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18 September
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
You can use any secret provider you like with Kody. The agent will never see the secret value, but can use it. Pretty powerful! Quoting @NoahDavidATL @frunkad @kentcdodds @Bitwarden I got you: Related
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.
https://civicshout.com/p/congress-must-investigate-dhs-s-secret-surveillance US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the Department of Hiding and Skulking's secret surveillance. US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. Please spread the word. Related
17 September
Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
Financial engineering is the secret weapon of American industry. No one comes close to us in it. By and large our own elites disregard this secret weapon, but we nonetheless wield it to our great and enduring advantage. Quoting @WillManidis its still so underrated the degree to which our intelligence supercycle was as much reliant on innovations in capital formation as it was innovations in the technology itself. europe is losing not only because they can't built it, but primarily because they can't finance it America Related
Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.
15 September
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
11 September
Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
Say hi at @FutureProof_HQ next week. Easy to find me on Monday wearing @Broncos gear for MNF! PS I've heard that if you use the secret password at the @tidalfg ("SYLD") or @etfarchitect booth ("ENDW") you might get a free book ...while supplies last! Related
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
10 September
Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.
Winning isn't what makes you feel good. Growth makes you feel good. Sometimes they are the same thing. When you achieve something for the first time, it's growth. You've reached a new level. The win feels satisfying. But when you do it for the tenth time (or the hundredth time), it can feel stale. You're still winning, but you're not necessarily growing. The secret is not to worry about winning, but rather to focus on growing. And the most straightforward way to grow is to learn something. If you're ever feeling stuck, go learn something new. Read, write, think, learn, repeat. When you're lea… Related
9 September
Reviews sports technology at DC Rainmaker — watches, power meters and bike computers — in exhaustive detail, having tested them himself.
Apple’s Secret 50KM Backyard Ultra Detailed! "This is not a race"- That's the (repeated) words of the announcer at last night's running event at Apple Campus. And I suspect those same words might have been spoken five months ago on April 1st, 2026, when a bunch
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4 September
Economist at George Mason University. Writes Overcoming Bias on prediction markets, signalling and the far future, and wrote The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.
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.
The dirty secret about craftsmanship is that it means sweating the details and caring more about the experience than most people do. Everyone wants to talk about craftsmanship, but few want to take the extra time to get things right, make that one more ask, one more iteration. Related
1 September
Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.
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So, we did a classifier sweep specifically looking for agents thinking about or making the decision to alert humans. And across, 1200 transcripts, each of which are extremely long, we only found like a halfozen instances of it ever occurring to any agent to potentially notify humans. Um, and all of them just decide not to do it.
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29 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.
Short The secret to finding signal in a world of AI noise #contentcreator #learning #ai Related
Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
27 August
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
21 August
Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
19 August
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
Mastodon Hubano 2.0 now available! I added two additional weights, some new glyphs and symbols, and lots of fixes and tweaks. Free update for those who purchased Hubano as well as Secret Club™ members. simplebits.com
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18 August
US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.
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The thing about executive orders, which is a little secret, is when administration changes, you can just revoke the executive order and and start from scratch again. Um when something is a law, you you can't do that.
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15 August
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
in case you’re not living in the tech bubble, as a general rule i’ve been surprised by how infrequently top tier folks actually meet/know each other. as an outsider i might have assumed that everyone is in secret illuminati group chats. those exist, but are very much short lived exceptions rather than the rule. what you see of the major headlines is pretty much what they also see. i guess one way to interpret this is also simply that most effort is still on doing the work rather than working the narrative or the gossip. and that, to me at least, is genuinely quite reassuring, this far in to m… Quoting @TechEmails Anthropic cofounder emails Noam Shazeer November 21, 2021 Related
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
A short illustration of how the Claude's watermarking is supposed to work (based on my read of their released materials). In general, when we are generating tokens, there can be multiple high-scoring tokens at certain next-word positions. Usually, we sample with top-k or top-p sampling so the highest-scoring token is most often selected (if we repeat the sampling many times), but other tokens may be selected as well. With watermarking, there is a key that says which of the (ideally equally) highest-scoring tokens to select. Or, more concretely, the secret key and previous token influence the… Quoting @AnthropicAI We’ve written an FAQ to answer some of the questions we've received about watermarking. In summary: • We’re implementing watermarking to comply with the EU AI Act. Other major model developers have signed the same Code of Practice and will also be implementing watermarking; • Our watermarking metho… Anthropic Related
12 August
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
Mastodon A free pre-release of my Hubano 2 typeface is available now for Secret Club members. New weights, fixes, and additional glyphs! simplebits.com
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4 August
Chief AI Scientist at Databricks, after its acquisition of MosaicML, where he was a founding team member; known for the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis from his MIT PhD (ICLR 2019 Best Paper).
When I said Cookie Monster was inspirational, I wasn’t anticipating that someone on my team had a secret stash of googly eyes. Related
27 July
Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.
15 July
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
Mastodon Kyroh is my latest Danmade typeface, inspired by a vintage Egyptian hotel luggage tag. Comes in 3 weights with a no-fuss license—or join my Secret Club™ and get all of my fonts + other perks. simplebits.shop
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7 July
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
Mastodon My latest typeface, Kyroh, is out today! Three weights of a Danmade, imperfect display sans based on an old Egyptian hotel luggage tag. Get it on its own or along with all my fonts by joining my Secret Club ✨ simplebits.shop
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5 July
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
From the @shaneparrish newsletter, this is the "secret" + Be reliable + Avoid drama + Help other people win + Take care of your body + Take care of your mind + Live below your means + Treat your job as if it matters + Take care of your relationships Simple but not easy Related
30 June
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
Mastodon More on this one soon, but I just shared the free pre-release of Kyroh (my latest typeface) with Secret Club™️ members. It’s inspired by an Egyptian hotel luggage tag’s lettering and comes in three weights. simplebits.com
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13 June
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
I have a not-so-secret love for advice columns. Which is why I just started writing one for @StackOverflow, every other Friday for the next 3 months. First column is up -- "Paging Charity! How do I get my leaders to stop running teams into the ground?" stackoverflow.blog
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29 March
Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
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Always my first layer and the secret to scale without surprises in your billing.
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3 March
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
One thing that I notice that my wife does and that works well when teaching our 8-yr-old certain things, is that she’ll talk to me when we’re all in the same room, and then she’ll say, “One thing I didn’t really understand when I was young…” and you can just feel the 8-year-old turning her entire being toward us, to try to figure out what secret knowledge we adults are trading in. Related
6 February
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
New Podcast Release: Jennifer Wallace In the latest episode of Lives Well Lived, the podcast I co-host with Kasia de Lazari-Radek, we speak with journalist and author Jennifer Wallace about her new book: Mattering: The Secret to Life of Deep Connection and…
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27 January
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
21 January
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
Man. What a week! Started on a high on the weekend with doing good progress on a secret project and on Monday at work as well. Tuesday, still good progress but also had a quick shocker as a friend didn't answer their phone for 3 hours and we thought something happened to them. And today started with getting the notice that a friend from the local gym died after their cancer returned. 😭 And the whole world politics definitely starts to pull me down more and more. Can't wait for Saturday! Related
18 January
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.
1 January
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
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A decade on, it already feels possible that in the future, commentators will argue that this specific fruitful synthesis lit the fuse on evolutionary cultural anthropology’s explosion (with due apologies to earlier books from L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, E. O. Wilson, Peter Richerson and Robert Boyd).
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28 December 2025
Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.
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There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm is a mind-bending psychological thriller about a secret agency tasked with fighting dangerous "antimemes"—ideas that refuse to be remembered. Plenty of stories start with a clever high-concept premise and just let it play out. This one pushes its premise to extremes I never imagined possible, ratcheting up an astonishing amount of tension along the way.
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16 December 2025
China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.
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Not every plank in his argument is convincing, and the research has evolved since the book first came out a decade ago, but the ambition is impressive and the framework holds up.
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9 December 2025
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.
30 September 2025
Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.
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At the same time, if you were really paranoid, you think, I don't want to be screenshotted, I don't want to have any leaks, I don't even trust Telegram, I only trust code. Secret Chats are the best option. I believe is the most secure means of communication today.
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14 August 2025
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
Fellow #amiga friends, I have only just now discovered IMP3 and first of all how dare you keep this a secret from me https://www.forgottencomputer.com/retro/imp3/ Astonishing in a dozen ways Related
8 August 2025
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
What's new with Himitsu 0.9? Last week, Armin and I worked together on the latest release of Himitsu, a “secret storage manager” for Linux. I haven’t blogged about Himitsu since I announced it three years ago, and I thought it would be nice to give…
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31 July 2025
Anthropologist; wrote Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World and The Secret History of the Mongol Queens.
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He says, “Now, let us reward our daughters.” It's actually only a phrase. I said it as a complete sentence, but it's not quite complete. The rest is gone, cut out. It's missing.
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26 June 2025
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
30 April 2025
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
@hamel.bsky.social & @sh-reya.bsky.social are two of the world's best on evals. They've built evals for 35+ AI apps & helped teams ship confidently. Now they'll teach everything they know on building evals that work. Enrollment closes in 4 days. Secret 35% discount code: maven.com
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20 December 2024
Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.
22 March 2024
Investigative journalist; wrote Area 51, The Pentagon's Brain and Nuclear War: A Scenario, reconstructing what secret programmes actually did from interviews and declassified records.
America
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Well, not just at Area 51, but in all the different national security and military intelligence and intelligence programs. And I personally have no reason to believe that aliens have ever visited Earth. That’s just me personally.
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18 March 2024
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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So part of the reason that we deploy the way we do, we call it iterative deployment, rather than go build in secret until we got all the way to GPT-5, we decided to talk about GPT-1, 2, 3, and 4. And part of the reason there is I think AI and surprise don’t go together. And also the world, people, institutions, whatever you want to call it, need time to adapt and think about these things.
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19 December 2023
Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.
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The secret pulse-beat of joy is what Jean-François Beauchemin explores in Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being
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9 March 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.
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In it, Terry reveals how men can unearth their pain, heal themselves, restore relationships, and break the legacy of abuse.
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30 January 2020
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
Get On Top (Sportsfriends Version) I’ve been meaning to post this for a while – it’s the other secret game hidden in Sportsfriends, a version of Get On Top that uses twin-analog controllers for input. One stick controls your legs, the other controls your…
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