Moses then or Elon Musk today, people who would have – in a time past – been called charlatans or hustlers, now become deeply admired for their willingness to take bold action (with public money or supported by tax subsidies).

  The Power of Growing Incrementallystrongtowns.org

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  The break in how cities are built is that places used to be improved continuously and are now built once, at scale, to a finished state.

  Their words

  Pre-Depression development was incremental on a continuum of improvement while post-War development is built at a large scale to a finished state.

  The Power of Growing Incrementallystrongtowns.org

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  A neighbourhood redevelops itself when rising land values meet permission to build more intensely, and it stagnates when either half is missing.

  Their words

  It is incrementally rising land values, combined with the ability to redevelop to something more intense, that naturally prompts the redevelopment of property in decline.

  The Power of Growing Incrementallystrongtowns.org

One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at Google Brain; per the paper's own contribution note, proposed scaled dot-product attention, multi-head attention and the parameter-free position representation.

From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.

  Their words

  As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Their words

  To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

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  Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.

  Their words

  We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at Google Research; per the paper's own contribution note, designed, implemented, tuned and evaluated the model variants the paper rests on.

From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.

  Their words

  As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Their words

  To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.

  Their words

  We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at Google Brain; per the paper's own contribution note, designed and implemented parts of tensor2tensor, the codebase that replaced the team's earlier one.

From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.

  Their words

  As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Their words

  To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.

  Their words

  We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at Google Research; per the paper's own contribution note, experimented with novel model variants and was responsible for the initial codebase, efficient inference and visualisations.

From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.

  Their words

  As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Their words

  To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.

  Their words

  We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at Google Research; per the paper's own contribution note, proposed replacing recurrent networks with self-attention and started the effort to evaluate the idea.

From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.

  Their words

  As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Their words

  To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.

  Their words

  We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need"; per the paper's own contribution note, designed and implemented the first Transformer models, with Ashish Vaswani.

From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.

  Their words

  As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Their words

  To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.

  Their words

  We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at Google Brain; per the paper's own contribution note, designed and implemented the first Transformer models, with Illia Polosukhin, and was involved in every aspect of the work.

From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.

  Their words

  As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Their words

  To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.

  Their words

  We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at University of Toronto; per the paper's own contribution note, designed and implemented parts of tensor2tensor, the codebase that replaced the team's earlier one.

From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.

  Their words

  As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Their words

  To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.

  Their words

  We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.

  Attention is all you needarxiv.org

Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.

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  A Man For All Markets

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  It’s a terrific book

  avc.com

Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  Hillbilly Elegy

  Their words

  Vance describes in his terrific, heartbreaking book Hillbilly Elegy is one that I know only vicariously.

  gatesnotes.com

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  The Heart

  Their words

  It’s not the plot that makes The Heart such a wonderful book.

  gatesnotes.com

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  Sapiens

  Their words

  Melinda and I loved Harari’s previous book, Sapiens, which tries to explain how our species came to dominate the Earth.

  gatesnotes.com

Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.

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  Grit

  Their words

  Her book Grit is about the power of perseverance.

  avc.com

Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

From one piece The Engineer/Manager Pendulum 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A manager’s calendar and an engineer’s calendar are incompatible, because management is interruptive and good engineering requires blocking interruptions out.

  Their words

  Management is highly interruptive, and great engineering — where you’re learning things — requires blocking out interruptions. You can’t do these two opposite things at once.

  The Engineer/Manager Pendulumcharity.wtf

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  Engineering and management cannot both be improved at once, so a new manager has to stop trying to be the senior engineer as well.

  Their words

  You can only really improve at one of these things at a time: engineering or management.

  The Engineer/Manager Pendulumcharity.wtf

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  Making management the only path to career progression is a mistake that costs a company the senior engineers it needs.

  Their words

  Fuck the whole idea that only managers get career progression.

  The Engineer/Manager Pendulumcharity.wtf

Writer of the 25iq blog, where he distils "a dozen things I've learned" from investors, founders and thinkers. Author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs.

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  The Devil’s Financial Dictionary

  Their words

  Janson Zweig has written a wonderful book entitled The Devil’s Financial Dictionary in the style of Bierce that is both entertaining and educational.

  25iq.com

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  MealSquares

  Their words

  So, if you're looking for an easy way to quit the junk food and try a low-variety diet that's unlikely to injure your hypothalamus, I recommend MealSquares as worth a look.

  slatestarcodex.com

Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

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  Too Like the Lightning

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  This preamble is very pertinent to Lightning. The best facets of the novel are really good, and the worst parts are really bad.

  putanumonit.com

Management writer; co-author of In Search of Excellence (1982) and author of The Excellence Dividend.

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  The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits

  Their words

  The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits, by Zeynep Ton

  tompeters.com

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  Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love

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  Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love, by Richard Sheridan, CEO Menlo Innovations

  tompeters.com

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  Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big

  Their words

  Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, by Bo Burlingham

  tompeters.com

Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.

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  Irssi

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  I use irssi for IRC, Mutt/Geary for mail, Chromium for browsing, and Pidgin for IM.

  usesthis.com

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  darktable

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  I edit photos in darktable and The GIMP, and do my vector work in Inkscape.

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  Inkscape

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  I edit photos in darktable and The GIMP, and do my vector work in Inkscape.

  usesthis.com

Physician and author on addiction, stress and childhood development. Wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, and developed the Compassionate Inquiry approach taught to therapists.

From one piece BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addiction 4 beliefs · drgabormate.com

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  Treating an addiction without treating the pain underneath it is treating an effect rather than a cause.

  Addiction

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  to treat the addiction, which is a symptom, without treating the pain that underlies it is to deal in effects rather than in causes, and therefore dooms many to ongoing cycles of suffering

  drgabormate.com

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  Trauma is not confined to terrible events: a child whose parents were too stressed or distracted to see them has been traumatized too.

  Trauma

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  But trauma is not restricted to horrific experiences. It refers to any set of events that, over time, impose more pain on the child than his or her sensitive organism can process and discharge.

  drgabormate.com

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  Childhood trauma is the template for every addiction, including the socially rewarded ones.

  TraumaAddiction

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  Childhood trauma is the template for addiction-any addiction. All addictions are attempts to escape the deep pain of the hurt child, attempts temporarily soothing but ultimately futile.

  drgabormate.com

Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.

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  Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab

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  If you're considering to become a particle physicist, I strongly recommend you read this book to find out if you fit the bill.

  backreaction.blogspot.com

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Seeing Like a State

  Their words

  Seeing Like A State is the book G.K. Chesterton would have written if he had gone into economic history instead of literature. Since he didn't, James Scott had to write it a century later. The wait was worth it.

  slatestarcodex.com

Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  When Breath Becomes Air

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  I am certain I will read When Breath Becomes Air again.

  gatesnotes.com

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Happy

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  Brilliant and profound yet totally entertaining philosophy book by one of my favorite people. Gives an approachable overview of past philosophies and shows how they apply to your life today better than the harmful pop-self-help-positivity stuff. Amazing perspectives on desires, death, relationships, anger, and how being present doesn’t matter as much as the story you tell yourself afterwards. H…

  sive.rs

Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.

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  Thinking Physics

  Their words

  "Thinking Physics."

  x.com

Physician and author on addiction, stress and childhood development. Wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, and developed the Compassionate Inquiry approach taught to therapists.

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  Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health

  Their words

  Facing Addiction in America is also the first governmental attempt to ground policy not in prejudice but in research, not in conjecture but in science. It collates an impressive body of evidence to illuminate the pathological processes and impacts of substance addiction in the human brain and body, and suggests evidence-based practices for treatment and prevention.

  drgabormate.com

Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University; with Daron Acemoglu, studies how automation affects employment, wages and economic growth.

From one piece Acemoglu & Restrepo, "Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets" (NBER working paper 23285) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Measured across US commuting zones from 1990 to 2007, the effect of robots on employment and wages is large, negative and robust.

  Their words

  Using this approach, we estimate large and robust negative effects of robots on employment and wages across commuting zones.

  nber.org

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  In a model where robots compete with human labour task by task, robots can reduce both employment and wages.

  Their words

  Using a model in which robots compete against human labor in the production of different tasks, we show that robots may reduce employment and wages

  nber.org

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  Robots and computer-assisted technologies taking over tasks previously done by labour is what puts the future of jobs and wages in question.

  Their words

  As robots and other computer-assisted technologies take over tasks previously performed by labor, there is increasing concern about the future of jobs and wages.

  nber.org

Institute Professor of Economics at MIT; shared the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Simon Johnson and James Robinson for work on institutions and prosperity; author of Why Nations Fail.

From one piece Acemoglu & Restrepo, "Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets" (NBER working paper 23285) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Measured across US commuting zones from 1990 to 2007, the effect of robots on employment and wages is large, negative and robust.

  Their words

  Using this approach, we estimate large and robust negative effects of robots on employment and wages across commuting zones.

  nber.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  In a model where robots compete with human labour task by task, robots can reduce both employment and wages.

  Their words

  Using a model in which robots compete against human labor in the production of different tasks, we show that robots may reduce employment and wages

  nber.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Robots and computer-assisted technologies taking over tasks previously done by labour is what puts the future of jobs and wages in question.

  Their words

  As robots and other computer-assisted technologies take over tasks previously performed by labor, there is increasing concern about the future of jobs and wages.

  nber.org

Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.

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  Google Docs

  Their words

  For writing, commenting and collaborating on internal technical documents, I use Google Docs.

  usesthis.com

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  LaTeX

  Their words

  For technical papers, I and my coauthors usually use LaTeX. For giving presentations, I almost exclusively use Google Slides.

  usesthis.com

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  Google Slides

  Their words

  For giving presentations, I almost exclusively use Google Slides.

  usesthis.com

Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway from 1970 to 2025, when Greg Abel became CEO; chairman as of 2026. Wrote the annual Letters to Berkshire Shareholders from 1977 to 2024, read closely across the investing world for decades.

From one piece Berkshire Hathaway 2016 Chairman's Letter 2 beliefs · berkshirehathaway.com

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  When trillions of dollars are managed by high-fee Wall Street managers, it is the managers who reap the outsized profits, not their clients.

  Their words

  The bottom line: When trillions of dollars are managed by Wall Streeters charging high fees, it will usually be the managers who reap outsized profits, not the clients. Both large and small investors should stick with low-cost index funds.

  Berkshire Hathaway 2016 Chairman's Letterberkshirehathaway.com

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  Investors do better over time in a low-cost index fund than in a group of hedge funds, on average.

  Their words

  Investors, on average and over time, will do better with a low-cost index fund than with a group of funds of funds.

  Berkshire Hathaway 2016 Chairman's Letterberkshirehathaway.com

Artist and writer based in Oakland, California; author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time, and a longtime teacher of digital art.

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  Blender

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  I've played around in p5 a a bit, and lately I've been rendering some 3D blobs in Blender.

  usesthis.com

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  Dropbox

  Their words

  I use Dropbox to (attempt to) sync things among my several computers.

  usesthis.com

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  Keynote

  Their words

  I often give talks that have a lot of GIFs and videos, so Keynote's been useful.

  usesthis.com

Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Building powerful developer tools such as compilers, interpreters, and query languages requires knowledge of parsing.

  developer tools

  Their words

  What I know and what I'm sure about is that without knowledge of parsing you won't be able to build tools like these.

  Higher Value Toolsthorstenball.com

Cryptographer; created Signal and the Signal Protocol, and writes occasionally about cryptography, web3 and sailing.

From one piece There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor' 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Shipping default end-to-end encryption to more than a billion people is to Facebook’s credit, whatever else it is criticised for.

  Their words

  There are many things to criticize Facebook for; running a product that deployed end-to-end encryption by default for over a billion people is not one of them.

  There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'signal.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Handling a change of keys is not a backdoor; it is how public-key cryptography works, and interception stays detectable by the sender.

  Their words

  The fact that WhatsApp handles key changes is not a “backdoor,” it is how cryptography works.

  There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'signal.org

Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.

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  the work of Dr. Sarah Ballantyne

  Their words

  If you suffer one of those diseases, in addition to talking to your doctor, I recommend the work of Dr. Sarah Ballantyne. She has a PhD in medical biophysics, and managed to cure four of her own severe autoimmune diseases with the autoimmune protocol.

  lynalden.com

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  How to Exercise Primally

  Their words

  And I love these two articles from Mark Sisson, a former triathlete and marathon runner: How to Exercise Primally The 10 Rules of Successful Exercise

  lynalden.com

Civil engineer and land use planner, founder and president of Strong Towns, author of Escaping the Housing Trap. Argues that the American pattern of development since the Second World War does not generate enough wealth to maintain the infrastructure it obliges cities to keep.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Nearly every American city is functionally insolvent, because replacing the infrastructure it has built would cost more than its entire private tax base is worth.

  America

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  It's a predicament that nearly every American city, with very few exceptions, finds itself in.

  The Real Reason Your City Has No Moneystrongtowns.org

Founder and chief executive of Replit. Previously an engineer at Facebook and Codecademy. Writes essays on programming, philosophy and entrepreneurship at amasad.me.

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  Rationality: From AI to Zombies

  Their words

  luckily I was aided by a few books that I recommend to anyone who wants to come to terms with this

  amasad.me

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  The Beginning of Infinity

  Their words

  This book layed out the basis for a hopeful and optimistic Physicalist worldview.

  amasad.me

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  Society of Mind

  Their words

  which plausibly breaks down the mind into modules and presents it as if it’s a big piece of software

  amasad.me

Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.

From one piece On Progress and Historical Change 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Anything in the past that feels revolutionary, modern or comfortable should be treated as a warning sign of presentism until the evidence has been checked again.

  Their words

  Presentism is sometimes conscious, but often unconscious, so mindful historians will pause whenever we see something that feels revolutionary, or progressive, or proto-modern, or too comfortable, to check for other readings, and make triple sure we have real evidence.

  On Progress and Historical Changeexurbe.com

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  Treating history as a march of progress makes whole eras and regions disappear, dismissed for having failed to advance it.

  Their words

  In such a history whole eras can be dismissed as unworthy of study for failing to forward progress (The Middle Ages did great stuff, guys!) while other eras can be disproportionately celebrated for advancing it (The Renaissance did a lot of dumb stuff too!).

  On Progress and Historical Changeexurbe.com

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  History teaches complexity rather than prediction: it can explain the mechanisms of change without licensing any claim about what comes next.

  Their words

  history is a lesson in complexity not predictability

  On Progress and Historical Changeexurbe.com

Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Sleep Smarter

  Their words

  Podcast. Practical advice on how to improve the quality of your sleep. Quality is the key word — there are more factors come into play than just the amount of sleep.

  radex.io

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  Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

  Their words

  A collection of stories from Richard Feynman’s life. Very entertaining.

  radex.io

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  This Is Your Brain on Parasites

  Their words

  Another biology-related book. Explores the role of parasites (and bacteria, disease, disgust) in human behavior, attraction, even politics, morality, religion. Some of this is is cutting-edge, speculative, or not fully proven — but very interesting stuff indeed.

  radex.io

Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.

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  ConvertKit

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  ConvertKit - my newsletter is where I build relationships, and earn trust. This is where I'll share what I'm learning, and ultimately ask people to buy.

  justinjackson.ca

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  Podia

  Their words

  Podia - Podia is an all-in-one selling platform for solopreneurs. It's where I sell my digital products: downloads, courses, and books.

  justinjackson.ca

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  ScreenFlow

  Their words

  ScreenFlow - I believe the future of my business is in video + video courses. I'm in ScreenFlow almost every day. Sometimes I use it to "hijack audio" during interviews. Sometimes I use it to edit video. It's getting a lot of use.

  justinjackson.ca

Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.

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  Why Quark Rhymes with Pork: And Other Scientific Diversions

  Their words

  Why Quark Rhymes With Pork is a book I'd never have bought. But having read it, I think you should read it too.

  backreaction.blogspot.com

CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.

  Their words

  Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.

  @rauchg on Xx.com

Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.

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  Whiplash

  Their words

  I don’t do this very often, but I am going to break a rule and recommend a book that I just bought and have not yet read.

  avc.com

Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  String Theory

  Their words

  As much as I loved the book for its insights on the game, I loved it just as much for the writing itself.

  gatesnotes.com

Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.

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  Writing Solid Code

  Their words

  This book had a big impact on me as young software developer. It was the first time I saw in print the principle "bugs that go away by themselves come back by themselves". It's something that I've often repeated to myself, and my team, if nothing else but to prepare us mentally for when that hard bug does come back. The chapter advising developers to "proactively step through your code during development, don't wait for the bug report" improved my productivity enormously, and I followed the practice for many years.

  philipotoole.com

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  The C Programming Language

  Their words

  What can one say about this book, that hasn't been said already? Perhaps this: that of all the books written about programming, this has the highest information density of them all. And yet it's so pleasant to read. There is something about the tone of this book — the way the authors speak to you. They explain everything, and yet never seem patronizing or condescending. The joy they feel for their craft — it really does seem like this book comes from a time when programming was a craft — is unmistakable. Many of today's programmers — web developers, iOS developers, front-end engineers — may have no need to ever read this book. But for those who have not done so, and really want to improve as programmers, work through this book. It's a rite of passage.

  philipotoole.com

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  The Unix Programming Environment

  Their words

  The Unix Programming Environment is a book you can't read too soon. It's something I wish I'd come across years before I actually did. An authoritative and comprehensive manual for using Unix as a programmer, it clearly explains concepts such as inodes, hard and soft links, system calls, and the power of joining programs together via stdin and stdout. By the time I came across this book I already knew these concepts, but had never studied them before in one place, and in such a coherent manner.

  philipotoole.com

Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.

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  Influence

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  Influence was fundamental and had a lot to teach.

  x.com

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  Pre-Suasion

  Their words

  Presuasion is good but closer to a single-themed book.

  x.com

Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.

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  Past a certain hiring rate the marginal value of another engineer falls towards nothing, because training and interviewing consume the engineers you already have.

  Their words

  this is where the oft raised concern that hiring is slowing us down comes from: at high enough rates, the marginal added value of hiring gets very slow, especially if your training process is weak.

  Productivity in the age of hypergrowth.lethain.com

Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.

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  Probability and Computing: Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis

  Their words

  I've probably gotten more mileage out of this than out of any other algorithms book.

  danluu.com

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  Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines

  Their words

  The explanations are delightful and I've watched some of the videos more than once just to watch Bernhardt explain things.

  danluu.com

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  Snipers, Shills, and Sharks: eBay and Human Behavior

  Their words

  Seems designed as an entertaining introduction to auction theory for the layperson.

  danluu.com

Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.

From one piece Applying Behavioral Sciences in the Service of Four Major Economic Problems 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Behavioral science can matter more in policymaking if practitioners start from large-scale economic questions and develop complementary insights.

  Their words

  Behavioral science can play an even more important role in the policymaking process in coming years if practitioners instead begin with some of the large-scale questions that economic policymakers face and then develop insights that, often as a complement to more traditional policy tools, can help solve them.

  doi.org

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  Integration of behavioral science into public policy has so far proceeded from available tools toward problems rather than the reverse.

  Their words

  But to date, the integration of behavioral science into public policy has proceeded from developing a set of tools to then searching for problems these tools can help solve.

  doi.org

Writer of the 25iq blog, where he distils "a dozen things I've learned" from investors, founders and thinkers. Author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs.

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  The Success Equation

  Their words

  Asking me to select my favorite book written by Michael Mauboussin is like asking me to pick my favorite child. I love them all the same. But if I had to choose one book it would probably be The Success Equation.

  25iq.com

Writer of the 25iq blog, where he distils "a dozen things I've learned" from investors, founders and thinkers. Author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs.

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  Margin of Safety

  Their words

  I have previously written a blog post on Seth Klarman that included some quotes from his excellent book Margin of Safety.

  25iq.com

Writer of the 25iq blog, where he distils "a dozen things I've learned" from investors, founders and thinkers. Author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs.

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  The Most Important Thing

  Their words

  When I am asked by someone what book they should read first to learn about investing I often suggest Howard Marks’ The Most Important Thing

  25iq.com

Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.

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  The Seventh Sense

  Their words

  I am enjoying it and think you all will too.

  avc.com

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

From one piece Disconnect 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Consuming what everyone else consumes gives you no advantage; focus is the rare and valuable thing now.

  Their words

  You get no competitive edge from consuming the same stuff everyone else is consuming.

  Disconnectsive.rs

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  The feeds businesses design to be addictive are obstacles to anyone whose aim is to make something.

  Addiction

  Their words

  Every business wants to get you addicted to their infinite updates, pings, chats, messages, and news. But if what you want out of life is to create, then those are your obstacles.

  Disconnectsive.rs

Public transit planning consultant; wrote Human Transit and argues that a network's shape follows from what a city decides it wants.

From one piece Basics: Technology Never Changes Geometry 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Frequent fixed-route buses are the only way to cover a whole city with useful transit quickly, which makes them a land-use decision rather than a fallback.

  Their words

  But the only way to grow enough corridors quickly, so that you cover much of the city with frequent service that can succeed in ridership terms, is to take frequent fixed-route bus service seriously.

  Basics: Technology Never Changes Geometryhumantransit.org

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  Tech marketing assumes that whatever sells to the rich today sells to everyone tomorrow, but some things stop working when everybody buys them.

  Their words

  It runs on the assumption that whatever we sell to the wealthy today we can sell to the masses tomorrow. But some things stop working when everybody buys them.

  Basics: Technology Never Changes Geometryhumantransit.org

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  Replacing big transit vehicles with small ones puts more vehicles on the street to move the same people, which is the one thing a dense city has no room for.

  Their words

  In dense cities, where big transit vehicles (including buses) are carrying significant ridership, any “small vehicles replacing big vehicles” solution increases the total number of vehicles on the road at any time.

  Basics: Technology Never Changes Geometryhumantransit.org

Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

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  perf

  Their words

  I like to use perf top no matter what language my programs are written in, just to see if I can understand anything from it.

  jvns.ca

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  dstat

  Their words

  There’s also iostat and netstat and atop and a bunch of other tools, but dstat is my favorite.

  jvns.ca

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  strace

  Their words

  strace is pretty broadly useful, but keep in mind it can really slow down your programs.

  jvns.ca

Full professor of computer science at PUC-Rio in Rio de Janeiro and the lead architect of the Lua programming language, which he has worked on since 1993. Author of Programming in Lua.

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  Vim

  Their words

  I don't use IDEs. I write programs with vim and use both gcc and clang as my main compilers.

  usesthis.com

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  mutt

  Their words

  I use mutt for email. Remotely, I run a ssh connection to my machine and run mutt there.

  usesthis.com

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  Ubuntu

  Their words

  I run Ubuntu on both machines, sticking with the LTS versions.

  usesthis.com

Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.

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  Why String Theory?

  Their words

  Altogether, Why String Theory? gives the reader a mostly fair and balanced account of string theory

  backreaction.blogspot.com

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth

  Their words

  Note: I really liked this book and if I criticize it that's not meant as an attack but just as what I do with interesting ideas.

  slatestarcodex.com

Cryptographer; created Signal and the Signal Protocol, and writes occasionally about cryptography, web3 and sailing.

From one piece Reflections: The ecosystem is moving 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Self-hosted email will never be end-to-end encrypted, and federation is the reason.

  Their words

  So while it’s nice that I’m able to host my own email, that’s also the reason why my email isn’t end-to-end encrypted, and probably never will be.

  Reflections: The ecosystem is movingsignal.org

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  A federated protocol freezes in time, so a messenger that has to keep up with the ecosystem cannot be federated.

  Their words

  Nothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol-based messenger, but I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all.

  Reflections: The ecosystem is movingsignal.org

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  Encryption people have to switch on protects almost nobody; what protects people is what a service turns on for everyone.

  Their words

  By contrast, WhatsApp was able to introduce end-to-end encryption to over a billion users with a single software update.

  Reflections: The ecosystem is movingsignal.org

Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?

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  The Martian

  Their words

  Book for sure. The movie was solid and enjoyable, but kind of just another pretty good movie. The book was special.

  waitbutwhy.com

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  Being John Malkovich

  Their words

  Movie that I loved and took fully seriously and then saw again with people who were laughing the whole time and realized it was actually a comedy: Being John Malkovich.

  waitbutwhy.com

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  S'well thermos

  Their words

  I’ve also recently gotten into the small S’well thermos, which I use when I don’t have my bag because unlike my normal one, it fits in my jeans pocket.

  waitbutwhy.com

Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.

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  The Business Blockchain

  Their words

  the book makes a complex subject, blockchain technology, accessible for the non-technical

  avc.com

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America

  Their words

  But I highly recommend Albion's Seed as an entertaining and enlightening work of historical scholarship which will be absolutely delightful if you don't fret too much over all of the existential questions it raises.

  slatestarcodex.com

Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.

From one piece Still think you don't need HTTPS? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Plain HTTP lets anyone on the path rewrite the page, so HTTPS is about the integrity of what readers get, not only secrecy.

  Their words

  When you serve your pages over HTTP, anyone along the transport layer can do basically anything they want to your pages. More and more often it's becoming increasingly common for somebody in the chain of custody to do something to your pages that you don't want them to do.

  Still think you don't need HTTPS?scotthelme.co.uk

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  Every website needs HTTPS, including a static site with no login and nothing sensitive on it.

  Their words

  Supporting HTTPS on your site has so much more to offer than just protecting passwords and user's sensitive data.

  Still think you don't need HTTPS?scotthelme.co.uk

Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.

From one piece Data Is a Toxic Asset 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Storage became so cheap that companies keep everything forever, because until recently there was no downside to keeping it.

  Their words

  And because the cost of saving all this data is so cheap, there’s no reason not to save as much as possible, and save it all forever.

  Data Is a Toxic Assetschneier.com

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  Stored personal data is a toxic asset: it is a liability that keeps growing for as long as it is kept.

  Their words

  What all these data breaches are teaching us is that data is a toxic asset and saving it is dangerous.

  Data Is a Toxic Assetschneier.com

Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.

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  Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha

  Their words

  Core Teachings of the Buddha, free online.

  x.com

Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.

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  The Prophet

  Their words

  The Prophet is a beautiful book, enjoy :-)

  x.com