Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.

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  Keynote

  Their words

  I also use Pages, of course, and nothing is better for An Event Apart presentations than Keynote.

  usesthis.com

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  SuperDuper

  Their words

  run backups with SuperDuper, a program every Mac user must own. SuperDuper is quite simply the easiest backup program ever invented, and it just works.

  usesthis.com

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  Basecamp

  Their words

  We keep track of everything with 37signals's Basecamp.

  usesthis.com

Danish Mac developer; author of the TextMate text editor and founder of MacroMates.

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  The Unarchiver

  Their words

  The Unarchiver so I can extract rar archives from Finder.

  usesthis.com

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  GeekTool

  Their words

  I use remind as calendar application. I have it show upcoming events on my desktop using GeekTool.

  usesthis.com

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  Intel 160 GB SSD

  Their words

  My main disk is an Intel 160 GB SSD, and it lives up to the hype

  usesthis.com

Designer and writer; design director of NYTimes.com, later a principal designer at Adobe, and author of the Subtraction.com blog.

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  KB Cover

  Their words

  Also, I tend to keep my keyboards covered with a KB Cover. It's rubbery and looks pretty attractive, but it does slow you down a little until you've become accustomed to it.

  usesthis.com

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  Dell 1905FP

  Their words

  This Dell 1905FP isn't particularly large, but I'd rather have a second monitor of modest size than only one 30-in. display.

  usesthis.com

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  Apple Cinema Displays

  Their words

  I'm also completely unimpressed by Apple Cinema Displays. They're way too pricey, and actually what I want out of a second monitor is color inconsistency.

  usesthis.com

Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.

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  Sidekick

  Their words

  Truthfully, I really miss my Sidekick. I loved the form factor of that puppy far more than I love my iPhone.

  usesthis.com

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  Kindle

  Their words

  I have audio recorders that come out when I'm doing fieldwork. I tried a Kindle but found I didn't like.

  usesthis.com

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  Movable Type

  Their words

  I blog (via Movable Type) and I tweet (primarily through the web actually).

  usesthis.com

Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.

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  Adium

  Their words

  For IM, I use Adium with a custom Colloquy-look-alike message theme that I created when I came over from Fire a few years ago.

  usesthis.com

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  Twitterrific

  Their words

  My Twitter client of choice is Twitterrific, on both the Mac and the iPod.

  usesthis.com

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  WindowShade X

  Their words

  WindowShade X is the most significant, as my sole remaining APE module. So-called "haxies" get a bad rap, but I seriously don't know what I would do without WindowShade.

  usesthis.com

Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.

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  Photoshop CS3

  Their words

  I design and mock up all of my software in Photoshop CS3.

  usesthis.com

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  Safari 4

  Their words

  Safari 4 is my web browser. I used to use Firefox, but I got tired of its Mac OS X weirdness, and I don't use any extensions other than Firebug.

  usesthis.com

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  Firebug

  Their words

  I test my websites in Firefox+Firebug first, though Safari+Web Inspector is growing on me.

  usesthis.com

Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.

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  SnagIt

  Their words

  Interestingly, Snagit is one of the several other applications to adopt the "ribbon" style UI, which makes that more pleasant to use as well.

  usesthis.com

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  Photoshop

  Their words

  On the other hand, I continue to find Photoshop unintuitive, though it has made me more productive to downgrade from the full edition to the more limited Elements edition. A good example of the less is more usability maxim.

  usesthis.com

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  Vista

  Their words

  I always liked the Vista UI vision, but the reality wasn't as good.

  usesthis.com

Environmental writer and campaigner; author of Six Degrees, The God Species, Seeds of Science and Our Final Warning.

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  Last Chance to See

  Their words

  For me, Last Chance to See is a real eye-opener, with the idea that you can take a depressing subject – species on the verge of extinction – and present it in a way which is so engaging, so funny and so humane. I would like to be able to do that as a writer.

  fivebooks.com

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  The Ages of Gaia

  Their words

  Yes, James Lovelock wrote The Ages of Gaia, I think, in 1988. It wasn't his first Gaia book, but it is probably the best written one. I have just been re-reading it recently and certain themes that he picked up on are ones that are still considered novel today. Not just the whole idea of the way the earth works, almost as a living organism. But also looking at the way humanity is going to have to reconcile itself with the constraints and the limits of the planet.

  fivebooks.com

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  Straw Dogs

  Their words

  What I like about the book is the anti-humanism. The rejection of this idea we all have, that humanity is at the centre of the cosmos, which is a post-Christian thing.

  fivebooks.com

Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.

From one piece ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database (with 5 co-authors) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  ImageNet's scale, accuracy, diversity and hierarchy could offer unparalleled opportunities to computer vision researchers.

  Their words

  We hope that the scale, accuracy, diversity and hierarchical structure of ImageNet can offer unparalleled opportunities to researchers in the computer vision community and beyond.

  doi.org

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  ImageNet is much larger in scale and diversity and more accurate than existing image datasets.

  Their words

  We show that ImageNet is much larger in scale and diversity and much more accurate than the current image datasets.

  doi.org

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  How large-scale internet image data can be harnessed and organized remains a critical problem.

  Their words

  But exactly how such data can be harnessed and organized remains a critical problem.

  doi.org

Designer working with data; co-creator with Casey Reas of the Processing programming environment, author of Visualizing Data, and founder of the Fathom Information Design studio.

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  Eclipse

  Their words

  Most of my time is spent with Emacs, Processing, Eclipse, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS3.

  usesthis.com

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  Transmit

  Their words

  After that it's Transmit, TextWrangler, Hex Fiend, OpenOffice, Picasa, and lots of UNIX stuff from MacPorts like FontForge.

  usesthis.com

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  Hex Fiend

  Their words

  After that it's Transmit, TextWrangler, Hex Fiend, OpenOffice, Picasa, and lots of UNIX stuff from MacPorts like FontForge.

  usesthis.com

Co-founded PayPal and Palantir, was Facebook's first outside investor, and is a partner at Founders Fund. Wrote Zero to One with Blake Masters. Publishes nothing under his own name — his arguments reach people through books, essays in other outlets, and interviews.

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  Freedom and democracy are not compatible -- a conclusion reached after two decades of changing his mind about how freedom is achieved.

  On changing their mind

  But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

Co-founded PayPal and Palantir, was Facebook's first outside investor, and is a partner at Founders Fund. Wrote Zero to One with Blake Masters. Publishes nothing under his own name — his arguments reach people through books, essays in other outlets, and interviews.

From one piece The Education of a Libertarian 4 beliefs · cato-unbound.org

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  We are in a deadly race between politics and technology; the future will be much better or much worse, and it is still open.

  Their words

  A better metaphor is that we are in a deadly race between politics and technology. The future will be much better or much worse, but the question of the future remains very open indeed.

  The Education of a Libertariancato-unbound.org

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  Technological utopianism is a temptation to resist: technology has no momentum or will of its own and guarantees nothing.

  Their words

  The future of technology is not pre-determined, and we must resist the temptation of technological utopianism — the notion that technology has a momentum or will of its own, that it will guarantee a more free future, and therefore that we can ignore the terrible arc of the political in our world.

  The Education of a Libertariancato-unbound.org

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  With no truly free places left in the world, freedom now depends on new technology creating new space, not on political change.

  Their words

  Because there are no truly free places left in our world, I suspect that the mode for escape must involve some sort of new and hitherto untried process that leads us to some undiscovered country; and for this reason I have focused my efforts on new technologies that may create a new space for freedom.

  The Education of a Libertariancato-unbound.org

Writer and web developer; founding editor of Lifehacker, co-creator of ThinkUp and of the todo.txt format.

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  TextExpander

  Their words

  save keystrokes with TextExpander, back up with Time Machine

  usesthis.com

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  KeePass

  Their words

  To that end, KeePass secures the eight dozen passwords I can never remember, Mozy backs up my files online, Evernote stores notes, and I share my keyboard and mouse between the Mac and PC when the laptop is at my desk with Synergy.

  usesthis.com

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  Synergy

  Their words

  I share my keyboard and mouse between the Mac and PC when the laptop is at my desk with Synergy.

  usesthis.com

Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.

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  Work that matters requires tolerating discomfort and boredom rather than escaping into distraction.

  Their words

  Exceptional things — be it ideas, writing, mathematics, or art — require hard work. This, in turn, requires boring stretches during which you ignore a mind pleading with you to seek novel stimuli

  Have We Lost Our Tolerance For a Little Boredom?calnewport.com

Writer and creator of Daring Fireball, a long-running blog about Apple and technology; co-created Markdown and hosts The Talk Show.

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  Keyboard Maestro

  Their words

  I use both FastScripts and Keyboard Maestro for executing scripts and macros I've created to automate frequent tasks.

  usesthis.com

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  Ricoh GR-D

  Their words

  Miscellaneous other hardware that might qualify as work-related, roughly in order of how much affection I have for it: a Ricoh GR-D point-and-shoot camera

  usesthis.com

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  Markdown

  Their words

  Not the least of which is Markdown, which I use for everything I write.

  usesthis.com

Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.

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  VMware Fusion

  Their words

  I'll pop open VMWare Fusion if I need to test something on our site with Internet Explorer.

  usesthis.com

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  Subversion

  Their words

  All of our source code is managed with Subversion, so that's available wherever I go.

  usesthis.com

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  Drobo

  Their words

  It has a Drobo with 1+ TB of storage attached, and I leave file and screen sharing so I can get to that Mac from any other computer over the internet.

  usesthis.com

Programmer and writer; was Twitter's API lead, co-authored Programming Scala and co-founded Simple.

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  LaunchBar

  Their words

  LaunchBar to get to what I need quickly and to keep my clipboard history accessible, Growl and HardwareGrowler to get visual notifications from software

  usesthis.com

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  Isolator

  Their words

  Speaking of focus, I use Isolator to get distractions out of the way.

  usesthis.com

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  Dropbox

  Their words

  We use Dropbox at Twitter to share documents, and we make pretty extensive use of Google Apps.

  usesthis.com

Economist; writes In My Tribe, and wrote The Three Languages of Politics.

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  Warnings of an imminent US recession in 2006 are partisan gloom rather than a real signal about the economy.

  Their words, before

  For these pundits, the most dismal indicator is that we have a Republican Administration. They have been gloomy for six years now.

  Their words now

  I will add that I was definitely not expecting Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to have ventured so far away from the idea of investment-quality mortgages that they had enough exposure in subprime loans to wipe out their capital.

Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

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  Spin

  Their words

  The novel is very good. The author writes with good scientific rigour. The writing is supported by repeatedly introducing new mysteries in every chapter... to keep you coming for more. The characters are believable and well drawn.

  lemire.me

Physicist and information theorist at Cambridge; wrote Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air and Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, and was the UK's chief scientific adviser on energy from 2009 to 2014. Died in 2016.

From one piece Sustainable Energy — without the hot air 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Airplanes are already almost as energy-efficient as they could possibly be, so no redesign will radically improve their efficiency.

  energy

  Their words

  planes are already almost as energy-efficient as they could possibly be. Planes unavoidably have to use energy for two reasons: they have to throw air down in order to stay up, and they need energy to overcome air resistance. No redesign of a plane is going to radically improve its efficiency.

  Sustainable Energy — without the hot airinference.org.uk

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  Britain's onshore wind resource, though large, is not as large as the country's energy consumption.

  energy

  Their words

  Britain’s onshore wind energy resource may be “huge,” but it’s evidently not as huge as our huge consumption.

  Sustainable Energy — without the hot airinference.org.uk

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  Covering the windiest 10% of Britain with windmills could generate about 20 kWh per day per person, roughly half the energy used driving an average car 50 km a day.

  energy

  Their words

  if we covered the windiest 10% of the country with windmills (delivering 2 W/m2 ), we would be able to generate 20 kWh/d per person, which is half of the power used by driving an average fossil-fuel car 50 km per day.

  Sustainable Energy — without the hot airinference.org.uk

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 Are foreign accents a reflection of identity? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Keeping a foreign accent is a choice about who you are, not a limit on what you can hear or say.

  America

  Their words

  This guy may be in France, but obviously holds strongly to his identity as an American, so he’ll say the words correctly, but keep the American twang that he knows as his voice.

  Are foreign accents a reflection of identity?sive.rs

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  The first thing to do in a new language is to imitate its accent completely, before the words.

  Their words

  But it seems the first thing I’d want to do when first learning a new language is to imitate the accent completely, to get that sound in my mouth, to sound as native as I can.

  Are foreign accents a reflection of identity?sive.rs

American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.

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  Luxury Lite Cot

  Their words

  Luxury Lite Cot. This thing is fantastic too – it’s the smallest portable cot, and is super comfortable.

  tynan.com

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  Sea to Summit Silk Liner

  Their words

  The liner is smaller than a coke can when packed up and weighs a fraction of a pound. It unfolds to be like a super thin silk sleeping bag.

  tynan.com

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  KettleStack Kettlebell

  Their words

  KettleStack Kettlebell. For taking our crossfit workout on the road there’s nothing better (or even comparable) than the kettlestack.

  tynan.com

Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

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  Dreaming in Code

  Their words

  And amazingly enough, if you insist on looking at the world through a bucket of shit, the world starts to look an awful lot like a bucket of shit: by the end of the book, Rosenberg has left the lay reader with the sense that we are careering towards some sort of software heat-death, after which meetings-about-meetings and stickies-on-whiteboards will prevent all future progress.

  bcantrill.dtrace.org

Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.

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  Hedge Hunters

  Their words

  My favorite so far is the just released Hedge Hunters: Hedge Fund Masters on the Rewards, the Risk, and the Reckoning, but then again I am a sucker for the “Market Wizard” style books.

  mebfaber.com

Professor of Mathematics and of Biology at Harvard University; Director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, studying the mathematics of cooperation, cancer and virus dynamics.

From one piece Nowak, "Five rules for the evolution of cooperation" (Science, via PubMed Central) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Natural selection opposes cooperation by default, so cooperation only survives where a specific mechanism is at work.

  Their words

  But natural selection implies competition and therefore opposes cooperation unless a specific mechanism is at work.

  pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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  Cooperation means a selfish replicator giving up some of its own reproductive potential to help another.

  Their words

  Cooperation means that selfish replicators forgo some of their reproductive potential to help one another.

  pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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  Evolution could not have built new levels of organization at all without cooperation.

  Their words

  Cooperation is needed for evolution to construct new levels of organization.

  pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Software developer and writer; co-founder of Fog Creek Software and Stack Overflow, and author of the Joel on Software blog since 2000.

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  No Silver Bullet

  Their words

  It's probably because we read No Silver Bullet, a stunningly important essay from way back in 1986, by Frederick P. Brooks (he of Mythical Man-Month) that has proven again and again to be spot-on.

  joelonsoftware.com

Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.

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  The Debt to Pleasure

  Their words

  A wonderfully dark novel, structured loosely around a series of recipes. You won't learn any new culinary tricks, but you'll be drawn into the wicked plotting of Tarquin Winot as he spins his schemes with considerable savoir faire . The first book I recommend to people I think highly of.

  preposterousuniverse.com

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  Thus Was Adonis Murdered

  Their words

  Caudwell has written a mystery novel populated by barristers of supernatural wit and cleverness, resulting in one of the most consistently amusing books I've ever read.

  preposterousuniverse.com

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  The Wasp Factory

  Their words

  This was his first, and it's a masterpiece of twisted imagination. There's a surprise ending, but the convoluted path by which you get there has a terrifying internal logic.

  preposterousuniverse.com

Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  Miquelrius

  Their words

  The best notebooks I've found are made by a company called Miquelrius. I use their smallest size, which is about 2.5 x 4 in.

  paulgraham.com

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  Bic ballpoints

  Their words

  I use the cheapest plastic Bic ballpoints, partly because their gluey ink doesn't seep through pages, and partly so I don't worry about losing them.

  paulgraham.com

Designer and technologist; author of The Laws of Simplicity; former president of the Rhode Island School of Design; formerly at the MIT Media Lab.

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  Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

  Their words

  Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.

  The Laws of Simplicity, Law 10: The Onelawsofsimplicity.com

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  More emotions are better than fewer: when emotion comes first, do not be afraid to add ornament or layers of meaning.

  Their words

  More emotions are better than less. When emotions are considered above everything else, don’t be afraid to add more ornament or layers of meaning.

  The Laws of Simplicity, Law 7: Emotionlawsofsimplicity.com

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  Savings in time feel like simplicity: when forced to wait, life seems unnecessarily complex.

  Their words

  When forced to wait, life seems unnecessarily complex. Savings in time feel like simplicity. And we are thankfully loyal when it happens, which is rare.

  The Laws of Simplicity, Law 3: Timelawsofsimplicity.com

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 The Eternal Value of Privacy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Having nothing to hide is not a reason to accept surveillance.

  Their words

  Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we’re doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.

  The Eternal Value of Privacyschneier.com

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  The right to privacy is fundamental; without it people cannot feel fully free and protected.

  Their words

  Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

  The Eternal Value of Privacyschneier.com

Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.

From one piece Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface 2 beliefs · worrydream.com

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  Information software design is graphic design: a software designer who decides what the user will see is doing graphic design whether she realizes it or not.

  Their words

  When the software designer defines the visual representation of her program, when she describes the pictures that the user will interpret, she is doing graphic design, whether she realizes this or not.

  worrydream.com

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  For most software, interactivity is a curse for users and a crutch for designers.

  Their words

  For a majority subset of software, called “information software,” I argue that interactivity is actually a curse for users and a crutch for designers, and users’ goals can be better satisfied through other means.

  worrydream.com

Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.

• Our reading nowkorrents.com

  The chief danger of biofuels is that growing them for vehicles takes arable land away from food and causes hunger.

  Their words, before

  If the production of biofuels is big enough to affect climate change, it will be big enough to cause global starvation.

  Their words now

  I am now prepared to admit that my previous column was wrong.

Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  You and Your Research

  Their words

  In his famous essay You and Your Research (which I recommend to anyone ambitious, no matter what they're working on), Richard Hamming

  paulgraham.com

Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.

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  Once Upon a Number

  Their words

  The above village story was adapted from John Paulos’ excellent book, Once Upon a Number and was repeated in his, other, also excellent, book, A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market.

  fundooprofessor.wordpress.com

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  A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market

  Their words

  The above village story was adapted from John Paulos’ excellent book, Once Upon a Number and was repeated in his, other, also excellent, book, A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market.

  fundooprofessor.wordpress.com

Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.

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  Five Eminent Contrarians

  Their words

  Let me end, though, by quoting Michael Aronstein, who, in the excellent book, Five Eminent Contrarians, pretty much agreed with my own views on the subject, by saying:

  fundooprofessor.wordpress.com

Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.

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  Creative Whack Pack

  Their words

  I recommend the purchase and extensive use of the Creative Whack Pack. For less than $11, it’s a great investment.

  fundooprofessor.wordpress.com

Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.

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  Influence

  Their words

  Of these four tendencies, the first one is described very well in Robert Cialdini’s great book, Influence.

  fundooprofessor.wordpress.com

Professor of Medicine and co-Director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS); known for "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" and for studies of research reproducibility.

From one piece Ioannidis, "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" (PLoS Medicine) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The greater the financial interests and prejudices in a field, the less likely its published findings are to be true.

  Their words

  The greater the financial and other interests and prejudices in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true.

  journals.plos.org

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  The more analytical freedom a field allows in designs, definitions and outcomes, the less likely its published findings are to be true.

  Their words

  The greater the flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true.

  journals.plos.org

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  The smaller the effects a field studies, the less likely its published findings are to be true.

  Their words

  The smaller the effect sizes in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true.

  journals.plos.org

Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  How to Win Friends and Influence People

  Their words

  If you want to learn what people want, read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People.

  paulgraham.com

Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  Byrne's Euclid

  Their words

  And for those interested in graphic design, Byrne's Euclid

  paulgraham.com

Programmer and essayist who has worked at Amazon, Google, Grab and Sourcegraph. Best known for the long-form essays collected as Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants.

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  Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

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  I went ahead and gave it another chance, and I was way wrong. It's awesome.

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Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.

From one piece The legacy of Bristol: public disclosure of individual surgeons' results (with 5 co-authors) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Non-risk-adjusted mortality data cannot support patient choice and only signal that a fuller review is required.

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  No conclusions can be drawn until a full review has taken place. This sort of data cannot contribute to patient choice.

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  A single risk-adjusted summary of a surgeon's results risks giving spurious credibility to analyses that ignore non-patient influences.

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  The use of a single risk adjusted number to summarise a surgeon's results runs the risk of lending a level of spurious credibility to an analysis that does not take into account the impact of influences that are not patient related.

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  Casemix makes it unwise to publish surgeons' unadjusted mortality figures for comparison.

  Their words

  Because of this casemix influence it would not be sensible to publish unadjusted mortality by surgeon.

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Programmer and writer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, and author of the Coding Horror blog, which he has written since 2004.

From one piece Recommended Reading for Developers 2 beliefs · blog.codinghorror.com

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  The vast majority of software development projects fail

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  The vast majority of software development projects will fail: they will overrun their schedules, produce substandard results, or sometimes not even finish at all. This isn't an argument; it's a statistical fact.

  Recommended Reading for Developersblog.codinghorror.com

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  Computers change but people do not, so understanding people is how you make better software

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  Why are updates to my reading list so rare? Because computers change a lot in 10 years, but people don't. To make better software, you need to understand how people work, and that is what the books I recommend tend to focus on.

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Programmer and writer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, and author of the Coding Horror blog, which he has written since 2004.

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  The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

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  This is the book that introduced the world to the concept of personas: rather than thinking of users as an abstract, difficult-to-describe, amorphous group of people, personas instruct us to talk about specific users who have names, personalities, needs, and goals.

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  Programming Pearls

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  Programming Pearls is the next best thing to working side by side with a master programmer for a year or so. It is the collective wisdom of many journeyman coders distilled into succinct, digestible columns.

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  The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

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  This book reminds me a lot of Programming Pearls, but it's actually better, because it's less focused on code. Instead of worrying about code, the authors boiled down all the practical approaches that they've found to work in the real world into this one book.

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Statistician and professor emeritus at Yale; author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint.

From one piece PowerPoint Is Evil 4 beliefs · wired.com

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  Chartjunk is a clear sign of statistical stupidity.

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  Chartjunk is a clear sign of statistical stupidity. Poking a finger into the eye of thought, these data graphics would turn into a nasty travesty if used for a serious purpose, such as helping cancer patients assess their survival chances.

  PowerPoint Is Evilwired.com

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  Visual reasoning works best when information is shown side by side, and the more intense the detail, the greater the clarity.

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  Visual reasoning usually works more effectively when relevant information is shown side by side. Often, the more intense the detail, the greater the clarity and understanding.

  PowerPoint Is Evilwired.com

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  Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure: if the numbers are boring you have the wrong numbers.

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  If your numbers are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant. Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

  PowerPoint Is Evilwired.com

Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

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

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  Lines of code cannot measure productivity, because better-designed code is shorter.

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  Any good developer knows that they can code the same stuff with huge variations in lines of code, furthermore code that's well designed and factored will be shorter because it eliminates the duplication.

  CannotMeasureProductivitymartinfowler.com

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  Software productivity cannot be measured, because there is no way to measure a development team's output.

  Their words

  the reason we can't measure productivity is because we can't measure output

  CannotMeasureProductivitymartinfowler.com

Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.

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  Localisation - producing locally everything that can be produced locally - is the right answer to unjust global trade.

  On changing their mind

  The only thing worse than a world with the wrong international trade rules is a world with no trade rules at all.

Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.

From one piece Systematically Biased Beliefs about Economics: Robust Evidence of Judgemental Anomalies from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The robustness of apparent biases about economics suggests that the judgemental anomaly is real.

  Their words

  Apparent biases' robustness suggests that the anomaly is real.

  doi.org

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  Differences between the public's and economists' economic views do not solely reflect economists' self-serving bias.

  economists

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  The paper first tests and decisively rejects the hypothesis that the differences solely reflect economists' self‐serving bias.

  doi.org

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  Differences between the public's and economists' positive economic views resemble judgemental anomalies in which laypeople and experts systematically disagree.

  economists

  Their words

  Differences between the general public's positive economic views and economists' resemble other judgemental anomalies: Laypeople and experts systematically disagree.

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Distinguished Professor of Physics and Biology at Pennsylvania State University; co-author, with Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, of the Barabasi-Albert model of scale-free networks.

From one piece Barabasi & Albert, "Emergence of scaling in random networks" (arXiv) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Because two generic mechanisms reproduce the observed distributions, large networks are governed by self-organizing rules that do not depend on what the network is made of.

  Their words

  A model based on these two ingredients reproduces the observed stationary scale-free distributions, indicating that the development of large networks is governed by robust self-organizing phenomena that go beyond the particulars of the individual systems.

  arxiv.org

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  Scale-free structure follows from just two mechanisms: networks keep adding nodes, and new nodes attach preferentially to well-connected ones.

  Their words

  This feature is found to be a consequence of the two generic mechanisms that networks expand continuously by the addition of new vertices, and new vertices attach preferentially to already well connected sites.

  arxiv.org

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  Large real-world networks share one property: the number of connections per node follows a scale-free power law.

  Their words

  A common property of many large networks is that the vertex connectivities follow a scale-free power-law distribution.

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Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.

From one piece Barabasi & Albert, "Emergence of scaling in random networks" (arXiv) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Because two generic mechanisms reproduce the observed distributions, large networks are governed by self-organizing rules that do not depend on what the network is made of.

  Their words

  A model based on these two ingredients reproduces the observed stationary scale-free distributions, indicating that the development of large networks is governed by robust self-organizing phenomena that go beyond the particulars of the individual systems.

  arxiv.org

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  Scale-free structure follows from just two mechanisms: networks keep adding nodes, and new nodes attach preferentially to well-connected ones.

  Their words

  This feature is found to be a consequence of the two generic mechanisms that networks expand continuously by the addition of new vertices, and new vertices attach preferentially to already well connected sites.

  arxiv.org

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  Large real-world networks share one property: the number of connections per node follows a scale-free power law.

  Their words

  A common property of many large networks is that the vertex connectivities follow a scale-free power-law distribution.

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Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and chairman of Wesco Financial from 1984 to 2011. Wrote Wesco's shareholder letters and gave the talks collected in Poor Charlie's Almanack. Died in 2023; this page reflects his complete public record.

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  Wesco was not just a smaller, equally good version of Berkshire -- each dollar of its book value was plainly worth less, and the gap was widening in Berkshire's favor.

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  Wesco is not an equally-good-but-smaller version of Berkshire Hathaway, better because its small size makes growth easier. Instead, each dollar of book value at Wesco continues plainly to provide much less intrinsic value than a similar dollar of book value at Berkshire Hathaway.

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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

From one piece Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition (with 3 co-authors) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Graph transformer networks allow multimodule document recognition systems to be trained globally with gradient methods to minimize overall performance.

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  A new learning paradigm, called graph transformer networks (GTN), allows such multimodule systems to be trained globally using gradient-based methods so as to minimize an overall performance measure.

  doi.org

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  Convolutional neural networks are specifically designed to handle variability in two-dimensional shapes.

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  Convolutional neural networks, which are specifically designed to deal with the variability of 2D shapes, are shown to outperform all other techniques.

  doi.org

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  With suitable architecture, gradient-based learning can form decision surfaces that classify high-dimensional patterns such as handwritten characters with minimal preprocessing.

  Their words

  Given an appropriate network architecture, gradient-based learning algorithms can be used to synthesize a complex decision surface that can classify high-dimensional patterns, such as handwritten characters, with minimal preprocessing.

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Machine-learning researcher at JKU Linz; identified the vanishing-gradient problem in 1991 and co-invented the LSTM with Jürgen Schmidhuber.

From one piece Long Short-Term Memory 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  LSTM can solve complex artificial long-time-lag tasks that prior recurrent network algorithms never solved.

  Their words

  LSTM also solves complex, artificial long-time-lag tasks that have never been solved by previous recurrent network algorithms.

  Long Short-Term Memorydoi.org

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  Recurrent backpropagation learns slowly over long intervals mainly because error backflow decays.

  Their words

  Learning to store information over extended time intervals by recurrent backpropagation takes a very long time, mostly because of insufficient, decaying error backflow.

  Long Short-Term Memorydoi.org

Deep-learning researcher at KAUST and IDSIA; co-invented the LSTM, and keeps a long public record of who published which idea first.

From one piece Long Short-Term Memory 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  LSTM can solve complex artificial long-time-lag tasks that prior recurrent network algorithms never solved.

  Their words

  LSTM also solves complex, artificial long-time-lag tasks that have never been solved by previous recurrent network algorithms.

  Long Short-Term Memorydoi.org

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  Recurrent backpropagation learns slowly over long intervals mainly because error backflow decays.

  Their words

  Learning to store information over extended time intervals by recurrent backpropagation takes a very long time, mostly because of insufficient, decaying error backflow.

  Long Short-Term Memorydoi.org