Cyborg anthropologist and UX designer; author of Calm Technology and co-founder of the geolocation startup Geoloqi.

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  MediaWiki

  Their words

  For my blog I use Wordpress, for any constructive writing, notes and ideas I use MediaWiki.

  usesthis.com

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  Canon PowerShot ELPH 300 HS

  Their words

  To document all of these items I use a Canon PowerShot ELPH 300 HS. I take around 30,000 photos a year. This breaks the camera.

  usesthis.com

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  EyeFi Connect 4G

  Their words

  When I get home all of my documents automatically upload to Flickr on private mode, so that I can choose which ones to reveal or delete with a minimum of work. I use an EyeFi Connect 4G SD card for this.

  usesthis.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 A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design 4 beliefs · worrydream.com

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  With an entire body at our command, the future of interaction should not be a single finger.

  Their words

  With an entire body at your command, do you seriously think the Future Of Interaction should be a single finger?

  A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Designworrydream.com

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  The future of interaction is a choice, not something that happens to us: people choose which visions to pursue and which research to fund.

  Their words

  The most important thing to realize about the future is that it's a choice. People choose which visions to pursue, people choose which research gets funded, people choose how they will spend their careers.

  A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Designworrydream.com

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  Hands feel things and hands manipulate things, and most visions of future interfaces ignore both.

  Their words

  Hands do two things. They are two utterly amazing things, and you rely on them every moment of the day, and most Future Interaction Concepts completely ignore both of them.

  A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Designworrydream.com

Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.

From one piece Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Most jobs and most good candidates never appear publicly; hiring travels through personal networks instead.

  Their words

  Most jobs are never available publicly, just like most worthwhile candidates are not available publicly

  kalzumeus.com

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  Which language or stack an engineer knows barely matters, because a good engineer picks up a new one in weeks.

  Their words

  In the real world, picking up a new language takes a few weeks of effort and after 6 to 12 months nobody will ever notice you haven’t been doing that one for your entire career.

  kalzumeus.com

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  Calling yourself a programmer marks you as a cost to be eliminated; describe yourself instead by the revenue you raised or the costs you cut.

  Their words

  If you call yourself a programmer, someone is already working on a way to get you fired.

  kalzumeus.com

Media theorist and writer; author of Program or Be Programmed and Team Human, and host of the Team Human podcast.

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  Blue Snowball

  Their words

  I am currently using a Blue Snowball as my microphone and AKG 240 headphones.

  usesthis.com

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  KEF 104AB

  Their words

  I use an old Yamaha CR-1020 as an external amplifier, and KEF 104AB speakers.

  usesthis.com

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  Sangean DT 400W

  Their words

  I have a tiny Sangean DT 400W AM/FM radio that does a particularly good job on AM reception, and I keep it with me a lot.

  usesthis.com

Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.

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  MacVim

  Their words

  For programming I use mostly vim with MacVim on the mac.

  usesthis.com

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  awesome

  Their words

  I use awesome for my window manager on Linux since it's mostly keyboard based.

  usesthis.com

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  Carl Martin Quattro

  Their words

  I've got a Carl Martin Quattro pedal, which is my primary effect chain.

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Science fiction novelist who coined the term cyberspace; author of Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition.

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  Final Draft

  Their words

  Whatever came on the MacBook, plus Word and Final Draft for writing.

  usesthis.com

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  Twitterrific

  Their words

  I like Twitterrific on the iPad because the free-rolling scrolling works for me.

  usesthis.com

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  Pages

  Their words

  On the iPad, I use Pages.

  usesthis.com

Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.

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  tcpdump

  Their words

  The most powerful tools I wield continue to be: grep, awk, sed, tcpdump, and strace/ktrace/truss. Call me old, but they've never failed me and feel like comfortable and familiar tools.

  usesthis.com

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  Awk

  Their words

  The most powerful tools I wield continue to be: grep, awk, sed, tcpdump, and strace/ktrace/truss. Call me old, but they've never failed me and feel like comfortable and familiar tools.

  usesthis.com

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  Ashgate Resilience Engineering series

  Their words

  A dream setup for me is a 27" monitor (anything bigger is a pain for me), a well-designed chair, and an internet connection. The entire Ashgate Resilience Engineering series. Anything else is ancillary.

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Founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and co-author of the books Traction and Super Thinking.

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  Chrome

  Their words

  I use all the Web browsers a lot since I'm constantly chasing browser bugs, and don't currently really like any of them though I lean towards Chrome (but currently am annoyed at it because it keeps crashing on me).

  usesthis.com

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  Zagg keyboard folio

  Their words

  On the go I use a 3G-enabled iPad 2 with the new Zagg keyboard folio so I can easily fix server problems.

  usesthis.com

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  Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2

  Their words

  I also recently bought a new DSLR camera – Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2 to be specific – though I still haven't wrapped my head around all of its features.

  usesthis.com

Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.

From one piece The ONLY way to speak a language 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Everything other than talking to a native speaker is auxiliary, and none of it will get you speaking on its own.

  Their words

  All auxiliary tasks can help move you in the right direction, but will not ultimately help you speak unless you find a native, put yourself in front of them and force yourself to start to communicate.

  The ONLY way to speak a languagefluentin3months.com

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  Speaking is learned only by speaking a lot; no amount of study substitutes for it.

  Their words

  The only way you will speak a language and make progress in speaking it faster and better is if you practise speaking it a lot.

  The ONLY way to speak a languagefluentin3months.com

Documentary filmmaker and writer; director of The Thin Blue Line and the Oscar-winning The Fog of War, and author of Believing is Seeing.

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  Six Seconds in Dallas

  Their words

  Another book I would like to mention is Josiah Thompson's Six Seconds in Dallas [about the Kennedy footage]. It's an early example of an attempt to do just what we're talking about – piecing together reality through photography, or in this case film.

  fivebooks.com

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  The Perfect Medium

  Their words

  These images answer certain people's hopes and dreams – that they can reconnect with those that are lost, that the deceased are always with us. One example is William H Mumler, the famous spirit photographer who created a picture of Mary Lincoln with the ghost of her deceased husband hovering in the background.

  fivebooks.com

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  A Day with Picasso

  Their words

  It's an obvious precursor to what I've been trying to do. It's also a great book in its own right. Unfortunately, Klüver died just a couple of years before I started working on my own book. I would have loved to talk to him.

  fivebooks.com

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

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  The Drunkard's Walk

  Their words

  This is a general introduction to the history of probability and the way it comes into everyday life. It intersperses the historical development with modern applications, and looks at finance, sport, gambling, lotteries and coincidences.

  fivebooks.com

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  Dicing with Death

  Their words

  This book is somewhat similar to The Drunkard's Walk in that it covers the history of probability. But since Stephen's background is in medical statistics, he looks at clinical trials and other medical studies.

  fivebooks.com

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  How Risky Is It, Really?

  Their words

  Yes, this is a completely non-technical book, which is looking at things from the point of view of psychology. It is essentially a review of the recent research on risk perception.

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Creator and first user of Slashdot, which he ran for nearly 14 years; later worked at the Washington Post's WaPo Labs. Known online as CmdrTaco.

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  MacBook Pro

  Their words

  I'm currently using a 17" 2.3 ghz Core i7 MacBook Pro laptop for pretty much all of my computational needs.

  usesthis.com

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  Drobo

  Their words

  I have a Drobo plugged into an ancient Macbook in my basement with 2 TB on it.

  usesthis.com

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  Fluid

  Their words

  I create Fluid installs for each of my major web applications (Mail, Google Reader, Slashdot, Google Docs, we use Jira for bug tracking internally, etc).

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British historian, translator and broadcaster; author of Rubicon and Dominion, and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast.

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  The Twelve Caesars

  Their words

  Suetonius's work is a collection of biographies of the first 12 Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar through to Domitian. And it really had a crucial sense of shaping our understanding of Imperial Rome as a place of vice and savagery and sexual depravity and violent, brutal, bawdy splendour.

  fivebooks.com

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  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  Their words

  But the truth is that it remains incredibly readable. As I said before, it takes Tacitus as its model, who was famous for his waspish style, and a careful balancing and modulating of the sentences so that irony would be generated. This is what Gibbon does as well, and it means that not only is it an incredible work of scholarship but it is also compulsively entertaining. I really think that anyone who is prepared to give it a chance will find themselves smiling at the very least throughout it.

  fivebooks.com

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  The Roman Revolution

  Their words

  This again is an absolute classic which is completely informed by Tacitus. It has that very mordant take on the way that power works and operates.

  fivebooks.com

Co-founded GiveWell and led Open Philanthropy; writes Cold Takes, on the most important century and how to think about it.

From one piece Why we can’t take expected value estimates literally (even when they’re unbiased) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The moment one cause looks far better than every other on thin information is exactly the moment it most needs sceptical investigation.

  Their words

  Yet it seems that when people are valuing one action far above others, based on thin information, this is the time when skeptical inquiry is needed most.

  blog.givewell.org

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  A world where altruists followed expected-value estimates would be one where nearly all of them helped distant strangers instead of the people around them, and that world would be worse.

  Their words

  In such a world, it seems that nearly all altruists would put nearly all of their resources toward helping people they knew little about, rather than helping themselves, their families and their communities. I believe that the world would be worse off if people behaved in this way, or at least if they took it to an extreme.

  blog.givewell.org

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  Ranking charities by their estimated expected value alone removes any reward for being transparent about how they actually work.

  Their words

  EEV doesn’t seem to allow rewarding charities for transparency or penalizing them for opacity: it simply recommends giving to the charity with the highest estimated expected value, regardless of how well-grounded the estimate is.

  blog.givewell.org

Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.

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  Evernote

  Their words

  I use Adium for IM, and Evernote for things I'd like to remember.

  usesthis.com

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  TextMate

  Their words

  I like TextMate for working on projects with lots of files and dependencies, but my fingers think in vim commands, which explains why you'll occasionally see a ":wq" from me in chat windows.

  usesthis.com

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  iTerm2

  Their words

  I've recently become a huge fan of iterm2 instead of the default Terminal. The transparency is lovely, and the visual tab alerts tell me when long jobs have finished running.

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JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.

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  Dropbox

  Their words

  I store all my code in Git (on Github, oftentimes in private repos) and back it up in Dropbox.

  usesthis.com

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  VLC

  Their words

  I use VLC and Boxee for playing all of my videos and iTunes for playing my audio (synced to Last.fm).

  usesthis.com

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  AirVideo

  Their words

  I use AirVideo to stream movies to my iPhone and iPad.

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Analyst of the business of technology; writes Asymco on Apple, disruption and, latterly, micromobility.

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  MobileMe

  Their words

  Email is a huge part of my workflow. I've been largely satisfied by MobileMe.

  usesthis.com

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  Vonage

  Their words

  I use Vonage for voice calling sometimes and I use a Bang & Olufsen wireline phone with it.

  usesthis.com

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  Ikea Jerker

  Their words

  The only constraint is that displays have to fit on my current desk (IKEA Jerker)

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Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.

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  Time Out

  Their words

  Quicksilver and Time Out keep me from getting RSI.

  usesthis.com

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  Cyberduck

  Their words

  I move files around with Fugu and Cyberduck.

  usesthis.com

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  NatsuLion

  Their words

  I'm interface-picky so I use NatsuLion for Twitter on my iPhone and Syrinx for Twitter on my desktop.

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Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.

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  Darkon

  Their words

  This film captures the immense passion by which these misfits pursue their vocation. It's a great view of the human spirit. All hail Darkon!

  kk.org

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 Growth Ponzi Scheme, Part 1 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Suburban growth is a Ponzi scheme because a city of finite size cannot keep growing at an accelerating rate, and only that would pay the bills it has taken on.

  Their words

  Of course, with the suburban model, it is physically impossible for a city of finite dimension to grow indefinitely, let alone at amounts that accelerate forever.

  The Growth Ponzi Scheme, Part 1strongtowns.org

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  The American suburban pattern of development does not pay for itself: a city takes the cash from new growth and, with it, a maintenance bill it can never cover.

  America

  Their words

  Put these two characteristics together and you have a key insight; Cities routinely trade near-term cash advantages associated with new growth for long-term financial obligations associated with maintenance of infrastructure.

  The Growth Ponzi Scheme, Part 1strongtowns.org

Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.

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  Exit Through the Gift Shop

  Their words

  It is a fun ride and its intimate journey into late night urban art will really help you appreciate what street artists are trying to do

  kk.org

Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.

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  EasyBatchPhoto

  Their words

  I use EasyBatchPhoto to resize images to fit the blog, despite the fact that I always have Photoshop open.

  usesthis.com

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  Scrivener

  Their words

  I use Scrivener to handle text while writing a book. It uses a 3x 5 card metaphor and it works for large complex projects.

  usesthis.com

Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.

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  Facetime

  Their words

  Interestingly, the most-used new app I've started running on an almost-daily basis this year is Facetime, either on my laptop or more frequently on my phone.

  usesthis.com

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  Google Authenticator

  Their words

  I really love the Google Authenticator app, which is a token generator for Google's 2-factor authentication, but makes me feel very safe and high-tech every time I open it up.

  usesthis.com

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  MacBook Air (11-inch)

  Their words

  I’m not a big hardware fetishist, but I have to say it’s my favorite laptop I’ve ever owned, and remarkably fast.

  usesthis.com

Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.

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  Terminal

  Their words

  It's a pretty nice app, but very minimal, and I would pay good money if someone created a really compelling next generation Terminal application.

  usesthis.com

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  Google Chrome

  Their words

  For browsing the internet I use Google Chrome. The Chrome team is quickly demonstrating that they have the skill and courage to push the limits of what we expect a modern browser to do.

  usesthis.com

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  Propane

  Their words

  Still, we have several remote workers, so to stay in sync with everyone else, I use Propane as a native frontend for 37signals' Campfire web app.

  usesthis.com

Designer, illustrator and writer; author of The Shape of Design and of widely read essays on design and the web.

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  Panasonic Lumix GF1

  Their words

  I just bought a Panasonic Lumix GF1 a few months ago and I love it. It makes me feel skilled rather than like an idiot. That's what good technology does.

  usesthis.com

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  Muji notebooks

  Their words

  I like Muji notebooks and Muji pens because they work well, yet don't feel precious. In my case, the more I treasure a tool, the less likely I am to use it.

  usesthis.com

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  Muji pens

  Their words

  I like Muji notebooks and Muji pens because they work well, yet don't feel precious.

  usesthis.com

Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.

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  Samsung ML-1750 laser printer

  Their words

  The printer and the scanner both seemed extravagant at the time, but they have been absolute workhorses and well worth the money.

  usesthis.com

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  Netgear ReadyNAS Duo

  Their words

  The only thing I might replace if I were starting over would be the ReadyNAS box.

  usesthis.com

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  Lenovo ThinkPad X201s

  Their words

  I recently replaced my X40 with a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad X201s, which is also small, light, sturdy, and has three mouse buttons.

  usesthis.com

Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.

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  Spotlight

  Their words

  I try to live with what's already there, like using Spotlight instead of Alfred or Quicksilver which surely have more features, but are new tools to learn and master.

  usesthis.com

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  TotalFinder

  Their words

  Other peripheral stuff I use include Droplr for sharing screenshots, MenuMeters for understanding "why the hell is my computer suddenly slow?", TotalFinder which provides tabbed Finder windows and a bunch of less visual stuff related to the shell.

  usesthis.com

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  GitHub

  Their words

  GitHub is an amazing place, product and breeding ground for ideas revolving around software development, created by the ever so humble Chris Wanstrath (and Tom Preston-Werner).

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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.

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  MacBook Air (2010, 13-inch)

  Their words

  But this new one is perfect. It’s so perfect in fact, that I’ve stopped used my MacBook Pro.

  usesthis.com

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  MacBook Pro (15-inch, i7)

  Their words

  I loved that machine, though I wish I would have opted to get the matte screen rather than the glossy one.

  usesthis.com

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  Cr-48 Chrome OS notebook

  Their words

  I love the idea of Chrome OS, but the hardware leaves a lot to be desired, in my opinion.

  usesthis.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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  Nuclear power is the wrong technology for cutting carbon: efficiency and renewables can do the job without it.

  energy

  Their words, before

  Some of our arguments against nuclear power have collapsed, but it seems to me that the case is still robust.

  Their words now

  The crisis at Fukushima has converted me to the cause of nuclear power.

Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference.

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  BBEdit

  Their words

  A whole lot of my time is spent in BBEdit, which I've been very happily using for more years than I can recall. I even use it for editing files on remote servers, thanks to its built-in SFTP support

  usesthis.com

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  VMware Fusion

  Their words

  Also, Windows XP in a number of VMware Fusion instances - one for each major IE release plus an extra "baseline" instance in case I have to build up a new one from scratch.

  usesthis.com

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  Camino 2

  Their words

  Camino 2 is my personal-surfing browser, whereas Firefox plus Firebug and the Web Developer Toolbar is my development environment.

  usesthis.com

Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.

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  What Investors Really Want

  Their words

  Meir Statman, one of my favorite behavioral economists, has written a great book on how investors can overcome their base urges and make better decisions:

  aswathdamodaran.blogspot.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 Macintosh Way

  Their words

  his "The Macintosh Way" led me into tech!

  x.com

Letterer, illustrator and type designer; creator of Daily Drop Cap and of many hand-lettered book covers and typefaces.

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  WordPress

  Their words

  I use Wordpress for my blog, Tumblr for my Daily Drop Cap site (though I will be switching to another format once the project is finished for better archiving).

  usesthis.com

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  Blue Ball microphone

  Their words

  I make most of my phone calls using my Skype number and use a Blue Ball microphone and a variety of headphones to make that happen (and not sound crappy and echoey).

  usesthis.com

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  11" MacBook Air

  Their words

  On the go: An 11" MacBook Air with 4 gigs of RAM, which is perfect for client emergencies when I'm traveling, for working on small vector projects and for working on typefaces, which don't require a massive screen.

  usesthis.com

Interactive narrative designer and critic; author of interactive fiction including Galatea and Counterfeit Monkey, and a long-time contributor to the Inform development system.

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  Omnigraffle

  Their words

  To visualize complex puzzle or narrative structures, I rely on OmniGraffle.

  usesthis.com

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  Papers

  Their words

  Academic PDFs I organize with Papers.

  usesthis.com

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  Processing

  Their words

  I've dabbled in Processing, and thought it was awesome, but haven't had enough time to devote to doing anything significant with it so far.

  usesthis.com

Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.

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  iCab

  Their words

  But when I do want to see a full web site, design and all, I fire up iCab or Safari. Both are perfectly nice web browsers.

  usesthis.com

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  Audio Hijack Pro

  Their words

  Music and TV shows are set up in iTunes, with Audio Hijack Pro to redirect music out a USB port.

  usesthis.com

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  Inform 7

  Their words

  Programming? Xcode for the iPhone work; Inform 7 for text adventures; everything else is Emacs and a command line.

  usesthis.com

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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  Statistical Analysis with R

  Their words

  The book is colorful and ludic which is a good idea for a "Beginner's Guide". The layout is attractive, there are many detailed examples. I like the pedagogy: the author wants you to learn by doing. However, the book is poor as a reference: the coverage is limited despite the 300 pages and the chapter summaries are strictly non-technical.

  lemire.me

Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.

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  The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

  Their words

  Baseball and statistics traditionally go together. One of my inspirations to become a statistician was reading The Bill James Baseball Abstracts.

  fivebooks.com

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  Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

  Their words

  This work started out as a bit of a curiosity in the field of psychology, but we get a lot of insight from it, it is absolutely essential to understanding how humans think.

  fivebooks.com

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  How Animals Work

  Their words

  The book has a lot of things like that. He's looking at things that people take for granted, and saying, you can't just take these things for granted, these are amazing feats of engineering.

  fivebooks.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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  Soon I Will Be Invincible

  Their words

  "Soon I will be Invincible" - Austin Grossman

  x.com

Programmer; co-founded GitHub and was its CEO, and created the Mustache templating language and Resque.

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  Magit

  Their words

  For version control I use git on the command line and through magit, which is perhaps the greatest of all Emacs modes.

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  Arq

  Their words

  My files gets backed up to S3 using Arq, my computer screen doesn't dim unless I want it to thanks to Caffeine

  usesthis.com

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  Caffeine

  Their words

  my computer screen doesn't dim unless I want it to thanks to Caffeine, and I take pictures of myself all the time with Photo Booth.

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Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.

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  Chaos

  Their words

  One of my favorite books on the topic of Chaos is by James Gleick. It is an easy read and well worth the time.

  aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com

British programmer and video maker whose YouTube channel ran weekly educational videos on technology, language and geography from 2014 to 2023.

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  Dell Latitude D830

  Their words

  My laptop is a beat-up Dell Latitude D830. It's a wonderfully resilient bit of kit, and I managed to get it at the exact time that Dell's constantly changing menu of customisation options combined to create an overpowered but reasonably priced laptop, like some kind of unlikely stellar conjunction in a bad sci-fi film.

  usesthis.com

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  Firefox

  Their words

  Firefox with about twenty extensions for browsing, Gmail for email - which I don't like, but I can't find a better alternative to suit my needs.

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  Gmail

  Their words

  Firefox with about twenty extensions for browsing, Gmail for email - which I don't like, but I can't find a better alternative to suit my needs.

  usesthis.com

Software engineer best known as the originator of the Java programming language.

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  Wacom tablet

  Their words

  It's got a Wacom tablet and a 3Dconnexion mouse. This machine is mostly used for doing graphics.

  usesthis.com

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  Sonic.net

  Their words

  Instead of using up precious wallsockets for phone, I use VoIP to a wireless phone. 6Mb DSL into the house from Sonic.net.

  usesthis.com

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  INSTEON

  Their words

  The home automation system is a pile of INSTEON switches spread all over the house, controlled by Indigo running on the Mac Mini.

  usesthis.com

Engineer who worked on the Linux kernel and helped launch Android at Google; author of Linux Kernel Development and Linux System Programming.

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  Vim

  Their words

  My main applications are GNOME Terminal, VIM, and Chrome. I do all my coding in VIM.

  usesthis.com

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  Logitech MX518

  Their words

  My mouse is a Logitech MX518.

  usesthis.com

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  GIMP

  Their words

  The only apps I run on it are Chrome, iTunes, and GIMP.

  usesthis.com

Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.

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  Mighty Mouse

  Their words

  I use the Mighty Mouse, which I don't particularly care for, and Apple's USB keyboard (the flat one, with the numeric keypad), which is tolerable but not great.

  usesthis.com

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  ESS

  Their words

  ESS is an add-on to Emacs that allows you to do your data analysis inside the editor. It works with several statistics packages, but I do all my data work using it together with R.

  usesthis.com

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  Skim

  Their words

  The right-hand monitor is for looking at output, either PDFs displayed using Skim or graphs and figures produced during data analysis.

  usesthis.com

Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.

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  Google Reader

  Their words

  I use Google Reader for feeds and Tweetie for Mac for Twitter.

  usesthis.com

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  TaskPaper

  Their words

  I keep basic to-do lists in TaskPaper and strong passwords in 1Password.

  usesthis.com

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  1Password

  Their words

  I keep basic to-do lists in TaskPaper and strong passwords in 1Password.

  usesthis.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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  Lord of Light

  Their words

  Highly recommend "Lord of Light" by Zelazny as well.

  x.com

Game designer; made Spelunky and Aquaria, and wrote the Boss Fight Books volume on Spelunky.

From one piece Finishing a Game 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The last tenth of a project takes most of the work, because what is left at the end is all detail.

  Their words

  They say the last 10 percent is really 90 percent, and there is truth to this.

  Finishing a Gamemakegames.tumblr.com

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  Every project reaches the point where the code is a mess, so starting over to fix that only returns you to the same place later.

  Their words

  This is true at some point during every game’s development. Your code will always be a mess.

  Finishing a Gamemakegames.tumblr.com

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  Limited time and resources are what force a work to be tight and to feel like it has a purpose.

  Their words

  It’s our limited resources and time that forces us to make tight games that feel like they have a purpose.

  Finishing a Gamemakegames.tumblr.com

Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY; co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.

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  Shure SE530

  Their words

  Shure SE530s keeps everyone out of my head and an Aeron chair to keep my body comfortable.

  usesthis.com

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  Aeron

  Their words

  Shure SE530s keeps everyone out of my head and an Aeron chair to keep my body comfortable.

  usesthis.com

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  Divvy

  Their words

  Mostly: Basecamp, Highrise, Campfire, Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List, TextMate, Dropbox, Git, Safari/Firefox/Chrome, Propane, Terminal, Instapaper, Photoshop, Mail, Divvy, MobileMe, Transmit, Logbook (desktop client for the Backpack journal), Airfoil, iTunes, Keynote, 1Password, Pulsar (desktop client for Sirius radio).

  usesthis.com

Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.

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  Monetary policy operates with long and variable lags, so attempts to fine-tune the economy make things worse.

  Their words, before

  In the 1970s I thought monetary policy operated with long and variable lags, and thus fine-tuning would make things worse.

  Their words now

  In the 1970s I thought monetary policy operated with long and variable lags, and thus fine-tuning would make things worse.

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  A severe US banking crisis is very unlikely.

  Their words, before

  In 2007 I thought it very unlikely that there would be a severe US banking crisis.

  Their words now

  In 2007 I thought it very unlikely that there would be a severe US banking crisis.

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  Aggressive quantitative easing should raise long-term interest rates, because effective monetary stimulus raises them.

  quantitative easinginterest rates

  Their words, before

  Any effective monetary stimulus would be expected to raise long term rates.

  Their words now

  I predicted that aggressive QE would raise long term interest rates, a view which seemed to be refuted by the response on T-bond yields to the March 2009 Fed QE announcement.

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.

From one piece An Open Letter to Students on the Danger of Seeing School as a Trial to Survive 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Doing less and doing it better is worth pursuing as an end in itself, because a life with both freedom and focus is a life well lived.

  Their words

  These students practice the above rules not as a means but as an end: A life with both freedom and focus is a life well-lived.

  calnewport.com

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  A student is judged in the end by how good they are at the one thing they do best, not by the sum of their activities.

  Their words

  These students recognize that they’ll ultimately be judged not by the sum of their contributions to diverse activities, but instead by the magnitude of their ability in the one thing they do best.

  calnewport.com

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  Treating school as a trial to be survived leaves a person unable to say what the postponed life was ever supposed to be.

  Their words

  In other words, when you go through life thinking “if I can make it through this, things will be better later,” you eventually forget what “better” means.

  calnewport.com

Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.

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  Time Machine

  Their words

  Backups: Time Machine.

  usesthis.com

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  Mac OS X

  Their words

  but switched to Mac OS as it delivers a much better “just works” experience for me, every time I want to do Skype, print a document, or alike.

  usesthis.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 War Nerd

  Their words

  check out "The War Nerd" by Gary Brecker, or read one of his columns at The Exile.

  x.com

Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.

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  Wolfram|Alpha

  Their words

  I use both the current Wolfram|Alpha, and versions running on our hierarchy of development and test systems.

  usesthis.com

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  Lenovo ThinkPad X301

  Their words

  Outside the house, I had been using a Lenovo ThinkPad X301 running Windows 7 with a cellular modem, but I'm now switching to a MacBook Air with a MiFi device.

  usesthis.com

Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.

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  Built to Last

  Their words

  I’ve read similar books like this in the past as well, some of my favorites are Good to Great and Built to Last.

  robwalling.com

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  Getting to Plan B

  Their words

  These books are more specific and rigorous than your standard Malcolm Gladwell fare; things like Getting to Plan B, The New Business Road Test, and Business Model Generation.

  robwalling.com

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  The New Business Road Test

  Their words

  These books are more specific and rigorous than your standard Malcolm Gladwell fare; things like Getting to Plan B, The New Business Road Test, and Business Model Generation.

  robwalling.com

American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.

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  Ambition

  Their words

  Let's say that if the Buddha had been born in the Midwest of the US he would have written Brim's book. Brim has a Midwesterner's work ethic, and Americans moralise work quite a lot...so Brim says don't drop out of the game, play it, but play it so you don't get trapped, play it wisely, so that you get to enjoy the fruits of your labour.

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  Stumbling on Happiness

  Their words

  The Gilbert book is just so much fun to read. He's one of the funniest people, certainly in psychology – he's just endlessly witty, and reading it is like strapping yourself into a roller coaster.

  fivebooks.com

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  The Paradox of Choice - Why More is Less

  Their words

  That work was done especially by Barry Schwartz, in his book The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less. That is just such a good book...if I'd had six books, I would have included that one.

  fivebooks.com