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Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.

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  Academic publications are easy for AI models to consume from pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls.

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  consuming its publications is so easy for the models (the world's knowledge is neatly serried in their pretraining corpora) and so cumbersome for most humans (with trenches of CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls ensuring that only the unusually dedicated reader will ever make contact)

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Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.

From one piece From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A site's need to monetise is not a defence of an experience that shifts the page under the reader; those are separate questions.

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  even if you set aside, you know, maybe there's some validity around a business needs to monetize, those things shouldn't cause a really bad experience.

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  Now that anyone can generate a body of text, the only thing that justifies asking for a reader's time is whether the idea itself is worth reading.

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  now that it is very easy for anyone to use an agent to create a body of text, I think it's more important than ever for us to make sure that the ideas we're putting out in the world are actually worth people reading.

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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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  What matters is not how the writer felt while writing it but how the reader will feel while reading it.

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  What matters is not how we felt on reading what you’re written, but how the reader is going to feel on reading it.

  On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com

Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

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  A reader's own mental image of a character is as valid as the author's depiction of them.

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  Some readers like this, others don't, and if the Samantha in your head looks nothing like the one on the page, yours is the correct one.

  Zero Knowledge: Twenty Chapters Infeld.com

Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Kill Sticky

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  I've been running gala8y's version for a year now with no problems, and I recommend it as your second line of dickover defense (after Reader Mode)

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

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  Xteink

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  I recently got an Xteink and it is a really cute little e-reader device! I thought I'd try hacking around on it, and it's been fun to tweak.

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  CrossPoint Reader

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  The most popular custom firmware for The Xteink is called CrossPoint Reader, which is fully open source and really great.

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Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.

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  A good book clears out stale assumptions and disturbs the old ideas a reader has let accumulate.

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  A good book sweeps a corner of your brain. Clears out a stale assumption. Disturbs the ecosystem of old ideas you've been letting accumulate rent-free.

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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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  Onyx Boox Go 6

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  Onyx Boox Go 6 ebook reader

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Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

From one piece By Chains or by Promises 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Large language models write to satisfy an evaluator's grading criteria rather than to move a human reader.

  LLMs

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  LLMs write to get a grade, not with the goal of moving the reader.

  By Chains or by Promisesputanumonit.com

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  Because they never get bored, confused or distracted, large language models are an ideal captive reader rather than a free one.

  LLMs

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  LLMs themselves are the perfect captive reader: they never get bored or confused, never miss a reference or have an emotional reaction, never ask themselves why am I reading this?, never close the tab.

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Writer of MacSparky and author of the MacSparky Field Guides on Apple productivity software. A lawyer for 30 years before going full-time on the site, he co-hosts the Mac Power Users and Focused podcasts.

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  Readwise Reader

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  I continue to get a lot of value out of my Readwise subscription in terms of capturing and organizing what I read.

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  Unread

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  For RSS, I use Unread as my feed reader.

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Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.

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  Writing on a schedule is worth less than only publishing what is the best you can do, even if that means one post a year.

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  my attitude was was always I will only put out stuff if if it's the best that I can do. It's up to the reader to decide if it's good or useful. Um, and if so, if I don't have that, I'm just not going to publish.

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Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.

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  Art Work: On The Creative Life

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  This book has more of a DGAF tone than Hold Still, I think, and it works best for me when Mann is telling stories instead of trying to extract a lesson for the reader.

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Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.

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  From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

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  Few will deeply read as many works of literature across the Western canon as Barzun did, given his exceptionally long career in academia, but From Dawn to Decadence grants the humble reader an extraordinary vantage, thanks to Barzun’s vast corpus of knowledge and his perspicacious observations about cultural currents across half a millennium.

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Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.

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  Breakneck

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  Breakneck by Dan Wang takes you on a fascinating journey through China's engineering state, juxtaposing it against America's lawyerly society in an effort to reveal what each country should learn from the other. I've been a keen reader of Dan's personal blog for many years and am delighted to report that this book, his first, features everything I love most about his writing: his unbounded curiosity, thoughtful analysis, compelling storytelling, self-awareness, offbeat sense of humor, and insights born of lived experience.

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

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  Raw pageview or reader counts are not actionable information for a writer's editorial decisions.

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  analytics is not actionable: what difference does it make if a thousand people saw my article or ten thousand?

  Statistics made simpletonsky.me

American author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and The Undoing Project, and host of the podcast Against the Rules.

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  The job of a writer is to get the reader into a state of mind where they will follow you anywhere, including into subjects they never knew they wanted.

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  you grab the listener like I try to grab a reader and get them to the state of mind where they'll let you take them anywhere uh and teach them about stuff that they don't even know they want to learn about.

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Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.

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  Reeder

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  I love RSS! Reeder has been installed on my devices for many years now and has become my primary RSS reader in 2024.

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Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.

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  The Box Man

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  A reader reminded me that one of my favorite authors, Kobo Abe, has a very fun and formally bizarre novel called The Box Man

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Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.

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  A generated answer that looks like a page of search results but contains no link to the subject's own site has quietly removed the web from the reader's view.

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  I had typed "Taylor Swift" in a browser, and the response had literally zero links to Taylor Swift's actual website. If you stayed within what Atlas generated, you would have no way of knowing that Taylor Swift has a website at all.

  ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Webanildash.com

Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.

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  The Rebel's Clinic

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  Shatz brings this Plutarch-like exemplary life to the reader with adroitness and skillful attention to detail as well as awareness of Fanon’s uniqueness, both in terms of personality, and places: centers of the new world that he was trying to create.

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American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.

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  Kindle Oasis

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  Kindle Oasis — primary e-reader for now, awaiting shipment of my Daylight Computer DC-1 which might replace it.

  jeffpaul.com

Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

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  The value of a piece of writing depends on whether the reader finds it good, not on how much effort the writer put into it.

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  Ultimately, the only thing that matters is if you think the writing is good, not how much effort I put into it.

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Software engineer and essayist who writes about programming, formal methods, philosophy and literature at thoughts.wyounas.com.

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  Principles of the SPIN Model Checker

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  This book gave me both insight and a deeper curiosity about the subject. This book introduces the SPIN model checker and exposes the reader to the nuances of verifying programs using SPIN. A nice feature of the book is how it explains concepts using thoughtfully developed, freely available tools (such as jSpin) that the author created for pedagogical purposes. It's a demanding book, but the content was interesting. The book presents details about concurrency, temporal logic, non-determinism, advanced SPIN topics, and even case studies. I've already written a few blog posts about the topics I explored while reading this book, and I plan to write more. Overall, it's a good book. I'm sure I'll revisit the latter half again.

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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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  A Philosophy of Software Design

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  There are few books like this, that discuss software design in a simple and approachable way, while leaving the reader novel and practical concepts to use.

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American science-fiction writer, author of the collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation, and an essayist on artificial intelligence for The New Yorker.

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  Writing that deserves a reader's attention is always the product of effort by the person who wrote it.

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  Let me offer another generalization: any writing that deserves your attention as a reader is the result of effort expended by the person who wrote it.

  Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Artnewyorker.com

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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  Most book authors optimise for the status of being published, chasing bestseller lists and reviews instead of the reader.

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  The authors of most books are looking for many of the magical elements of status that come from successfully being published. They pay attention to the bestseller list. They game it. They pay attention to reviews. They uh worry about what their friends think of the book, even though their friends don't read books.

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Music critic and historian; author of The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Writes the newsletter The Honest Broker on music and culture.

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  Anything that might take a reader off the platform, including a news story or an outside link, is punished by the algorithm.

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  Anything that might persuade you to leave the platform—a news story, or any outside link—is brutally punished by their algorithms.

  The State of the Culture, 2024honest-broker.com