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Professor of strategic studies at St Andrews; wrote How the War Was Won and The Strategists, and writes weekly on the war in Ukraine.

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  Trying to hold escalation down in Ukraine did not contain the war; it lengthened it and made it worse.

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  Trying to artificially restrain escalation has led the war to be far more horrible and extensive than it needed to be.

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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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  The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

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  One of the good ones. If you’re interested in mindfulness and the nature of consciousness, check this out.

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  Sniping at people who are trying to build things is morally bankrupt and it damages the person doing it, however good the likes feel.

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  It is very easy to go take shots on Twitter and make a sarcastic comment and get a lot of likes and feel like you're doing something really important and sticking it to the man and being like, "Gary, haha, I got you, you idiot." Um, and and it will poison your soul. It is a morally bankrupt thing to do.

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Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.

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  Private equity's short fund cycles push firms toward aggressive cost-cutting that erodes what made an acquired business successful.

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  PE funds optimize for a 4-7 flip and typically resort to aggressive cost-cutting and near-term optimization at the cost of the "soul" of the business or what made it successful in the first place.

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Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.

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  Content Security Policy adoption has more than doubled while nearly half of the policies still contain directives that undermine them.

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  So while CSP adoption has more than doubled, nearly half of all policies are in need of some TLC.

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Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.

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  Before the Enlightenment the point of a trial was not proportional justice but the interior spiritual correction of the sinner's soul.

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  The ideal of this period's justice which is much more shaped by Christianity is the purpose of the trial is the spiritual interior correction of the soul of the sinner.

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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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  A first-time founder has an advantage over a repeat winner, because past success makes it too easy to raise money and hire against a big vision before there is product-market fit.

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  it almost gives a new founder an advantage over a multi-time successful founder because we have too much rope to hang ourselves. It's too easy to raise money and recruit teams against a big vision before we've gotten to product market fit.

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Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.

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  The maritime world does not try to eliminate a rogue state; it aims only to contain the problem at an acceptable cost.

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  This world is not about the operational win of totally eliminating a problem. It's rather it's containing it at acceptable cost.

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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.

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Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.

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  Green Soul Monster Ultimate

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  A very comfortable gaming/working chair that I use for long hours

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Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.

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  Writing to chase popularity rather than genuine interest corrupts a creator's work.

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  I mean, sure, you might try to guess people's tastes and only write about what's popular, but that will destroy your soul pretty quickly.

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Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  Rope Storage Baskets

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  Rope Storage Baskets: I use these EVERRRYYYWHERE in my apartment. I can't stand clutter (yet I have so much of it!!), plus I have lots of art supplies and journals and books and newspapers and crap lying around all the time

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Co-founder and chief executive of Figma, the collaborative design platform he started in 2012 and took public in 2025.

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  A minimum viable product is not enough: the first release still has to contain something a little bit awesome that shows people where it is going.

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  I think it's not enough to have the MVP. You got to have something that's a little bit awesome at least.

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Essayist, journalist and independent researcher on Chinese politics, strategy and cultural history; author of the blog The Scholar's Stage.

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  Stoner

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  Williams sees a soul where others see a stand-in.

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Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.

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  The case against pornography does not depend on the statistics: even if every study said it was good for you, it would still be bad for the soul.

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  But for me it just comes down to, is it really a good thing to do? Is it really actually something we want, is to value people in such a profane or just disregarding way? I just really think it's just bad for the soul. Even if all the stats said it was great for you, I still say it's actually bad.

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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 Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

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  A unique lens on work in the late 90s that still resonated when I read it in 2018. It's a soulful exploration of how to maintain your humanity, creativity and inner fire in environments that often prioritize conformity and efficiency.

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Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.

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  That there is no soul is an assumption of science rather than a finding: no experiment has ever shown that the light simply blinks out.

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  The general view of science, I think, is that we’re accidents of evolution. When we die, the light blinks out. There’s no more of us. There’s no such thing as the soul. But that’s not a proven point. There’s no experiment that proves that’s the case.

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Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.

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  Designed addiction in gambling games is real and can consume a person’s life.

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  The world is full of gambling games that want to crawl into your limbic system and drain every last ounce of life-force from your soul.

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Biologist at the MIT Media Lab; invented CRISPR gene drives and then spent years arguing for safeguards against their misuse and against engineered pandemics.

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  Every synthetic DNA order should be screened for hazardous sequences and shipped only to researchers whose work a biosafety authority has approved.

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  That makes it essential to ensure that all synthetic DNA orders are screened to determine whether they contain hazardous sequences, which should be shipped only to legitimate researchers whose work has been approved by a biosafety authority.

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Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.

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  The Asking

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  For half a century, Jane Hirshfield has been slaking the world's soul on poems of perspective and consolation, fusing her Buddhist training, her passion for science, and her tenderness for all things living.

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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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  The Vagabond’s Way

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  Best travel book I’ve ever read! Shook my soul many times. Tiny “daily meditation” format, with lots of quotes from others, but wow what wonderful insights. They make me yearn to travel again. Love love love these ideas and perspectives so much.

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