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18 September
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. This is the weekend I get my wood in (i.e. have pellets delivered) so I'm thinking of chillier days even though it's 70° outside. Trust me, you'll feel better if you make some plans for what's ahead, however you interpret that. Have a good weekend. Image credit: Library of Congress, on Flickr Commons flickr.com
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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.
Everyone should follow Ari and subscribe to his outstanding journal The New Atlantis, long one of the finest publications about technology and society. Quoting @AriSchulman If the question is “Should EAs rule us?,” the answer is an obvious hard no. But it seems to me that the chief question in front of us is, rather, “Is something momentous happening with AI?” The answer to that must be something other than mimetic rivalry with EA. Related
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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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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16 September
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
x.com Just a few days until my talk at the Royal Institution on Saturday evening. Just a reminder that you can still get yourself a ticket here. Come and find out what you've been missing.... rigb.org
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Bluesky Just a few days until my talk at the Royal Institution on Saturday evening. Just a reminder that you can still get yourself a ticket here. Come and find out what you've been missing.... Related
15 September
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
Three short sentences from the Supreme Court, and a lot to say about such a very cryptic short utterance. Steve Vladeck unpacks what the Supreme Court said by barely saying anything. The real content of the Supreme Court’s three-sentence decision is a warning to lower courts that Trump is going to lose his USPS ballot suppression case in the end, and a reminder of how corrupt and lawless Alito and Thomas have long been: **CROSSPOST: STEVE VLADECK: 250. What We Learned from USPS v... 1/ Related
14 September
Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science, and consults for organisations including the CDC.
11 September
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
This is your yearly reminder to figure out which test devices are going to stay on the older OS releases, and which ones get the new one. You may or may not want to disable beta updates on the newer releases, too. This weekend is a good time to do it, because we'll all be busy next week. Related
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. My "big plans" today involve sawhorses and telephones and catching up on my newspaper reading. Argue all you want about AI, the analog world will be here when you're done, mostly. Schedule those emails. Have a good weekend. Image credit: State Library of New South Wales, on Flickr Commons flickr.com
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10 September
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
nonogame #52 2:49 • 2 perfect • 1 error • 0 hints https://nonogame.app/@matt (reminder that nonogame is free to play and super fun) Related
9 September
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
On this busy day, I'm also jumping through a few hoops to fix a deadname for a Kickstarter backer. Reminder to future self: nothing about a person is immutable nor something that I get to decide. Related
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky Scientists at frontier AI labs have unique insight into the most advanced models, often seeing the associated risks months before models are released to the public. Their perspective is vital for keeping society informed and should be taken very seriously. Related
x.com Scientists at frontier AI labs have unique insight into the most advanced models, often seeing the associated risks months before models are released to the public. Their perspective is vital for keeping society informed and should be taken very seriously. wsj.com
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8 September
Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.
Today in The Diff, an idea I've been kicking around for a bit: LLMs make us better-informed but less calibrated. LLMs Related
4 September
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I'm deep in my Massachusetts visit, becoming one of those people who can't look at a place without remembering what used to be there. My birthday is tomorrow, so there are all sorts of opportunities for reflecting and remembering. Oh and I guess it's a holiday weekend in the US, so maybe schedule those emails for Tuesday. Image credit: Library of Congress, on Flickr Commons flickr.com
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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.
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1 September
American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.
Reminder: this is in ONE WEEK! Get your tickets now to help me celebrate my new collection! Quoting @kyliu99.bsky.social The wonderful @fondalee.bsky.social will join me at the Brattle Theatre on September 8, 2026, at 6:00 PM to help me celebrate THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES. Thank you to the @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for sponsoring the event. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/ken-liu-at... Related
31 August
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.
28 August
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I'm out of town helping my sister after she recovers from a medical procedure (she's doing well!). I'm out of my routine and pretty well out of my inbox and DEFINITELY out of it after 5 pm. Be mindful about what you ask for from other people, but just do your best. Have a restful weekend. Image credit: National Library of Medicine, on Flickr Commons flickr.com
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27 August
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
Incredible - thank you for the reminder, @HenriHelvetica! 20 years!! Quoting @HenriHelvetica 🎂 Many of those responsible are quite possibly no longer on this platform, but 20yrs ago TODAY the mythical @jquery launched v1.0. As usual, sharing a thread I posted after a short email exchange I had w/ @jeresig a few yrs back, ICYMI. Related
26 August
Design engineer; formerly at Linear and Vercel; author of Sonner and Vaul; teaches animations.dev.
We are also hiring! What initially led me to apply was the trial week. It’s not just for the company to see if you are a fit, but also for you, as a candidate, to see if the company is a good fit for you. That way you can make a more informed decision yourself. It essentially reduces the risk of making the wrong decision, since you get more data points to base your decision on. It’s as if you are a part of the team for a few days. Quoting @linear Today we're announcing our second employee tender offer. We passed $100m ARR earlier this year and now have more than 40,000 paying customers. The tender lets our teammates participate in that success at a $2.5B valuation: Related
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
21 August
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I'll be headed down to Massachusetts to spend some time with my sister next week and I've already got my clipboard out and am making lists. Maybe I'll catch Super Troopers 3 at the local movie house. Either way, my mind is nowhere near my email. Fortunately it does not have to be. Image credit: Randolph Historical Society, on Flickr Commons flickr.com
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20 August
Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
Mastodon Semi-regular reminder that my posts do not originate in the likely place that you are reading them. I wrote about why I keep my distance here: aworkinglibrary.com
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Bluesky Semi-regular reminder that my posts do not originate in the likely place that you are reading them. I wrote about why I keep my distance here: aworkinglibrary.com
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14 August
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
this is your friendly reminder to drink some water 🤝 Related
10 August
Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group; wrote Inspired, Empowered and Transformed on how product organisations work.
9 August
Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.
3 August
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
30 July
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
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And, in addition, Nate Silver’s earlier book The Signal and the Noise was, I thought, brilliant. I am forever deeply in his debt for his making me better-informed and wiser across a whole bunch of different dimensions.
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28 July
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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I think it's a real reminder of the stakes of what's happening and that loss of control accidents are not entirely theoretical things.
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14 July
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
1 July
Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.
Thanks to your intervention, the @rblbank has started reversing some of the fraudulent debits. Earlier they had flatly refused to do so in writing and in fact informed me that the “case is closed” even though it’s pending with @RBI Ombudsman. One big lesson for me: Don’t have debit cards. Cancelled all of them. Use credit cards instead and always pay in full before due date. Quoting @suchetadalal If this can happen to @Sanjay__Bakshi - it can happen to all of us. @rblbank has a serious issue judging customers !! Related
7 June
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.
1 June
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
I’m gonna delete this thread because I think people complaining about airlines on Twitter are pretty lame, including myself! That said, I think the takeaway is that the reason I was upset is precisely because of dashed expectations. If this were American I would have shrugged my shoulders. So I guess that’s a compliment to United, but also a reminder that it’s risky to advertise things (like Starlink) when you can’t yet confidently deliver on them. Anyhow, 28B on Southwest. Let’s go! 😅 America Related
30 May
Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.
15 May
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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This is the chapter that has literally converted thousands of highly intelligent, economically informed people to anarcho-capitalism.
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12 March
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
Just published my Laracon EU 2026 recap. Lots of great talks this year — highlights for me were Dan Harrin on abstractions, Peter Suhm on unblocking users with AI, and Shane Rosenthal showing NativePHP rendering actual native iOS and Android elements. Also a good reminder to finally look more seriously at PostgreSQL. https://stefanzweifel.dev/posts/2026/03/12/laracon-eu-2026-recap/ #LaraconEU Related
18 November 2025
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
26 August 2025
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
One writer I admire is RF Kuang, whose creative output is a reminder that the rest of us are just not working very hard newyorker.com
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14 May 2025
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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But it's a great reminder that our kids have their own life, that we should not try to apply our rules to them.
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10 March 2025
Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.
We're super excited to introduce the Academia Hub! A game-changer for school, university, courses, research, projects, collaborations, publications. Learn more: huggingface.co/docs/hub/aca... It's a per-school offer, not individual => your faculty/admin have to apply Go schools, go universities! HuggingFace Related
5 November 2024
Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the origins of modern growth.
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9 February 2024
Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?
10 June 2023
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
21 March 2023
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.
12 January 2023
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
Seems like another time for a reminder Quoting @allspaw It’s a helluva drug. Related
6 November 2018
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
1 March 2015
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
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