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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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  The right to a fair trial belongs to the defendant alone; there is no public right to be weighed against it.

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  There is a Fifth Amendment right to a fair trial, but that right belongs to the defendant, not the public.

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

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  Alzheimer's disease and dementia are not the same thing: a fifth to a third of people whose brains carry the pathology never became demented.

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  Alzheimer's disease does not necessarily equal dementia. people can have Alzheimer's disease and not get dementia. So, we found this out from post-mortem studies. People have been followed as they age. Uh they've donated their brains and it turns out that perhaps 20 to 30% of these individuals who never had dementia have Alzheimer pathology.

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

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  It is the diversity of a robot data set, not its size, that produces generalization: dropping the most diverse slice hurts far more than dropping a random fifth.

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  we find that the performance on held out tasks decreases dramatically. Whereas if we um just take out a random 20% of the data that's less diverse than the most diverse subset, the performance um only decreases a little bit. And so this suggests that actually having really diverse data plays an important role in enabling it to generalize to new tasks.

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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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  A correction never travels as far as the scare it corrects: the press said a fifth of the project's skills were malicious, and the measured figure was 0.3 percent.

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  We did the the numbers and the numbers are more like 0.3%. We scanned all 67,000. We shipped the we shipped the paper. But you know a correction never travels as far as a scare.

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Founder of Scale AI and, since 2025, Chief AI Officer at Meta, where he leads the company’s superintelligence lab.

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  A founder who takes their bearings from what everyone around them is saying will end up nowhere; you have to build your own compass for what the future looks like.

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  you just you can't base your business decisions based on what everyone else is saying around you. Like, if you go too much with the herd, you will get immensely confused and you will end up nowhere. And so you have to develop your own compass of what you think the future is going to look like because everyone else will just confuse you.

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  Resenting the Hero

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  Comparing this to The Fifth Season, it is striking how different two fantasy novels about worlds over-supplied with natural disasters, and the people with the psychic gifts to stop those disasters with their minds, can be in tone and execution. This is immensely fluffier, but it has no pretensions to be anything except candy, and succeeds as such.

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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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  A government only has legitimacy through long continuity, and once that thread is cut one regime change reliably becomes five.

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  When you break that, when you overthrow the ruler, when you dissolve the republic, when you put in a new thing, it doesn't have that same staying power. And so, it's very common when there's one regime change for there to then be five regime changes rapid-fire over and over.

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Economist at Oxford's Global Priorities Institute; works on what advanced AI would do to growth, saving and the long-run economy.

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  The worry that AI's returns are locked away in private companies is overstated: well under a fifth of American market capitalisation is private.

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  it's already not that hard to index. So it's not There's been a bit of an increase in the privatization of returns but it's still like you know well under 20% of the total market cap of um non-non-tiny companies in in the US is is a private.

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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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  Only a fifth of venture-backed founders are still CEO three years after going public, and the standard documents their lawyers gave them are why.

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  According to Harvard Law School, among venturebacked companies that have the standard best practices set up that you got from your lawyer, okay, only 20% of founders are still the CEO 3 years after going public.

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Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.

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  For IIT to fit with current successful theories in fundamental physics, a reformulation in terms of continuous fields would be needed.

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  Fifth, for IIT to fit with current successful theories in fundamental physics, a reformulation in terms of continuous fields would be needed.

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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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  About a fifth of the US grid could be freed for data centres just by covering the yearly peak with batteries or peaker plants.

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  Then all of a sudden, you've unlocked 20% of the US grid for data centers because most of the times that capacity is sitting idle and it's really only there for that peak, right? Which is a day or two, right?

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Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.

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  The Broken Earth Trilogy

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  The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemison (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky): Triple-Hugo winner. Stunning world-building. Really fun to escape into a series—haven't done that in years.

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Vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, the advertising agency; author of Alchemy (2019) and the Wiki Man columnist at The Spectator.

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  Companies would often be better off moving a tenth to a fifth of their marketing budget into paying call centre staff properly.

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  probably 50% of the time, I would advise to a client, take 10 to 20% of your marketing budget and spend it on upgrading the call center. Pay the people too much. Get the best practitioners.

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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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  Blue Yeti Microphone

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  Blue Yeti Microphone — for calls and recordings, mounted on a Compass Boom Arm with a Blue Radius III Shockmount.

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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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  The Inner Compass: Cultivating the Courage to Trust Yourself

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  A perfect sized companion (~100 pages) to understanding and trusting your intuition—breaking free from external validation and building courage through three core principles.

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

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  A growth team should spend a fifth to a quarter of its year, measured annually rather than by sprint, introducing a new growth loop.

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  I try to focus 20% 20 to 25% of growth team's time annually, not every given sprint, not every given quarter, but annually, to introduce a new growth loop.

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

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  A modern shipyard can match a whole wartime industrial mobilisation with a fraction of the workers.

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  South Korea's yearly production often matches the total tonnage the US produced in WWII - with one-fifth of the workers!

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

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  The end state of the grid is not a fifth solar backed by spinning generation, but twice the demand in solar with days of storage behind it.

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  The logical end state of this displacement is not some hybrid grid with around 20% solar backed up by spinning generation, but a much more dynamic, versatile grid with around 200% solar generation and hours to days or weeks of battery storage, fully decoupling time of generation and consumption.

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