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Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.

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  Being honest earlier is always better than being honest later.

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  Being honest earlier is always better than being honest later.

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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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  AI agents are reducing human-to-human interaction via code

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  They sure feel they are reducing human-to-human interaction via the code, I'll be honest

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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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  Humanity is not good enough at molecular biology to make drugs that restore vision or hearing or stop Parkinson's.

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  People have spent huge amounts of time and money looking for drugs to restore vision or to restore hearing or to stop Parkinson's or to to help paralyzed people move again. Understanding the like the biology and the molecular detail required to make a drug has been very difficult. Humanity just isn't that good at that, to be totally honest.

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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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  Televised hearings built for viral clips are the wrong venue for honest accountability conversations.

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  the time to make that point is not during a televised hearing when everyone is trying for a viral clip.

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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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  Thinking Forth

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  Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie. I used to have this habit where I learned various programming languages. To challenge my perspective, I chose languages from families and paradigms that were fundamentally different from what I already knew. Occasionally, I stumbled upon greatness. Thinking Forth presents programming as a creative process, and it delivers those lessons in an entertaining and pedagogical way. The book is particularly strong on software analysis and design, but it's the execution and technical writing that brought the book to my top five. This is the book for anyone writing about software — Leo's way is the way to do it.

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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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  Almost every recent AI breakthrough has been in code and mathematics, the two domains with highly structured languages and huge specialised training sets.

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  But if you zoom out, it becomes clear that almost every “breakthrough” since last summer has concerned the narrow domains of computer code and math, which are defined by highly structured languages and come accompanied by massive amounts of specialized training data.

  On AI Coding and Its Discontentscalnewport.com

Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.

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  Roadmapping and pure iteration are both failure modes; a product team has to keep stretching out to strategy and compressing back into shipping.

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  there are people who are really big on road maps and there are people who are really big on iteration. I I think the honest answer is you've got to do both. You can't over-index on either.

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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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  “Why now?” is the wrong question to make a founder answer — the honest answer can simply be that you started now.

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  so I I deeply believe that you should pick a problem that you want to go solve in the world and don't worry too much uh about the answer to why now. Uh the answer to why now can be because I started now.

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

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  He reached the conclusion that input drives language acquisition on his own, before meeting the research that says so.

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  I came to the same conclusions independently before I encountered Krashen's work, and decades of learning across 20+ languages have only reinforced them. The research supports the intuition: input is where acquisition happens.

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

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  Once non-designers can build products, a design team’s job becomes templates and design systems — otherwise the company ships Frankensteins.

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  I get really nervous about having different design languages or different types of user interactions and shipping Frankensteins, basically. So, designers need to then be the people we're hiring again for design systems thinking.

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Head of Instagram since 2018, previously head of Facebook's News Feed.

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  Power is shifting from institutions to individuals across every industry: players are now more relevant than the teams they play for.

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  power shifting from institutions to individuals across industries, the easiest example is sports where players are more relevant than teams now.

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Makes NeetCode, the structured practice list and video walkthroughs people use to prepare for coding interviews; a former Google engineer.

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  Every big innovation — cloud computing, higher-level languages — should have reduced the number of programmers, and none of them ever has.

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  Like every single time there's just like the big innovation like cloud computing, like higher level programming languages, for whatever reason things do not like it doesn't lead to fewer programmers. And I would have expected it would have.

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Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.

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  The prickle you used to feel writing a hack is muted now, so the landmines are still there but the feedback loop that kept your judgement honest is gone.

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  That prickle that feeling that you get, it's like muted now cuz someone else it's kind of like you've made someone else deal with the problem. The problem is still there and the the landmines are still going to blow up on you eventually, but like you're not you don't feel that bad feeling as much anymore. So your judgment is skewed. You're not getting that feedback loop.

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Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.

From one piece Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A language can keep changing without a Python-2-to-3 break, as long as code written under the old and the new rules can be mixed freely in one program.

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  Really the big idea is to say we want the old code to continue working but we still want to change the language. And so the the difference from other kinds of versions of languages I mean Python 2 version Python 3 comes to mind is that you can totally mix and match in any way you want.

  Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com

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  What trips up newcomers to Rust is not the code but the shape of their data.

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  I think the most tricky thing people run into is how should you put together your data structures? I mean for your code you can mostly do the same things as you can in other languages. I mean that's not entirely true but the big thing is really the data structures.

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Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.

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  A programming language is a ten-year play: version one has issues, version two fixes them, version three is finally good — and only then does adoption start.

  TypeScript

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  But but the thing is like doing programming languages, you come to realize it's a long play. I mean, if if you look back at the the stuff I worked on, it it it goes in 10-year cycles at least. And TypeScript didn't really, for example, or C# for that matter. I mean, it took it it takes 10 years to get to, you know, version one is great, but it has all sorts of issues, and then you got to do version two, and then it's not until version three that it really starts to be great.

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  Because its types are erased before the program runs, TypeScript can afford not to be sound: checking 99% beats the 0% JavaScript checked, and buys features a sound language cannot offer.

  TypeScriptJavaScript

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  So, if we're checking 99% instead of 100%, well, heck, that's better than the 0% that JavaScript checked, right? And it gives you like language features that no other languages can provide because they can't get to 100%.

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Geneticist at Harvard; reads ancient DNA to work out how populations moved and mixed, and wrote Who We Are and How We Got Here.

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  A tiny fraction of ancestry can carry the most important thing about a population: Yamnaya is only a few percent of DNA in India and yet it brought the language.

  Europe

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  but it is the tracer dye, right? Like it tracks into European languages and important aspects of Indo-European culture are coming through Yamnaya.

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

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  Making code easier to write will lead to much more software being created overall.

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  Agents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software.

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  The overhead of learning a new programming language no longer justifies sticking to the two you know: start writing in a third now, without learning it first.

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  if you've always stuck to two programming languages because of the overhead of learning a third, go and learn a third right now. And don't learn it, just start writing code in it.

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Programmer and essayist who has worked at Amazon, Google, Grab and Sourcegraph. Best known for the long-form essays collected as Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants.

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  Language choice is a temporary artefact of training data; in the fullness of time every language will work equally well with AI.

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  But right now we're in a funny place where the some languages work better than others still because they have better training data, but in the fullness of time, all languages will work equally well.

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Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.

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  Unbeatable: The Brutally Honest Case for Free Markets

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  It is definitely my broadest and least inhibited book — and in my judgment, the best-written and the best overall.

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Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.

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  There is a 90% chance of a country of geniuses in a datacentre within ten years, and no honest forecast can go much higher than that.

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  on the basic hypothesis of you know, as you put it, within 10 years we'll get to, you know, you know, what I call kind of country of geniuses in a data center. I'm at like 90% on that. Um and it's hard to go much higher than 90% cuz the world is so unpredictable.

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Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.

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  Next.js

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  I now use different languages for different tasks. For web development, I prefer the Next.js stack.

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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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  Behavior is governed by the surroundings, so a good habit only holds when it is the path of least resistance in the rooms a person occupies.

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  You want to you want to be able to walk into the rooms that you're in each day, and the good habit is the path of least resistance. It's the easiest thing to do. And a lot of the time you walk into rooms and it's the distractions that are easier to do and you feel like you're swimming upstream and trying to fight your environment to make a change happen.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Go

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  My go-to languages are TypeScript for web stuff, Go for CLIs and Swift if it needs to use macOS stuff or has UI. Go wasn’t something I gave even the slightest thought even a few months ago, but eventually I played around and found that agents are really great at writing it, and its simple type system makes linting fast.

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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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  Pimsleur

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  For language acquisition, Pimsleur is by far my favorite online/app program. (Even Mr. Mari, who gathers no joy from learning languages, was addicted to it for a while!)

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Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  Who Knew

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  This part of Who Knew is raw and honest in a way most business memoirs usually aren’t.

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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  Giving a vendor brutally honest feedback helps the vendor and the customer's own company more than polite praise given out of fear

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  It isn't easy dealing with peer pressure and a room of warm and friendly staff begging you say something, anything nice about their terrible product for fear of losing their jobs -- and realizing you must be brutal to their faces otherwise you're not helping the vendor or your own company.

  Intel is listening, don't waste your shotbrendangregg.com

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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  Intelligence is becoming a choice rather than a byproduct of daily work: there will still be smart people, but only those who choose to be.

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  Thus my personal prediction is that in domains that are already largely under the powers of modern AI, such as languages, programming or chess, we’re going to see a divergence in human abilities.

  Will AI Make Us Stupid?scotthyoung.com

Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.

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  The most plausible answer to why we are here is that we were designed by the universe to watch itself and to comment on it in interesting ways.

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  To watch the universe. The easiest plausible answer is we are designed by the universe to watch itself and to comment on it in interesting ways.

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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  Each year of delay costs a person about ten percent of their prime risk-taking years.

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  Each delayed year costs approximately 10% of life's easiest risk-taking period.

  Don't Waste Your 20s Not Taking Big Risksnateliason.com

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.

  Google

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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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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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  A leader who projects unflappable seriousness causes their team to hide problems and honest feedback.

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  Nobody wants to follow a joyless leader. If your presence signals, "Everything is fine. I've got this all figured out. Please don't show me anything messy," your team will take the hint.

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

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  There is one right way to build a type system, the way that gives you mathematical proofs, and every other kind of type system is simply worse and should be rejected.

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  But there are other parts of programming languages that are not subjective but should be fundamental. And when you look at type systems, there is a way to do type systems that gives you mathematical proofs. And every other way of type systems that doesn't give you mathematical proofs is just worse and should ultimately be rejected.

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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.

From one piece ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A speed difference between languages that share the LLVM backend measures the benchmark author, not the languages.

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  It's just that Zig, C, C++, all those languages that were being tested, they're all LLVM backends, right? That's the one that actually turns the thing into the executable part. And if there's a variation in speed, it just means in one language you didn't quite express what you are supposed to correctly.

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  Reading code and writing code are separate skills, and being able to read a language is no evidence you could write it.

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  At some point you have to take off the training wheels, because I think what you're really spotting is the difference between reading and writing code. I can read a lot of languages very well. I can see what's happening. I can understand it, but I would not be very good at writing it.

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  Learning a new language by Googling your way through a project teaches you your old languages again, not the new one.

  Google

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  You kind of Google and you try to solve a problem in the language based on all of your previous experience. And so you don't have what makes that language special. You have what all the other languages make special.

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Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  Unhinged Habits: A Counterintuitive Guide for Humans to Have More by Doing Less

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  Part memoir, part raw, honest reflection, part useful ideas for a pathless life. I loved how this book didn't follow a non-fiction formula. His 'on-season'/'off-season' approach was useful for me.

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Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.

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  Roll Back the World: A Sister’s Memoir

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  Deborah Kasdan’s Roll Back the World: A Sister’s Memoir (2023) is an honest and vulnerable account of her sister Rachel’s life with schizophrenia and the challenges this presented for the family.

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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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  The Engineering Executive's Primer

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  "It’s honest in how it covers topics like navigating tricky power dynamics with CEOs, surviving 'peer panic,' dealing with competition within leadership teams, and in its overall breadth and depth."

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  The Making of a Manager

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  A guide in going from being a first-time manager to becoming a senior manager in an organization. A refreshingly honest tone

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Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.

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  One person building something honest and small can shift how a whole industry is seen, without a platform or a job at a big publication.

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  And it doesn’t always take a job at The New York Times or a huge pre-established platform to become one of the voices speaking up, helping to turn that tide.

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Archaeologist of the Maya and the ancient Americas; directs the Maya Exploration Center and presents the ArchaeoEd podcast.

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  Maya hieroglyphs must have been readable across several spoken languages, the way Chinese characters or Latin were.

  EuropeChina

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  There must have been a way that multiple languages understood the same writing system. Or maybe there was something like Latin. You know how there was a period in Europe where most people were illiterate and there was this priesthood who all understood Latin and they wrote in Latin? Maybe the hieroglyphs represent a kind of Latin in the ancient Maya world.

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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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  Wealth is what you have divided by what you want, so the reliable way to become wealthier is to want less.

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  Once you have some, the easiest way to increase your wealth is to decrease your needs.

  Wealth = Have ÷ Wantsive.rs

Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.

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  Encryption people have to switch on protects almost nobody; what protects people is what a service turns on for everyone.

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  To be honest though, it doesn’t matter how secure something is if people aren’t actually using it.

  Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.com

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

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  The thing worth teaching is not a language but how to learn languages, because that skill repeats for every language after it.

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  I don't teach people languages, I teach them how they can learn languages by themselves.

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Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.

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  Text-based NLP technology has limited value for under-represented languages that are primarily spoken and lack a standardized writing system.

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  many under-represented languages are primarily spoken; they do not have a written tradition or a standardized orthography. Text-based NLP technology is thus of limited use to them.

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Writes Useful Fictions on agency and how to get better at things; a former appellate lawyer and the top-ranked woman in professional poker in 2017.

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  Not seeking honest feedback from the people who know you is the largest and least-taken opportunity for self-improvement, and it usually has to be anonymous to be honest.

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  If you aren’t trying to get real feedback from people who know you, you’re cooking without tasting.

  How to be more agenticusefulfictions.substack.com

Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.

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  Metaprogramming in a language creates fundamental obstacles to static analysis of its code.

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  Languages with metaprogramming tend to put up fundamental hurdles to static analysis

  in which an escape route is discoveredtechnomancy.us

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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  How Languages are Learned

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  To that end, I read a few different books from the field of second language acquisition (SLA) over the summer, and even wrote a review of How Languages are Learned.

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Theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, working on particle physics, extra dimensions and dark matter.

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  People are far less frightened of nuclear weapons than they should be, and that is a more serious danger than the ones they do fear.

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  I think they’re not as scared as they should be about nuclear weapons, to be honest. I think that’s more serious danger than people realize.

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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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  Nothing Is Missing: A Memoir of Living Boldly

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  My friend Nicole has written a provocative, funny and honest memoir. Nothing Is Missing: A Memoir of Living Boldly. I'll be interviewing her in NYC on October 9.

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Developer and designer publishing at pouria.dev; author of the open-source URL shortener Kutt.

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  Anki

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  Anki, flashcards. I particularry use it for languages and words.

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Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

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  American transit agencies stay expensive out of incuriosity: the practices that would fix them are written in languages nobody in the room reads.

  America

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  This is not about precarity, because this is not a precarious project; this is about total ignorance and incuriosity about best practices, which emanate from a place that doesn’t natively speak English and doesn’t trade in American political references.

  High Costs are not About Precaritypedestrianobservations.com

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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  You cannot build an AI that has only the capabilities you want, because the algorithms that solve the problems you want generalize to the ones you do not.

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  The best and easiest-found-by-optimization algorithms for solving problems we want an AI to solve, readily generalize to problems we’d rather the AI not solve; you can’t build a system that only has the capability to drive red cars and not blue cars, because all red-car-driving algorithms generalize to the capability to drive blue cars.

  AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalitiesintelligence.org

Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  A Promised Land

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  A Promised Land is a refreshingly honest book.

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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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  Open: An Autobiography

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  It is rare that a sports book captures my attention, rarer still when a sports autobiography does. But “Open” delivers a compelling life story superbly told by an athlete. Desire, motivation, and competitive drive him to the the highest levels of professional tennis, but he loses his interest, and was so often unhappy, confused and unfulfilled by his achievements. As an autobiography, it is bluntly honest, sometimes painful, but most of all a fascinating compelling read.

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Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.

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  There is no best or fastest way to learn a language; the question has no general answer.

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  after 30 years of learning languages and 10 years of coaching people to do the same, I am 100% positive when I tell you that there is no absolute best and fastest way to learn a language.

  The Only True Way to Learn a Languagelucalampariello.com

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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  Patrick JMT

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  If you want good, honest worked examples of practice problems, especially for calculus, it's hard to find a deeper well of examples than what this channel provides.

  3blue1brown.com

Former options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter on trading, volatility, decision-making and how to think about risk outside markets too.

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  The 5 Love Languages

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  The lesson is that connecting with others starts with recognizing that people are so different, especially in how they communicate. But there’s a much broader lesson embedded in this book if you read between the lines.

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Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.

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  States were born in the richest and easiest country, not in hard marginal land.

  Their words

  Rather than hard, difficult country being the breeding ground for the state, it is in fact the richest, softest areas that were (for those who have been to Mesopotamia and are wondering why it doesn’t seem quite so rich and soft anymore, the word you want to look up is salinization).

  acoup.blog

Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

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  Programming languages shape how programmers think, similar to how spoken languages shape thought.

  Their words

  Languages shape the way we think*, each in their own peculiar way. That's true for programming languages as well.

  thorstenball.com

Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.

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  Domain-Specific Languages

  Their words

  Partly because of another book that nearly made it onto my list: Domain-Specific Languages by Martin Fowler. It talks about the idea of writing a small language inside another language, to express ideas in a specific domain

  fivebooks.com

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  Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming

  Their words

  Another similar and also interesting book is Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, which explains all the models of computer languages and how they fit together.

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  Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

  Their words

  But this book is very useful for somebody like me, with experience in high-level engineering languages, like VBA, PHP and R. They're incredibly useful languages, but ones that computer scientists generally disdain, because they're not theoretically pure or beautiful. This book shows you how languages can be constructed. The most valuable thing it gives you is confidence and knowledge to go and create your own programming language.

  fivebooks.com

Sociologist and founder of Bismarck Analysis; writes on live players, institutional decay and why societies lose knowledge.

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  The easiest way for an institution to protect its reputation is to stop attempting anything that could visibly fail.

  Their words

  An easy way to avoid spoiling a reputation is by never failing, and an easy way to never visibly fail is to never undertake a task.

  Institutional Failure as Surprisesamoburja.com

London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.

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  Visual Studio Code

  Their words

  Visual Studio Code is the go-to editor for some complex languages like React using JSX or TypeScript and I finally agreed with Wes Bos that VS Code is better for development of React JS.

  blog.praveen.science

Designer, illustrator and writer; author of The Shape of Design and of widely read essays on design and the web.

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  The cheapest way to deal with complexity is not to invent something to manage it but to avoid it with a cleverer plan.

  Their words

  So, I thought it would be useful to remind everyone that the easiest and cheapest strategy for dealing with complexity is not to invent something to manage it, but to avoid the complexity altogether with a more clever plan.

  Everything Easy is Hard Againfrankchimero.com

Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

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  Building powerful developer tools such as compilers, interpreters, and query languages requires knowledge of parsing.

  developer tools

  Their words

  What I know and what I'm sure about is that without knowledge of parsing you won't be able to build tools like these.

  Higher Value Toolsthorstenball.com

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

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  The 4-Hour Body

  Their words

  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)

  radex.io

Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.

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  He prefers languages with expressive type systems and has still never noticed them making him more productive or less bug-prone.

  Their words

  But while I like languages with expressive type systems, I haven't noticed that they make me more productive or less bug prone

  danluu.com

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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  Reaching a conversational level in a language within three months of arriving is not something to expect.

  On changing their mind

  When Vat and I initially made plans, neither of us were confident that it would be possible to reach a conversational level in any of the languages.

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

From one piece Looking Back at a Year (Almost) Without English 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Learning a language in a hurry and learning one by slow patient habit are both legitimate; neither refutes the other.

  Their words

  Just because we attempted to learn with intensity, doesn’t denigrate learning languages through slow, patient habit.

  Looking Back at a Year (Almost) Without Englishscotthyoung.com

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  Asian languages are hard enough that arriving without preparation and refusing to speak English will not work.

  Their words

  The main takeaway I made from all of this was: Asian languages are hard, and attempting full-immersion without sufficient preparation is usually not going to work.

  Looking Back at a Year (Almost) Without Englishscotthyoung.com

Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass, known for 'epistemic spot checks' of non-fiction claims.

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  It's Always Something

  Their words

  And I think she did a really good job portraying that- the ups and downs, what a positive attitude can and can not get you, the costs and benefits of fighting doctors and using alternative treatments. It was a very honest description of both hope and despair without become overwhelming.

  acesounderglass.com

Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.

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  Most programming languages in use today derive from Fortran or Lisp, both created in the 1950s.

  Their words

  Pretty much any programming language used today is a derivative of Fortran or Lisp, both born in the 1950s.

  The 1950s called and wanted their toolbox backrsms.me

Industrial designer; head of design at Braun from 1961 to 1995; designer of Vitsœ's 606 shelving system; author of the ten principles for good design.

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  Good design is honest: it does not make a product seem more innovative, powerful or valuable than it is, and does not manipulate with promises that cannot be kept.

  Their words

  It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept.

  Dieter Rams: ten principles for good designvitsoe.com

Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.

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  Python

  Their words

  Programming languages aren't strictly software, but I'm a huge fan of Python along with the numeric computing libraries.

  usesthis.com

Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.

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  The Honest Rainmaker

  Their words

  That's kind of the point – it's this lovable rogue, this guy who was never as successful as all that, but he would somehow just manage to stay afloat. To me it felt very statistical, the whole book.

  fivebooks.com

Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.

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  SuperDuper

  Their words

  run backups with SuperDuper, a program every Mac user must own. SuperDuper is quite simply the easiest backup program ever invented, and it just works.

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