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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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  Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

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  Feynman was a Teacher. This book is as fantastic as the man himself.

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

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  Working under a constraint one resents, rather than none at all, produces more creative results.

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  Giving yourself constraints is helpful when searching for ideas, especially if the constraints are annoying.

  On having more interesting ideas, pt. 2henrikkarlsson.xyz

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

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  A career is not built by searching for jobs but by accumulating a reputation slowly, so that when you become available the opportunities come to you.

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  if you try to do a really good job at every company you've been working well with all the people that you work with, including your own team, your peer, whatever it is. Over time, very slowly, you accumulate a decent reputation in people's mind.

  Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com

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

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  Solving a problem yourself, without searching or prompting, is a form of exercise -- the help makes you weaker.

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  My brain feels stronger because I work through the problem instead of prompting it away.

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Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.

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  Solving a problem yourself, without searching or prompting, is a form of exercise -- the help makes you weaker.

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  Learning requires an investment of effort, and AI will make us stupider if that effort is avoided.

  Will AI Make Us Stupid?scotthyoung.com

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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  Large language models are bad at chess: pattern recognition is not the same capability as searching one position very deeply.

  LLMs

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  You know, interestingly, LM themselves are quite bad at playing chess. Like, they hallucinate moves. They look at patterns, right? They're they're very good at pattern recognition, but not so good at going super super super deep on a specific chess thing.

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Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.

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  Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

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  A solid biography, though I don’t have anything in particular to say about it.

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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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  Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

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  This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.

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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  VS Code

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  Every now and again I go searching for a replacement IDE. VSCode came closer than anything else in the last two decades to replacing Vim, but somehow I am back here.

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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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  Alfred

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  I started using Alfred as it used to have better searching than Spotlight. I've never moved off it when Spotlight improved.

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Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.

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  Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

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  Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle, Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell: I understood Bill Campbell was a behind-the-scenes guy in Silicon Valley, but I had no idea just how influential he was. Bill Gurley of Benchmark noted “I would argue that Bill has had a bigger impact on Silicon Valley than any other single person simply because his reach was so amazingly wide.” That’s a story I want to read.

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