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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

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  Engineers should be able to explain any customer-facing system they have shipped and defend the decisions they made.

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  I should be able to pull you aside at any moment and ask you to explain any customer-facing system you've shipped. You should be able to clearly explain how it works and defend the decisions you made.

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Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

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  AI data centers function mainly as a new way to sustain natural gas demand for an oil-and-gas industry facing declining gasoline demand.

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  one way to understand a data center is that it's a device for burning natural gas, the latest excuse (after Ukraine and Iran) for the fuel that Big Oil is counting on to keep its business model afloat even as the world turns away from internal combustion cars and crude demand begins to drop.

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Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.

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  Post-9/11 American public sentiment was malleable enough that leaders could have directed it toward inward-looking demagoguery instead of foreign war.

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  If Bush had wanted to whip people up into an inward-looking demagogic fervor instead of an external-facing one, he clearly could have accomplished that, too.

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

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  Facing AI-driven disruption, indie hackers are shifting from building products toward building audience and content as a competitive moat.

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  So indie hackers are pivoting toward content, audience and distribution to find some moat, essentially becoming influencers

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Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.

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  Any website with public user-generated content will experience abusive behavior.

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  Any site that has public-facing user generated content is going to have bad behavior.

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

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  Giving consumer-facing models and API models separate brand names is needlessly confusing.

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  I really do think that having separate brand names for the consumer-facing models and the API models is needlessly confusing

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Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.

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  Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard Choices

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  His narrative of the development of decision-making research over the past half-century is rich with personal anecdotes, gentle humor, continuous learning, and profound humility about how prone we all are to misjudge and misunderstand risks.

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

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  Most of the pain a beginner feels while learning to program is not the difficulty of the craft but the failure of programming language design.

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  A lot of what they're facing isn't the challenge of learning a new art. It's friction introduced by failures of programming language design.

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

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  Experts facing time pressure decide by recognition, a blend of intuition and analysis, and this accounted for almost 90% of firefighters' hard decisions.

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  in 1985, um my colleagues and I came up with a description of how people actually make life-and-death decisions under extreme time pressure and certainty. And we called it the recognition prime decision model. And it's a blend of intuition plus analysis. And we found we studied firefighters. We found that most fire that accounted for almost 90% of the tough decisions firefighters made.

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Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.

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  The drift from attacking to defending is a temptation facing every incumbent rather than a fault of any particular company.

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  I I would I would not say that about Google. I would just say that more generally like that is the incumbent temptation. Um it is is basically is basically go from attack mode to defend mode, right? Go from being the pirate to being the navy.

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