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

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  Nous has some of the best visuals and brand talent in the industry.

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  Nous has some of the best damn visuals and brand wizards in the game.

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Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.

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  Marco Rubio is struggling to hire talented staff and is settling for loyalists who follow his instructions instead.

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  This suggests that Rubio is having some difficulties hiring anyone with talent and is settling for a putz who will do what Rubio tells him to do on Latin America.

  The Devolution of the Policy Planning Staffdanieldrezner.substack.com

Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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  Elon Musk was flagrantly incompetent when he took on a government role, contradicting predictions that his business talent would translate there.

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  What we do know is that the actual Elon Musk that we have to live with on this here timeline was flagrantly incompetent in government, contrary to Noah's previous predictions.

  The Acemoglu Wars Are All About AIprogrammablemutter.com

Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

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  The specific rules taught as clean code are simply bad programming practices, and they get worse when you apply them together.

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  If you look at those things, they're kind of just bad programming practices. I I don't really know how else to say them. They don't mesh well when you put them together.

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Most high-skilled Europeans are happy to pay even high taxes, provided the government does a great job in return.

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  I think most high skilled Europeans are happy to pay (even high) taxes That is, if the government does a great job like Singapore or Dubai or Korea or Japan and most things work well You pay the government for a service and you get safe cities, great public services and great healthcare back

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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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  Intelligence looks like a fact of physics: apply enough compute to matter and you get something that thinks.

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  I mean it feels like a lot of physics. Like if you apply enough compute to matter, you get this thing that looks like intelligence.

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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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  The Elements of Style

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  I wish everybody read this book. The surprising thing is that many aspects and recommendations apply to virtually any language, not specifically English.

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  The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success

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  It’s… okay.

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From one piece No-One Makes You Shop at Amazon 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  People tend to overestimate their own talent and underestimate the structural advantages that amplify their success.

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  we are systematically likely to overestimate our own individual awesomeness, and to underestimate the external power asymmetries that magnify our voices.

  No-One Makes You Shop at Amazonprogrammablemutter.com

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  Success in cultural and professional fields is driven more by chance and path dependence than by talent.

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  much cultural success is stochastic (the experimental evidence suggests that talent only moderately predicts success in culture markets), and that path dependence shapes chances of success

  No-One Makes You Shop at Amazonprogrammablemutter.com

Founder of Scale AI and, since 2025, Chief AI Officer at Meta, where he leads the company’s superintelligence lab.

From one piece Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Talent density is the one thing to bet on when building a lab, because it compounds by itself: the more talented people you have, the more the best want to join you.

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  the first is talent density was incredibly important. That was the the core thing to bet on and um, like talent density is something that compounds naturally. Like the more talented people you have the more of the most most talented people want to join you.

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  Today’s models are already powerful enough to add many points of GDP growth; what is missing is people with the vision and ambition to apply them.

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  I truly believe these these models are already just incredibly powerful. Like they should they should be so powerful to fuel, you know, um many many points of expansion of GDP growth and I think it's like up to smart people with vision and ambition to make all that happen.

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Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group.

From one piece Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Netflix is not losing the talent war to the frontier AI labs; it competes for a different person — one excited by applying technology to entertainment at scale.

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  It does feel like we have to be more more explicit about the types of people and talent that tend to thrive at Netflix versus other companies like some of the frontier labs.

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  Talent density is the non-negotiable first ingredient — without it you cannot trust decisions made at every level or let people take risks.

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  Well, the talent density is the non-negotiable. Like you have to start with that. If you don't have that, you can't get to a place where you have confidence in decision-making at all levels of the organization, allowing people to take risks and innovate quickly.

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Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.

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  Insisting on knowing whether you have talent, or started too late, closes doors that staying uncertain would have left open.

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  The more we know – the more we insist on being sure – the more doors we close.

  The Natural-Born Artist.georgesaunders.substack.com

Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

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  Programs exist to communicate intent to other people and now to models as well, and we do not understand at all how to communicate effectively to models.

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  part of the goal of programs is to communicate intent to other human beings and now to models as well which which is a much more open-ended problem. We understand a lot more about how to communicate to other human beings whether we apply that understanding or not. We don't understand at all how to communicate effectively to models

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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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  A government taking a stake in its chipmaker is ordinary infrastructure policy — Taiwan, Japan and Singapore all did it.

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  Just I explained to President Trump, TSMC when they started they have the Taiwan government as a shareholder. If you look at Japan, you look at Singapore, this is the infrastructure US government get to provide the support.

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  Most social and political divides come from different views on how to apply shared values, not from opposing values themselves.

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  Most of our divides aren't due to opposing values. They're due to different views on how to live similar values.

  Silence Is Not Necessarily Violenceadamgrant.substack.com

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  But if you want to really get into my approach, I recommend the Dalio Market Principles Online program I built with the Wealth Management Institute of Singapore, which has received a 100% recommendation rate from past participants.

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  Eisenhorn

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  It's pretty decently adequate, as mind candy. There are places where Abnett shows flashes of real talent. (To avoid spoilers, I'll just say: The first alien planet; the opening scenes with the cranky biologist.) There are other aspects of the novels which are pretty unsatisfying.

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Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.

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  A person who studies a language for years and cannot speak it was taught the wrong method; it is not a failure of talent or of effort.

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  Most people hear that story and think: he must have lacked talent, or commitment. I don’t think that’s the right conclusion. I think he was never taught how second language acquisition actually works, and so he spent hundreds of hours doing the wrong things.

  What Is Second Language Acquisition?blog.thelinguist.com

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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  Science always bottlenecks precisely where the heuristics that worked before stop applying, which is definitionally what makes something a bottleneck.

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  the point is that where we always get bottlenecked is where the the previous processes and and and heuristics don't apply. Right? Like that's almost sort of definitionally what causes the bottlenecks.

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

From one piece Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A company should manufacture fresh internal challenges for its best people, because the alternative is that they go and find those challenges at another company.

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  I look at um the talent base and I think it is best for us to create opportunity for people to keep on growing with fresh new challenges within the company because if we don't do that they would leave the company

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  Talent density is self-protecting: once a team is made of A players it will only hire more of them and will not tolerate anyone who is not performing.

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  when you have team A, team A will just want to hire more A level players and yeah, they just intolerant of anybody who's not performing,

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  A company that stops hiring new graduates because AI makes juniors look unnecessary will have no senior engineers in a few years' time.

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  the best of the best still get offer from us because if we don't hire those folks today, what senior engineer will we have for yeah years from now, right? You have to feed the talent pipeline

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  Engineering offices abroad should be opened where world-class talent already lives, not where labour is cheap — you bring the work to the talent rather than moving the talent.

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  We didn't go to other places because of cost savings like that. We go there because we have need and we have world class talent

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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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  China is the fastest-innovating country in the world today, on the strength of its talent, its open-source habit and its ferocious internal competition.

  open sourceChina

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  So you get this rapid, incredible great talent, rapid innovation because of open source and just, you know, the nature of friends, and, and insane competition. Among the company, what emerges is incredible stuff. And so this is the fastest innovating country in the world today

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Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.

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  Delivery will keep being slow until companies apply AI to the human, business-process half of it, not just to coding.

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  a lot of companies haven't started until now thinking about how we could apply AI to the very human, very business process part of it. And so, that will keep slowing us down until we find a way to to address it, right?

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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  On any given problem an AI tool succeeds maybe one or two percent of the time; the headline results are what running it at scale and picking the winners looks like.

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  Uh but whenever we do a systematic study, um any given problem, an AI tool has a success rate of maybe 1 or 2%. Uh it's just that it's just that they can apply at scale and and you just pick the winners, it looks great.

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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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  How much the economy pays for a given talent at a given time is arbitrary and shouldn't determine which of your gifts you value.

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  Our dumb economy might prize a certain talent more during a certain period of time or place, but that doesn't mean you should.

  How to find your passion in lifemariandrew.substack.com

Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

From one piece Speed Can Reindustrialize America 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The scarce input in American manufacturing is high-end technical talent, and industrial policy consumes it rather than creating it.

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  Industrial policy almost inevitably consumes more skilled labor and reduces what we can produce.

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  The real cost of the CHIPS Act is the technical talent it ties up, not its fifty-billion-dollar price tag.

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  The CHIPS Act might still be a positive, but the cost is almost certainly many times the $50 billion price tag.

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Co-founder and CEO of Until, a reversible-cryopreservation company, and previously the founder of the Longevity Fund.

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  Temperature is a rare conceptual lever that lets you use physics to reason usefully about a biological problem.

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  Basically what that gives you is like you can apply a lot of theoretical sort of um a lot of theoretical toolkit used in physics to model parts of this question in ways that are actually useful. And it is just not true that you can use like equations from physics to think usefully about almost any other problem in biology.

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Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.

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  Claude

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  I’m going to be speaking about Claude directly, because it’s the tool I use the most, but a lot of this should apply to other platforms as well.

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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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  Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

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  The sequel to Inspired, this book explores what the best product companies have in common. “Most people think it’s because these companies are somehow able to find and attract a level of talent that makes this innovation possible. But the real advantage these companies have is not so much who they hire, but rather how they enable their people to work together to solve hard problems and create extraordinary products.”

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Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.

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  Human-interface design principles from decades ago remain valid because human cognition hasn't changed.

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  But the principles-as long as they are good principles-still apply, because they are based on how humans work, not how computers work.

  It’s hard to justify Tahoe iconstonsky.me

Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  Academic talent is normally distributed, so some students failing is inevitable rather than anybody's fault.

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  Academic talent is normally distributed throughout the population, and so some degree of failure is literally inevitable.

  There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com

Reinforcement-learning researcher; co-wrote the field's standard textbook, wrote The Bitter Lesson, and shared the 2024 Turing Award.

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  The bitter lesson is only an empirical observation about a particular seventy years of history, and need not hold for the next seventy.

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  The bitter lesson. Oh, who cares about that? That's that's an empirical observation about a particular period in history. 70 years in history no longer doesn't necessarily have to apply the next 70 years.

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  We accept without difficulty that people differ in athletic or musical talent, and refuse to accept that they differ in academic talent.

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  But with education and intelligence, we’re unwilling to countenance the simple reality that some people are better equipped to succeed and some worse.

  Education Doesn't Work 3.0freddiedeboer.substack.com

FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.

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  Working with the entire ecosystem produces better long-term results than focusing solely on your own organization's immediate needs.

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  While the same does not directly apply in other fields, working with others to produce the best results for everyone will be much better in the long-term than focusing solely on what Amazon needs right now.

  Thoughts on (Amazonian) Leadershipdaemonology.net

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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Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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  Meta is not at the AI frontier, and buying talent with enormous salaries is the rational move for a company that is behind.

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  And Meta right now are not at the frontier. Maybe they'll manage to get back on there and it's probably rational what they're doing from their perspective because they're behind and they need to do something. But I think there's more important things than just money.

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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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  Kids have their own lives and parents should not try to apply their rules to them.

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  But it's a great reminder that our kids have their own life, that we should not try to apply our rules to them.

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

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  Apple's 30% cut is a junk fee on commerce done with a phone the customer already paid for, and it has shut down the competitive engine that once fuelled the software economy.

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  You already bought that phone, why should Apple be adding a 30% junk fee to all commerce you do, and why do they selectively apply it to some things and not others? I've always viewed this as deeply abusive and that it shuts down the competitive engine that once fueled the app and software economy.

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Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.

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  The journey is better than the destination is a shallow phrase: taken literally it says every place you are heading from now on is worse.

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  The journey is better than the destination. Everyone's heard this. Just take one second to apply what that means. That means forever starting from now, you are only going towards a place that's worse.

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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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  The copyright problem in AI training already has a legal solution nobody is taking: train the models in Japan, where copyright does not apply to training data.

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  So, Japan has a law which you're allowed to train on any training data and copyrights don't apply if you want to train a model, A. B, Japan has 9 gigawatts of curtailed nuclear power. C, Japan is allowed under the AI diffusion rule to import as many GPUs as they'd like.

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President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.

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  Tariffs are what made the United States rich under President McKinley.

  America

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  President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent — he was a natural businessman

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  The memorize-fetch-apply paradigm behind LLMs can reach arbitrary skill given training data, but it cannot adapt to novelty or acquire new skills on the fly.

  LLMsOpenAI

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  This "memorize, fetch, apply" paradigm can achieve arbitrary levels of skills at arbitrary tasks given appropriate training data, but it cannot adapt to novelty or pick up new skills on the fly (which is to say that there is no fluid intelligence at play here.)

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  OpenAI's new o3 model represents a significant leap forward in AI's ability to adapt to novel tasks. This is not merely incremental improvement, but a genuine breakthrough, marking a qualitative shift in AI capabilities compared to the prior limitations of LLMs.

Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries

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  An eye-opening view on considerations going into building a widely used public API or reusable library. While the book focuses on the .NET framework, many of the conventions apply to maintainable and reusable components, in general. This book had an outsized impact on me as I read it when I was a mid-level .NET developer.

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  As every population ages, countries will have to compete for migrants rather than choose freely among them.

  immigration

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  One more word of caution: the world is a closed and shrinking box. As all populations age, competition for talent will only intensify.

  Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally?ggd.world

Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine; previously a research scientist at OpenAI and a PhD student at UC Berkeley.

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  Real reasoning will have arrived when spending more compute at inference time reliably buys a dramatically better answer.

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  I think if we can achieve that amount of inference compute, where it leads to a dramatically better answer as you apply more inference compute, I think that will be the beginning of real reasoning breakthroughs.

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Language mentor and polyglot; teaches people to design their own learning method rather than follow a course.

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  Anyone can learn a language, and what separates those who do is method rather than talent.

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  Everybody can learn a language if they know how.

  About Melanguagementoring.com

CEO of Redwood Research, where he works on AI control: making sure a powerful model cannot cause a catastrophe even if it is misaligned and trying to.

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  Labs should make powerful models safe to deploy even if those models are misaligned and actively trying to subvert the safeguards.

  AI alignment

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  That is, labs should make sure that the safety measures they apply to their powerful models prevent unacceptably bad outcomes, even if the AIs are misaligned and intentionally try to subvert those safety measures.

  redwoodresearch.substack.com

Semiconductor analyst; writes Fabricated Knowledge on the chip industry and the companies in it.

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  Moore's Law is a fractal: the same squeeze that shrank the transistor is now being applied to the rack.

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  Moore’s Law is a fractal, and the principles that apply to nanometers apply to racks.

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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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  Leaving an old relationship for a new one is usually shopping for novelty rather than refusing to honour a sunk cost.

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  a new relationship is like fresh powder. It is new and shiny and exciting but it will not be a new relationship for long. And then you're still stuck with an old relationship and the question is will your old relationship a year from now be better than your old relationship that you currently have is? And if the answer is yes then yes sunk costs completely apply. But if the answer is no then what you're really doing is shopping for novelty not ignoring sunk costs.

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  It is the party's censorship, not any lack of talent, that has made China a cultural underperformer beside Japan and South Korea.

  China

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  As I’ve written in each of my previous letters, the party’s strangling of free expression has rendered China into a pitiful underperformer relative to Japan and South Korea in the creation of cultural products.

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American front-end engineer and design-systems specialist; built the Pantsuit design system for Hillary for America and has worked at Slack and IBM.

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  Arc Browser

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  I recently switched to Arc Browser, so some of these no longer apply.

  mina.codes

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  Finite and Infinite Games

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  So abstract. Maybe the most abstract book you’ll ever read. Compares “finite” games with rules and winners, versus “infinite” games without winners where we can play with the game itself. Is it about a job versus a calling? Religion versus spirituality? A story versus story-telling? Who knows. Thought-provoking if you can apply the metaphor to whatever concerns you.

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Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.

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  The single test to apply to any technology is whether it centralises power or decentralises it: the first is bad and the second is good.

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  my central thesis about the world is there’s things that centralize power, and they’re bad. There’s things that decentralize power, and they’re good. Everything I can do to help decentralize power, I’d like to do.

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

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  Even when advice is understood and believed, people discount it by assuming their own case is the exception.

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  Even when we understand the words, and even when we trust them, we still have another eject button: we assume they don’t apply to us.

  You can't reach the brain through the earsexperimental-history.com

Development economist; argues that letting people move to rich countries does more for the poor than aid, and wrote Let Their People Come.

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  The rich world is spending its scarcest resource, elite talent, on economising the most abundant resource on earth: ordinary labour.

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  My key argument is that in the current global economy we have some of the scarcest resources on the planet devoting themselves to economizing one of the most abundant resources on the planet.

  Choose Peoplelampforum.org

Research psychologist, instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making; developed the recognition-primed decision model, the PreMortem method and the ShadowBox training method, and wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't.

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  Breaking through a skill plateau requires unlearning beliefs and conventions that are wrong or narrower than assumed.

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  people get up to a certain level of performance, and then they start to stagnate. And they start to plateau. And people who who break through and move to the next level um are the ones who have to who engage in unlearning. Who realize there are certain uh conventions they've bought into or beliefs they hold that are either wrong or are limited and and don't apply as broadly as as they imagine.

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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

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  Tyler Cowen will often praise a book by saying it is interesting on every page. Together with Daniel Gross, he has written a book that very much matches this description.

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Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.

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  Steven Spielberg: A Biography

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  My key takeaway from the book: Spielberg, for reasons that McBride can never quite nail down, was capital-D driven. His story provides a master class in the potential of mixing relentless ambition, talent, and perfect timing.

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Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  Own the Room: Business Presentations that Persuade, Engage, and Get Results

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  If you want one book to teach you everything you need to know about giving great presentations, this is the book. A film director, a psychologist, and an actor share their combined experiences to help improve your content, the design, your movements, and just about every other detail of being a great speaker. It was a slow start, but by the end, I had dog-eared dozens of pages and marked up many more which I was able to directly apply to a major talk I was working on.

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  The Creative Habit

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  This is a great book for understanding how the creative process works. It left me with a lot of ideas I could apply to my day to day to be more creative. After living in the world of startups and business in real life and most of the books I read, it was great to hear how the different world of dance performance can be learned from.

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  Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google

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  If you're curious how Google built it's culture and the processes thanks to their extremely data & engineering driven nature, this is a great book. What held it back was being ~100 pages too long and Bock didn't always understand where what they did only fit at a $100Bn+, mega-profitable company. Still, the insights on the studies on their 50,000+ employees is well worth the read since so few of us can get similar statistical significance to apply to our teams.

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  The Lean Entrepreneur

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  It goes much further and deeper into how to approach actually doing Lean in your business than Eric Ries's The Lean Startup book. It also has some awesome case studies showing how lean can apply to any industry. See my full review here.

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  Obviously Awesome

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  Simple, practical, useful. This book is a quick read that covers modern positioning and how to do it. Unlike all the theoretical books out there, this is a VC who lived a life as a marketer (all the way up to CMO/VP) doing this and then worked with more entrepreneurs. This hands on experience leads to a system that is easy to understand and apply. I'm now trying to apply it so this score will rise or fall based on the results we have.

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Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.

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  Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach

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  This is what I wish I learned from in my freshman year of college. The part of it about linear algebra is one of the best linear algebra resources out there, and remainder shows you how those tools apply to non-linear mathematics.

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