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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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  Reagan-era tax cuts for the rich did not deliver the faster economic growth they were promised in return.

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  The Reagan Revolution promised faster growth in exchange for lower taxes on the rich. The rich won; the growth never showed up.

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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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  AI has now matured enough to deliver on the promises made about it in its early days

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  Today, AI is in a place where the original promises have now been kept.

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

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  More AI models that deliver top-tier performance at lower cost are needed.

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  I love seeing models come out that give us top-tier performance at a lower cost. We need more of this.

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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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  The central defect of American schooling is that an eighth grader is delivered eighth-grade content by law, whatever he actually knows.

  America

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  And that's the problem in our current education system today is we are taking eighth graders and we are delivering them eighth grade content because that's what an eighth grade teacher does by law. They need to stand up and deliver the eighth grade content.

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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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  Humanoid robots paired with AI will eventually deliver medical care to everyone on Earth.

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  One day, Optimus + Grok will provide incredible medical care to all the people of Earth

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US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.

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  Government work is a bureaucratic slog and is still the place where a technologist can have the biggest impact on the country.

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  I think it can be a slog, it can be bureaucratic, it can be painful, but when the when the outcome actually happens and you deliver the result, there is no place where you can have a bigger impact on on this country.

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Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport.

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  The final obstacle to any new technology is resistance to change, so you have to deliver an overwhelming amount of progress to get the change through.

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  It's called resistance to change. It's natural because like you know a lot of times change is bad. Um and so you have to deliver an overwhelming amount of progress to make your change happen.

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

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  Once AI can do AI research, a single year should deliver four or five years worth of AI progress.

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  Maybe my sort of median expectation is something like uh four or five years of AI progress in a single year.

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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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  You do not invest in companies, you invest in people — which is why an honest founder who cannot deliver still gets kept alive.

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  You don't invest in companies, you invest in people.

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Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.

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  AI is raising public expectations of government service at the same time it changes what government must deliver.

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  Every state, and the federal government right along with them, is about to be asked to do a lot more than keep the lights on.

  North Carolina’s bold move on civil serviceeatingpolicy.com

Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.

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  A supplement or drug should be judged on well-defined benefits for well-defined problems in well-defined populations, never on a vague promise of slowing ageing.

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  That’s a lesson we could all learn about our approach to supplements and even drugs: not to fall for hazy promises that a single molecule will deliver vaguely-defined benefits for all aging persons, but to demand rigorous evidence for well-defined benefits for well-defined problems in well-defined populations.

  Metformin and cancer: active surveillance neededpeterattiamd.com

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.

From one piece Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The trouble with AI as a development tool is that it is overconfident in what it delivers, and its hit rate is nowhere near good enough.

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  The problem with AI right now is it’s overconfident in what it tries to deliver.

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  Players say they want a fair match, but what they actually want is to be slightly better than the other side — and no matchmaker can deliver that.

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  And the reality of what they want is they want a match where they’re slightly better than the other guy.

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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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  Selling a saving caps what you can charge; selling more of what the buyer already values raises that cap by an order of magnitude.

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  It's just that it caps this price and this value that is they perceive that you do. Whereas if you deliver more of the value that they already value, it's I don't want to say uncapped completely, but like the cap is maybe an order of magnitude higher than saving.

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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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  Design deliverables are no longer static assets or guidelines but tools: custom software that generates on-brand assets on demand.

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  But with today's AI coding agents, building software is remarkably easy. So instead of handing over static assets and static guidelines, designers can deliver custom software. Tools that let clients create their own on-brand assets whenever they need them.

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Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.

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  Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska

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  I love the beginning of the book when Zane just lists the stuff that Springsteen was into while he was making Nebraska

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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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  Product Leadership

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  : “Your guide to navigating product leadership, the one I never had. Within these pages you’ll hear a diversity of opinions from the industry’s most successful and respected product leaders, insights that will help you lead your team and deliver exceptional products.”

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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

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  I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

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  Perhaps the best of the various gig-worker memoirs published in recent years.

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

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  What the industrial revolution took 70 to 150 years to deliver, AI may deliver in 20 to 25.

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  whatever what took 70 years maybe 150 years for the industrial revolution may happen in 20 years 25 years

  Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGIyoutube.com

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.

From one piece How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2] 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  An application-layer AI company's real breakthroughs come from going a click or two down the stack rather than from using the models as they are.

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  many of the breakthroughs that we've had that have enabled us to to deliver such quality and cost savings and more have come through novel agent architectures and and really going down a click or two in in the stack to innovate at at lower levels of the technology stack.

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  Great customer service has always been a luxury only a Hermès or a Four Seasons could afford, and AI is what breaks the trade-off between its cost and its quality.

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  And the reason this is important is what we're trying to do in a way is resolve this age-old tension between the cost and quality of customer experience where I think every great business wants to deliver an amazing experience to their customers. But unless you're like Hermes or the Four Seasons, it's too expensive to do.

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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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  Scaling laws are still working, but the models people actually use run a few months behind the maximum capability Google can deliver, because the biggest model is too slow and expensive to serve.

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  So I do think scaling laws are working, but it's tough to get, at any given time, the models we all use the most, this maybe a few months behind the maximum capability we can deliver because that won't be the fastest, easiest to use, et cetera.

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Engineering leader and writer; wrote The Manager's Path and Platform Engineering, and blogs at Elided Branches.

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  Flat, manager-free organisations do not deliver the equality they promise: they get abandoned, and the informal power left behind is unaccountable.

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  The Tyranny of Structurelessness has yet to be overcome, and for those who still care about creating strong, transparent, equitable organizations, this work matters.

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Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

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  The malaise in the game industry needs no complicated theory: the games that failed recently simply were not fun enough to compete with everything else in people's lives.

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  And when you look at a lot of the games that failed recently, they just didn't deliver fun or they didn't deliver fun in a manner that was nearly competitive with the other sources of fun just in people's lives. And so at a basic level, we don't need a terribly complicated theory to explain a lot of the malaise in the game industry.

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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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  Reading aloud to children teaches more about storytelling than books on public-speaking technique do.

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  You'll learn more about becoming a better storyteller from reading to your children than from any book with a title like "How To Deliver a TED Talk."

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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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  Ceado Hoop

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  The Hoop may be the perfect manual brewer for cafes, as baristas can simply pour and walk away, knowing that four minutes later, the Hoop will deliver an excellent extraction.

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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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  A live verbal presentation is one of the worst ways to transmit information, because a talk given in real time exists to deliver emotion.

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  If you want to exchange or deliver information to a group of people, one of the worst ways to do it is with a live verbal presentation. If your goal is actually to deliver that scientific paper or that insight, then you should either write a book or write a memo and say, here, in an asynchronous way, this is what we know. If you're going to show up live, in person, in real time, synchronized, you are performing. And the goal is to not deliver the information, but to deliver emotion.

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Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.

From one piece 10 technologies that won't exist in 5 years 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Ten billion dollars over ten years would deliver most of a list of missing life-saving health technologies, so their absence is a funding choice rather than a scientific limit.

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  With an extra $10 billion over 10 years I’m pretty sure we’d get to 5 or 6 of the 10 on the list, and millions of unnecessary deaths would be prevented.

  10 technologies that won't exist in 5 yearsblog.jacobtrefethen.com

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  Technological progress does not deliver the most important technologies first; what people choose to work on decides what exists.

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  Technological progress is not a mystical force that delivers the most important ones first.

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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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  Flat, manager-free organisations do not deliver the equality they promise: they get abandoned, and the informal power left behind is unaccountable.

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  On the other hand, the manager-free experiments I’m aware of (e.g. holacracy at Medium and GitHub, or “Choose Your Own Work” at Linden Lab) have all been quietly abandoned or outgrown.

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

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  web3 is not on a path away from centralised platforms, and its privacy story is already below the internet’s low bar.

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  I don’t think it’s on a trajectory to deliver us from centralized platforms, I don’t think it will fundamentally change our relationship to technology, and I think the privacy story is already below par for the internet (which is a pretty low bar!), but I also understand why nerds like me are excited to build for it.

  My first impressions of web3moxie.org