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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.

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  Televised hearings built for viral clips are the wrong venue for honest accountability conversations.

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  the time to make that point is not during a televised hearing when everyone is trying for a viral clip.

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Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.

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  Fossil fuel money is a systemically corrupting force in American politics that limits which problems can be discussed and solved.

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  fossil fuel money is an immensely powerful, intensely corrupting force in American politics that limits not only what conversations we can have about massive problems, but what we can do to solve them

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Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

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  Remembering Indonesia from My Grandpa

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  What stands out about Hsieh's version is that her roots occupy such a unique spot in history: her grandparents were Chinese born in Indonesia, which means they got caught between the rock of the Cultural Revolution and the hard place of anti-communist backlash.

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Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.

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  A handful of AI agents is not a handful of colleagues, because agents agree with you constantly and colleagues tell you where you are wrong.

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  We may have a handful of genies, but that's different from having a handful of friends, right? In part because the energy's different, the conversations are different. Also, they just agree with us constantly.

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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

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  Frequent conversations with customers continually correct a founder's mistaken assumptions about the market.

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  Your assumptions will constantly clash with reality, and they will be refined slightly every single time you have a conversation.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

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  from the Harvard Negotiation Project. A helpful book to have on-hand.

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Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.

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  Overcommitted

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  Overcommitted: Put simply, thoughtful tech conversations from thoughtful tech people. I'm biased towards this one because it's run by some coworkers, but they are awesome coworkers and it's fun and interesting!

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Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.

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  Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

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  I've gifted this at least 50 times, so I'll keep gifting it.

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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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  In a product review a prototype beats a static mock, and a static mock beats a lot of words.

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  at least my product reviews and uh product conversations, I feel like prototypes beat static mocks and static mocks beat lots of words.

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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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  The value of an ambitious experiment target is not hitting it but the conversation about what would have to be true to hit it.

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  And a thousand experiments by itself, like if you just did that, but you didn't learn, you didn't make an impact, and that's kind of a waste of time, right? The whole point of setting a goal is that you can have conversations about what would need to be true to actually hit that goal.

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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.

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  Most conversations with a company's agent will eventually be with the customer's own personal agent -- agents talking to agents.

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  Brett and I like betting and one of the bets we have is the year in which greater than 50% of conversations with agents built on Sierra are with people's personal agents. So agents talking to agents.

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Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.

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  Indonesia’s nickel boom tripled export value while poverty in the district hosting it fell no faster than the national average.

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  Morowali’s poverty rate has seen a modest decline since 2016, from around 15% to 12%, but this puts it squarely in the middle of the pack of other Sulawesi districts—and not far from the decline in the national average, which fell from 10.9% to 8.6% over the same period.

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Astrophysicist at Barnard College; wrote Black Hole Blues and How the Universe Got Its Spots, and directs sciences at Pioneer Works.

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  Everything we build — every proof, every Nobel Prize, every idea, even the AI — will eventually be erased, which is why the near term matters.

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  Eventually, I think it’s kind of hard to imagine, but yes, all of these Nobel Prizes, all of these mathematical proofs, all of these conversations, all of these ideas, all the influence we have on each other, even the AI, eventually will expire.

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Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.

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  A breached organisation owes its customers a fast and transparent disclosure, and that obligation applies to the person saying it too.

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  When I have conversations with breached companies, my messaging is crystal clear: be transparent and expeditious in your reporting of the incident and prioritise communicating with your customers.

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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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  The Changelog

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  high-quality conversations with engineers, leaders, innovators in the tech world.

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  A multi-ethnic society only gets the benefits of diversity if it deliberately builds a shared national identity.

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  However, productive collaborations are not inevitable. Just look at ethnic violence in South-East Asia or Hindu Nationalism in India. Nation-building is really valuable, learning from multi-ethnic, democratic Indonesia.

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Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.

From one piece Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Almost every one-to-one Telegram chat, and every group chat, is readable on Telegram’s own servers.

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  The practical impact is that the vast majority of one-on-one Telegram conversations — and literally every single group chat — are probably visible on Telegram’s servers, which can see and record the content of all messages sent between users.

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  Telegram is not an encrypted messenger in the sense that matters, because it does not end-to-end encrypt conversations by default.

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  Telegram clearly fails to meet this stronger definition for a simple reason: it does not end-to-end encrypt conversations by default.

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Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.

From one piece Group chats rule the world 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Ideas that first circulate in private group chats often become mainstream public opinion.

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  Time and time again I've seen group chat conversations act as the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion.

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  Private group chats have become the primary venue for the most interesting conversations in tech.

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  Most of the interesting conversations in tech now happen in private group chats: Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, small invite-only Discord groups.

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Writes Useful Fictions on agency and how to get better at things; a former appellate lawyer and the top-ranked woman in professional poker in 2017.

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  You cannot predict which conversations will be useful, so the way to find opportunities is to take many meetings with no obvious benefit.

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  What I discovered by casting a wide net was that I have very little ability to predict how useful a call will be in advance.

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