Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. His 2010 meta-analysis established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment; he has argued ever since that "evidence-based therapy" is used as a marketing term.

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  The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy

  Their words

  The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy [pdf] Hailed as a contemporary classic and studied in training programs around the world—the paper that established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment

  jonathanshedler.com

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  The illusion of mental health

  Their words

  The illusion of mental health [pdf] Scientific evidence that we do not know our hearts and minds and must look past the surface—a classic in the field

  jonathanshedler.com

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  Where is the evidence for “evidence-based” therapy?

  Their words

  Where is the evidence for “evidence-based” therapy? [pdf] Few patients who get “evidence-based therapy” get well

  jonathanshedler.com

Journalist, editor and typesetter covering technology and printing history; wrote for TidBITS and the Economist and published The Magazine.

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  Tweetbot

  Their words

  My desktop and iOS Twitter client is Tweetbot, and I use Kiwi for App.net on my Mac and Netbot for iOS.

  usesthis.com

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  CSSEdit 2.5

  Their words

  I admit a bit guiltily that for previewing and designing CSS, I turn to MacRabbit's CSSEdit 2.5, a version that's no longer shipping, as its functionality was absorbed into the company's Espresso Web site development software.

  usesthis.com

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  Skype

  Their words

  Skype is invaluable. However irritating it can be, and however much I dislike the user-interface changes in the 5.x client update for Mac, it's still something I rely on.

  usesthis.com

Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.

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  OmniFocus

  Their words

  I use OmniFocus on both my Mac and iOS to keep my To-Do lists in check.

  usesthis.com

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  TextExpander

  Their words

  I mentioned FastScripts for running quick scripts, but I also use TextExpander extensively, particularly for accelerating responses to customer support email.

  usesthis.com

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  Backblaze

  Their words

  Acorn for casual image editing, Skitch (1.0 forever!) for easy screen captures, Rdio for infinite music, and backups courtesy of Backblaze, Time Machine and SuperDuper

  usesthis.com

Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.

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  Terminal.app

  Their words

  Terminal.app is good enough; I don't need tabs. I use bash (big surprise).

  usesthis.com

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  Aperture

  Their words

  Photos are edited and organised with Aperture.

  usesthis.com

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  Fedora

  Their words

  All of my servers are currently running Fedora, although I'm starting to dabble with Ubuntu, as some of the daemons in Fedora 18 are a bit memory-hungry.

  usesthis.com

Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.

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  IrfanView

  Their words

  I spend a lot of time writing papers and preparing talks with free software: emacs for text editing, LaTeX for typesetting, and IrfanView for editing images.

  usesthis.com

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  Audacity

  Their words

  I do a lot of sound editing using a free program called Audacity.

  usesthis.com

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  Yamaha Clavinova

  Their words

  But I also like improvising in more traditional ways. I play an electronic piano, a Yamaha Clavinova, and also drums: a dumbek and a couple of frame drums.

  usesthis.com

Game designer; wrote A Theory of Fun for Game Design and worked on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies.

From one piece Social games vs gambling 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A slot machine triggers the brain’s learning and curiosity pathways while teaching nothing, and that one-way exchange is what makes it contemptuous of the player.

  Their words

  Slot machines don’t teach you anything; they trigger the learning and curiosity pathways without actually giving you a benefit in return.

  Social games vs gamblingraphkoster.com

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  Free-to-play games use the same techniques as gambling machines in order to maximise what players spend and how long they stay.

  Their words

  In the sense that social games make use of many of the same techniques as gambling games do in order to maximize financial spend and retention, yes.

  Social games vs gamblingraphkoster.com

Co-founder and chief strategy officer of Intercom; writes and speaks about product strategy, customer support and, lately, what AI does to both.

From one piece Product strategy means saying no 3 beliefs · intercom.com

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  A real product decision says a proposal is a great idea and still turns it down for something else.

  Their words

  Real product decisions aren’t easy. They require you to look at a proposal and say “This is a really great idea, I can see why our customers would like it. Well done. But we’re not going to build it. Instead, here’s what we’re doing.”.

  Product strategy means saying nointercom.com

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  Whether a feature is quick to build is a roadmap question, never a reason on its own to build it.

  Their words

  The main problem with this argument is that the scope of work should never be a reason to include a feature in a product.

  Product strategy means saying nointercom.com

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  Building a great product means being great at saying no -- not maybe, not later, no.

  Their words

  If you’re building a product, you have to be great at saying no. Not “maybe” or “later”. The only word is no. Building a great product isn’t about creating tons of tactically useful features which are tangentially related.

  Product strategy means saying nointercom.com

Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

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  Vagrant

  Their words

  Vagrant, of course. I virtualize almost everything. Why do anything on your real computer when you can create a perfect sandboxed environment to do it instead?

  usesthis.com

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  iTerm2

  Their words

  I use iTerm2 as my terminal, I can’t live without the splits!

  usesthis.com

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  Vim

  Their words

  While the software is running Vagrant, I edit text in vim.

  usesthis.com

Economist and political scientist at the University of Chicago's Harris School, studying conflict, organised crime and development; author of Why We Fight.

From one piece Why cash transfers to the poor are not the next big thing 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The most valuable thing a young development researcher could do is try to destroy the cash transfer movement.

  Their words

  If I were an enterprising young researcher looking for an idea and experiments that will prove powerful in five years, I would try to find the stake I can drive into the heart of the cash transfer movement.

  chrisblattman.com

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  What keeps poor countries poor is political and economic instability, not a shortage of well-designed programmes.

  government

  Their words

  The real problem is the absence of firms small and large to employ people productively. The root of the problem is political instability, economic uncertainty, and a country’s high cost structure, among other things. A government’s attention is properly on these bigger issues.

  chrisblattman.com

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  Cash helps a poor person whose only obstacle is a lack of capital, and does little for anyone whose obstacle is something else.

  Their words

  If a poor person is enterprising, and their main problem is insufficient capital, terrific. If that’s not their problem, throwing cash will not do much to help.

  chrisblattman.com

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

From one piece We Should All Have Something To Hide 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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

  Their words

  You probably do have something to hide, you just don’t know it yet.

  We Should All Have Something To Hidemoxie.org

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  When everyone is monitored and everyone breaks some obscure law, punishment stops being lawful and becomes purely selective.

  Their words

  Police already abuse the immense power they have, but if everyone’s every action were being monitored, and everyone technically violates some obscure law at some time, then punishment becomes purely selective. Those in power will essentially have what they need to punish anyone they’d like, whenever they choose, as if there were no rules at all.

  We Should All Have Something To Hidemoxie.org

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  Legal change usually begins as lawbreaking, so perfectly effective enforcement would freeze a society in place.

  Their words

  What’s often overlooked, however, is that these legal victories would probably not have been possible without the ability to break the law.

  We Should All Have Something To Hidemoxie.org

Computer scientist teaching at Princeton; spent three decades at Bell Labs in the group that produced Unix, C and C++, and co-authored The C Programming Language and The Practice of Programming.

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  Sam

  Their words

  I use Rob Pike's Sam editor most of the time – that's what I'm using right now – and vi the rest of the time, because I know it well enough that there's no need to think.

  usesthis.com

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  Alpine

  Their words

  As the last representative of the dinosaur era, I read mail mostly with Alpine, which is faster and easier than any web-based system I know, and does a nice job of storing my mail locally.

  usesthis.com

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  Awk

  Their words

  I write really short things in Awk, and use Python for longer text processing applications.

  usesthis.com

Complexity scientist and writer, author of The Half-Life of Facts and Overcomplicated; scientist in residence at Lux Capital.

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  TextWrangler

  Their words

  I use a combination of the Terminal and TextWrangler for this.

  usesthis.com

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  YoruFukurou

  Their words

  YoruFukurou (which apparently means "Night Owl" in Japanese) is extremely powerful for filtering and reading tweets, but doesn't overwhelm me with information.

  usesthis.com

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  NetNewsWire

  Their words

  I use NetNewsWire for the rapidly dwindling number of RSS feeds that I still follow (fewer than ten), as Twitter has supplanted my webpage discovery process.

  usesthis.com

British writer of biography and intellectual history; author of How to Live: A Life of Montaigne, At the Existentialist Cafe and Humanly Possible.

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  Nausea

  Their words

  I chose Nausea for several reasons. One is that it's the first existentialist book that I ever read. It's what first made me curious to learn more, and that's exactly what the book does. It's readable, it's powerful, it's sometimes a bit ridiculous, but it's intense.

  fivebooks.com

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  Man's Search for Meaning

  Their words

  I chose this book because it's an incredibly powerful and moving example of what existentialist thought can actually be for in real life, what good it can do, how it can help people.

  fivebooks.com

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  The Existentialist Reader

  Their words

  So this is just a fantastic compilation of existentialist arrows that you might want to follow into different thinkers.

  fivebooks.com

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  The Endurance

  Their words

  I'm reading The Endurance and "by endurance we conquer" (Ernest Shackleton's family motto) struck me as a great piece of startup wisdom.

  blog.samaltman.com

Cognitive scientist and designer; author of The Design of Everyday Things; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group; former vice president at Apple; founding director of the Design Lab at UC San Diego.

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  Design thinking is a myth: designers have no special creative thought process, and the term is a public relations label for good old-fashioned creative thinking.

  Their words, before

  Design thinking is a public relations term for good, old-fashioned creative thinking. It is not restricted to designers. Great artists, great engineers, great scientists all break out of the boundaries. Great designers are no different.

  Their words now

  As a result, I have changed my mind: Design Thinking really is special. Alas, it isn't embraced by all designers, but where it exists, it is powerful.

Cognitive scientist and designer; author of The Design of Everyday Things; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group; former vice president at Apple; founding director of the Design Lab at UC San Diego.

From one piece Rethinking Design Thinking 2 beliefs · core77.com

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  Breakthroughs come from questioning the obvious, and the outsider's stupid question is where that power lies.

  Their words

  It is by questioning the obvious that we make great progress. This is where breakthroughs come from. We need to question the obvious, to reformulate our beliefs, and to redefine existing solutions, approaches, and beliefs. That is design thinking.

  Rethinking Design Thinkingcore77.com

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  Design thinking is practised by all great thinkers, but design is the one field that tries to teach it as a systematic method rather than leave it to the exceptional.

  Their words

  I was correct in my original article: what we call design thinking is practiced in some form or other by all great thinkers, whether in literature or art, music or science, engineering or business. But the difference is that in design, there is an attempt to teach it as a systematic, practice-defining method of creative innovation.

  Rethinking Design Thinkingcore77.com

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

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  The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics

  Their words

  Susskind made his lecture notes into a book and did a great job.

  backreaction.blogspot.com

Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Black Mirror

  Their words

  Black Mirror is by far the best TV series I have seen in years. Production levels that are through the roof and features just absolutely insane writing and plot twists.

  levels.io

Former NASA flight director and space shuttle programme manager; writes about how the shuttle was actually flown and what went wrong.

• Our reading nowkorrents.com

  The Challenger accident was caused by managers who suppressed engineers' safety concerns for venal reasons.

  On changing their mind

  For all those years I had learned the wrong lesson about the loss of Challenger.

Former NASA flight director and space shuttle programme manager; writes about how the shuttle was actually flown and what went wrong.

From one piece After Ten Years: Enduring Lessons 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  NASA denied Shuttle crews parachutes and pressure suits because it had convinced itself the vehicle was as safe as an airliner.

  Their words

  We were told that flying in the space shuttle was just as safe as flying in a commercial airliner, so we denied the crew parachutes and pressure suits.

  After Ten Years: Enduring Lessonswaynehale.wordpress.com

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  In a risky organisation, defer to expertise rather than to leaders.

  Their words

  Defer to expertise rather than leaders.

  After Ten Years: Enduring Lessonswaynehale.wordpress.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A team that agrees has not examined the problem hard enough; dissent is what makes a decision safe.

  Their words

  If you don’t have dissention, then you haven’t examined the problem closely enough.

  After Ten Years: Enduring Lessonswaynehale.wordpress.com

Programmer, musician and author of The Passionate Programmer; organised RubyConf and RailsConf and has worked as a CTO.

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  Logic

  Their words

  It's hard to learn, but Logic is a beautiful piece of software. It's also hard to learn how to record using real studio equipment, so it should be no surprise that learning how to record with professional quality music software is difficult.

  usesthis.com

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  Pro Tools

  Their words

  I used to use Pro Tools, but I felt like I was in the 90s and it crashed a lot.

  usesthis.com

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  Vimeo

  Their words

  Increasingly, I've been using Vimeo for watching videos. This may seem like a strange thing to list here because it's technically just a site you browse as opposed to "use". But have you seen the "watch later" feature? You can sign in, mark videos to watch later, and then watch them on your tablet or Apple TV.

  usesthis.com

Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.

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  The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

  Their words

  That book struck me as embodying the worst aspects of where string theory has ended up, promoting to the public in a high-profile way a dangerously pseudo-scientific excuse for string theory's failure.

  math.columbia.edu

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  Théorème Vivant

  Their words

  It's basically a fascinating journal he kept during 2008-2011

  math.columbia.edu

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  Lectures on Quantum Mechanics

  Their words

  It covers concisely and well most of the standard topics that are make up a quantum mechanics course at this level

  math.columbia.edu

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 Lifecycle of Software Objects

  Their words

  Another masterpiece of SciFi by Ted Chiang: "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"

  x.com

Former NASA flight director and space shuttle programme manager; writes about how the shuttle was actually flown and what went wrong.

From one piece After Ten Years: Working on the Wrong Problem 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Disasters come from organisational conditions, not from bad individuals, so blaming a person prevents the fix.

  Their words

  So don’t blame an individual; looks for the organizational factors that lead to that kind of a mindset.

  After Ten Years: Working on the Wrong Problemwaynehale.wordpress.com

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  The Columbia investigation focused on the wrong part of the wing: the engineers were analysing tiles when the damage was to the leading edge.

  Their words

  So all the discussion in the accident report about the flaws in the tile analysis are simply not applicable.

  After Ten Years: Working on the Wrong Problemwaynehale.wordpress.com

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

From one piece The 1950s called and wanted their toolbox back 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Programming needs a fundamental reinvention beyond text-based coding, comparable to the 1950s shift from physical controls to textual commands.

  Their words

  The field of programming need to see a renaissance in fundamental reinvention, just as it did in the 1950s when programming machines using levers and buttons was replaced by programming machines using textual sequences of computer commands.

  The 1950s called and wanted their toolbox backrsms.me

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Programming today still relies on one-dimensional, sequential plain text, largely unchanged from decades ago.

  Their words

  professional and hobbyist programmers alike all use the same tools as we did 60 years ago - one-dimensional, sequential plain text.

  The 1950s called and wanted their toolbox backrsms.me

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  Most programming languages in use today derive from Fortran or Lisp, both created in the 1950s.

  Their words

  Pretty much any programming language used today is a derivative of Fortran or Lisp, both born in the 1950s.

  The 1950s called and wanted their toolbox backrsms.me

Music critic of The New Yorker since 1996 and author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This and Wagnerism.

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  The Infinite Variety of Music

  Their words

  When I was very young, I loved the fact that Bernstein's language was so vivid. I was already sold on the music. As far back as I can remember my parents had the records and were playing them, and I took to them immediately. It was really the only music that I cared about, early on. Bernstein allowed me to have a conversation – only with myself at first – about the music.

  fivebooks.com

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  The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner

  Their words

  The other thing about Nietzsche's writing about Wagner is that it's wonderfully brilliant, unpredictable vivid and perceptive, even when he's deliberately distorting the material for a certain effect or working out his own profound ambivalence about Wagner.

  fivebooks.com

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  Doctor Faustus

  Their words

  I read Doctor Faustus when I was around 18 and something about the book just overwhelmed me. It was one of the most intense reading experiences of my life.

  fivebooks.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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  All In This Tea

  Their words

  That's the recipe for a delicious documentary, and this one delivers. A fanatical tea drinker in California becomes a connoisseur of fine teas, and then goes on to restore now forgotten traditions of organic artisan tea growing in China.

  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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  Being Elmo

  Their words

  The insight offered in the film that even puppets have to be ABOUT something, was worth the ride for me.

  kk.org

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

From one piece The Web We Lost 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Platforms wrongly believe that giving users flexibility and control makes a product too complex to grow, and that belief is the root of most of their mistakes.

  Their words

  The primary fallacy that underpins many of their mistakes is that user flexibility and control necessarily lead to a user experience complexity that hurts growth.

  The Web We Lostanildash.com

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  Attaching advertising revenue to links changed the web for the worse, because a link stopped being an act of expression and became a transaction.

  Google

  Their words

  The web was an interesting and different place before links got monetized, but by 2007 it was clear that Google had changed the web forever, and for the worse, by corrupting links.

  The Web We Lostanildash.com

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  People need an online identity that outlives the platforms hosting it, which is why it should live on a domain they control rather than as a handle on somebody else's site.

  Their words

  This was a sensible reaction to the realization that big sites rise and fall in popularity, but that regular people need an identity that persists longer than those sites do.

  The Web We Lostanildash.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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  Jiro Dreams of Sushi

  Their words

  This is a deliciously perfect film about a perfect craftsman.

  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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  Cave of Forgotten Dreams

  Their words

  This film will move you back in time while he connects you with the neolithic painters who worked their art.

  kk.org

Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.

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  MathJax

  Their words

  The other amazing JS application that I use is MathJax, which allows me to write LaTeX math in web pages.

  usesthis.com

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  pandoc

  Their words

  I'm visually tired of beamer slides (mainly because too many people use the same style), and I use pandoc to create HTML5 slides.

  usesthis.com

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  knitr

  Their words

  I use my knitr package to generate reports directly from code (literate programming); the "reports" may include homework, blog posts, websites, papers and books.

  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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  Project Nim

  Their words

  A hundred questions are raised by the experiment and many are answered by this superbly crafted film. I recommend it highly.

  kk.org

British-Ghanaian philosopher, Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University; author of Cosmopolitanism, The Honor Code and The Lies That Bind.

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  In the Name of Honor

  Their words

  She is one of my heroes and this is a book about how someone who grasps dignity, which is a form of honour based in our humanity, can resist the world of the negative side of honour, where women are punished because they are pawns in a game of honour between men.

  fivebooks.com

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  Honor

  Their words

  I disagree with a lot of what he says – in particular that he wants to give up on honour because it has such negative connotations: I think it needs reform as a concept – but I think it's a very lovely piece of scholarly analysis.

  fivebooks.com

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  Moral Capital

  Their words

  This is another beautiful piece of scholarship by an eminent historian, but you don't have to be an academic to read it. It's about a really interesting subject that I think would interest anybody.

  fivebooks.com

Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.

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  i3

  Their words

  I'm finding that i3 is really good for my use cases (lots of terminal windows open, virtual screens, and fast keyboard navigation of everything.)

  usesthis.com

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  git

  Their words

  Combined with git, the best source code control tool I've ever used (and I've used them all), I can set up a bare machine in a matter of minutes and have full access to all of my kernel trees, emails, and development tools.

  usesthis.com

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  CyanogenMod

  Their words

  My Nexus 7 tablet is running the nightly CyanogenMod releases and have had no problems at all with it.

  usesthis.com

Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.

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  git-annex

  Their words

  I download my mail with offlineimap, as well as blogs converted to mail with rss2email I use distributed version control extensively, and use my git-annex to maintain large quantities of local data and queue up large files to transfer in the rare times when I'm around fast internet.

  usesthis.com

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  Redshift

  Their words

  And the excellent Redshift application, which adjusts the screen color temperature depending on the time of day and preserves my night vision.

  usesthis.com

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  Music Player Daemon

  Their words

  Other notable software includes the Music Player Daemon, which runs on my netbook and also my home server.

  usesthis.com

Co-creator of the Go programming language, of UTF-8 and of the Plan 9 operating system; formerly of Bell Labs.

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  MacBook Air (11-inch)

  Their words

  my two-year-old 11" MacBook Air is the only piece of computing hardware to make me happy since I can’t remember when. For what it does, as opposed to what my dream setup would be, it’s fast and light and smooth and comfortable.

  usesthis.com

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  Go

  Their words

  However, two things always come along: The Go installation of course, and Plan 9 from User space, also known as plan9port, Russ Cox’s port of the Plan 9 user experience (if not world view) to Unix.

  usesthis.com

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  plan9port

  Their words

  However, two things always come along: The Go installation of course, and Plan 9 from User space, also known as plan9port, Russ Cox’s port of the Plan 9 user experience (if not world view) to Unix.

  usesthis.com

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

From one piece Sol — a sunny little virtual machine 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Cooperative multitasking suits coherent, specialized systems better than general-purpose operating systems.

  Their words

  These systems often benefit from cooperative multitasking, in particular coherent, specialized systems (unlike operating systems which are general by nature).

  Sol — a sunny little virtual machinersms.me

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  Register-based virtual machines can run faster than stack-based virtual machines despite needing larger instruction encodings.

  Their words

  Register-based virtual machines avoid the push and pop operations usually surrounding other instructions, reducing code size, but in several cases also increases speed of execution (compared to stack-based virtual machines).

  Sol — a sunny little virtual machinersms.me

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

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  Judgment in Managerial Decision Making

  Their words

  The Ultimatum example was quoted from Max Bazerman’s excellent book, Judgment in Managerial Decision Making

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

From one piece Speaking a language badly: how to get over the ego problem 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A teacher who does not insist on the target language is a bad teacher.

  Their words

  In my view, they are simply a BAD TEACHER if they don't encourage exclusive use of the target language.

  fluentin3months.com

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  There is no threshold of vocabulary to cross before speaking begins; the change is a decision, not a level reached.

  Their words

  It's not like I passed some threshold of having enough words to get started speaking

  fluentin3months.com

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  The hard part of speaking from the start is not the gaps in what you know but making peace with not knowing the simplest words.

  Their words

  But it's HARD to start this. NOT because of all the academic reasons of lack of vocabulary and grammar, but because you need to be cool with the fact that you are not going to know the simplest of words.

  fluentin3months.com

Game designer; chief creative officer at Spry Fox (Triple Town, Realm of the Mad God) and author of the Lost Garden design blog.

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  Adobe Illustrator

  Their words

  I've been using Adobe Illustrator for interface design. My favorite technique is to set up all the UI elements on separate artboards and then I can quickly export them out with full name to all sorts of different resolutions with a single dialog.

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  Dropbox

  Their words

  We also use Dropbox for our file storage and everyone has a variety of iOS and Android devices for testing the latest builds and playing Drop7.

  usesthis.com

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  Wacom tablet

  Their words

  There's also a Wacom tablet as well for when I do digital paintings but lately my art has been leaning towards a more graphic vector style so it doesn't get quite as much love.

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

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  The Little Book that Builds Wealth

  Their words

  This from an excellent book called The Little Book that Builds Wealth.

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Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.

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  RescueTime

  Their words

  I use RescueTime on all my machines to get a rough idea of how much work I'm getting done each week.

  usesthis.com

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  SizeUp

  Their words

  I use SizeUp to use keyboard shortcuts to move windows between monitors and position them effectively.

  usesthis.com

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  Pocket

  Their words

  I use Pocket as a read-it-later service, but I've found that I never actually go back to read what I've saved. It seems to be write-only.

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Software developer who wrote Winamp and Gnutella, and now develops the REAPER digital audio workstation at Cockos.

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  PNGCrush

  Their words

  PNGCrush is a good tool, I usually use it to expand PNGs to be uncompressed, using "pngcrush -f 0 -m 1 -l 0 -force".

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  GIMP

  Their words

  I'll use GIMP for many image editing tasks (for me, this usually is just making test images for themes, or making small tweaks to existing images). I prefer Photoshop but find it to be ridiculously overpriced, and I am terrible with either of them anyway and will let the professionals make things.

  usesthis.com

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  REAPER

  Their words

  For recording I use REAPER (naturally).

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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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  A Soldier of the Great War

  Their words

  For historical fiction, I like "A Soldier of the Great War"

  x.com

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

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  Deep Simplicity

  Their words

  In his excellent book “Deep Simplicity,” John Gribbin describes the Red Queen Effect in terms of an imaginary species of frog that feeds on an imaginary species of fly.

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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.

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  emacs

  Their words

  Apart from the OS, I'm a C coder and an Emacs user, and what more do you need?

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  KDE

  Their words

  I've therefore abandoned gnome for KDE, which isn't a perfect fit for me either but still way better than gnome3.

  usesthis.com

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  Synology DS211j

  Their words

  Also located there is the Dlink wifi router, the HP ink printer and my Synology DS211j NAS.

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Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.

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  Founders, designers and developers need to develop their taste the way a sushi chef develops a palate, and appreciating culture is how.

  startups

  Their words

  Like sushi chefs, we as founders, designers or developers, need to develop our tastes, in order to build things people can be impressed about.

  Jiro’s Dreamkarrisaarinen.com

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

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  Passion for your work is not something you identify in advance and follow; it is cultivated over time.

  Their words

  But it’s not something that you “follow” (which implies you can identify it in advance). It’s instead something you have to purposefully cultivate over time.

  calnewport.com

Author of the open source projects MessagePack, Fluentd and Embulk, and co-founder and chief architect of Treasure Data.

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  Ruby

  Their words

  Ruby is my language of choice. I used to use C++, but I was enchanted by the flexibility of Ruby: it lets me focus on creating the proper design and architecture for the system.

  usesthis.com

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  Gyazo

  Their words

  I also like Gyazo, a simple tool to share screenshots quickly. It's like Gist for screenshots.

  usesthis.com

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  Quicksilver

  Their words

  I want to mention Quicksilver as well, a small but awesome launcher utility.

  usesthis.com

Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.

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  BetterSnapTool

  Their words

  but I do use Dropbox and BetterSnapTool and iStat Pro to add functions that I really wish were built in to the system.

  usesthis.com

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  iPhone 4S

  Their words

  I love my iPhone 4S even more than I love my Mac, and as a frequent traveler it has completely changed my life.

  usesthis.com

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  Nikon D90

  Their words

  I have a Nikon D90 camera which I love, but I feel less compelled to lug it around since I got the new iPhone with its competent camera.

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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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  Sony RX100

  Their words

  But on the whole, the RX100 gets it right – it is undoubtedly the best compact camera available today, especially from the point of view of image quality.

  blog.mingthein.com

Industrial designer; head of design at Braun from 1961 to 1995; designer of Vitsœ's 606 shelving system; author of the ten principles for good design.

From one piece Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design 5 beliefs · vitsoe.com

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  Good design makes a product understandable: at best it is self-explanatory.

  Their words

  It clarifies the product’s structure. Better still, it can make the product talk. At best, it is self-explanatory.

  Dieter Rams: ten principles for good designvitsoe.com

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  Good design is long-lasting: it avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.

  Their words

  It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years – even in today’s throwaway society.

  Dieter Rams: ten principles for good designvitsoe.com

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  Good design is honest: it does not make a product seem more innovative, powerful or valuable than it is, and does not manipulate with promises that cannot be kept.

  Their words

  It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept.

  Dieter Rams: ten principles for good designvitsoe.com

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

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  Damn Right!

  Their words

  In her excellent book, “Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger,” the author, Janet Lowe, relates the 1967 story:

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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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  World oil supply is close to its peak and will decline while demand keeps rising.

  Their words, before

  The supply of oil will decline, but global demand will not.

  Their words now

  Peak oil hasn't happened, and it's unlikely to happen for a very long time.

Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.

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  Mondaine Swiss Railway watch

  Their words

  I tell the time with a Mondaine Swiss Railway watch.

  usesthis.com

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  Heroku

  Their words

  My websites, services, and apps are hosted on Heroku.

  usesthis.com

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  OneNote

  Their words

  OneNote is an incredible note-taking platform, and I'd love to see it really shine in a dedicated device.

  usesthis.com

Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.

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  Instapaper

  Their words

  I have a script which mails to Instapaper the Hacker News front page twice a day. From there I can just tap on things and read them later, at any time, with Instapaper on my iPad or Windows Phone.

  usesthis.com

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  VirtualBox

  Their words

  I use VirtualBox to carry Ubuntu around with me.

  usesthis.com

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  Lenovo X201

  Their words

  I have a Lenovo X201 laptop, 2010 MacBook Pro, Samsung Series 7 Slate, Samsung Focus, iPhone 4 and an iPad 3.

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Standards editor known as Hixie; edited the HTML and WHATWG living standards for many years and worked on Flutter at Google.

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  Pine

  Their words

  I use Pine rather than other mail clients primarily because of important features that few other mail clients have: it lets me reply to multiple e-mails all at once, combining the e-mails I'm relying to into one and merging the recipient lists

  usesthis.com

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  Irssi

  Their words

  Irssi I use because it's the only IRC client I've come across that supports many networks and channels well while being a text mode client that I can use over SSH.

  usesthis.com

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  screen

  Their words

  Using screen I can arbitrarily reconnect to the remote sessions at my whim.

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Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.

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  ThinkPad USB keyboard with TrackPoint

  Their words

  I don't like mice, so I use an external ThinkPad USB keyboard with TrackPoint.

  usesthis.com

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  Ikea Utby bar table

  Their words

  I have a standing desk, an Ikea Utby bar table.

  usesthis.com

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  Linode

  Their words

  I also have a Linode VPS that I use for my website and a few web applications.

  usesthis.com

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.

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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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  LaTeX

  Their words

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

  usesthis.com

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  Juniper Network Connect

  Their words

  I also often need to run Juniper Network Connect, which helps me the same way sand helps the eye.

  usesthis.com

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