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19 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.
Hanging around many conservatives today, I notice they deeply love school. So even though the left has come to dominate schools, the right is quite reluctant to cut the status or importance of school in society. Related
18 September
Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.
Old female mice on semaglutide lived 12% longer and ran 2.8× as long before exhaustion. Other gains: > treadmill time to exhaustion +177% > hanging time +124% > rotating-rod performance +47% > open-field movement +50% > glucose tolerance: area under the curve −20% > Improved spatial memory: maze escape time −57% > reduced inflammation -55% > reduced senescence -65% > stem cell rejuvenation: hippocampal neurons ~3x > bone marrow colonies +44% > DNA damage & stress -44% Treatment started at 20 months of age (human equivalent to 60s). Control was a separate group of mice on a 24% food restrictio… Related
17 September
Analyst of the business of technology; writes Asymco on Apple, disruption and, latterly, micromobility.
The iPhone Duo: theater, not specs Q: One theme about the iPhone Duo seems underreported: pleasure, prestige, the pride of ownership. It's always been there with Apple products, but being the first to get a foldable, after everyone's been talking about i…
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
I continue to be extremely impressed with our bankers at @MorganStanley. To be able to submit a wire transfer, while on a call with the team at @remote, confirm in the app, and have it all wrapped up before hanging up? PRICELESS 🏆 Related
16 September
American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
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14 September
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.
there is this weird fixation with hanging out with other similarly successful people. Nothing could be more boring to hang out with people so narrowly obsessed with a small sliver of life. Related
12 September
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
It took writing a programming book, speaking at 20+ confs, leading eng at a billion-dollar startup, having some OSS projects people use, getting invited on podcasts, starting a company, hanging out with smart / successful people who seemed to think I knew what I was doing … … before accepting maybe it wasn’t all a fluke Quoting @threepointone you don’t understand, i’m the world’s best imposter, absolutely world class imposter skills, a lifetime of developing them to be so convincing, i’ve somehow accumulated promotions, references, a career, and a body of work purely as supporting evidence for the bit. startups Related
9 September
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
Matt was one of the most brilliant product people i had the pleasure to work with recommend a follow for real world product insights, and throw your questions at him! Quoting @matthewcanham Hey, I’m Matt. I’m a Director of Product at Atlassian working to bring agents to the millions of builders who use Jira. Prior to getting into product I was a founder and engineer. Now based in SF and grew up in New Zealand 🥝 In an effort to bring more product voices to X, I’m going to start sharin… Related
1 September
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
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This model is a pleasure to work with, and I've been using it for everything.
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25 August
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky It was a pleasure to discuss AI, its growing impacts and risks, and LawZero’s work on solutions with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Louise Arbour, Governor General of Canada during her visit to @law-zero.bsky.social. Quoting @law-zero.bsky.social We were honoured to host Her Excellency the Right Honourable Louise Arbour, Governor General of Canada, at LawZero! Her Excellency met with @yoshuabengio.bsky.social and the team to discuss AI safety and Canada’s role in shaping safe-by-design AI that serves the public good and empowers humanity. Related
x.com It was a pleasure to discuss AI, its growing impacts and risks, and LawZero’s work on solutions with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Louise Arbour, Governor General of Canada during her visit to @LawZero_ . Quoting @LawZero_ We were honoured to host Her Excellency the Right Honourable Louise Arbour, Governor General of Canada, at LØ! Her Excellency met with @Yoshua_Bengio and the team to discuss AI safety and Canada’s role in shaping safe-by-design AI that serves the public good and empowers humanity Related
24 August
Neurologist at Oxford; studies apathy, motivation and attention after brain injury, and edits the journal Brain.
Addiction
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And the evidence suggests that wanting pursuit of a goal is mediated or modulated at least by dopamine whereas actually the liking the pleasure you might get from an outcome is not that seems to be related to uh opioid neurotransmitters in the brain.
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16 August
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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4 August
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
A real pleasure talking to @ezraklein about data centers, the permanent underclass, SBF mindset, and AI vibes from SF to Shanghai Quoting @jasminewsun This piece is out! 4 sites, 10 days, and 6000 words on the politics of data centers in the Midwest: https://t.co/uOL7vmf3wC I talked to union leaders and real estate brokers, activists and local officials, politicians from Kathy Hochul to Abdul El-Sayed. A few takeaways: - Activists are as pissed a… data centers Related
31 July
Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
How will we train models of the future? By talking to them and hanging out with them. Right now there is programming done as part of training models. But you know what’s really good at programming? Quoting @handsdiff Personal models will be as commonplace as personal computers by 2030 Related
30 July
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
Had the pleasure of chatting at @spc Bangalore. So many great builders and electric energy in the garden city. Never been a better time to be an entrepreneur and build what you believe the world needs. Quoting @prateekmehta42 The best builders keep choosing the beginner’s seat. They move fast, break stuff and are unafraid of going after scary things! That’s the thread that ran through my conversation with @joulee, on her arc from @facebook to @TeamSundial! We talked about design taste, the leap from managing to founding… energy Related
16 July
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
Bluesky I built an agent palace. a place where agents can hang out with other agents. I added a few agents (one sol, and one fable) to a room in the palace. They were hanging out, and I suggested an idea for them to build ("a watercolor for agents to gossip around"). Related
x.com I built an agent palace. a place where agents can hang out with other agents. I added a few agents (one sol, and one fable) to a room in the palace. They were hanging out, and I suggested an idea for them to build ("a watercolor for agents to gossip around"). They brainstormed and decided it was a good idea. I added a Claude code agent running superpowers. I told the other two agents that they could give tasks to the dev, and told the dev agent that they were supposed to do the tasks. Then I went to bed. i woke up to a go cli that allows the agents to share gossip. Anthropic Related
1 July
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.
I’m at @aiDotEngineer and hanging out around the music corner on the 2nd floor from 1415 - 1515! Come by to chat about https://t.co/pdd8bk66Jz, https://t.co/eJSa2MISCW, https://t.co/51rtuo4PDO, evals, agents, memory, how to work effectively with claude code, claude tag, etc! Anthropic Related
16 June
Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
27 May
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
8 May
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
24 March
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
I'm hanging 40 pictures on my wall in a grid, so I made a little thing to space them all out, and then you click projector mode and it projects the nail holes on the wall. tynan.net
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5 February
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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28 December 2025
Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.
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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman is a delightful whodunnit set at a retirement home in the English countryside. Great characters. Fun twists. An endearing sense of humor. Nothing fancy or experimental, just a pleasure to read (and what more can you ask from a book, really?). If, like me, you enjoy mysteries, you'll be in good hands with Osman.
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12 December 2025
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
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Good Hang with Amy Poehler: I think this is a wildly popular one now for a reason, it's very fun and I just love how it's chill and mostly comedians hanging out.
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17 November 2025
American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.
30 September 2025
Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.
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So think about this. If your brain is this most valuable tool you have in your journey to success and happiness, why would you destroy this tool for short-term pleasure? This sounds ridiculous.
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24 May 2025
Historian of the Second World War; wrote Normandy '44 and Brothers in Arms, and co-hosts the We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast.
America
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And so, one of the reasons why you have this narrative that Britain was a bit rubbish and hanging on the shirttails of the Americans and all the blood was spilt in eastern front and Germany had the best army in the world and was only defeated because Hitler was mad and blah, blah, blah, that kind of traditional narrative, that narrative emerges through the prism of what was going on in the 1970s and what was going on in the 1980s and the changing world, rather than looking at it through the prism of the late 1930s or early 1940s.
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20 March 2025
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
12 February 2025
Medieval historian at the LSE; writes Going Medieval and The Middle Ages: A Graphic History, and spends a lot of it correcting what people think the period was like.
On what we choose to remember The other day I had the pleasure of ducking into the Temple Church here in London. I’ve been by a number of times, but never actually in, and so I was looking forward to being a little history nerd in a cool old space.…
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25 July 2024
Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.
30 May 2024
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
Zig's New CLI Progress Bar Explained Sometimes, programming projects are too easy and boring. Sometimes, they're too hard, never ending or producing subpar results. This past week I had the pleasure of completing a project that felt like maximum difficulty…
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22 April 2024
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
energy
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I think this is one of the biggest things that physics can help with, and it’s an obvious kind of low-hanging fruit situation where the heat generation, the inefficiency, the waste of existing high-level computers is nowhere near the efficiency of our brains. It’s hilariously worse, and we haven’t tried to optimize that hard on that frontier.
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18 February 2024
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.
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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Steven Johnson, Extra Life – Johnson explores the astonishing expansion in life expectancy over the last two hundred years, and asks how we measure it and who – and what – deserves the credit. Wide ranging and a pleasure to read.
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8 January 2021
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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These were the best books I read in 2020 (including who recommended each). Every one was a pleasure. Enjoy!
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16 June 2020
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
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Heil PR-40 Hanging on to this in case I ever go analog again.
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4 December 2019
Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill and Karen Pirie novels; former journalist and broadcaster.
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It's an amazing novel, this. It's compelling. It's a novelization of a real event: the second last hanging in New Zealand.
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1 January 2016
Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.
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The fascinating history of genetics, told from the very beginning up until today. Covers the broad range of genetics-related science, its development, and its implications. Long, but very well written, and a pleasure to read (or listen to).
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12 December 2015
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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Almost every software project I've seen has a lot of low hanging testing fruit.
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