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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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  WorkOS

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  @WorkOS – The fastest AI-native teams have to slow down for the hard problems. WorkOS makes sure auth, for your app and your agents, is never one of them. https://t.co/aiAee0oF5h

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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  AI progress is jagged: models are becoming superhuman at math and software engineering while remaining far weaker at intuition, creativity, and other forms of human reasoning.

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  AI has always been very jagged, and we are making models which are superhuman goal-seekers at math and software engineering, but they have massive limitations on intuitions, creativity, and other types of reasoning that humans are strong at.

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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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  In a fast-changing industry, anyone genuinely keeping up will change their mind as the developments happen.

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  Especially in technology - one of the fastest changing industries - anyone keeping up with developments WILL change their minds when those developments happen!!

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Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

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  A server's real network throughput can exceed what its single fastest port suggests when a protocol supports channel bonding across multiple links.

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  SMB Multichannel can make an old NAS with several gigabit interfaces much more capable than one might assume from looking at any single Ethernet port.

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Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology at Caltech, where he studies the neuroscience of emotion and social cognition.

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  Equating an emotion with the conscious feeling of it turns emotion research into consciousness research, which is why the two must be kept apart.

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  And the other question is if you tie emotion to the the conscious experience of emotion, that is you equate you conflate emotions with feelings. Well, then you're not studying emotions, you're studying consciousness.

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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  Using AI agents to do a task does not by itself increase a person's own pace of understanding, intuition, or taste for that work.

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  Something intertwined with this story, which I stumbled upon when thinking about agents, is how your pace of understanding won't increase by using agents.

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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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  The current AI data-center buildout is the biggest and fastest-growing infrastructure project in living memory.

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  This is the biggest and fastest-growing infrastructure project of our lifetimes.

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  Opposition to new AI data centers has become the fastest-growing political movement in America, putting it on a collision course with the industry that depends on building them.

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  The fastest-growing political movement in America is dead-set on stopping the construction of data centers, which are critical to the growth of the fastest-growing industry in America.

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Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.

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  The common failure is picking the technology with the fastest early ramp and extrapolating it, when that curve plateaus below what the product needs.

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  common failure mode is picking the tech that gives you the fastest early ramp, riding that steep curve, feeling like you're winning, projecting that, you know, steep slope into the future and feeling like the sky is the limit, and then hitting the plateau, and discovering that the technology path that you picked actually flattens out way before the performance that is required by your product.

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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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  Startup opportunities are not fleeting; Silicon Valley has reliably had a surfeit of them for decades.

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  You know, in hindsight, I think that um that was a a poor intuition. Uh it's been pretty robustly and reliably the case over many decades in Silicon Valley has a surfeit of opportunities.

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Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.

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  He reached the conclusion that input drives language acquisition on his own, before meeting the research that says so.

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  I came to the same conclusions independently before I encountered Krashen's work, and decades of learning across 20+ languages have only reinforced them. The research supports the intuition: input is where acquisition happens.

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Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.

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  You can teach somebody to be a really good AI developer in a few months, but you cannot teach them a computer science degree in three — so hire for the fundamentals.

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  We can we can teach we can teach somebody, I think, to be a really good AI developer in a few months. You can build enough intuition where you are, you know, accelerated off the ground and you can go like keep growing there. It's really hard to teach someone a CS undergrad program in in 3 months.

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  Without good intuition for models, treat 100k tokens on smaller models and 200k on the frontier ones as the line past which the quality of your results is probably already degrading.

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  But if you don't have good LLM intuition, like 100K for smaller models, 200K for these like really beefy like Codeex and Opus 4.8 models is usually a good like training wheel guideline of like if you pass there, your quality of results may be degrading.

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  The engineering intuition that matters cannot be taught from a textbook — you know bad patterns in software because you have debugged them at three in the morning.

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  there's a different kind of intuition that you that you develop over years as a software engineer and uh there's many categories of it but the one I'll I'll call attention to that is like a thing that you cannot teach you cannot do you cannot learn in a textbook. The only way to learn it is like I know bad patterns in software because I have debugged them at three in the morning.

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Head of Instagram since 2018, previously head of Facebook's News Feed.

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  Building a new product on top of whatever is growing fastest is a mistake: momentum is not the same thing as a strong foundation.

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  we were trying to build reels into stories because we were trying to build in the thing that was growing the fastest. But it was not a strong foundation.

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Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.

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  Thoughts, feelings, decisions and bodies are not real in themselves, only useful abstractions layered over the underlying chaos of atoms.

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  Thoughts, feelings, decisions, even bodies don't exist, they're only abstractions that we use to manage the chaos.

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Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. His 2010 meta-analysis established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment; he has argued ever since that "evidence-based therapy" is used as a marketing term.

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  Telling a patient "your feelings are valid" is not therapy: it is the mirror image of "get a grip", and it makes the therapist a judge of feelings instead of a companion in them.

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  The phrase "your feelings are valid" does not invite curiosity or deeper self-understanding, which is the point of psychotherapy. It is the mirror image of "stop whining and get a grip." One sounds warm and one sounds harsh, but neither deepens self-awareness.

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Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.

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  Leaders are trained fastest by an apprentice who shadows every meeting, which is an unscalable way of scaling an organisation.

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  it's this nonscalable way to scale your organization and it's through like passing your vampire blood. That's what inside Zinga they called it, Pinkis' vampire blood. What he did that I started to do is you pick someone from the organization who's promising. I usually pick the people who didn't fit in the smart misfits and they become your tech assistant which is not your chief of staff, not your executive assistant.

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Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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  Keyboard: Keychron K7. I've tried the weird keyboards but I still type fastest on the Mac layout. This is one of the few keyboards that's almost exactly the Mac layout - the "Command" key is in the right place.

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  China is the fastest-innovating country in the world today, on the strength of its talent, its open-source habit and its ferocious internal competition.

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  So you get this rapid, incredible great talent, rapid innovation because of open source and just, you know, the nature of friends, and, and insane competition. Among the company, what emerges is incredible stuff. And so this is the fastest innovating country in the world today

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Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.

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  TSMC would rather give wafers to a slow, stable CPU business than to its fastest-growing AI customer.

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  TSMC is much more excited to give allocation to Graviton than they are to tranium because they view CPU business as more stable long-term growth right and as a company that is conservative and doesn't want to ride cycles of growth too hard you actually want to allocate to the uh the market that is more stable and lower growth rate first before you allocate all the incremental capacity to the fast growth rate market.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Turning a breakout open-source project into a company would be the wrong move -- joining a lab reaches everyone faster than building another large company.

  OpenAI

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  Yes, I could totally see how OpenClaw could become a huge company. And no, it’s not really exciting for me. I’m a builder at heart. I did the whole creating-a-company game already, poured 13 years of my life into it and learned a lot. What I want is to change the world, not build a large company and teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest way to bring this to everyone.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  This is the year of personal agents, and the fastest way to get one to everyone is to team up with a lab, on condition the project stays open source.

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  But also, I'm very excited to, like, make this into a version that I can get to a lot of people because I think this is the year of personal agents, and that's the future. And the fastest way to do that is teaming up with one of the labs.

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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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  Story of A Poem

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  Could a book be more up my alley? The way he unpacks his feelings about giftedness, overachieving, language, disability, and difference really spoke to me.

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Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.

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  The American states with the fastest electricity load growth saw prices fall rather than rise.

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  A Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study found that state-level load growth from 2019 to 2024 — including growth driven by data centers, manufacturing, and electrification — was associated with lower average retail electricity prices, not higher ones.

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Head of growth at Chess.com, previously growth and monetization lead at Grammarly and Duolingo and a product manager at Google.

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  You cannot manufacture virality, but you can find the moments users already screenshot and make those moments far better.

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  So as opposed to going against I guess human intuition and trying to get them to share stuff that they otherwise wouldn't on the margins want to share like lean into it more actually like grab the moments where users are already organically screenshotting and make those much much much better and you can kind of 5x or 10x and and drive a lot of growth that way too.

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

From one piece From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Models have personalities the way people do, and using them well means developing an intuition for which one to reach for.

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  And you have to understand the strengths of of you know used to be people but now it's basically models and different models have different strengths. So it's like they have different personalities

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  The real danger of AI is not that it does our work but that it lets us shortcut hard feelings, the way a phone already lets us avoid a difficult conversation.

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  You can shortcut like hard feelings because now you can just watch TikTok instead of actually dealing with the very difficult emotion or tension that you had with a colleague or with your partner or with your children.

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  The fastest-growing companies are not using data well, because they reached enormous scale before they had time to build any of the instrumentation.

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  So the funny thing, my funny answer to this is I don't actually think a lot of the fast growing companies are using data well at this point. And the main reason why is because traditionally things just didn't grow that fast.

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Co-founder and chief executive of Sierra, chairman of the board of OpenAI, and formerly co-chief executive of Salesforce and chief technology officer of Facebook.

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  An applied AI company should not train its own foundation model, because a foundation model is the fastest deteriorating asset there is.

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  I mean I've heard from multiple investors that foundation models are the fastest deteriorating asset of all time. And so if step one of your business is to burn through tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars of capital before you find product market fit and that asset has value for like a a week, I'm not sure it's like a great business model.

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Economist specialising in China's economy, international macroeconomics and global trade, and author of The New China Playbook.

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  China's economy will not collapse, whatever the West has been predicting on and off since the 1980s.

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  Collapse is such a strong word, and the West has been using this word repeatedly. If I remember correctly, maybe four to five times, maybe even six times since 1980s during the period of China’s fastest growth. I tend to not think that Chinese economy will collapse.

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Chief executive of Alphabet and Google; joined Google in 2004 and led Chrome and Android before taking over in 2015.

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  Scaling laws are still working, but the models people actually use run a few months behind the maximum capability Google can deliver, because the biggest model is too slow and expensive to serve.

  Google

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  So I do think scaling laws are working, but it's tough to get, at any given time, the models we all use the most, this maybe a few months behind the maximum capability we can deliver because that won't be the fastest, easiest to use, et cetera.

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Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.

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  The share of users who would be very disappointed to lose your product predicts success far better than net promoter score, and forty percent is the line.

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  What he found is that the companies that struggled to grow almost always had less than 40% very disappointed. Whereas the companies that grew the fastest almost always had more than 40% very disappointed. And this question, this metric is way more predictive of success than something for example like net promoter score.

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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.

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  The Inner Compass: Cultivating the Courage to Trust Yourself

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  A perfect sized companion (~100 pages) to understanding and trusting your intuition—breaking free from external validation and building courage through three core principles.

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Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.

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  Copying a competitor's flows is the fastest route to mediocrity, because nobody who copied somebody else ever led a market.

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  because copying competition is like the fastest way to mediocrity because you'll never be a leader if you copied somebody else.

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Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.

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  Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

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  Pictures, examples, geometric intuition.

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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.

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  The simplest explanation for why we have never noticed an alien civilization is that there are none out there.

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  But I think your intuition is right that it would’ve been easy for there to be lots of civilizations then we would’ve noticed them already and we haven’t. Absolutely the simplest explanation for why we haven’t is that they’re not there.

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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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  The fastest-growing part of the culture economy is not art or entertainment but distraction.

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  The fastest growing sector of the culture economy is distraction.

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