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Where public figures publish — every channel checked by hand — and what they believe, in their own words.

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  David Heinemeier Hansson 729 beliefs · 10 changed

  Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Noah Smith 187 beliefs · 1 changed

  Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  Pieter Levels 167 beliefs · 2 changed

  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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  Naval Ravikant 145 beliefs

  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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  Paul Graham 128 beliefs

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

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  Gergely Orosz 86 beliefs

  Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  Jensen Huang 86 beliefs

  Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  Zvi Mowshowitz 85 beliefs

  Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  Casey Handmer 78 beliefs · 2 changed

  Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Andrej Karpathy 69 beliefs

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

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  Paul Krugman 69 beliefs

  Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.

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  Brad DeLong 65 beliefs

  Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.

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  Sam Altman 65 beliefs

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

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  Elon Musk 64 beliefs

  Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.

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  Tobias Lütke 63 beliefs

  Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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  Peter Steinberger 58 beliefs

  Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Tyler Cowen 58 beliefs

  Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  Nathan Lambert 54 beliefs

  Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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  Simon Willison 54 beliefs

  Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Terence Tao 54 beliefs

  Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  M.G. Siegler 52 beliefs

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

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  François Chollet 51 beliefs · 2 changed

  Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  Charity Majors 50 beliefs · 1 changed

  Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  Charlie Munger 50 beliefs

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

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  Dylan Patel 50 beliefs

  Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.

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  Thorsten Ball 50 beliefs

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

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  Guillermo Rauch 48 beliefs

  CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  Shane Parrish 48 beliefs

  Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.

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  Derek Sivers 46 beliefs · 3 changed

  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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  Hillel Wayne 45 beliefs

  Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Brian Potter 43 beliefs · 1 changed

  Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  Dario Amodei 43 beliefs

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

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  Julie Zhuo 43 beliefs

  Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  Matthew Yglesias 43 beliefs

  Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.

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  Patrick Collison 43 beliefs

  Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.

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  Austin Vernon 42 beliefs

  Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  Dan Wang 41 beliefs · 1 changed

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

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  Jeff Cavaliere 40 beliefs

  Physical therapist and strength coach, founder of ATHLEAN-X; served as Head Physical Therapist and Assistant Strength Coach for the New York Mets.

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  Max Hodak 40 beliefs

  Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.

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  Steve Jobs 40 beliefs

  American entrepreneur (1955 to 2011); co-founded Apple in 1976 and led it again from 1997 to 2011; ran Pixar from 1986 to 2006.

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  Elena Verna 39 beliefs

  Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.

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  Ian Silber 39 beliefs

  Designer who led product design at OpenAI, including ChatGPT and Codex; previously at Artifact and, for eight years, Instagram.

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  Fei-Fei Li 38 beliefs

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

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  Kent Beck 38 beliefs

  Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

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  Mark Pincus 38 beliefs

  Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.

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  Ada Palmer 37 beliefs

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

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  Balaji Srinivasan 37 beliefs

  General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.

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  Casey Muratori 37 beliefs

  Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

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  Chip Huyen 37 beliefs

  Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."

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  Daniel W. Drezner 37 beliefs

  Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.

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  Hannah Ritchie 37 beliefs

  Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

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  Boris Cherny 35 beliefs

  Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.

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  Dan Shipper 35 beliefs

  Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.

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  Adam Mastroianni 34 beliefs

  Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

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  Alon Levy 34 beliefs

  Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

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  Kent C. Dodds 33 beliefs

  Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

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  Miles Brundage 33 beliefs

  Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.

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  Patrick McKenzie 33 beliefs

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

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  Andrew Huberman 32 beliefs

  Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine; hosts the Huberman Lab podcast on neuroscience, health and performance.

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  John Cochrane 31 beliefs

  Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.

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  ThePrimeagen 31 beliefs

  Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.

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  Viktor Frankl 31 beliefs

  Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (1905 to 1997) and Holocaust survivor who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that treats the search for meaning as the central human motivation.

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  Adam Ward 30 beliefs

  Head of Talent at Cursor; co-founded the recruiting and talent-strategy firm Growth by Design, which Cursor acquired in November 2025.

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  Ajeya Cotra 30 beliefs

  Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.

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  Armin Ronacher 30 beliefs · 1 changed

  Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  George Hotz 30 beliefs

  Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.

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  Serhii Plokhy 30 beliefs

  Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.

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  Jeff Kaplan 29 beliefs

  American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

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  Scott Alexander 29 beliefs · 5 changed

  Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Steve Yegge 29 beliefs

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

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  Sunil Pai 29 beliefs

  Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.

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  Bertrand Russell 28 beliefs

  British philosopher and logician (1872 to 1970), also a social critic; co-author with Alfred North Whitehead of Principia Mathematica (1910 to 1913), author of The Problems of Philosophy (1912), awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.

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  Bill McKibben 28 beliefs

  Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

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  Dax Raad 28 beliefs

  Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.

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  Henry Farrell 28 beliefs

  Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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  Ilya Sutskever 28 beliefs

  Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc., and previously co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI.

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  Kelsey Hightower 28 beliefs

  Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.

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  Tara Seshan 28 beliefs

  Product lead for ChatGPT Work at OpenAI; previously one of the first five product managers at Stripe, head of product at Watershed, and a Thiel Fellow.

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  David MacKay 27 beliefs

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

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  Don Norman 27 beliefs · 1 changed

  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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  Irving Finkel 27 beliefs

  Assyriologist and curator at the British Museum; reads cuneiform, and wrote The Ark Before Noah and The First Ghosts.

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  James Holland 27 beliefs

  Historian of the Second World War; wrote Normandy '44 and Brothers in Arms, and co-hosts the We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast.

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  Josh Puckett 27 beliefs

  Designer, advisor and investor; co-founded the design practice Iteration and the apprenticeship studio Upperstudy, after leading design teams at Wealthfront, Dropbox and Groupon.

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  Mark Zuckerberg 27 beliefs

  Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company he started as Facebook in 2004.

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  Albert Cheng 26 beliefs

  Head of growth at Chess.com, previously growth and monetization lead at Grammarly and Duolingo and a product manager at Google.

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  Anders Hejlsberg 26 beliefs

  Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.

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  Daniel Kahneman 26 beliefs

  Psychologist and Nobel laureate (1934 to 2024); shared the 2002 Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences for integrating psychological research into economics; with Amos Tversky, developed prospect theory and the study of heuristics and biases.

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  David Reich 26 beliefs

  Geneticist at Harvard; reads ancient DNA to work out how populations moved and mixed, and wrote Who We Are and How We Got Here.

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  Dex Horthy 26 beliefs

  Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.

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  Joe Liemandt 26 beliefs

  Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning.

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  Katelyn Jetelina 26 beliefs

  Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science, and consults for organisations including the CDC.

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  Kenton Varda 26 beliefs

  Engineer at Cloudflare who designed Workers, Durable Objects and Cap’n Proto; earlier the primary author of Protocol Buffers v2 at Google, and co-founder of Sandstorm.io.

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  Martin Kleppmann 26 beliefs

  Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

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  Michael Nielsen 26 beliefs

  Scientist and writer on quantum computing, memory systems and metascience; co-wrote the standard quantum computation textbook and wrote Reinventing Discovery.

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  Nate Silver 26 beliefs

  Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.

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  Ryan Greenblatt 26 beliefs

  Chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and AI control.

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  Sarah C. M. Paine 26 beliefs

  Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.

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  Thiago Costa 26 beliefs

  Designer and co-founder of Fey, the investing app Wealthsimple acquired in August 2025.

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  Tommy Wood 26 beliefs

  Physician and neuroscientist at the University of Washington; researches brain health, metabolism and athletic performance.

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  Bret Devereaux 25 beliefs

  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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  Ed Barnhart 25 beliefs

  Archaeologist of the Maya and the ancient Americas; directs the Maya Exploration Center and presents the ArchaeoEd podcast.

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  Graham Hancock 25 beliefs

  Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.

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  Grant Sanderson 25 beliefs

  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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  Richard Sutton 25 beliefs

  Reinforcement-learning researcher; co-wrote the field's standard textbook, wrote The Bitter Lesson, and shared the 2024 Turing Award.

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  Tim Urban 25 beliefs

  Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?

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  Zeke Hausfather 25 beliefs

  Climate scientist and energy systems analyst; writes The Climate Brink with Andrew Dessler and leads climate research at Stripe.

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  Adam Frank 24 beliefs

  Astrophysicist at the University of Rochester; works on the search for life elsewhere and wrote The Little Book of Aliens and Light of the Stars.

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  Alan Castel 24 beliefs

  Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.

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  Cory Doctorow 24 beliefs

  Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  David Hone 24 beliefs

  Palaeontologist at Queen Mary University of London; studies dinosaur behaviour and writes about what the fossil record can and cannot tell us.

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  Demis Hassabis 24 beliefs

  Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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  Derek Thompson 24 beliefs

  Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.

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  Eric Ries 24 beliefs

  Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, who advises companies on corporate governance and mission protection.

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  Janna Levin 24 beliefs

  Astrophysicist at Barnard College; wrote Black Hole Blues and How the Universe Got Its Spots, and directs sciences at Pioneer Works.

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  Jason Cohen 24 beliefs

  Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.

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  Jason Lemkin 24 beliefs

  Founder and CEO of SaaStr, the B2B software community and events business, and a SaaS investor who previously co-founded EchoSign and sold it to Adobe.

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  Jen Abel 24 beliefs

  Co-founder of JJELLYFISH and GM of enterprise sales at State Affairs.

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  Masud Husain 24 beliefs

  Neurologist at Oxford; studies apathy, motivation and attention after brain injury, and edits the journal Brain.

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  Morgan Housel 24 beliefs

  Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money, Same As Ever and The Art of Spending Money. Writes essays on investor behavior and posts frequently on X.

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  Nabeel S. Qureshi 24 beliefs

  Entrepreneur and essayist; worked at Palantir on health and biology projects, and was a Visiting Scholar in AI at the Mercatus Center.

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  Olivier Blanchard 24 beliefs · 1 changed

  Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.

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  Pavel Durov 24 beliefs

  Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  Polly D'Arcy 24 beliefs

  VP of Design at Wealthsimple.

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  Rahul Vohra 24 beliefs

  Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.

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  Rohit Krishnan 24 beliefs

  Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business — "building models of the world to understand these problem areas and to define them better".

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  Satya Nadella 24 beliefs

  Chairman and chief executive of Microsoft since 2014; joined the company in 1992 and ran its cloud business before that.

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  Sergey Levine 24 beliefs

  Professor at Berkeley working on robot learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence, and argues that robots will learn from data rather than be programmed.

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  Thuan Pham 24 beliefs

  Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.

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  Tiago Forte 24 beliefs

  Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

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  Tom Verrilli 24 beliefs

  Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.

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  Yoshua Bengio 24 beliefs · 1 changed

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

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  Alice Evans 23 beliefs

  Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  Alice Ryhl 23 beliefs

  Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.

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  Arvid Kahl 23 beliefs

  Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

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  Ben Kuhn 23 beliefs

  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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  Christopher Alexander 23 beliefs

  Architect and design theorist (1936 to 2022); author of A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building.

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  Emily Atkin 23 beliefs

  Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.

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  Friedrich Hayek 23 beliefs

  Austrian-British economist and political philosopher (1899 to 1992); taught at the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago; shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; author of The Road to Serfdom (1944) and The Constitution of Liberty (1960).

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  James Clear 23 beliefs

  Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.

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  Paul Bloom 23 beliefs

  Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.

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  Paulo Freire 23 beliefs

  Brazilian educator and philosopher (1921 to 1997), a founder of critical pedagogy, best known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which treats teaching as a political act of liberation.

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  Samuel Hammond 23 beliefs

  Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.

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  Sasha Chapin 23 beliefs

  Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  Sebastian Ruder 23 beliefs

  Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.

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  Tony Fadell 23 beliefs

  Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple, founder of Nest, and author of Build.

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  Adam Grant 22 beliefs

  Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.

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  Addy Osmani 22 beliefs

  Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.

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  Andrew Chen 22 beliefs

  General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.

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  Ben Vinegar 22 beliefs

  Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.

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  Bill Ackman 22 beliefs

  Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.

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  Blake Scholl 22 beliefs

  Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner and its Symphony engine.

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  Bryan Caplan 22 beliefs

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

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  Chelsea Finn 22 beliefs

  Professor at Stanford working on robot learning and meta-learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence.

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  Dan Houser 22 beliefs

  Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.

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  Dmitri Dolgov 22 beliefs

  Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.

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  Dylan Field 22 beliefs

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  Austrian-British philosopher of science (1902 to 1994), professor at the London School of Economics; author of The Logic of Scientific Discovery and The Open Society and Its Enemies.

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  Chief executive of Intel since 2025, founder of the venture firm Walden International and chief executive of Cadence Design Systems for thirteen years.

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  American author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and The Undoing Project, and host of the podcast Against the Rules.

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  Chief executive of Alphabet and Google; joined Google in 2004 and led Chrome and Android before taking over in 2015.

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  Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.

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  Physicist at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of quantum computation; author of The Fabric of Reality (1997) and The Beginning of Infinity (2011).

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  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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  Energy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition, and was chief content officer at BloombergNEF.

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  Writer on time, productivity and limitation; wrote Four Thousand Weeks and Meditations for Mortals, and the newsletter The Imperfectionist.

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  Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.

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  American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.

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  Austrian-American actor, bodybuilder and politician; Governor of California from 2003 to 2011.

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  Co-founder and chief executive of Sierra, chairman of the board of OpenAI, and formerly co-chief executive of Salesforce and chief technology officer of Facebook.

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  Chinese teacher and thinker (traditionally dated 551 to 479 BCE), born in Zou and an official in Lu; his teachings survive as sayings in the Analects, which an early account says his first and second generation disciples compiled.

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  Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.

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  Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.

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  Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass, known for 'epistemic spot checks' of non-fiction claims.

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  Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.

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  Director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology; an OpenAI board member until November 2023, and writes Rising Tide.

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  Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.

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  Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.

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

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  American basketball coach (1910 to 2010), at UCLA from 1948 to 1975, where his teams won ten national titles; earlier an English teacher in South Bend, Indiana.

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  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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  Head of Design at Stripe; previously Head of Experience Design at Airbnb and Head of Design at Lyft.

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  Product designer and builder of AI tools and workflows, including a content system for Dive Club; Dive Club's first three-time guest.

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  Chinese thinker traditionally named as the author of the Daodejing, also called the Laozi; said in Chinese sources to have flourished in the sixth century BCE, though some modern scholars hold that he is entirely legendary; that authorship is traditional and legendary.

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  Nutritional scientist with a PhD in nutritional sciences, drug-free powerlifter and bodybuilder, founder of Biolayne and host of the Dr. Layne Norton Podcast.

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  Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.

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  Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

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  German physicist (1858 to 1947), professor of theoretical physics in Berlin; originated quantum theory and received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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  Computer scientist; his 1968 paper How Do Committees Invent? gave the observation known as Conway's law, that organisations design systems that copy their communication structures.

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  Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.

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  Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.

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  Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.

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  American television host, producer and philanthropist; hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 to 2011.

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  Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  Exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist who studies training and nutrition specific to women; has worked at Stanford and with professional athletic teams.

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  Interpretability researcher at Anthropic, which he co-founded; before that at OpenAI and Google Brain, where he wrote the explanations of neural networks most people learned them from.

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  British actor, Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films; gave the UN Women HeForShe speech in 2014.

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  Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  German-born American political theorist (1906 to 1975); author of The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), her report on the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann.

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  Public transit planning consultant; wrote Human Transit and argues that a network's shape follows from what a city decides it wants.

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  Architecture critic; created McMansion Hell in July 2016, roasting suburban houses while teaching what makes a building work, and writes on architecture and cycling elsewhere.

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  Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.

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  American actor, Academy Award winner for Dallas Buyers Club (2014); author of the memoir Greenlights (2020).

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  Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.

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  Israeli-American actor and director; Academy Award winner for Black Swan (2011).

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  Professor of strategic studies at St Andrews; wrote How the War Was Won and The Strategists, and writes weekly on the war in Ukraine.

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  Vice President of Product for Google Search; previously head of product at Artifact, a top product executive at Instagram from 2016 to 2021, and co-founder and CEO of Stamped, which Yahoo acquired in 2012.

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  Psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno; originator of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Relational Frame Theory, and co-developer of process-based therapy.

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  American science-fiction writer, author of the collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation, and an essayist on artificial intelligence for The New Yorker.

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  Music critic and historian; author of The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Writes the newsletter The Honest Broker on music and culture.

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  Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".

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

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

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  Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.

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  Co-founder of the AI agent company Sierra, and previously an eighteen-year Google executive who ran product for Workspace, virtual and augmented reality, and Google Labs.

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  Co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and the writer who started the modern argument that a sufficiently capable AI would by default kill everyone. Has argued the case since the early 2000s, latterly with the conclusion that it is being lost.

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  Economist at Brown; writes ParentData and the books Expecting Better and Cribsheet, reading the evidence behind pregnancy and parenting advice.

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  Greek Stoic philosopher (born in the 50s CE, died around 135); once a slave in Rome, he later taught at his own school at Nicopolis; his teaching survives in the Discourses and Encheiridion written up by Arrian of Nicomedia.

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  Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI, and author of Co-Intelligence. Writes One Useful Thing, where the claims are dated and testable because the thing they describe keeps changing under them.

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  Gary Marcus 10 beliefs

  Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.

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  Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.

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  Zurich-based value investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor. He hosts the VALUEx gathering in Klosters and publishes a podcast and newsletter.

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  Co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management; author of the Oaktree memos.

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  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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  Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.

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  Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.

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  Leader of India's nonviolent independence movement (1869 to 1948); lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist; author of Hind Swaraj.

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

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  Professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Why We Sleep.

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  Works in Anthropic Labs; co-founder of Instagram, and Anthropic's chief product officer from 2024 to 2026.

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

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  Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.

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  Richard Stallman 10 beliefs

  Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.

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  Psychologist and science writer; wrote Science Fictions on how research goes wrong, and writes the newsletter of the same name.

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  Tim Harford 10 beliefs

  Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.

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  Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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

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  Tomasz Tunguz 10 beliefs

  Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.

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  Tyler Cipriani 10 beliefs

  Release engineering manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. Keeps a public log at tylercipriani.com of every book he reads, with a rating and notes.

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  Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.

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  Philosopher at Anthropic working on finetuning and AI alignment, as of 2024; previously a research scientist on OpenAI's policy team, with a PhD in philosophy from NYU. Writes at askell.blog.

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  Ami Vora 9 beliefs

  Leads product at Anthropic, which she joined at the end of 2025; previously chief product officer at Faire, and fifteen years at Meta, the last of them as vice president of product and design at WhatsApp.

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  Andy Masley 9 beliefs

  Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.

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  Aristotle 9 beliefs

  Greek philosopher (384 to 322 BCE); studied in Plato's Academy until 347 BCE; founded the Lyceum in Athens in 335 BCE.

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  Bruce Schneier 9 beliefs

  Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.

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  Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.

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  Byrne Hobart 9 beliefs

  Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.

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  Cate Hall 9 beliefs

  Writes Useful Fictions on agency and how to get better at things; a former appellate lawyer and the top-ranked woman in professional poker in 2017.

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  Civil engineer and land use planner, founder and president of Strong Towns, author of Escaping the Housing Trap. Argues that the American pattern of development since the Second World War does not generate enough wealth to maintain the infrastructure it obliges cities to keep.

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  Urban planner, co-author with Charles Marohn of Escaping the Housing Trap, and policy director at the Parking Reform Network. Wrote for Strong Towns from 2015, mostly about how housing markets actually set prices.

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  Co-founder and President of Anthropic, as of 2026; previously spent almost six years at Stripe.

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

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  Cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; writes Ground Truths on biomedical research, and wrote Super Agers and Deep Medicine.

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  Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.

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  Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.

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  German philosopher (1844 to 1900); professor of classical philology at Basel from 1869 to 1879; author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil and Twilight of the Idols.

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  Indian spiritual teacher, born in Lumbini in the Terai, whose teaching formed the foundation of Buddhist philosophy; he wrote nothing, and his words were passed down orally for at least three centuries.

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  Horace Dediu 9 beliefs

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

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  Jared Kaplan 9 beliefs

  Co-founder of Anthropic; a theoretical physicist for most of his career before he turned to AI.

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  Jason Liu 9 beliefs

  Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.

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

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  Neuroscientist at University College London; developer of the free-energy principle and active inference, and of statistical parametric mapping for brain imaging.

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  Ken White 9 beliefs

  First Amendment lawyer and former federal prosecutor; writes The Popehat Report and explains what the law actually says when people shout about free speech.

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  Kristin Neff 9 beliefs

  Pioneering researcher and teacher of self-compassion and co-founder of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion.

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  Kyle Kingsbury 9 beliefs

  Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.

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  Lee Robinson 9 beliefs

  Works on ML at SpaceX, as of 2026; formerly at Cursor, and five years at Vercel before that, ending as VP and working on Next.js. Writes at leerob.com.

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  Lenny Rachitsky 9 beliefs

  Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.

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  American actor and environmental activist; Academy Award winner for The Revenant (2016).

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  Maciej Cegłowski 9 beliefs

  Founder of Pinboard; writes Idle Words — talks and essays on the web, aviation, politics and travel.

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  Maggie Appleton 9 beliefs

  Design engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and what language models do to the way people write.

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  Maria Popova 9 beliefs

  Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.

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  Matthew Prince 9 beliefs

  Co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare; launched it in 2010 with Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway, after meeting Zatlyn at Harvard Business School. Writes on the Cloudflare Blog and posts on X as @eastdakota.

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  Maxence Poutord 9 beliefs

  French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.

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  Michelle Zatlyn 9 beliefs

  Co-founder and President of Cloudflare; launched it in 2010 with Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway, after the two met at Harvard Business School. Grew up in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Writes on the Cloudflare Blog and posts on X as @zatlyn.

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  Mortimer Adler 9 beliefs

  American philosopher and educator (1902 to 2001); taught at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, chaired the board of editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica and founded the Institute for Philosophical Research.

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  Nat Friedman 9 beliefs

  Co-founder of Ximian and Xamarin; CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021; now an independent investor and funder of open technical projects, including the Vesuvius Challenge to read the Herculaneum Papyri.

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  Rich Hickey 9 beliefs

  Creator of the Clojure programming language and of Datomic. His rationale for Clojure is one of the few language design documents that argues its case rather than describing its syntax.

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  Rita Kozlov 9 beliefs

  Vice president at Cloudflare for its developer platform, as of 2025 (“VP, Developer”); writes on the Cloudflare blog about Workers, agents and open source.

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  Robin Carhart-Harris 9 beliefs

  Neuroscientist and psychedelics researcher; founded the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, then moved to the University of California, San Francisco; proposed the entropic brain hypothesis.

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  Roboticist; co-founded iRobot and Rethink Robotics, directed the MIT AI Lab, and publishes a scorecard grading his own dated predictions about AI, robots and self-driving.

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  Scott Rao 9 beliefs

  Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.

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  Steven Pinker 9 beliefs

  Cognitive scientist and author at Harvard; writes on rationality, language and human progress.

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  Tynan Sylvester 9 beliefs

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

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  Vitalik Buterin 9 beliefs · 1 changed

  Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.

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  Albert Einstein 8 beliefs

  Theoretical physicist (1879 to 1955), born in Ulm, Germany; awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for services to theoretical physics, especially the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.

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  Arthur Schopenhauer 8 beliefs

  German philosopher (1788 to 1860); author of The World as Will and Representation (1818) and Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), from which his essays on the wisdom of life are drawn.

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  Atul Gawande 8 beliefs

  American surgeon, writer and public health researcher; general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, New Yorker writer, author of Being Mortal and The Checklist Manifesto.

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  Augustine of Hippo 8 beliefs

  Christian philosopher and theologian (354 to 430), born in Thagaste in Roman Africa; bishop of Hippo Regius from about 396 to 430; author of the Confessions.

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  Baruch Spinoza 8 beliefs

  Dutch philosopher (1632 to 1677), born in Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community; died in The Hague; author of the Ethics and the Theological-Political Treatise.

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  Ben Horowitz 8 beliefs

  American entrepreneur and venture capitalist; co-founder and CEO of Loudcloud/Opsware, co-founder of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) in 2009, and author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things (2014).

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  Ben Thompson 8 beliefs

  Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.

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  Benjamin Franklin 8 beliefs

  American printer, scientist and statesman (1706 to 1790); served on the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence; commissioner to France from 1776 to 1785.

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  Bill Gates 8 beliefs

  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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  Bjorn Fehrm 8 beliefs

  Aeronautical engineer and former fighter pilot; analyses aircraft design and airline economics at Leeham News.

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  Buck Shlegeris 8 beliefs

  CEO of Redwood Research, where he works on AI control: making sure a powerful model cannot cause a catastrophe even if it is misaligned and trying to.

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  Carol Dweck 8 beliefs

  Psychologist at Stanford University, where she holds the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professorship of Psychology; known for research on motivation and mindset and the book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.

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  Charles Darwin 8 beliefs

  British naturalist (1809 to 1882), born in Shrewsbury; sailed as naturalist on the five-year voyage of HMS Beagle from 1831; author of On the Origin of Species.

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  Charles Fain Lehman 8 beliefs

  Fellow at the Manhattan Institute writing on crime, drugs and policing; writes The Causal Fallacy.

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  Chris Coyier 8 beliefs

  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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  Colin Percival 8 beliefs

  FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.

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  Dan Ariely 8 beliefs

  Behavioral economist and Duke University psychology professor; James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics and founding director of the Center for Advanced Hindsight; author of Predictably Irrational.

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  Dane Knecht 8 beliefs

  Chief Technical Officer of Cloudflare as of 2026, based in Austin, Texas. Writes on the Cloudflare blog about outages, resilience and how Cloudflare packages its products.

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  Daniel Cook 8 beliefs

  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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  Daniel Dennett 8 beliefs

  American philosopher of mind and cognitive scientist (1942 to 2024), co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University; author of Consciousness Explained, Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Breaking the Spell.

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  Dieter Rams 8 beliefs

  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.

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  Dillon Mulroy 8 beliefs

  Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.

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  Emanuele Bartolesi 8 beliefs

  Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.

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  Fabien Sanglard 8 beliefs

  Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.

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  Federico Viticci 8 beliefs

  Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.

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  Florence Nightingale 8 beliefs

  English social reformer and statistician (1820 to 1910), the founder of modern nursing; she managed and trained nurses caring for wounded soldiers in the Crimean War.

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  Francis Bacon 8 beliefs

  English philosopher, lawyer and statesman (1561 to 1626); lord chancellor from 1618 to 1621; author of the Essays and the Novum organum.

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  Frederick Douglass 8 beliefs

  American abolitionist and writer (about 1817 to 1895); born into slavery, escaped in 1838 and became a principal leader and spokesperson of the abolition movement; author of three autobiographies.

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  Gabriel Weinberg 8 beliefs

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

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  Garrett Hardin 8 beliefs

  Ecologist, author of "The Tragedy of the Commons" (1915 to 2003); American ecologist and microbiologist who focused his career on human overpopulation; the paper appeared in Science in 1968.

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  Gary Taubes 8 beliefs

  Investigative science and health journalist, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories, Why We Get Fat, The Case Against Sugar and Rethinking Diabetes, and co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative.

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  Greg Mankiw 8 beliefs

  American macroeconomist, born 1958, the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University and author of the textbook Principles of Economics; chair of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2003 to 2005.

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  Ibn Rushd (Averroes) 8 beliefs

  Andalusian philosopher, judge and physician (1126 to 1198), born in Cordova; chief physician to the Almohad caliph in Marrakesh; best known for his commentaries on Aristotle.

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  Isaac Asimov 8 beliefs

  American science fiction writer (1920 to 1992), one of the 'Big Three'; professor of biochemistry at Boston University who wrote or edited more than 500 books, including much popular science and other non-fiction.

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  James G. March 8 beliefs

  American political scientist, sociologist and economist (1928 to 2018); professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and Graduate School of Education; co-author with Richard Cyert of A Behavioral Theory of the Firm and of the garbage can model of organizational choice.

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  James Gleick 8 beliefs

  Author and journalist, born in New York City in 1954, who writes about science and technology; author of Chaos, Genius, The Information and Time Travel, and for ten years an editor and reporter at The New York Times.

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  Jason Zweig 8 beliefs

  Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.

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  Jean-Jacques Rousseau 8 beliefs

  Genevan philosopher and writer (1712 to 1778), born in Geneva; author of the Discourses, Emile and The Social Contract.

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  John Graham-Cumming 8 beliefs

  Board member at Cloudflare, and its CTO until March 2025; joined the company as a programmer in 2012. Writes at blog.jgc.org, lives in Lisbon, and wrote the open-source email filter POPFile.

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  Joseph Tussman 8 beliefs

  American philosopher (1914 to 2005); professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley, director of its Experimental College Program from 1965 to 1969, author of Obligation and the Body Politic (1960) and The Burden of Office (1989).

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  Josh Waitzkin 8 beliefs

  American former chess prodigy, martial artist and author of The Art of Learning; eight-time national chess champion, two-time world champion in Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands, and the first Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Marcelo Garcia.

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  José Luis Ricón 8 beliefs

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

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  Kurt Vonnegut 8 beliefs

  American novelist (1922 to 2007), author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle and Breakfast of Champions; a senior editor of In These Times until his death, writing the columns collected in A Man Without a Country (2005).

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  Linus Blomqvist 8 beliefs

  Environmental researcher; writes on land use, agriculture and whether decoupling human welfare from nature is possible.

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  Marc Littlemore 8 beliefs

  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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  Marco Arment 8 beliefs

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

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  Max Bazerman 8 beliefs

  Harvard Business School professor and scholar of negotiation, decision-making and ethics; Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration; author of Better, Not Perfect (2020).

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  Mencius 8 beliefs

  Confucian philosopher of the fourth century BCE, said to have been born in the state of Zou; known for the claim that human nature is good, his teaching survives in the Mengzi, a collection of his dialogues, debates and sayings probably compiled by his disciples.

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  Michael Liebreich 8 beliefs

  Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.

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  Michael Mauboussin 8 beliefs

  Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global, Morgan Stanley Investment Management; adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School; author of More Than You Know, Think Twice, The Success Equation and The Investing Mind.

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  Michael Truell 8 beliefs

  Co-founder and CEO of Cursor (Anysphere), as of 2025; mntruell.com now describes the work as building SpaceXAI. Studied CS and maths at MIT.

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  Michel de Montaigne 8 beliefs

  French essayist and philosopher (1533 to 1592); mayor of Bordeaux; author of the Essays, in three books.

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  Nassim Nicholas Taleb 8 beliefs

  Former option trader and risk analyst, now a distinguished professor at NYU. Author of the Incerto essay series, including The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.

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  Nicholas Carr 8 beliefs

  American journalist and writer on technology, business and culture (born 1959); his book The Shallows (2010) was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction; wrote the blog Rough Type to 2024, then the newsletter New Cartographies.

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  Olaudah Equiano 8 beliefs

  Writer and abolitionist (c. 1745 to 1797), known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa, who was enslaved in the Americas and bought his freedom in 1766; author of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.

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  Paul Millerd 8 beliefs

  Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  Phil Maffetone 8 beliefs

  Endurance coach and clinician; author of more than 20 books, developed the MAF 180 heart-rate training method and the Two-Week Test, and worked with Mark Allen, six-time Hawaii Ironman champion.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson 8 beliefs

  American essayist and lecturer (1803 to 1882); began his career as a Unitarian minister in Boston; author of essays including Self-Reliance, History, The Over-Soul and Fate.

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  Richard Schwartz 8 beliefs

  Psychotherapist who developed Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy.

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  Rob Pike 8 beliefs

  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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  Robert Greene 8 beliefs

  Author of the bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, Mastery and The Laws of Human Nature; degree in classical studies from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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  Rumi 8 beliefs

  Persian Sufi mystic and poet Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207 to 1273), founder of the Mevlevi Order; his family hailed from Balkh and he is buried in Konya; author of the Masnavi.

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  Ryo Lu 8 beliefs

  Head of design at Cursor from 2025 to August 2026; five years at Notion before that. Writes a journal at ryo.lu.

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  Scott Greenfield 8 beliefs

  Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.

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  Scott Hanselman 8 beliefs

  Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

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  Seneca 8 beliefs

  Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman (c. 1 BCE to 65 CE); born in Corduba; adviser to Nero from 54; author of the Moral Letters to Lucilius.

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  Socrates 8 beliefs

  Athenian philosopher (469 to 399 BCE) who wrote nothing; his words survive second-hand, chiefly in Plato's dialogues; tried and executed by the Athenian democracy on a charge of irreverence toward the gods.

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  Stephen Hawking 8 beliefs

  English theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1942 to 2018), Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge from 1979 to 2009, known for his work on black holes and for A Brief History of Time.

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  Stephen King 8 beliefs

  American author known for horror fiction, who has also written suspense, crime, science fiction, fantasy and mystery, and about 200 short stories.

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  Steve Kaufmann 8 beliefs

  Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.

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  Susan Sontag 8 beliefs

  American writer and critic (1933 to 2004); author of the essay collections Against Interpretation (1966) and On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003).

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  Swami Vivekananda 8 beliefs

  Indian Hindu monk and philosopher (1863 to 1902); chief disciple of Ramakrishna; a major figure in bringing Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world in the late 19th century.

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  Thiruvalluvar 8 beliefs

  Tamil poet traditionally credited as the author of the Tirukkural, a classic Tamil text of 1,330 couplets on virtue, wealth and love; almost nothing authentic is known of his life.

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  Thomas Hobbes 8 beliefs

  English philosopher (1588 to 1679), born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire; best known for his political philosophy in Leviathan; translated Thucydides into English.

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  Thomas Paine 8 beliefs

  Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809), born in Norfolk, England; author of Common Sense, a central text behind the call for American independence, and Rights of Man.

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  Timothy B. Lee 8 beliefs

  Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.

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  Vaclav Smil 8 beliefs

  Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst, born 9 December 1943 in Plzeň; Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba, studying energy, environment, food, population and the history of technical change.

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  Voltaire 8 beliefs

  French writer and public activist (1694 to 1778), born François-Marie d'Arouet; a leading figure of the Enlightenment; lived in England from 1726 to 1729.

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  William Deresiewicz 8 beliefs

  American essayist and literary critic; taught English at Yale University from 1998 to 2008; author of A Jane Austen Education, Excellent Sheep, The Death of the Artist and The End of Solitude.

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  Yuval Noah Harari 8 beliefs

  Israeli historian and philosopher, born in 1976; author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and Nexus; lecturer in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; co-founder of Sapienship in 2019.

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  Abraham Lincoln 7 beliefs

  16th president of the United States (1809 to 1865), in office from 1861 to 1865.

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  Adam Smith 7 beliefs

  Scottish moral philosopher and economist (1723 to 1790); held the chair of moral philosophy at Glasgow University from 1752 to 1764; author of The Wealth of Nations.

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  Al-Ghazali 7 beliefs

  Persian philosopher, theologian, jurist and mystic of Sunni Islam (c. 1056 to 1111); taught at the Nizamiyya Madrasa in Baghdad until 1095 and in Nishapur from 1106; author of Deliverance from Error.

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  Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.

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  Alice Schroeder 7 beliefs

  American financial analyst and writer; Berkshire Hathaway's leading insurance analyst at Morgan Stanley, then Warren Buffett's authorised biographer, author of The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (2008).

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  Benny Lewis 7 beliefs

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

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  Booker T. Washington 7 beliefs

  American educator, author and orator (1856 to 1915); the primary leader of the African-American community from 1890 to 1915; author of Up from Slavery.

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  Brad Stulberg 7 beliefs

  Writer and coach on performance, well-being and excellence; author of The Way of Excellence, Master of Change and The Practice of Groundedness, and co-author of Peak Performance and The Passion Paradox.

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  Cicero 7 beliefs

  Roman statesman, orator and philosopher (106 to 43 BCE); consul in 63 BCE; author of On Duties.

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  Craig Hockenberry 7 beliefs

  Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.

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  Daniel Coyle 7 beliefs

  Author of The Talent Code, The Little Book of Talent and The Culture Code, writing on how skills and group cultures are built.

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  Daniel Schacter 7 beliefs

  American psychologist; William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, researching memory, amnesia, memory distortion and future simulation; author of The Seven Sins of Memory (2001).

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  David Hume 7 beliefs

  Scottish philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment (1711 to 1776), born in Edinburgh; author of A Treatise of Human Nature, the Enquiries, and a History of England.

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  Donald Trump 7 beliefs

  President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.

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  Ed Zitron 7 beliefs

  Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.

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  Elizabeth Cady Stanton 7 beliefs

  American writer and activist (1815 to 1902), a leader of the US women's rights movement; the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments.

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  Eric Berger 7 beliefs

  Senior space editor at Ars Technica; wrote Liftoff and Reentry on SpaceX, and reports on launch and rocket programmes.

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  Ernest Hemingway 7 beliefs

  American novelist (1899 to 1961), also a short-story writer and journalist; awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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  Greg McKeown 7 beliefs

  British business writer and speaker (born 1977); author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less and Effortless: Make It Easy to Do What Matters; co-author with Liz Wiseman of Multipliers.

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  Hamel Husain 7 beliefs

  Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.

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  Herbert A. Simon 7 beliefs

  American political scientist, economist and cognitive psychologist (1916 to 2001), known for bounded rationality and satisficing; Turing Award 1975 with Allen Newell, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 1978.

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  Immanuel Kant 7 beliefs

  German philosopher (1724 to 1804), born in Königsberg, where he taught at the university; author of the three Critiques and the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.

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  John Scalzi 7 beliefs

  American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.

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  José Rizal 7 beliefs

  Filipino writer and nationalist (1861 to 1896); ophthalmologist and a key member of the Propaganda Movement for political reform under Spanish rule.

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  Kathryn Schulz 7 beliefs

  American journalist and author; staff writer at The New Yorker; won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for an article on earthquake and tsunami risk in the Pacific Northwest, and the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography.

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  Leslie Greenberg 7 beliefs

  Psychologist and Distinguished Research Professor at York University, Toronto; pioneer of emotion-focused therapy (EFT).

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  Malcolm Gladwell 7 beliefs

  British-Canadian journalist and author; staff writer for The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and David and Goliath; host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of Pushkin Industries.

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  Margaret Fuller 7 beliefs

  American transcendentalist writer (1810 to 1850); philosopher, journalist and literary critic; author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845).

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  Law professor at Berkeley and the leading scholar of the Fourth Amendment as it applies to computers; writes at the Volokh Conspiracy.

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  Dutch humanist scholar and theologian (1469 to 1536), born in Rotterdam; editor of the Greek New Testament and author of the Adages.

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

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  English philosopher (1632 to 1704); Oxford academic and medical researcher; author of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and the Second Treatise of Government.

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  Florentine political philosopher and diplomat (1469 to 1527); Second Chancellor of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512; author of The Prince.

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  Alignment researcher; developed reinforcement learning from human feedback at OpenAI, founded the Alignment Research Center, and now works at the US AI Safety Institute.

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  French philosopher and mathematician (1596 to 1650); author of the Discourse on the Method (1637), the Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) and the Principles of Philosophy (1644).

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  Social psychologist who researches what leads people to say yes to requests; author of Influence and Pre-Suasion, which have sold more than 10 million copies in 48 languages.

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  Psychologist who developed Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP).

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  Chief AI Scientist at Databricks, after its acquisition of MosaicML, where he was a founding team member; known for the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis from his MIT PhD (ICLR 2019 Best Paper).

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  Associate Professor at MIT CSAIL, leading the Programming Systems Group; works on programming systems that manipulate uncertainty, from neural networks to unreliable hardware.

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

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  Social psychologist and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, who studies whether happiness can be lastingly increased; author of The How of Happiness (2008) and The Myths of Happiness (2013).

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  British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.

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  Chinese Daoist philosopher of the fourth century BC and the pivotal figure of classical philosophical Daoism; of the compiled Zhuangzi, only the Inner Chapters (1 to 7) are attributed to his lifetime.

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

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

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  Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.

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  Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.

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  Dutch computer scientist (1930 to 2002); received the Turing Award in 1972; held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in computer science at the University of Texas at Austin from 1984 to 1999; wrote a numbered series of manuscripts known as the EWDs.

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

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  Author of Fluent Forever and founder of the app of the same name; teaches pronunciation first and vocabulary through images rather than translation.

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  One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper.

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  Technology writer and podcaster; former Macworld editor-in-chief, writes Six Colors and hosts podcasts on Relay FM and The Incomparable.

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

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  Computer vision researcher and former Chief Scientist of Megvii, previously at Microsoft Research Asia; co-author of ResNet and Faster R-CNN. Died in 2022; this page reflects his complete public record.

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  Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto; co-creator, with Diederik Kingma, of the Adam optimizer for training neural networks.

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

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  Housing and development writer at Strong Towns, arguing that the professional, large-scale housing industry cannot produce widespread affordability no matter how it is deregulated or subsidised.

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  Marriage and family therapist working from attachment theory and emotionally focused therapy. Author of Secure Love and the person behind The Secure Relationship.

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  Associate Professor at MIT EECS and Distinguished Scientist at Google DeepMind; first author of the Deep Residual Learning (ResNet) paper, among the most-cited papers of the century.

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  One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper.

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  One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper.

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  Cognitive scientist and Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology at Yale University, whose course Psychology and the Good Life became Yale's most popular class, and host of the podcast The Happiness Lab.

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  Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.

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  One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper.

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

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  Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Zen priest; director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and co-author with Marc Schulz of The Good Life (2023).

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

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  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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  Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.

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  Tokyo-based American writer; author of Ametora (2015), Status and Culture (2022) and Blank Space (2025).

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  British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.

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  One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at University of Toronto; per the paper's own contribution note, designed and implemented parts of tensor2tensor, the codebase that replaced the team's earlier one.

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

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  One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at Google Brain; per the paper's own contribution note, designed and implemented the first Transformer models, with Illia Polosukhin, and was involved in every aspect of the work.

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  Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.

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  Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.

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  Institute Professor of Economics at MIT; shared the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Simon Johnson and James Robinson for work on institutions and prosperity; author of Why Nations Fail.

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  President of the French Republic since 2017.

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

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

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  One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need"; per the paper's own contribution note, designed and implemented the first Transformer models, with Ashish Vaswani.

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  Jakob Uszkoreit 3 beliefs

  One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at Google Research; per the paper's own contribution note, proposed replacing recurrent networks with self-attention and started the effort to evaluate the idea.

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  President of Argentina since December 2023; economist and self-described libertarian.

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  Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.

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  American comedian; co-creator and star of the sitcom Seinfeld (aired from 1989 to 1998).

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  Labour politician. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 2024 to June 2026, and MP for Holborn and St Pancras from 2015 until standing down in 2026. Director of Public Prosecutions before entering Parliament.

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  One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at Google Research; per the paper's own contribution note, experimented with novel model variants and was responsible for the initial codebase, efficient inference and visualisations.

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  Language mentor and polyglot; teaches people to design their own learning method rather than follow a course.

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

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  Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge; author of GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History.

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  Programmer and writer; specified JSON, wrote JavaScript: The Good Parts, JSLint and How JavaScript Works.

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

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  Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.

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  Interviewer; the Dwarkesh Podcast runs long, heavily researched conversations with AI researchers, historians and economists.

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  Journalist who covered economics, tax policy and philanthropy at Vox from 2014 to 2025, and before that at the Washington Post; writes a personal Substack.

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  Serial entrepreneur and investor; writes Elad Blog on startups, scaling and technology, and co-authored the book High Growth Handbook.

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

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

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

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

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  German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.

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  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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  Cook and food writer specialising in Chinese cuisine; the first Westerner to train at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, and author of Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper and Invitation to a Banquet.

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  Data journalist and pollster; writes Strength In Numbers, an independent newsletter on polling, elections and public opinion.

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

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

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  Journalist and lawyer; writes independent political and media commentary on Substack.

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  Programmer; started Rust, and writes long posts on language design, compilers and the history of computing.

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

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  Internet linguist; wrote Because Internet, on how language changes online, and co-hosts the Lingthusiasm podcast.

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  Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.

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  Professor of History at Boston College; writes Letters from an American, a nightly newsletter on the history behind current US politics.

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  Co-founder and partner at Homebrew, an early-stage venture fund; writes about startups, product and work at hunterwalk.com.

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  Software engineer and open-source maintainer of attrs and structlog; writes about Python, software design and career growth at hynek.me.

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  Norwegian web pioneer who proposed Cascading Style Sheets in 1994 while at CERN, and was CTO of Opera Software. Also runs a small organic farm.

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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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  Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.

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  Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.

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  Chef and writer; wrote The Food Lab and The Wok, and tests cooking claims by running the experiment.

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  Web platform engineer known for work on service workers and browser APIs; writes about browsers and web performance at jakearchibald.com.

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  Columnist at the New York Times; keeps a personal photography and writing blog.

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  James Brooks

  British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.

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  James Gosling

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

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  Wine writer and Master of Wine; Financial Times wine columnist, editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine and co-author of The World Atlas of Wine.

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

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  Jay Alammar

  Writes Language Models & Co., a newsletter on large language models; known for The Illustrated Transformer, referenced in AI/ML courses at MIT, Stanford and Cornell.

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  American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.

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  Artist and writer based in Oakland, California; author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time, and a longtime teacher of digital art.

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  Jeremy Horpedahl

  Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Central Arkansas; writes about economic data and research at Economist Writing Every Day.

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  Jeremy Howard

  Co-founder of fast.ai and answer.ai; creator of the ULMFiT method underlying modern language models, and honorary professor at the University of Queensland.

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  Jessamyn West

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

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  Jessica Hische

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

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  Co-founder of Y Combinator and author of Founders at Work; writes about startups and company culture.

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  Joe Armstrong

  Swedish-based software engineer, 1950 to 2019; co-created the Erlang programming language and wrote Programming Erlang.

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  Joe Hewitt

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

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  Joe Previte

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

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  Joey Hess

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

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

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

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  John MacFarlane

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

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  John Resig

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

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  John Romero

  Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.

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  Jonathan Corbet

  Founder and executive editor of LWN.net; lead author of Linux Device Drivers and a longtime Linux kernel contributor.

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  Jonathan McDowell

  Astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; keeps Jonathan's Space Report, the record of what is actually in orbit and what came down.

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  Joseph Politano

  Writer of Apricitas Economics; data-driven analysis of economics, business, finance and public policy.

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  Josh Brown

  Co-founder and CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management. He wrote The Reformed Broker for over a decade, now publishes the Downtown Josh Brown newsletter, and co-hosts The Compound and Friends.

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  Josh Comeau

  Software engineer and educator; writes long-form interactive tutorials on CSS, React and web animation at joshwcomeau.com.

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  Josh Marshall

  Founder and editor of Talking Points Memo; writes daily political commentary and analysis there.

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  Junio C Hamano

  Maintainer of Git, the distributed version control system, since Linus Torvalds handed him the project in 2005.

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  Justin Frankel

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

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  Kalwabed Rizki

  Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.

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  Kaspars Dambis

  Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.

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  Keita Takahashi

  Co-founder and creative director of the game studio uvula; creator of Katamari Damacy, Noby Noby Boy and Wattam.

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  Kelsey Piper

  Journalist writing on AI, effective altruism and global development; contributing writer at The Argument, previously a senior writer at Vox's Future Perfect.

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  Ken Liu

  American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.

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  Kevin Simler

  Writer and engineer behind the blog Melting Asphalt, and co-author with Robin Hanson of The Elephant in the Brain.

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  Khoi Vinh

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

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  Kieran Healy

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

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  Kris Abdelmessih

  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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  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  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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  Kyla Scanlon

  Economic commentator and author of In This Economy?; writes and posts about how money and markets work.

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  Linus Torvalds 0 beliefs · 1 changed

  Creator and long-time maintainer of the Linux kernel, and the author of Git. Runs the kernel in public on a mailing list, which is why both his position on how to talk to contributors and his abandonment of it are on the record in his own words.

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  Manassarn "Noom" Manoonchai

  Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.

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  Mandy Brown

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

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  Marcus du Sautoy

  Mathematician; Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and author of The Music of the Primes and The Creativity Code.

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  Mario Gabriele

  Writes The Generalist, a newsletter on venture capital, technology and company strategy.

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  Mark Lynas 0 beliefs · 1 changed

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

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  Mark Suster

  General Partner at Upfront Ventures and a two-time entrepreneur; wrote Both Sides of the Table, a blog on startups and venture capital.

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  Mary Beard

  Classicist and Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge; author of SPQR and Pompeii; writes A Don's Life for the TLS.

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  Matt Cutts

  Software engineer who led Google's webspam team for over a decade and later served as administrator of the United States Digital Service.

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  Matt Might

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

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  Matt Taibbi

  Journalist and author; writes the Racket News newsletter and reported the Twitter Files.

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  Michael Batnick

  Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.

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  Mina Markham

  American front-end engineer and design-systems specialist; built the Pantsuit design system for Hillary for America and has worked at Slack and IBM.

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  Monica Dinculescu

  Software engineer who worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google, and writes about the web, emoji and Elm at meowni.ca.

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  Natalie Wexler

  Education writer; wrote The Knowledge Gap, arguing that American schools teach reading as a skill when it depends on knowledge.

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  Neal Agarwal

  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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  Neha Narula

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

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  Nikita Bier

  Former head of product at X; founded the teen apps TBH, acquired by Meta, and Gas, acquired by Discord.

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  Packy McCormick

  Writes Not Boring, a newsletter on technology, business and startup strategy; general partner at Not Boring Capital.

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  Patrick O'Shaughnessy

  CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.

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  Paul Kedrosky

  Venture investor and writer; publishes on risk, complexity, finance, technology and economic history at paulkedrosky.com.

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  Peter Frankopan

  British historian, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford; author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed.

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  Philip Guo

  Professor of cognitive science at UC San Diego working on human-computer interaction and programming tools; creator of Python Tutor, the online code visualizer.

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  Philip Pullman

  British novelist, author of the His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust trilogies.

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  Pouria

  Developer and designer publishing at pouria.dev; author of the open-source URL shortener Kutt.

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  Praveen Kumar Purushothaman

  London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.

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  Quinn Slack

  Co-founder and chief executive of Sourcegraph; writes about code search, AI coding agents and how large codebases get understood.

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  Radek Pietruszewski

  Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Randall Wilk

  Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

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  Richard Garriott de Cayeux

  Video game designer behind the Ultima series and a private astronaut; runs a site on his expeditions and collections.

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  Richard Hanania

  President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology; writes on American politics, foreign policy and social science at Richard Hanania's Newsletter.

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  Rick Steves

  American travel writer and broadcaster. Runs Rick Steves' Europe and writes the guidebooks, packing advice and travel-tip articles published on ricksteves.com.

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  Rob Malda

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

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  Rob Walling

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

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  Robert Love

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

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  Roberto Ierusalimschy

  Full professor of computer science at PUC-Rio in Rio de Janeiro and the lead architect of the Lua programming language, which he has worked on since 1993. Author of Programming in Lua.

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  Rusty Foster

  Writer of Today in Tabs, a daily media-and-internet newsletter started in 2013; earlier founded the community site Kuro5hin.

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  Ryan Broderick

  Founder and writer of Garbage Day; internet culture reporter and newsletter writer.

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  Ryan North

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

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  Sadayuki Furuhashi

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

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  Sam Harris

  Neuroscientist and author; hosts the Making Sense podcast and the Waking Up meditation app.

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  Sam Kriss

  British essayist and critic; writes Numb at the Lodge, a newsletter on politics, culture and literature.

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  Sarah Bakewell

  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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  Sarah Tavel

  General Partner at Benchmark; writes about marketplaces, consumer products and venture investing.

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  Sasha Rush

  Machine-learning researcher at Cursor working on post-training for coding models; a professor at Harvard and then Cornell from 2016 to 2026, and a researcher at Hugging Face from 2019 to 2024.

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  Sayash Kapoor

  PhD candidate in computer science at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy; researches the societal impact of AI and co-writes AI as Normal Technology with Arvind Narayanan.

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  Scott Aaronson 0 beliefs · 3 changed

  Theoretical computer scientist, Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and director of its Quantum Information Center. Writes the blog Shtetl-Optimized.

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  Scott McCloud

  Cartoonist and comics theorist, author of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, Making Comics and the graphic novel The Sculptor.

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  Scott Spence

  Product engineer and Svelte consultant in the UK; writes about SvelteKit, coding agents and Linux at scottspence.com.

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  Sean Barrett

  Game developer, formerly at Looking Glass Studios, and author of the stb single-file public-domain C libraries used across the games industry.

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  Sean Coker

  American software engineer working across web, mobile and TV platforms; writes at sean.is.

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  Selena Deckelmann

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

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  Shubham Singh

  Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.

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  Simon Johnson

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

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  Sreetam Das

  Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.

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  Steph Smith

  Writer and podcaster on remote work, technology and continuous growth; publishes at stephsmith.io.

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  Steven Frank

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

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  Stewart Brand

  Founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and co-founder of the Long Now Foundation; writer on environmentalism, technology and long-term thinking.

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  Taylor Lorenz

  Internet culture journalist; writes the User Mag newsletter, formerly published as Taylor Lorenz's Substack.

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  Thom Hogan

  Photographer and writer on cameras; publishes long-running Nikon gear reviews and buying advice at bythom.com and zsystemuser.com.

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  Thomas Wolf

  Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.

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  Tim Bray

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

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  Tim Spector

  Professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London and scientific co-founder of ZOE; writes the Gut Feelings newsletter.

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  Tom Holland

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

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  Tom Peters

  Management writer; co-author of In Search of Excellence (1982) and author of The Excellence Dividend.

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  Tom Scott

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

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  Tracy Chou

  Software engineer and founder of Block Party; previously an engineer at Pinterest and Quora, and a co-founder of the non-profit Project Include and the tech diversity data project Where are the Numbers?

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  Val McDermid

  Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill and Karen Pirie novels; former journalist and broadcaster.

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  Vi Hart

  Mathemusician and video maker known for the Doodling in Math Class series; directed the eleVR virtual reality research group at the Communications Design Group.

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  Visakan Veerasamy

  Singaporean writer and author of FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD; blogs at visakanv.com about ambition, writing and thinking in public.

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  Waqas Younas

  Software engineer and essayist who writes about programming, formal methods, philosophy and literature at thoughts.wyounas.com.

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  Wes Bos

  Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.

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  William Gibson

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

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  Yann LeCun

  Professor of Computer Science at New York University and 2018 Turing Award laureate; a leading researcher in deep learning, known for convolutional neural networks.

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  Yascha Mounk

  Writer and academic on the crisis of democracy and the defence of liberal values; professor of the practice of international affairs at Johns Hopkins, founder of Persuasion and host of The Good Fight.

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  Zed Shaw

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

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  ZeroAir

  Pseudonymous reviewer who publishes measured, standardised flashlight and knife reviews at zeroair.org, including runtime, output and tint measurements.

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  danah boyd

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

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  dynomight 0 beliefs · 2 changed

  Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.

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