Designer and developer; created the Solarized colour scheme and the Kinkless task system that became OmniFocus.

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  Epson 7800

  Their words

  Large format prints roll off of my reliable Epson 7800 with the phatte black ink system and a custom RIP.

  usesthis.com

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  Manfrotto 035 Superclamps

  Their words

  I use a lot of Manfrotto 035 Superclamps and articulated arms like the 244N Magic Arm to mount gear to either the Grip Desk or to a standard table surface (as microphone boom, document holder, etc.).

  usesthis.com

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  x-rite

  Their words

  Color calibration hardware is critical for my work and I use one of the x-rite display calibration units. It works on Arch and OS X.

  usesthis.com

Programmer and author of Modern C++ Design and The D Programming Language; a lead contributor to the D language.

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  zsh

  Their words

  Inside the screen sessions, I run zsh. (The day I figured how cool zsh is, a hawk came and rid me of the white dove.)

  usesthis.com

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  iTerm2

  Their words

  For shell sessions I don't go through X; instead, I run iTerm2 and then connect to remote screen sessions via ssh.

  usesthis.com

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  LaTeX

  Their words

  I use Google Docs for light documents and LaTeX for all heavy editing, including books and slides.

  usesthis.com

Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.

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  Content Rules

  Their words

  If you don’t know the book, Content Rules is the how-to field guide to creating the kind of blogs, videos, FAQs, product pages (or any kind of content!) that will help your organization grow.

  annhandley.com

Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.

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  A History of Interest Rates

  Their words

  This is one of my favourite type of books, which are just about data.

  fivebooks.com

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  The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

  Their words

  This is one of the great political biographies. Teddy Roosevelt was like a character out of a novel, so it's not surprising that his biography reads like one.

  fivebooks.com

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  Why Nations Fail

  Their words

  Why Nations Fail is by two of my favourite economists, two very close friends and co-authors of mine, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. They're tackling a subject that I've worked on with them, and they do a great job of bringing it to life and making it vivid.

  fivebooks.com

Photographer and writer based in Malaysia who publishes long-form camera, lens and photography-book reviews, essays and photoessays at blog.mingthein.com.

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  Nikon AF-S 85/1.4 G

  Their words

  Can I recommend the lens? For D800 users, honestly, no. You're better served by the 85/1.8G; use the balance of funds for other glass, or buy one of my prints with some of the money you've saved (shameless plug). It simply lacks the crispness I've seen with other bodies.

  blog.mingthein.com

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  Nikon 85/1.8G

  Their words

  You're better served by the 85/1.8G; use the balance of funds for other glass, or buy one of my prints with some of the money you've saved (shameless plug).

  blog.mingthein.com

Photographer and writer based in Malaysia who publishes long-form camera, lens and photography-book reviews, essays and photoessays at blog.mingthein.com.

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  Nikon D800

  Their words

  But what I can say is that the sensor is absolutely stunning, and remains one of the best, if not the best I've ever used – at least in 35mm format

  blog.mingthein.com

Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.

From one piece The Edge of Story 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  There is no sharp line between a game’s story and its mechanics.

  Their words

  There is no sharp line between fiction, story, narrative, and mechanics.

  The Edge of Storytynansylvester.com

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  Narrative is not a real category; it is a cultural label for a cluster of emotional triggers games happen to share with older media.

  Their words

  The concept of narrative is not absolute. It is merely a label for a cluster of emotional triggers which games happen to share with certain traditional media.

  The Edge of Storytynansylvester.com

Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The audience responds well to well-designed systems; it is the industry’s paymasters who undervalue them in favour of authored stories.

  Their words

  It’s true that systemic design is often underemphasized by the paymasters of the game industry.

  Response to Danc’s Loops and Arcstynansylvester.com

Novelist and writer, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough; previously worked at Twitter and Current TV.

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  Notational Velocity

  Their words

  I am a strong proponent of wanton notetaking - words, names, scraps, passages, whole articles, just dump it all in there - and I’d recommend this setup to anyone.

  usesthis.com

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  Filson Pullman

  Their words

  When I was looking for a travel bag, I got a tip to buy a Filson Pullman and man it is super great. Tough, capacious and unassuming.

  usesthis.com

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  Kindle Keyboard 3G

  Their words

  I’ve been places in Turkey and Greece where my shiny iPhone showed no bars but the quiet resourceful Kindle could reach Gmail without a hitch. Strange and miraculous.

  usesthis.com

Canadian cartoonist and writer: Dinosaur Comics, Marvel's The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and the choose-your-own-path books To Be or Not To Be and Romeo and/or Juliet.

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  Winamp

  Their words

  Winamp - I've tried a bunch of other music players but always come back to Winamp because it's small and has global hotkeys.

  usesthis.com

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  AutoHotKey

  Their words

  AutoHotkey - I used to use a program called Winkey, but that got discontinued, so now I use this. It's free software that lets you map all sorts of actions to the keyboard.

  usesthis.com

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  Kindle

  Their words

  I guess I should mention I also got a 3G Kindle which I love and a Withings scale that posts my weight to Twitter, which is lots of fun, but also kinda cheesy because every post has their URL slapped on the end of it.

  usesthis.com

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

From one piece TestCoverage 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Total test coverage is a warning sign rather than an achievement: it smells of tests written for the number.

  Their words

  I would be suspicious of anything like 100% - it would smell of someone writing tests to make the coverage numbers happy, but not thinking about what they are doing.

  TestCoveragemartinfowler.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Making test coverage a target destroys it, because high coverage numbers are easy to reach with worthless tests.

  Their words

  If you make a certain level of coverage a target, people will try to attain it. The trouble is that high coverage numbers are too easy to reach with low quality testing.

  TestCoveragemartinfowler.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Test coverage is a tool for finding untested code and says nothing about how good the tests are.

  Their words

  Test coverage is of little use as a numeric statement of how good your tests are.

  TestCoveragemartinfowler.com

Photographer and writer based in Malaysia who publishes long-form camera, lens and photography-book reviews, essays and photoessays at blog.mingthein.com.

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  Magnum Contact Sheets

  Their words

  However, the real kicker here is that the images presented aren't just the single 'selected' iconic ones, but also the ones before and after – i.e. a contact sheet of that entire roll of film.

  blog.mingthein.com

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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  The Founder's Dilemmas

  Their words

  Wasserman has finally put it all together in a great book called The Founder's Dilemmas, which I highly recommend if you're starting a company.

  joelonsoftware.com

Software engineer and PostgreSQL contributor who ran the Postgres Open conference; later a senior engineering leader at Mozilla and CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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  Skitch

  Their words

  Apple's Keynote is the best for presentations, and nothing beats Skitch for quickly sharing screenshots, photos and sarcasm.

  usesthis.com

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  Arq

  Their words

  I use Arq for backups, LastPass for passwords, Chrome for my browser and have four users set up inside Chrome to handle business and personal account separation.

  usesthis.com

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  LastPass

  Their words

  I use Arq for backups, LastPass for passwords, Chrome for my browser and have four users set up inside Chrome to handle business and personal account separation.

  usesthis.com

Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.

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  Word

  Their words

  Editing for the books usually happens in either Word or Pages; I have no love for either, but Word plays nicely with InDesign, so we're a little but stuck with it for now.

  usesthis.com

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  Moop messenger bag

  Their words

  I carry everything around in a Moop messenger bag; there's enough room for the Macbook, a Moleskin, and a print book.

  usesthis.com

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  Propane

  Their words

  I use Propane to connect to Typekit's Campfire account; we're virtual, with folks spread out between San Francisco and Berlin, so this is where much of our work happens.

  usesthis.com

Software engineer and interface designer; one of the main developers of the original Apple Macintosh, later at Radius, General Magic, Eazel and Google, and author of Revolution in the Valley.

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  BBEdit

  Their words

  For text editing, I mainly use BBEdit or TextEdit.

  usesthis.com

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  Plex

  Their words

  For music and video, I use iTunes a lot, but I also use Plex, VLC and Handbrake.

  usesthis.com

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  Galaxy Nexus

  Their words

  I'm very impressed with the new Galaxy Nexus phone that I just got for Christmas, but I think I will stick with the iPhone as my main phone.

  usesthis.com

Medicinal chemist; has written In the Pipeline, the drug-discovery blog, since 2002, and the “Things I Won’t Work With” posts about chemicals that try to kill you.

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

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  Every new drug has to beat the cheap generics that came before it, and that competition with our own back catalogue is why drug discovery gets harder over time.

  Their words

  I think that this is insufficiently appreciated outside of the drug business. Nothing goes away unless it's well and truly superseded.

  Eroom's Lawweb.archive.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Drug research is heading, at speed, for a world in which fewer and fewer useful medicines are discovered while more and more people want them.

  Their words

  We are heading, at speed, for a world in which fewer and fewer useful medicines are discovered, while more and more people want them.

  Eroom's Lawweb.archive.org

American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.

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  The Captive Mind

  Their words

  He is important to read because he's simultaneously critical of his characters and sympathetic to them. It's very difficult, now, to think back into that time, when people had very limited choices. If you chose to oppose the regime, that might mean you couldn't get medicine for your sick mother, your children couldn't go to school and you might get kicked out of your apartment. We don't have to face those choices. Miłosz is very good at explaining them.

  fivebooks.com

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  A World Apart

  Their words

  He wasn't in the Gulag for long – only a couple of years, until 1941 – but what I like about his book is that, unlike many memoirs, it's not just about his story or what happened to him. It's more like a series of short stories, of the kind written by [Varlam] Shalamov or one of the Gulag novelists. Each chapter is a story about a different person or situation, together with an accompanying set of thoughts or meditations.

  fivebooks.com

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  Memoir of Hungary

  Their words

  Sándor Márai is one of the great Hungarian novelists. He was in Hungary during the war, and left in 1948. This book is about a neutral intellectual's encounter with communism, and it records what he saw as it happened.

  fivebooks.com

Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.

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  Google Sketchup

  Their words

  For At a Distance, I made the environments in Google Sketchup, which is a super pleasant tool to use for simple models.

  usesthis.com

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  FlashDevelop

  Their words

  For coding: I mostly use FlashDevelop, with the Adobe Flex compiler.

  usesthis.com

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  FL Studio

  Their words

  For music, I use FL Studio, and in the past I've also used ModPlug tracker.

  usesthis.com

Photographer and writer based in Malaysia who publishes long-form camera, lens and photography-book reviews, essays and photoessays at blog.mingthein.com.

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  Leica M9-P

  Their words

  I think the real verdict is that I'm now using the M9-P as my primary camera, even for things that it was not designed for, even when I have the choice to use something else.

  blog.mingthein.com

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

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  The Harmless People

  Their words

  If you want to learn more about hunter gatherers I strongly recommend Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's The Harmless People and The Old Way

  paulgraham.com

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  The Old Way

  Their words

  If you want to learn more about hunter gatherers I strongly recommend Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's The Harmless People and The Old Way

  paulgraham.com

Mac and iOS developer; created NetNewsWire and MarsEdit, co-created the JSON Feed format, and blogs at inessential.com.

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  Bitbucket

  Their words

  I use Bitbucket for repository hosting.

  usesthis.com

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  Dropbox

  Their words

  DropBox has become my documents folder. I use Lighthouse for bug tracking.

  usesthis.com

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  Consolas

  Their words

  Somehow, just in the past few days, I've finally moved from Monaco to Consolas. I never thought I'd switch from Monaco. (I would have gone with Menlo, but it's a bit too blurry for me.)

  usesthis.com

Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.

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  Homebrew

  Their words

  To make my shell experience on OS X bearable, I use homebrew (I shudder to think how things used to be on OSX).

  usesthis.com

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  partychat

  Their words

  One of my favorite killer apps is partychat. It is an open source Jabber-based persistent chat room. It works with Google Talk and is VERY simple.

  usesthis.com

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  Simplenote

  Their words

  I use Simplenote to keep track of random thoughts on my phone.

  usesthis.com

Writer of kottke.org, one of the oldest blogs on the web, published since 1998 and supported by its members. He writes about art, technology, science, design and visual culture.

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  Magic Mouse

  Their words

  I REALLY should go and get that new mouse. [Twenty minutes pass.] I now have a Magic Mouse.

  usesthis.com

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  Safari

  Their words

  Three browsers running all the time on OS X. Safari is my blogging browser, Firefox is my development browser, and Chrome is my fun browser.

  usesthis.com

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  TextMate

  Their words

  I also use Terminal, Mail.app (though I mostly check email on my phone these days), TextMate, iTunes (cannot get into Spotify or Rdio for whatever reason), Photoshop (grudgingly), Sequel Pro, and very little else.

  usesthis.com

Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.

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  mpd

  Their words

  Outside the dynamic interactive one-big-process environments I'm a big fan of simple orthogonal tools that work well together, so I use xbindkeys for all my launchers and mpd for my tunes.

  usesthis.com

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  Debian Squeeze

  Their words

  Debian's installer is less polished, but I appreciate their conservative get-it-right-at-all-costs approach a lot more these days than when I was in college and had a lot of time to mess around with goofed-up packages.

  usesthis.com

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  pair.io

  Their words

  I don't pair as much as I used to, but I've started using pair.io, a service for spinning up ephemeral collaborative programming nodes.

  usesthis.com

American historian of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust; author of Bloodlands, On Tyranny and On Freedom, and writer of the newsletter 'Thinking about...'.

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  Homage to Catalonia

  Their words

  The reason why I am so fond of Homage to Catalonia, and see it as an even more relevant precursor to dissent, is that in it you can see a man of the Left learning to make the distinction that breaks down the Left with a big L into lots of little lefts.

  fivebooks.com

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  The Church and the Left

  Their words

  In The Church and the Left Michnik argues for an untraditional alliance. He says that the left has to talk to the Polish Catholic Church, especially after the Vatican's internal reform [in 1965].

  fivebooks.com

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  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

  Their words

  Milan Kundera was of course not really a dissident, but this book gets across the heartfelt reality of Stalinist faith.

  fivebooks.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 Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Negotiating hard costs a candidate nothing, because the person on the other side is spending a budget rather than their own money and will not hold it against them.

  Their words

  It is Bob’s job to get you signed with the company as cheaply as possible, but Bob is not super motivated to do so, because Bob is not spending Bob’s money to hire you.  Bob is spending Bob’s budget.

  kalzumeus.com

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  Asking a candidate for their salary history is a way to justify paying them below market, so a candidate should never name a number first.

  Their words

  They are all using your previous anomalously low salary — a salary which did not reflect your true market worth, because you were young or inexperienced or unskilled at negotiation or working at a different firm or in another line of work entirely — to justify paying you an anomalously low salary in the future.

  kalzumeus.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A company is not sensitive to the few thousand dollars a candidate is afraid to ask for, because the fully-loaded cost of employing them dwarfs it.

  Their words

  This is a roundabout way of telling you that companies are not sensitive to small differences in employee wages because employees are so darned expensive anyhow.

  kalzumeus.com

Web developer and musician; co-creator of the Django web framework, founder of EveryBlock and of the music-notation site Soundslice.

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  youtube-dl

  Their words

  Some little-known gems I use a lot: youtube-dl for downloading YouTube videos.

  usesthis.com

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  Fission

  Their words

  Fission for lossless sound editing (trimming live concerts into separate songs, etc.). Max for converting between audio-file formats. Caffeine for easy control over when my laptop can and can't go to sleep.

  usesthis.com

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  1Password

  Their words

  Other software I use almost daily: Dropbox for commonly accessed files. Git for my work and personal projects. Audacity for quick clean up of audio files. 1password for password management.

  usesthis.com

Computer scientist and professor; author of The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. and of a long-running blog on programming languages, research and academia.

• Usesrcmnd.app

  OmniFocus

  Their words

  For task management, I use OmniFocus on my MacBook Air, my iPhone and my iPad. The shared database lives on my linode and syncs over WebDAV.

  usesthis.com

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  Evernote

  Their words

  My hand-rolled personal note-taking wiki on my linode has been replaced by Evernote on my MacBook Air, iPhone and iPad.

  usesthis.com

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  Marcy Recumbent Mag Cycle

  Their words

  I can't afford time off work to exercise, so I attached a Table Mate II couch desk to a Marcy Recumbent Mag Cycle, and moved it next to the desk in my home office. Honestly, I'm more productive on the bike than off.

  usesthis.com

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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  Empire of Wealth

  Their words

  In the meantime, below are a few of my favorite books from 2012: Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power – Gordon (my favorite, though it was published in 2005) Jackass Investing: Don’t do it. Profit from it – Dever (unfortunate title, good book) What Works on Wall Street, Fourth Edition: The Classic Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time – O’Shaughnessy (good update and review of quant stock screens)

  mebfaber.com

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  Jackass Investing

  Their words

  In the meantime, below are a few of my favorite books from 2012: Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power – Gordon (my favorite, though it was published in 2005) Jackass Investing: Don’t do it. Profit from it – Dever (unfortunate title, good book) What Works on Wall Street, Fourth Edition: The Classic Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time – O’Shaughnessy (good update and review of quant stock screens)

  mebfaber.com

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  What Works on Wall Street

  Their words

  In the meantime, below are a few of my favorite books from 2012: Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power – Gordon (my favorite, though it was published in 2005) Jackass Investing: Don’t do it. Profit from it – Dever (unfortunate title, good book) What Works on Wall Street, Fourth Edition: The Classic Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time – O’Shaughnessy (good update and review of quant stock screens)

  mebfaber.com

Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.

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  GIMP

  Their words

  Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.

  usesthis.com

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  WireShark

  Their words

  Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.

  usesthis.com

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  Mac mini

  Their words

  My main desktop at home is 2005 Mac Mini running Linux. I upgraded the RAM and added an Intel SSD to it. It's very old and slow but it's pretty quiet and I'm too lazy to replace it.

  usesthis.com

German type and information designer; founder of MetaDesign and FontShop, designer of typefaces including FF Meta, and a letterpress printer at p98a in Berlin.

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  Leica cameras

  Their words

  Plus a collection of Leica cameras, from early M3 (pre-war) through digital M8 and pretty much everything else in between.

  usesthis.com

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  Braun HiFi equipment

  Their words

  I also have a large collection of Braun HiFi equipment, from the late 60s until they stopped making that stuff in the 90s.

  usesthis.com

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  Korrex proofing press

  Their words

  I have a Korrex proofing press (like a Vandercook), a platen press and lots of type.

  usesthis.com

Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.

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  Marked

  Their words

  I publish to my blog (WordPress) using TextMate, and do my printing and PDF output using Marked.

  usesthis.com

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  Spotify

  Their words

  When it comes to listening, I've all but forsaken my gigs of mp3 files and taken to Spotify and Musicality (last.fm and Pandora).

  usesthis.com

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  TextExpander

  Their words

  I use TextExpander practically every minute. I also wouldn't want to function without 1Password, Growl, Apptivate and Tags.

  usesthis.com

Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.

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  Rule 34

  Their words

  Anyhow, I really like this one.

  tbray.org

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

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  Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits

  Their words

  The book is well written, though not very inspired, and the scientific explanations are well referenced and, for all I can tell, flawless. I'd give four out of five stars if I had stars to give.

  backreaction.blogspot.com

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

• Usesrcmnd.app

  MediaWiki

  Their words

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

  usesthis.com

• Usesrcmnd.app

  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

• Our readingkorrents.com

  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

• Our readingkorrents.com

  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.

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  Engineers are hired to create business value rather than to program things, and the only goals are adding revenue and cutting costs.

  Their words

  The person who has decided to bring on one more engineer is not doing it because they love having a geek around the room, they are doing it because adding the geek allows them to complete a project (or projects) which will add revenue or decrease costs.

  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.

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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.

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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.

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  awesome

  Their words

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

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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.

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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.

  usesthis.com

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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  screen

  Their words

  I'm a heavy user of screen, particularly for monitoring long-running processes and being able to use the same session from different locations.

  usesthis.com

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  Python

  Their words

  Programming languages aren't strictly software, but I'm a huge fan of Python along with the numeric computing libraries.

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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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  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.

  usesthis.com

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  SABnzbd+

  Their words

  Specifically for Usenet I use SABnzbd+, running on one of my Mac Minis, connecting to Giganews, and pulling from NZBs.org or Newzbin.

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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.

  usesthis.com

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.

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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