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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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  Verifying whether a photo is authentic (unaltered by AI) is becoming an increasingly difficult problem.

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  In an era where validating image authenticity is turning into a real challenge, I think we have to commend Apple for trying to do something in this field.

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Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.

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  Publicly embracing a taboo, extremist identity can function as a costly signal that builds political authenticity and loyalty.

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  People who act and speak in public as right-wing extremists and are labeled as such, establish a claim to authenticity.

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

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  The programming language is now English, and it is a more beautiful one than Ruby.

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  The language now is English. It's a cliche, but it's also true. Like I've been programming in English for the last three months. I've been reading a lot of code, but I'm programming in English. I'm telling the computer what to do, and I'm using natural language, and it is shockingly even more delightful. If there is one programming language more beautiful than Ruby, it is the English language.

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

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  Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture

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  Jenkins understands it, though. I've been reading, writing, and debating about this stuff since the late 1990s, and I learned something new on every page of this delightful book.

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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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  A City on Mars

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  They excel at making the dull delightful. There are a lot of big and serious facts to get through, but they have a gift for communicating them simply and eloquently. I just wish they'd've come to a different conclusion.

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Musician and writer; answers readers' questions weekly at The Red Hand Files, and fronts Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

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  Suffering is not an interruption of a good life but the ground the good things grow out of.

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  Suffering is the essential and nourishing ground from which all the delightful gifts of life emerge.

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Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.

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  The Thursday Murder Club

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  The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman is a delightful whodunnit set at a retirement home in the English countryside. Great characters. Fun twists. An endearing sense of humor. Nothing fancy or experimental, just a pleasure to read (and what more can you ask from a book, really?). If, like me, you enjoy mysteries, you'll be in good hands with Osman.

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Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  Moosewood

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  All the Moosewood cookbooks are so delightful. They are the book form of my favorite genre of friends' moms growing up: an aging hippie who's been shopping at the same patchouli-scented health food store since the '70s

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Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.

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  The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise

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  The Art of Asking is a delightful and quick read. Only 80 pages in fact.

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Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.

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  Nisus Writer Pro

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  Nisus Writer Pro is a delightful word processor for the Mac. Not distracting or showy, it simply works great.

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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

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  Fever Pitch: A Novel About Selling Your Vision, Raising Venture Capital, and Launching Your Startup

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  was delightful!

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Playfulness and humor in leadership build authenticity and credibility rather than undermine it.

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  Playfulness and humor won't erode your credibility. They amplify your presence. They make you real. And people follow real.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Good leadership is defined by presence, curiosity, and authenticity rather than always having the right answer.

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  Leadership isn't about always having the answer and always being right. It's about being present, deeply curious, and authentic.

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

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  How much machine learning can help a biological problem is set by the quality of the data around that problem, not by the algorithms.

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  I predict (with confidence bordering on arrogance) that whatever machine-learning progress can be made will correlate extremely closely with the quality of the data around any given problem

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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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  Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity

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  This delightful book isn’t so much about how to decide what to do; it’s more about how to be cool while doing it.

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