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Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner and its Symphony engine.

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  “Work on what you know” is the worst advice there is: knowledge can be acquired, but what you love cannot be changed.

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  So I think the worst advice is like work on what you know. Uh what you know can be changed. Particularly in a world where you everyone has personalized AI tutors. Anybody with passion and dedication can learn new knowledge and learn new skills. But what you can't change easily is what you love.

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Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.

From one piece An Alternative to Private Equity: Introducing ORANGE JUICE 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Businesses acquired by private equity funds fail more often than average because of the leverage loaded onto them.

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  Businesses that emerge out of PE funds have higher failure rates than average, thanks to being saddled with a lot of leverage.

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  Private equity's short fund cycles push firms toward aggressive cost-cutting that erodes what made an acquired business successful.

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  PE funds optimize for a 4-7 flip and typically resort to aggressive cost-cutting and near-term optimization at the cost of the "soul" of the business or what made it successful in the first place.

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Chief executive of Intel since 2025, founder of the venture firm Walden International and chief executive of Cadence Design Systems for thirteen years.

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  The AI build-out will end the way the internet did: a couple of Amazons, and a long list of companies that go sideways or disappear.

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  So you know, just like internet, you can see some of them turn out to be very big like Amazon, like the Netflix and then some of them is kind of go sideways and disappeared or being acquired. And so I think to me is the same approach.

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Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.

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  The Federal Reserve will need to raise interest rates rather than cut them to bring down inflation.

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  I will be surprised if there are any votes for rate cuts, even from Warsh himself. The Fed may need to hike rates this year to tame inflation.

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Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind; worked on interpretability at Anthropic under Chris Olah before that, and teaches the field to newcomers.

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  Research taste, the harder-to-learn conceptual skills behind good research strategy, takes a long time to develop but very little time to apply once acquired

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  My model is that research requires a mix of skills. The day-to-day coding and execution is crucial. But there's also a set of harder-to-learn conceptual skills, collectively called research taste. These skills take a long time to gain because they have poor feedback loops, but they take very little time to use.

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Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.

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  LAMY Safari fountain pen

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  LAMY Safari fountain pen (specifically the Pikachu one!)

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Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.

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  The Russian Empire acquired a sixth of the Earth by integrating conquered elites rather than their peoples, and nationalism is what made that model fall apart.

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  The elites would be integrated, and the empire was based on the state loyalty and the state integration. But once you bring in the factor of nation and nationalism and language, then, once in a sudden, the whole model of the integration of the elites, irrespective of their language, religion, and culture, starts falling apart.

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Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

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  Knowledge is cheap and easily acquired; what a person actually needs is curiosity, self-efficacy, perseverance, perspective and hope.

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  Untangling them requires some knowledge, yes, but knowledge is cheap and easily acquired. What you really need is curiosity, self-efficacy, perseverance, perspective, and hope.

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Co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and the writer who started the modern argument that a sufficiently capable AI would by default kill everyone. Has argued the case since the early 2000s, latterly with the conclusion that it is being lost.

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  No observation of a model's behaviour can establish that it is aligned, because a model capable enough to be dangerous is capable enough to produce whatever behaviour it is being watched for.

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  A strategically aware intelligence can choose its visible outputs to have the consequence of deceiving you, including about such matters as whether the intelligence has acquired strategic awareness

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Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.

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  Pilot Gel Ink Retractive Roller Ball

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  I used to have a special fountain pen, but printer cartridges and fountain pen cartridges are annoying and expensive, and so these days I stick with the ol' Pilot Gel Ink Retractive Roller Ball pen. Blue ink. It's got to be blue ink.

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