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

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  Feeling highly generative during a phase of creative experimentation tends to coincide with producing nothing of finished, production-grade quality.

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  When you're in a phase of experimentation, it's not particularly surprising that you will feel very generative and, at the same time, that nothing will be of production-grade quality, so to speak.

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

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  Cynicism, irony, and cowardice are finished, and the next turning has arrived.

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  We are done with cynicism, irony, and cowardice. The next turning is here.

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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 methods and techniques a writer uses to compose a work shape the finished work as much as a painter's or musician's technical choices shape theirs.

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  The methods we choose to use to compose the work determine the final work as much as any decision by a painter or musician.

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

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  Talking and writing are not read-outs of a finished thought -- they are the thinking, so a faster brain-to-text channel would not make you think faster.

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  Well, I mean first of all, I think that talking or writing is thinking.

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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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  Legislators generally lose interest in an issue once the political work of passing a law is finished.

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  our lawmakers tend to stop paying attention once the political work is done.

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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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  The EU AI Act is the cautionary case for regulating early: Europe's language models must obey a rule that was finished before large language models existed.

  LLMsEurope

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  have to abide by this rule that was written before LLMs were even a thing. And that shows how challenging sort of the the the situation is if you try to set the line too firm to begin with.

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

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  Disease will never be finished, because the body is a dynamic system: fix one thing and the next appears.

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  I mean, I'm optimistic it'll be sooner. I mean, I think that the thing that's complicated is that it's a dynamic system, right? So, if you fix something, there will obviously be future things that you need to work on.

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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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  Human beings are inherently "completion freaks," always needing to know whether something is finished or if there is more to do.

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  One of the many problems with being human is that we're Completion Freaks.

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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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  The markets worth entering are the ones everybody treats as mature and finished, because they usually have not started yet.

  Google

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  Well, I love these markets and they're all around us where we think they're mature and over and they haven't even started yet. And that was search before Google. You know, Google was the 56th search engine. It was a mature, slow growth business. Google made us reimagine what search could be in our lives and obviously turned it into a trillion dollar company value.

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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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  You learn almost nothing from writing you finished in a couple of days; the pieces that took months are the ones you still remember years later.

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  I've written sometimes 10,000 word essays in you know, a couple of days and I've written them in you know, 3 months or 6 months. Uh I I feel like I did I I didn't learn very much from the ones that that that only took a couple of days.

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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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  As labs sell finished white-collar work rather than reasoning traces, Chinese models will lose the ability to distil their way to parity.

  AI and jobsChinaAmerica

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  As we move from, you know, hey, [clears throat] these companies are selling tokens where they provide the entire uh reasoning chain and all that to uh selling automated, you know, white collar work, right? Automated software engineer, send them the request, they give you the result back and there's a bunch of thinking on the back end that they don't show you. The ability to distill out of American models into Chinese models will be harder.

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  A migration must be finished once it is started, because a half-migrated codebase confuses models as much as it confuses people.

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  always make sure that when you start a migration, you finish the migration.

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Long-time Debian developer and free-software maintainer (remctl, INN, pam-krb5) who has published book reviews on his personal site since the 1990s.

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  Ghostdrift

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  I also finished Suzanne Palmer's excellent Finder Chronicles series, reading The Scavenger Door and Ghostdrift. This series is some of the best science fiction I've read in a long time and I'm sad it is over (at least for now).

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  The Scavenger Door

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  I also finished Suzanne Palmer's excellent Finder Chronicles series, reading The Scavenger Door and Ghostdrift. This series is some of the best science fiction I've read in a long time and I'm sad it is over (at least for now).

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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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  If you take a deadline deadly seriously and refuse ever to violate it, your mind simply finishes the work when it needs to be finished.

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  somehow if you take your deadlines seriously, that's the key. You take the deadlines deadly seriously and you just refuse to violate them. Um then you're serious when you establish them and you your mind just finishes when it needs to finish.

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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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  The date that matters for robotics is not when the technology is finished but when the data flywheel starts turning.

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  So to me like what what I tend to think about a lot in terms of timelines is not the date when it will be done but the date when it will when like the flywheel starts basically.

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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 United States could localise the entire solar supply chain, from dirt to finished module, in two years or less if it started today.

  solarAmerica

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  And I think the United States could probably do that in 2 years or less if you started today. Like it's currently 11:00, so like we're going to start cutting checks by noon.

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Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.

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  Grass-fed organic beef is worse for the climate and the planet than beef finished in a feedlot.

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  We need better beef - which means more efficient beef, not organic grass-fed beef, which is even worse for the climate and the planet than conventional feedlot-finished beef - but in the rich world we also need to eat less beef.

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  Pillow Book

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  A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

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  Conquest of the Useless

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  A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

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  Pensées

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  A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

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  Carnets

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  A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

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  Brown and Blue Notebooks

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  A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

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Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.

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  Tariffs on imported components and machinery hurt the American manufacturers they are supposed to help.

  America

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  They applied the same tax to the components that you need to make things in America that they did to finished goods that were made outside of America.

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

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  The right way to size a project is by the size of the projects you have already finished, not by how skilled you are.

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  the best metric for scoping a project is not technical skill, but the scope of the previous games you've finished!

  Indie Game Dev: Death Loopsderekyu.com

Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.

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  The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

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  I just finished this book a few weeks ago and it is still reverberating in my mind

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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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  The Courage to Be Disliked

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  Wow. A profound little philosophy book from Japan, communicating the psychology of Alfred Adler - a rival of Freud. Told as a conversation between an angry student and a patient teacher. A little book so good that I rushed home from other activities to keep reading it, and finished in a day. A surprisingly fresh perspective on how to live. (The “disliked” part is not the point, so don’t let the…

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  Sapiens

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  I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches”, on the same subject. But wow - this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that “truths” are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along wi…

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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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  The break in how cities are built is that places used to be improved continuously and are now built once, at scale, to a finished state.

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  Pre-Depression development was incremental on a continuum of improvement while post-War development is built at a large scale to a finished state.

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

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  The 4-Hour Body

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  Rough Notes. Never finished it to be honest, but the part about dieting supplements the classic Why We Get Fat (the former explains the theory well, while Ferriss’s book gives practical dietary ideas)

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