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Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.

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  AI is removing human involvement from entry-level hiring by pitting AI-written job applications against AI-written screening filters.

  LLMs

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  Artificial intelligence has unleashed a torrent of cheating on campus and created chaos in the job application process, as both students and employers use large language models: the former, to write hundreds of AI-assisted applications; the latter, to screen those AI-written applications with AI-written filters, thus removing from the process of finding a first job those procedural frictions sometimes known as "people."

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Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.

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  Effect

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  i will never start another typescript application or project without @EffectTS_ it’s reached critical enough adoption, provides distinct tailwinds to agents, and has great cloudflare support

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Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.

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  Cumrun Vafa's 'dark dimension' torsion balance experiment does not amount to a genuine testable prediction of string theory.

  economists

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  This is complete nonsense, a shame that The Economist has been taken in by it.

  This Week’s Hypemath.columbia.edu

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

From one piece DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The agentic age needs a new operating system: if you can vibe-code any application, you should be able to vibe-code the operating system, and only Linux allows that.

  Linux

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  It is an infuriatingly locked-down computer. Now, to Apple's credit, it's a pretty good computer for being locked down, but I don't want a locked-down computer. I wanna own my computer. Better yet, I wanna mutate my computer, and this is where the agentic age needs a new operating system. When you can vibe code whatever app comes to your mind, you should be able to vibe code your operating system.

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  Software lock-in is breaking, because rewriting just the 5% of an application you personally use is now within one person's reach.

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  And maybe you won't get to 100% coverage, but this is the old joke about Microsoft Office. "I only use 5%." Yeah, well, we all use a different 5%. Well, what if we all just build our own 5%? What if I just took the functionality that I need and just did that? That is a completely different challenge and one agents are incredibly capable of doing right now, today, and I've done it a lot of times over.

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Graphic designer and type designer, who created the original Macintosh icons and typefaces at Apple from 1982 and has since designed interface graphics for NeXT, Microsoft, Facebook and Pinterest.

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  An application icon and its document icon should read as a verb and a noun: the tool looks active, and the document resembles the tool.

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  and I like the idea that since it was a process it looked kind of active and um and then it could be paired with a document that resembled it so our system was kind of a verb and a noun

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  Coding is not just another application domain for AI; it is the meta-skill that lets AI generate its own training material and start the recursive self-improvement loop.

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  Coding isn't yet another application domain -- it's the meta-skill required for AI to automatically develop its own training material, via symbolic world models. That's how the RSI loop actually kicks off.

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Behavioural economist at Chicago Booth, professor of behavioural science and economics and director of AGI economics at Google DeepMind.

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  Individual economists' forecasts about AI and the labour market are close to worthless, and aggregated forecasts from prediction markets should replace them.

  AI and jobseconomists

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  rather than thinking about individual forecasts like what me and Phil are going to do, rather looking at kind of like basically generating prediction markets, where you get aggregate forecasts, where you get like kind of wisdom of the crowd effects. And kind of the reason that I think this is because we have been famously terrible at forecasting.

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Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business — "building models of the world to understand these problem areas and to define them better".

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  As AI labs aim for broad, general capability, handling messy real-world bureaucratic tasks is becoming a primary application domain for their models.

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  Considering every lab wants to "eat the world" the focus on how to work in real-world messy situations seems apt as their primary home.

  Introducing BenchBenchstrangeloopcanon.com

Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.

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  Application code should contain no unsafe at all: unsafe is how you add a missing feature to the language, not how you write a server.

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  So usually it will never show up in say a backend server. You would have zero uses of unsafe there. Generally when unsafe is used, it's to add a new feature to the language.

  Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com

Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

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  Knowing a little about how a storage engine works internally is a superpower for an application developer who will never build one.

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  And so those are those places where I feel like knowing a bit about the the internals is actually like a superpower.

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Vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, the advertising agency; author of Alchemy (2019) and the Wiki Man columnist at The Spectator.

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  Competition that removes differentiation makes everyone worse off, because it assumes people already know what they want.

  economists

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  economists have this fantasy of the world of companies in direct competition driving down price and increasing efficiency while supplying the same thing which is based on a false premise that people know what they want to begin with. Now I would argue when you don't create differentiation, everybody suffers.

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Chairman and chief executive of Microsoft since 2014; joined the company in 1992 and ran its cloud business before that.

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  Applications will not be wrappers around a model; the model gets wrapped into the application.

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  we will build our own applications scaffolding which will be model forward right it won't be a wrapper on a model but the model will be wrapped into uh the application

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Co-founder of the AI agent company Sierra, and previously an eighteen-year Google executive who ran product for Workspace, virtual and augmented reality, and Google Labs.

From one piece How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2] 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A company working at the edge of the barely possible has to control its own technology destiny, even at the application layer.

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  This kind of zone of the barely doable, it's super important that to the largest extent possible, you be able to kind of control your own technology destiny.

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  An application-layer AI company's real breakthroughs come from going a click or two down the stack rather than from using the models as they are.

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  many of the breakthroughs that we've had that have enabled us to to deliver such quality and cost savings and more have come through novel agent architectures and and really going down a click or two in in the stack to innovate at at lower levels of the technology stack.

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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  Monitoring tools that do periodic work can themselves cause the latency outliers they were installed to diagnose.

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  One performance anti-pattern is when a company, to debug one performance problem, installs a monitoring tool that periodically does work and causes application latency outliers.

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

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  Computer graphics is not the application of the laws of physics but the search for ever better approximations of them, because the exact laws are totally intractable.

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  You can't calculate every photon in the scene. You need really detailed approximations, and that's the field of computer graphics. It's about increasingly effective approximations of the laws of physics, which are just totally intractable.

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Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.

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  College is not a good career investment for most of the population.

  economists

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  Despite misleading statements by mainstream education economists, college attendance in particular is not a good career investment for most of the population.

  Selfishly Speaking, Who Should Skip College?betonit.ai

German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.

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  Todoist

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  My daily todo application is Todoist. I use Notion as a work journal to keep track of the progress of every-day tasks.

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  The sharp steepening of the long end of the yield curve in 2023 was not predicted by economists, including forecasters who had modelled persistently low safe rates.

  inflationeconomists

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  It is fair to say that, while economists expected the short end of the yield curve to reflect the higher rates needed to win the fight against inflation, the sharply steeper long end of the yield curve in the last few months has come as a surprise. I shall freely admit that I did not predict it.

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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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  Technology is a lever on the world -- the way to make more with less -- and productivity growth is the main driver of wages, industries and jobs.

  economists

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  We believe technology is a lever on the world – the way to make more with less. Economists measure technological progress as productivity growth: How much more we can produce each year with fewer inputs, fewer raw materials. Productivity growth, powered by technology, is the main driver of economic growth, wage growth, and the creation of new industries and new jobs, as people and capital are continuously freed to do more important, valuable things than in the past.

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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

From one piece GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  John Maynard Keynes is best understood as a British aesthete rationalist who did economics in his spare time, not primarily as an economist.

  economists

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  I don’t view Keynes primarily as an economist, rather I see him as a British aesthete rationalist who did economics in his spare time, and fortunately he had lots of spare time.

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  Hayek's three best economics articles surpass the three best articles from any other economist.

  economists

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  Hayek’s three best articles are better than any three articles from any other economist.

  tylercowen.com

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  An inability to see the viewpoints of people unlike oneself is a genuine weakness in a social scientist, not merely a separate moral failing.

  economists

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  It is a sign that Hayek was not so great at seeing the viewpoints of other people, and that (political moralizing aside) also should count as a weakness of him as an economist and social scientist.

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  Among the leading candidates for greatest economist of all time, Adam Smith was analytically the weakest, save perhaps Malthus.

  economists

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  Of all the contenders for GOAT, Smith seems to be clearly the worst economist, with the possible exception of Malthus.

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  Milton Friedman was the best economist among the plausible candidates for greatest economist of all time.

  economists

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  Friedman has one big factor in his favor, namely that he is clearly the best economist on the list of contending names.

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Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.

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  Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success

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  Absolutely. It is incredibly enjoyable and readable. The authors, in a way that is very rare for economists, find small stories that paint big pictures for the points they make.

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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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  Wild Problems

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  How to improve your HUGE major life decisions, like whether/who to marry, whether to have kids, where to live, career paths, and such — where you can’t use the usual checklist/data approach. This economist addresses self-identity, “deepest self”, and “something I was meant to do”. You can’t use a pro/con checklist with an item that says “lose respect for myself”.

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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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  Shape

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  Jordan Ellenberg, Shape – A really fun, witty exploration of ideas in geometry and their surprisingly wide-ranging application.

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Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.

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  Fourier Analysis: An Introduction

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  Not only is this a wonderful foundation for Fourier analysis, with a surprising and satisfying application to prime numbers given in the last chapter, but it's also a good starting point for analysis as a whole. Stein and Shakarchi have a series of four excellent books on the foundations of analysis, based on a now-famous series of lectures given at Princeton.

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Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.

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  Ulauncher

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  I use Ulauncher as the application launcher of my preferred choice on Linux.

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Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.

From one piece Fast Software, the Best Software 2 beliefs · craigmod.com

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  Speed is a good proxy for engineering quality: software that slows down on simple tasks suggests engineers who are not obsessive about detail.

  Their words

  Speed and reliability are often intuited hand-in-hand. Speed can be a good proxy for general engineering quality. If an application slows down on simple tasks, then it can mean the engineers aren’t obsessive detail sticklers.

  Fast Software, the Best Softwarecraigmod.com

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  Speed in software is probably the most valuable, least valued asset.

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  Speed in software is probably the most valuable, least valued asset. To me, speedy software is the difference between an application smoothly integrating into your life, and one called upon with great reluctance.

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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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  Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life

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  Alan B. Krueger, Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life: From the economist who revealed the secrets of the minimum wage comes this look at the economics of the music industry. Its disruptions by technology to economics of songwriting and concert tours, the music industry offers important financial lessons. Kreuger, an economic rock star himself (he was former chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers) left us far too soon.

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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

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  Phenomenology of Spirit

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  In order to understand Marx, you really do need to know something about Hegel. It's a mistake to think you could read Marx as a scientist or an economist without understanding the Hegelian framework of his thought. That's why I chose to begin with Hegel.

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London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.

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  Fanny

  Their words

  Fanny (macOS Specific) is a free Notification Center Widget and Menu Bar application to monitor your Macs fans. Allows me to know the speed of my fans and heat generated by the CPU, so that I can make sure I keep my apps to a minimum and get the maximum performance.

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Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Narconomics

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  If you’ve enjoyed Narcos, you’ll like this book. The world of drugs, cartels, gangs, violence, and prisons looked at from the perspective of an economist.

  radex.io

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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  Writing to files safely is too hard to do with raw syscalls; application code should go through a library or a database.

  Their words

  as an application developer, writing to files safely is hard enough that it should be done via some kind of library and/or database, not by directly making syscalls

  Files are harddanluu.com

CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  An application's user interface should be defined as a pure function of its state.

  Their words

  The fundamental idea I want to discuss is the definition of an application’s UI as a pure function of application state.

  Pure UIrauchg.com

Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

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  Build a new application as a monolith first, even when you are confident it will eventually need microservices.

  Their words

  This leads to a powerful argument for a monolith-first strategy, where you should build a new application as a monolith initially, even if you think it's likely that it will benefit from a microservices architecture later on.

  MonolithFirstmartinfowler.com

Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.

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  MathJax

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  The other amazing JS application that I use is MathJax, which allows me to write LaTeX math in web pages.

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British-Ghanaian philosopher, Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University; author of Cosmopolitanism, The Honor Code and The Lies That Bind.

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  The Economy of Esteem

  Their words

  This is a book by a philosopher and an economist about a topic that was neglected for a very long time in social analysis. So there's lots about it in the 18th century – Adam Smith and people like that – and it's about how esteem, which is their word for the respect that you give to people who have achieved things against a certain standard, can be used to motivate people to do good things.

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Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.

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  Redshift

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  And the excellent Redshift application, which adjusts the screen color temperature depending on the time of day and preserves my night vision.

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Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.

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  Why Nations Fail

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  Why Nations Fail is by two of my favourite economists, two very close friends and co-authors of mine, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. They're tackling a subject that I've worked on with them, and they do a great job of bringing it to life and making it vivid.

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Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.

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  Leiningen

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  For work I use Leiningen a lot. A lot of people get confused when working with Clojure because Clojure itself is just a library rather than an application, and they expect to interact directly with it.

  usesthis.com

Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.

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  Terminal

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  It's a pretty nice app, but very minimal, and I would pay good money if someone created a really compelling next generation Terminal application.

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Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.

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  What Investors Really Want

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  Meir Statman, one of my favorite behavioral economists, has written a great book on how investors can overcome their base urges and make better decisions:

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British programmer and video maker whose YouTube channel ran weekly educational videos on technology, language and geography from 2014 to 2023.

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  Notepad++

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  I also spend a lot of time in Notepad++, which I use both as a code editor and my note-taking application; my file of ideas is literally just a text file that remains permanently open in a background tab.

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Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.

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  NetNewsWire

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  If I had to commit to a newsreader, it'd be NetNewsWire. If I had to commit to a productivity application, it'd be Things.

  usesthis.com

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  Things

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  If I had to commit to a productivity application, it'd be Things.

  usesthis.com

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  Keynote

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  For presentations, I love, absolutely love, Keynote. In my opinion, if you want to see the pinnacle of Apple application design, spend some time in Keynote.

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Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.

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  SuperDuper

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  NetNewsWire for RSS reading, SnapnDrag for taking screenshots of application windows, iShowU for taking screencasts, Keynote for presentations, SuperDuper! for creating mirrored backups,

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Danish Mac developer; author of the TextMate text editor and founder of MacroMates.

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  GeekTool

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  I use remind as calendar application. I have it show upcoming events on my desktop using GeekTool.

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