American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.

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  Nomad Goods Card Wallet Plus

  Their words

  Nomad Goods Card Wallet Plus - A slim leather wallet for cards and folded cash.

  adamdehaven.com

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  Benchmade Mini Griptilian

  Their words

  Benchmade Mini Griptilian - There's always a use for a reliable knife. A bonus in going with Benchmade: they will sharpen and clean your knife for free for life; just mail it in.

  adamdehaven.com

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  Stowa Flieger Classic 40

  Their words

  Stowa Flieger Classic 40 - When I'm not wearing my Apple Watch, this classic Pilot watch is on my wrist. Sapphire crystal, blued steel hands, and a date window at the 6 o'clock position. Perfect.

  adamdehaven.com

Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

From one piece making computers better 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The tech industry's economic and intellectual energy is directed away from human flourishing rather than toward it

  energy

  Their words

  The economic and intellectual horsepower in Silicon Valley and the wider tech world seems to be pointed away from these goals.

  making computers betteradamwiggins.com

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  The Information Age could be a species-level shift comparable to the Industrial Revolution

  Their words

  I find it plausible that the Information Age will be a species-level shift on par with the Industrial Revolution.

  making computers betteradamwiggins.com

Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.

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  Bear

  Their words

  For those, I use the free version of Bear

  eugeneyan.com

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  MacDown

  Their words

  For a free Markdown editor (on Mac), I can't recommend MacDown highly enough. It has a simple interface with an editor and preview pane and it just works.

  eugeneyan.com

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  Kindle

  Their words

  To read books, I use the Kindle.

  eugeneyan.com

Founder and president of the Roots of Progress Institute; writes the history and philosophy of progress, after a career as a software engineering manager and founder.

From one piece Progress: Fluke or trend? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Progress is not natural or automatic: it happens only while people believe it is possible and desirable, and it can stop.

  Their words

  Progress isn’t natural; we make it happen through choice and effort, and we only do so when we believe it is possible and desirable.

  Progress: Fluke or trend?rootsofprogress.org

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  Progress is not driven mainly by material resources, so running out of them is not what would stop it.

  Their words

  I don’t think progress is primarily driven by material resources.

  Progress: Fluke or trend?rootsofprogress.org

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  Two centuries of progress were a trend with real causes rather than a fluke, and can continue far into the future.

  Their words

  A foundational conviction of this project is that progress is a trend with definite, substantive causes, and that it can continue far, far into the future.

  Progress: Fluke or trend?rootsofprogress.org

Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.

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  His bidirectional translation method applies to every language he sets out to learn.

  On changing their mind

  When I first developed my Bidirectional Translation method, I applied it to each and every language I decided to learn.

Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.

From one piece The Only True Way to Learn a Language 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  People persist with the method they enjoy rather than the one that is supposed to be best, and that is what decides the outcome.

  Their words

  In general, people will stick with the learning strategy that they like best, not the one that everyone says is best.

  The Only True Way to Learn a Languagelucalampariello.com

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  A method you hate will end in burnout however well it works for other people, so it should be abandoned rather than endured.

  Their words

  For your health and sanity, do not force yourself to learn a language using a method you hate, no matter how good other people say it is. Trying to do so will only lead to disappointment, and ultimately burnout.

  The Only True Way to Learn a Languagelucalampariello.com

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  There is no best method in general, but there is a best method for each particular learner, and finding it is the work.

  Their words

  While there is no absolute best and fastest way to learn a language, there definitely is a best and fastest way FOR YOU, personally, to learn a language. A method that is tailored to your likes and dislikes, your learning style, and your schedule.

  The Only True Way to Learn a Languagelucalampariello.com

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

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  A small amount of obscure code that almost no one understands or knows about is critical infrastructure, and removing it would cause widespread system failure.

  Their words

  Others are the golden threads of this world, holding it together at the seams with no more than a dozen people knowing about it. Remove one of these and it all comes crashing down.

  How can you not be romantic about programming?thorstenball.com

Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

  Their words

  Such an incredible book on becoming a better chef, with little tricks and methods I use almost every day now. Plus the recipes in the back are delicious!

  nateliason.com

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

From one piece No, typing can be the bottleneck 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Discomfort or effort in typing that makes someone avoid writing things down is a genuine bottleneck that should be fixed, not dismissed.

  Their words

  If you're not comfortable typing a lot and you'd rather not write something down then typing is the bottleneck and you need to fix it. Typing is not something you should need to think about.

  No, typing can be the bottleneckthorstenball.com

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  The effort typing requires, not raw typing speed, is what determines whether it becomes a real obstacle to writing.

  Their words

  It doesn't matter if you can type 90 words per minutes or 130, but if it takes you effort to type something and, if given the choice, you'd rather not do it, then we have a problem.

  No, typing can be the bottleneckthorstenball.com

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

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

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  Planned creative work is limited by one's means and imagination, while serendipitous work is unbounded by chance and the subconscious.

  Their words

  Planned images are limited by one's means and imagination. Serendipitous ones are unlimited by chance and one's subconscious.

  Full circleblog.mingthein.com

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  Creative work should feel liberating and produce order and beauty from incoherent parts.

  Their words

  Anything creative (except perhaps accounting) should come with a sense of liberation and the satisfaction of having made order and beauty out of incoherent parts.

  Full circleblog.mingthein.com

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  The best position for a photographer is as an amateur, free from client expectations.

  Their words

  the very best position to be in as a photographer is an amateur: a person who engages in the activity for the love of it, without the constraints of shooting to a client's expectation

  Full circleblog.mingthein.com

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

From one piece But does it help you ship? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Building automation that doesn't address the actual bottleneck to shipping adds noise rather than helping ship.

  Their words

  If what's holding you back from shipping is, say, getting more customer input, or a brittle release process, or flaky monitoring, or missing tests, then all the bot does is to add noise. It doesn't help you ship.

  But does it help you ship?thorstenball.com

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  Automated tooling that works nearly all the time still imposes an ongoing maintenance cost, because it breaks unpredictably at the edges.

  Their words

  Another thing that needs to be fixed when it ultimately breaks down, another bit of automation that works 99% of the time, but starts making funny noises when you slip into the 1%

  But does it help you ship?thorstenball.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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  Books are almost always better than their film adaptations.

  Their words

  I suppose in a nutshell it is also why the book is almost always better than the movie...

  Photoessay: Ambiguity, part Iblog.mingthein.com

Sociologist and founder of Bismarck Analysis; writes on live players, institutional decay and why societies lose knowledge.

From one piece Why Civilizations Collapse 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  We behave as though we already live in a scientifically planned society that cannot collapse on any timescale worth worrying about.

  Their words

  We act as if we are already living in a scientifically-planned society, immune to collapse on a time scale that any of us have to worry about.

  Why Civilizations Collapsesamoburja.com

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  In a dysfunctional society the loss of working knowledge becomes routine, and attempts to reverse-engineer what was lost do not always succeed.

  Their words

  That knowledge never should have been lost in the first place, but in a dysfunctional society, such loss of knowledge becomes the rule.

  Why Civilizations Collapsesamoburja.com

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  Societies rarely recognise their own collapse while it is happening: Roman and Mayan thinkers left almost no reflection on theirs.

  Their words

  Despite being an excellent epistemic opportunity, civilizational collapse seldom inspires introspection among thinkers living through it. Mayan or Roman thinkers don’t seem to have reflected on their ongoing collapse.

  Why Civilizations Collapsesamoburja.com

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

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  Skin in the Game

  Their words

  Taleb is always filled with surprising ideas and confrontational bragging. Ignore the hot air and gather the gems. Great thoughts around putting your ass on the line with consequences — not just thinking things in theory but doing things in reality — in the real world.

  sive.rs

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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  Creativity consists of curiosity combined with the foresight to imagine what a new combination of ideas could produce.

  Their words

  I believe creativity is really two parts: curiosity and the ability to not just ask "what if?", but also use some foresight to imagine the potential outcome.

  What is creativity?blog.mingthein.com

Front-end developer and writer on Svelte, Vue, CSS and WordPress; blogs at joshcollinsworth.com.

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  MonoLisa

  Their words

  I’m a code nerd and a font nerd, so I don’t take this choice lightly, but this is my favorite dev font. I love its combination of legibility and subtle personality, and plus, the code ligatures are great.

  joshcollinsworth.com

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  Firefox

  Their words

  Firefox is a great browser with some awesome tools, plus strong privacy. I use Edge when I need to test on Chromium; I don’t even install Chrome on my personal machines.

  joshcollinsworth.com

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  MoErgo Glove80

  Their words

  For my money, the Glove80 is the world’s best ergonomic keyboard.

  joshcollinsworth.com

Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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  uBlock Origin

  Their words

  I block distracting parts of websites with uBlock Origin’s amazing “element blocker,” which lets you select and remove any part of the page. As a fan of minimalism in web design, I really enjoy being able to adversarially enforce it on any rogue webpage.

  benkuhn.net

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  Witch

  Their words

  Witch can display separate app windows separately, only display windows from the current workspace, and supports text search on window titles so that you can search directly for the window you want without having to skip over.

  benkuhn.net

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  Kindle4RSS

  Their words

  I do most of my Internet reading on my Kindle via Kindle4RSS.

  benkuhn.net

Psychotherapist who trained with Jeffrey Young from 1989 and founded The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and the Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. Wrote Disarming the Narcissist.

From one piece ERP 226: How To Understand And Deal With a Narcissist, an Interview With Wendy Behary [Transcript] 3 beliefs · drjessicahiggins.com

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  Nobody living with a narcissist should feel obliged to become their therapist.

  PsychotherapyNarcissism

  Their words

  And no one should feel burdened to become the therapist of the narcissist in their life. It's not your responsibility as a partner, as a child of a narcissist, or even a friend.

  drjessicahiggins.com

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  Narcissism runs along a spectrum rather than being a category, and schema therapy treats it by working back to what early life embedded.

  PsychotherapySchema therapyNarcissism

  Their words

  the approach that I use is called Schema Therapy, and Schema Therapy is designed to work with very complex personality types, personality disorders, and even those that are happening along a spectrum

  drjessicahiggins.com

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  Narcissists can change meaningfully in therapy, though nobody changes completely, and most of the work is persisting with empathic confrontation past the first rebuff.

  PsychotherapyNarcissism

  Their words

  In 30+ years of working with narcissistic men mostly - yes, it is possible for people to change. And even narcissists can change. Now, I don't really believe anyone changes completely, but it is possible to get meaningful change.

  drjessicahiggins.com

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

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  The Startup Community Way

  Their words

  The timing of this book is excellent.

  avc.com

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  Startup Communities

  Their words

  has updated his excellent book on startup ecosystems

  avc.com

Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.

From one piece Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part I: Farmers! 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The "lazy peasant" is a slander of the leisured classes: pre-modern farmers stopped short of maximum effort because their priorities were not served by more of it.

  Their words

  This isn’t because they are ‘lazy’ – the ‘lazy peasant’ (or poor worker generally) is a standard hypocrisy of the literature of the leisured aristocratic class towards poor farmers, today and in the past – but because they have priorities which are simply not served by labor maximization.

  acoup.blog

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  A pre-modern countryside produces an enormous amount of food and almost no extractable surplus, which is the hard limit on everything the state above it can do.

  Their words

  There is a ton of food in this countryside (nearly everyone is producing it) but hardly any surplus.

  acoup.blog

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  Pre-modern subsistence farmers were minimising the risk of starvation rather than maximising output, and their apparently backward practices are rational once that is understood.

  Their words

  These small subsistence farmers generally seek to minimize risk, rather than maximize profits. After all, improving yields by 5% doesn’t mean much if everyone starves to death in the third year because of a tail-risk that wasn’t mitigated.

  acoup.blog

Creator and editor of BladeReviews.com, a pocket knife and EDC tool review site he founded in 2010 and wrote single-handedly for its first five years.

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  Victorinox Hunter Pro Alox

  Their words

  The problem is the knife is way too heavy. Maybe if they ditched the liners, thinned the blade, and re-worked the steel backstrap you would have something that could cross-over between outdoor use and Urban EDC without pulling your pants off. As it stands the Pro Hunter strikes me as an oddity in my collection. Large and heavy, which makes it less practical. I hope it won't stop Victorinox from attempting to innovate, but it doesn't entirely feel like a step forward for the brand.

  bladereviews.com

Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.

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  The best-known popular history books are usually not written by the best historians in their fields, because writing popular history does not earn academic advancement.

  Their words

  pop history will not get you tenure, which leads to neglect in the academy and consequently the big pop-history books are often not written by the best historians in their fields.

  Collections: How Your History Gets Madeacoup.blog

Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.

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  Itempool

  Their words

  Also, and I'll admit I'm biased because it was built by friends, the act of actually writing math questions on Itempool is a delight

  3blue1brown.com

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  Desmos

  Their words

  It's an online graphing calculator that makes it very simple to whip up surprisingly complicated graphs. I found it abundantly useful for live presentations over a stream, and what's nice is that you can share the links of what you build so that students can play with them.

  3blue1brown.com

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  Wacom tablet

  Their words

  During my time at Khan Academy, I found using a Wacom tablet worked quite nicely

  3blue1brown.com

Writes Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.

From one piece Science — The Ending and Endless Frontier(s) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The stock of useful scientific knowledge is bounded rather than endless.

  Their words

  I admit I lean towards the bounded view because the former sounds overly optimistic.

  Science — The Ending and Endless Frontier(s)nintil.com

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  Every scientific field eventually exhausts itself: progress within a paradigm follows an S-curve and then runs out.

  Their words

  A given field or paradigm will yield a sigmoid-like pattern and eventually it will be exhausted.

  Science — The Ending and Endless Frontier(s)nintil.com

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

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  An Opinionated Guide to ML Research

  Their words

  This from John Schulman is worth reading: http://joschu.net/blog/opinionated-guide-ml-research.html

  blog.samaltman.com

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

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  Enemy Of All Mankind

  Their words

  is both a great story and also an object lesson in how single event can have a compounding effect on global politics and economics

  avc.com

Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.

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  Shure MV7 Podcast Mic

  Their words

  Shure MV7 Podcast Mic

  daverupert.com

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  Elgato Stream Deck+

  Their words

  Elgato Wave Mic Arm Elgato Stream Deck+

  daverupert.com

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  Sony ZV-1 Vlogging Camera

  Their words

  Sony ZV-1 Vlogging Camera

  daverupert.com

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

From one piece Committing $250k this Year to Racial Justice Efforts 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Systemic racism is deeply woven into the fabric of American society.

  America

  Their words

  These are just three of the names on the list of thousands of Black men and women who lost their lives to the systemic racism that is woven into the fabric of this country.

  tom.preston-werner.com

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  Ending systemic racism in the United States requires a large-scale anti-racist movement.

  America

  Their words

  It will take a monumental anti-racist movement to change the underlying conditions that allow racism in the United States to flourish.

  tom.preston-werner.com

Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  Molecular Biology of the Cell

  Their words

  undergoing some of these experiments was incredibly fun and a great excuse to study a number of textbooks on biochemistry (I liked "Molecular Biology of the Cell"), biology (I liked Campbell's Biology), human nutrition (I liked "Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism"), etc.

  karpathy.github.io

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  Campbell's Biology

  Their words

  undergoing some of these experiments was incredibly fun and a great excuse to study a number of textbooks on biochemistry (I liked "Molecular Biology of the Cell"), biology (I liked Campbell's Biology), human nutrition (I liked "Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism"), etc.

  karpathy.github.io

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  Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism

  Their words

  undergoing some of these experiments was incredibly fun and a great excuse to study a number of textbooks on biochemistry (I liked "Molecular Biology of the Cell"), biology (I liked Campbell's Biology), human nutrition (I liked "Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism"), etc.

  karpathy.github.io

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

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  How Innovation Works

  Their words

  I read How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley in a few hours. It is a delicious book.

  lemire.me

Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.

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  suckless tools

  Their words

  Suckless offers an alternative to this continuous cycle of bloat and meaningless redesign. Suckless tools aim to keep things simple, minimal, usable and hackable by default.

  xeiaso.net

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

From one piece Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The golden-Renaissance myth damages our understanding of the Renaissance itself as badly as it damages our understanding of the Middle Ages.

  Their words

  while the myth of the golden Renaissance does terrible damage to how we understand the Middle Ages, it does just as much damage to how we understand the Renaissance.

  exurbe.com

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  Plague receded from Europe through fourteen generations of natural selection, not through any advance in medicine.

  Europe

  Their words

  when plague finally diminished in Europe, not because of any advance in medicine, but because fourteen generations of exposure gave natural selection time to work

  exurbe.com

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  The plague did not pass through in 1348 and leave: it stayed endemic in Europe for nearly four centuries afterwards.

  Europe

  Their words

  in school they talk as if the plague swept through in 1348 then went away, but the bubonic plague did not go away, it remained endemic, like influenza or chickenpox today, a fact of life.

  exurbe.com

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

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  13th

  Their words

  I'm not going to spoil any more of it for you; if you haven't already seen it, you need to watch 13th – and you need to watch it now.

  bcantrill.dtrace.org

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  Selma

  Their words

  I had taken my kids to see DuVernay's superlative Selma years prior, and I had heard about 13th (and I had recalled my wife saying she wanted to watch it), but it was – like many things – "in the queue."

  bcantrill.dtrace.org

Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.

From one piece Language models are few-shot learners (with 30 co-authors) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  One-shot or zero-shot settings are the fairest comparisons to human performance and important targets for future work.

  Their words

  Ultimately, however, one-shot, or even sometimes zero-shot, seem like the fairest comparisons to human performance, and are important targets for future work.

  arxiv.org

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  Scaling up language models greatly improves task-agnostic few-shot performance, sometimes matching prior fine-tuning approaches.

  Their words

  Here we show that scaling up language models greatly improves task-agnostic, few-shot performance, sometimes even reaching competitiveness with prior state-of-the-art fine-tuning approaches.

  arxiv.org

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  Humans can generally perform new language tasks from few examples or simple instructions, while current NLP systems largely cannot.

  Their words

  By contrast, humans can generally perform a new language task from only a few examples or from simple instructions - something which current NLP systems still largely struggle to do.

  arxiv.org

Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the origins of modern growth.

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  A Bridge Too Far

  Their words

  A Bridge Too Far will remain the unchallenged classic on the subject. It was my favorite book until the age of twelve (at least).

  blog.daviskedrosky.com

Creator and editor of BladeReviews.com, a pocket knife and EDC tool review site he founded in 2010 and wrote single-handedly for its first five years.

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  Benchmade Mini Bugout

  Their words

  It's everything you need and nothing you don't. It's a great ultra light EDC piece and I can easily recommend it.

  bladereviews.com

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

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  The Ride of a Lifetime

  Their words

  But I recently read another business book that I will happily recommend to anyone who asks: The Ride of a Lifetime, by former Disney CEO Robert Iger.

  gatesnotes.com

American backpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked more than 30,000 miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide and publisher of gear reviews and trip-planning tutorials at andrewskurka.com.

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  ZOLEO Satellite Communicator

  Their words

  Here's a new one that's worth consideration: the ZOLEO Satellite Communicator ($200, 5.3 oz), which debuted in January. It's well priced, constructed, and engineered; and it offers a significantly improved messaging experience for both the owner and their contacts.

  andrewskurka.com

Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.

• Our reading nowkorrents.com

  After four more doublings of installed solar capacity, solar electricity will cost about 3 cents per kwh in the sunniest areas and 4.5 cents per kwh in moderately sunny areas.

  solarenergy

  Their words, before

  And beyond that, by the time solar scale has doubled 4 more times, to the equivalent of 16% of today’s electricity demand (and somewhat less of future demand), we should see solar at 3 cents per kwh in the sunniest areas, and 4.5 cents per kwh in moderately sunny areas.

  Their words now

  Both of those forecasts were wrong. Solar has plunged in price faster than anyone – including me – predicted.

Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.

From one piece Solar's Future is Insanely Cheap (2020) 5 beliefs · rameznaam.com

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  Demand for electricity will rise to absorb far more solar than is currently considered feasible.

  solarenergy

  Their words

  Add these up, and it’s plausible that solar’s contribution to the energy system could double or triple the amount currently considered feasible for solar to provide.

  Solar's Future is Insanely Cheap (2020)rameznaam.com

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  Solar's future price should be predicted from how much has been built, not from how much time has passed.

  solar

  Their words

  We can use the last decade to predict the future prices of solar power. Not by looking at the cost of solar as a function of time, but by looking at the cost of solar as a function of cumulative scale of the solar industry.

  Solar's Future is Insanely Cheap (2020)rameznaam.com

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  Average solar electricity prices in sunny parts of the world will fall to one or two cents per kwh by 2030 or 2035.

  solarenergy

  Their words

  This incredible pace of solar cost decline, with average prices in sunny parts of the world down to a penny or two by 2030 or 2035, is just remarkable.

  Solar's Future is Insanely Cheap (2020)rameznaam.com

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

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  The Beginning of Infinity

  Their words

  Start with The Beginning of Infinity.

  x.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 Why Are Clinical Trials So Complicated? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  About ninety per cent of drugs that enter clinical trials fail.

  Their words

  Even under all the constraints and controls that I've been describing here, 90% of our drugs fail in the clinic: can you imagine the failure rate if we tried to go faster and noisier?

  Why Are Clinical Trials So Complicated?web.archive.org

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  Standardised manufacturing and documentation cannot be skipped when a drug is given to human beings, because the noise they remove is the noise that would otherwise swallow the answer.

  documentation

  Their words

  You cannot wing it when you're giving a drug to human beings.

  Why Are Clinical Trials So Complicated?web.archive.org

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  The bureaucracy around clinical trials is Chesterton's Fence: it was built on the harm done by sloppier trials and should not be pulled down without knowing why it went up.

  Their words

  The procedures that have grown up around drug development are a sort of Chesterton's Fence: we shouldn't pull them down without considering the reasons why they were put up.

  Why Are Clinical Trials So Complicated?web.archive.org

American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.

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  Gifox 2

  Their words

  For PRs and showing things to friends or coworkers, I use Gifox 2. I paid for the pro version and use it on both my personal and work machine.

  joeprevite.com

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  Stretchly

  Their words

  Stretchly is a handy app for reminding me to take breaks.

  joeprevite.com

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  Rocket

  Their words

  I like emojis a lot. I bought Rocket and am a huge fan.

  joeprevite.com

Self-taught home cook and food writer who has run the Smitten Kitchen recipe site since 2006; author of four cookbooks.

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  Guittard

  Their words

  My favorite baking chocolate is Guittard, but it's not widely-enough available near me that I buy it exclusively.

  smittenkitchen.com

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  Valrhona

  Their words

  My favorite cocoa powder (Valrhona) is one of the most expensive and I can only encourage you not to try it because I've found it impossible to use others since.

  smittenkitchen.com

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  Better than Bouillon

  Their words

  I am a great fan of Better than Bouillon concentrates, which have much better flavor than most boxed stocks, keep for ages, and are wonderfully space-efficient.

  smittenkitchen.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.

From one piece Cultivating a Deep Life 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The deep life is the one in which attention goes deliberately to what matters and is not spent on what does not.

  Their words

  I’ve been writing off and on recently about the notion of the deep life, in which you focus with energetic intention on things that really matter, and avoid wasting too much attention on things that don’t.

  Cultivating a Deep Lifecalnewport.com

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  Life change never comes from one transforming plan; it comes from small adjustments to the life you already have.

  Their words

  One observation that rings true from my experience is that you should resist the urge to try to build a master plan that, once implemented, will transform everything for the better in one dramatic moment.

  Cultivating a Deep Lifecalnewport.com

American backpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked more than 30,000 miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide and publisher of gear reviews and trip-planning tutorials at andrewskurka.com.

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  The Adventurer's Son

  Their words

  Roman Dial is a master storyteller, and I've long awaited for a definitive book about these larger-than-life characters and only-in-Alaska events. But Roman's best lifetime work will probably stand as The Adventurer's Son, a story that he never would have wanted to write but that is more heartfelt, personal, and relevant than a book full of true but unbelievable tales.

  andrewskurka.com

Founder and president of the Roots of Progress Institute; writes the history and philosophy of progress, after a career as a software engineering manager and founder.

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  Fixing science's incentives means changing what journals, departments and funders are rewarded for, not only what scientists are.

  Their words

  In any case, I think we need to not only look at the incentives facing scientists, but also those facing department heads, journals, and grant-making agencies.

  rootsofprogress.org

Former options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter on trading, volatility, decision-making and how to think about risk outside markets too.

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  The 5 Love Languages

  Their words

  The lesson is that connecting with others starts with recognizing that people are so different, especially in how they communicate. But there’s a much broader lesson embedded in this book if you read between the lines.

  moontowermeta.com

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  The Road

  Their words

  This is a sad, depressing love story of a father to his son. It’s pure sacrifice. The narrator’s melancholy mindset and recognition of impossible odds never derails his duty to his boy. It’s the pinnacle of grace.

  moontowermeta.com

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  The Fountainhead

  Their words

  Naysayers will have a lot to object about Rand. But Roark embodied integrity. Integrity is more complicated than Rand presents. I don’t think the hardest questions are in here. But Roark is a good guide for many decisions life will throw at you even if he is an incomplete (or possibly just unfinished) hero.

  moontowermeta.com

Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  The First 20 Hours

  Their words

  This is basically a much worse version of 4-Hour Chef. Kaufman doesn’t bring nearly as much to the table as Ferriss, and it feels a little rushed and under researched. Wouldn’t recommend it if you’re trying to quickly develop skills, I’d read 4-Hour Chef instead.

  nateliason.com

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  Perennial Seller

  Their words

  Fairly shallow marketing and writing advice, I’d recommend reading something else.

  nateliason.com

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  The 12 Week Year

  Their words

  It’s okay, didn’t feel like there was anything groundbreaking here in the planning, productivity, or business space though.

  nateliason.com

American backpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked more than 30,000 miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide and publisher of gear reviews and trip-planning tutorials at andrewskurka.com.

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  Dreams of El Dorado

  Their words

  My wife Amanda is the real reader in our house, and last month she came home from the library with Dreams of El Dorado: A history of the American West, by H. W. Brands. I moved quickly through its 480 pages (with an occasional photo), and thought it was one of my more enjoyable recent reads.

  andrewskurka.com

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  Nothing Like It In The World

  Their words

  For the full account, go with Nothing Like It In The World by Stephen Ambrose.

  andrewskurka.com

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  Cadillac Desert

  Their words

  Similarly, if you're intrigued by Powell's Report on the Lands of the Arid Region, then pick up Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner, which is the definitive history of water in the West.

  andrewskurka.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.

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  A paper reporting an AI-generated molecule must publish the model's entire training set in detail, or the result cannot be judged.

  Their words

  As generative drug analoging grows in importance, it's going to be crucial for people to make the entire training set available in detail when such work is published.

  Arguing on AI Drug Discoveryweb.archive.org

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

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  A design system built for the right reasons is reparative and one built for the wrong reasons is a weapon for displacement, because tools are always beholden to values.

  Their words

  A well-made design system created for the right reasons is reparative. One created for the wrong reasons becomes a weapon for displacement. Tools are always beholden to values.

  Who cares?frankchimero.com

Creator and editor of BladeReviews.com, a pocket knife and EDC tool review site he founded in 2010 and wrote single-handedly for its first five years.

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  Gerber Fastball

  Their words

  At first glance the Fastball struck me as a humble offering, but it quickly grew on me. Mostly after I started to carry and use it. I wasn't immediately impressed when I pulled the Fastball from it's box, and as a collectible I'd probably pass. But as a user piece I can easily recommend it.

  bladereviews.com

British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.

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  Zoom

  Their words

  Zoom is something I use multiple times a day for video and audio communication. It's been the best video calling service I've used to date and works well for a remote working.

  marclittlemore.com

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  Camtasia

  Their words

  For recording my screen and videos for my YouTube channel, I use Camtasia.

  marclittlemore.com

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  AKG C1000S

  Their words

  I've always had an AKG C1000S microphone for recording. I'm not a microphone expert but it does the job for me.

  marclittlemore.com

Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.

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  Local

  Their words

  Local for local WordPress development. VS Code for writing code.

  usesthis.com

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  TablePlus

  Their words

  TablePlus for dealing with databases. Tower for Git.

  usesthis.com

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  Tower

  Their words

  Tower for Git. iTerm for command line work.

  usesthis.com

Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.

From one piece 2019 letter 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Putting research and manufacturing in the same place shortens the loop in which industrial knowledge circulates.

  Their words

  These hubs allow for tight connections between R&D and manufacturing, shortening the circulation of knowledge in a production loop.

  2019 letterdanwang.co

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  Assembling other people's products was never mere assembly: it trained the engineers who now drive the marginal innovation in hardware.

  Their words

  First, even if most of the workforce learns little, a few thousand line engineers become the world’s greatest experts in electronics assembly.

  2019 letterdanwang.co

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  Because Chinese workers make most of the world's goods, they accumulate more of the world's technological learning than anyone else.

  China

  Their words

  Today, Chinese workers produce most of the world’s goods, which means that they engage more than anyone else in the technological learning process.

  2019 letterdanwang.co

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

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  The Tales of Edgar Allen Poe

  Their words

  I read this as a child, and liked it for the same reason that other young people like reading Poe.

  econlib.org

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  Labyrinths

  Their words

  I was most influenced by the essays in the book, and I ended up being attracted to the same sort of writers as Borges, mostly Anglo-American writers of 1820-1920.

  econlib.org

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  Tales of Land and Sea

  Their words

  It contains his best novellas, which I regard as his very best work.

  econlib.org

Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.

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  Panasonic Earbuds

  Their words

  I usually don't fall-in-love with physical products, but the exceptions are my iPhone XS, my Panasonic Earbuds and my Buffway wallet.

  usesthis.com

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  Buffway wallet

  Their words

  I usually don't fall-in-love with physical products, but the exceptions are my iPhone XS, my Panasonic Earbuds and my Buffway wallet.

  usesthis.com

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  Pocket

  Their words

  I use Pocket to save articles/links and the Kindle app on my phone to read all my books.

  usesthis.com