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19 September
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
years ago, my colleague Steve Teles and @mschmitt9.bsky.social wrote what I think is still the definitive piece on how to think about this - hewlett.org
Quoting @donmoyn.bsky.social Arguably Leonard Leo has been the most successful convertor of money to political outcomes in recent decades. He also is unethical and a bit corrupt, and seems to bet mostly on ideological allies and I doubt asks for metrics on ROI. www.propublica.org/article/we-d... Related
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
18 September
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
I'm going to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is to measure the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations. - If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read/share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/18/surprise/#wow-signal 1/ Related
15 September
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
x.com Delighted that my friend and colleague Alex Bellos has been awarded the 2026 Christopher Zeeman medal for communicating mathematics. Well done Alex. Here we are at the recent opening of Maths World in London alongside the excellent Alexander Masters. Related
Bluesky Delighted that my friend and colleague Alex Bellos has been awarded the 2026 Christopher Zeeman medal for communicating mathematics. Well done Alex. Here we are at the recent opening of Maths World in London alongside the excellent Alexander Masters. lms.ac.uk
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12 September
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Bluesky Lately on the blog: Share cards for Marked Share brettterpstra.com
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Blog Share cards for Marked Share Public posts, profiles, and collections on Marked Share now get their own share card. Paste a link into Mastodon, Slack, iMessage, or a blog comment and you should see the title, byline, and date on a Marked-colored car…
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10 September
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Bluesky Lately on the blog: Marked is Hookmark's Parter of the month brettterpstra.com
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Blog Marked is Hookmark's Partner of the month for September, and it’s a pairing that makes a lot of sense to me. Hookmark is a Mac utility for linking the things you work with: files, emails, notes, tasks, web pages, and documents in all kinds of apps. Instead of r…
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7 September
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Bluesky Lately on the blog: New stuff in Marked Share brettterpstra.com
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Blog New stuff in Marked Share Busy day on Marked Share. A pile of rendering fixes landed with Apex 1.0.20, front matter stopped leaking into the page, Mermaid diagrams and MathJax math finally draw, and highlights can now turn out a shareable quote…
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5 September
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
The early money paid $75 billion for stakes in MuskWorld now marked at $1.57 trillion: 20x. But the cash flows to justify that do not exist. They are not on any horizon. So why? This is just plain weird. This is not NVIDIA, or TSMC, or Samsung, or ASML, or Apple, or any of the hyperscalers wth real cash flows: **Looking Askance Yet Again at MuskWorld: WEIRDNESS OF THE DAY** Musk torched one of his two profitable businesses and Starlink can’t carry anything like a $3 trillion valuation... 1/ Related
4 September
Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.
Astra one-shotted the first draft of its own vibe check for @every 🤯 we learned Astra was launching at 3 am yesterday morning. by 7 am we had a 3,000 word vibe check written. i can't tell you how impressive it is that i woke up to a google doc with a well-written, well formatted article with all of the usual sections, a good headline, and even appropriate screenshots. written in @kplikethebird's i didn't realize Katie hadn't written it herself, she just prompted Astra and it did the rest totally new world! Google Related
31 August
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
This talk by (my former colleague) @kevinriggle is a superb 80/20 for startup founders who want to do more than nothing re: security but are not sure where to start with a small team. Quoting @MicroConf Kevin Riggle did security at Akamai, Stripe, and Lyft before starting his own consultancy. He argues at MicroConf that most cybersecurity advice is written for computers we stopped using twenty years ago. Here's what to do instead. 🧵 startups Related
Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning.
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the best teacher you had, like everybody remembers the one or two teachers who changed their life. It wasn't because they marked up your paper really well. That wasn't what did it for them. It was because you had some block. They saw you and they convinced you you could do so much more.
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29 August
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
21 August
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Bluesky Lately on the blog: New in Marked 3: Reading Mode brettterpstra.com
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Blog New in Marked 3: Reading Mode Long documents are where Marked spends most of its life — drafts, research notes, book chapters that refuse to stay short. Reading Mode is built for that: keep your place, move a block at a time, mark what matters, and…
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18 August
German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117117221397911074 After hearing feedback from people struggling with #Mastodon’s layout and navigation for a long time I’m really looking forward to these changes. And I’m really impressed with the work @imanijoy has put into researching user needs with surveys, interviews, and round tables. I feel like the community has never been so represented in the design process before. The screenshots are marked “in progress” for a reason though—it’s a process. Related
13 August
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
10 August
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.
30 July
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Possible Futures of Happiness At Automattic, we don’t have customer service or support, we have Happiness Engineers. 🙂 There’s also a #ceo Slack channel where anyone can drop in and request a meeting, which my esteemed colleague Damianne President…
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25 July
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.
In another variant of https://danluu.com/learn-what/, I caught up with a former colleague who worked on automated theorem proving. It turns out he's had an interesting career doing all sorts of interesting stuff using the skills he developed by spending a decade writing/using theorem provers. At one point, he said, "if you use X like a theorem prover, it works really well", which surprised me to hear, but of course this is a highly generalizable skill just like compilers or benchmarking/evals. Related
23 July
Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.
2 June
Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.
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So I I don't do one-on- ones. My friend Bing told me that Jeff Bezos wouldn't ever do one-on ones because it created politics and it was a huge waste of his time. I was like, I love that. No one ones.
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13 May
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
27 April
Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.
7 January
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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. Understanding how we grow and develop will help you become a better leader and a more empathetic colleague. More accessible than his academic work, this book also provides a framework for understanding underlying beliefs and motivations that might be holding you back.
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5 January
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
5 October 2025
Head of growth at Chess.com, previously growth and monetization lead at Grammarly and Duolingo and a product manager at Google.
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And I think what's also kind of interesting is that just human nature is that if you have a question that you feel like, you know, you might be a bit embarrassed to ask or you don't want to bother someone, you just don't ask the question, right? And so by the nature of having these tools, you get actually a pretty large explosion of questions being asked.
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21 September 2025
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
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You can shortcut like hard feelings because now you can just watch TikTok instead of actually dealing with the very difficult emotion or tension that you had with a colleague or with your partner or with your children.
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2 September 2025
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.
A first proof-of-concept outcome for the erdosproblems.com - OEIS linkage project: with a useful assist from AI, the OEIS was used to locate a proof in the literature for an Erdos problem that was previously marked as "open". mathstodon.xyz
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22 August 2025
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
14 August 2025
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
1 May 2023
Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.
22 November 2021
Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.
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Gillian Tett, Anthro-Vision – my colleague Gillian Tett makes the case for thinking like an anthropologist in business and in life. The description of how KitKats took Japan by storm is a particular delight.
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24 February 2021
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
Asking for feedback as a leader I had an interesting catch up with a wonderful colleague, Blanca Garcia Gil, today. We talked about the role of a software engineering team lead and also about giving and receiving feedback. After giving me a compliment…
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