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Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.

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  Expecting a layoff in advance provides little psychological protection against its effects.

  AI and jobs

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  Being mentally prepared didn't provide much protection. The effects of job loss looked remarkably similar.

  Your Job Gives You More Than Moneyrobkhenderson.com

Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

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  Software built under tight hardware constraints tends to have faster, more responsive UI than software built without such limits.

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  Targeting old 16-bit computers, the authors couldn't afford to build a sloppy, wasteful UI, and so by modern standards the game UI is remarkably fast and responsive.

  A custom virtual machine for the Stars! 4X gamenullprogram.com

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.

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  Labor market segments that compete purely on price are the most vulnerable to technological disruption.

  AI and jobs

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  One way to look at this is that there's a part of the labor market that competes purely on price-in this case, basically by being the poorest place rich enough to afford fast Internet-and this category is the most vulnerable to technological disruption.

  Longreads + Open Threadthediff.co

Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.

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  Root crops resist state taxation better than grain because they can be harvested piecemeal and stored underground.

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  Even other domesticated foods like root crops and tubers proved remarkably resistant to the tax collector, because they grow underground and can safely be left in the soil for months, even years.

  The Legible Societyadjacentpossible.substack.com

Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

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  Making food more expensive is not a way to fix the food system, because higher food prices fall hardest on the poorest people.

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  Simply making fossil fuels more expensive without having affordable alternatives just makes energy more expensive, which hits the poorest hardest.

  Do subsidies make meat much cheaper?hannahritchie.substack.com

Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.

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  Design deliverables are no longer static assets or guidelines but tools: custom software that generates on-brand assets on demand.

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  But with today's AI coding agents, building software is remarkably easy. So instead of handing over static assets and static guidelines, designers can deliver custom software. Tools that let clients create their own on-brand assets whenever they need them.

  Design Tools Are The New Design Deliverableslukew.com

Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  A Little History of the World

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  This was probably my favorite book of the year. Gombrich wrote it in six weeks at age 26, aiming to explain world history to children. The result is remarkably readable.

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Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  Remarkably Bright Creatures

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  I think anyone who enjoys fiction would enjoy this book, but it’s a must-read for people who grew up in Western Washington like I did.

  gatesnotes.com

Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  The Power Law

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  But he has a remarkably high hit rate of finding things I would have otherwise overlooked or offering useful new perspective.

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Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.

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  Making food more expensive is not a way to fix the food system, because higher food prices fall hardest on the poorest people.

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  But while I have seen no evidence (and Chris provides none) that higher food prices alleviate global hunger, there is a wealth of evidence that they exacerbate it.

  The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed Peoplemonbiot.com