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17 September
Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.
16 September
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.
"we may think that in the contemporary world we have moved beyond...the need for religious belief and worship has largely been superseded; but we have merely transferred these primal needs to celebrities and charismatic politicians and political leaders" Related
15 September
Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.
12 September
Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.
In the course of the last week, did you use software which was substantially LLM-generated to accomplish something useful to you or your employer? In particular, something that was NOT software-development-related? #GenAI #LLM LLMs Related
11 September
Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
Aligning with a party prevents you from ever having this (obviously correct) opinion. Trump's grifting (meme coin, selling early access to tweets, $5k bribes) is gross, unnecessary, and destroys confidence in markets and politicians. The Trump accounts are a fantastic achievement and could change millions upon millions of Americans' lives. Quoting @MebFaber The single worst trade I can think of: Sacrificing your mental independence and emotional health to align with a political party. Zero upside and massive downside. Try subbing out "ideas" for "party" in my favorite @AdamMGrant quote America Related
Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
It takes at least 10 years after high school to get to the frontier of economic research, or to the frontier of medical research. Except for a few kooks, most people, smartly, do not try to engage and question medical researchers. Unfortunately, this is not true for economics. Many too many self-appointed experts, including among politicians. Quoting @mbompard Il est grave que le gouverneur de la banque de France diffuse ainsi de fausses informations. 1) Rien dans les traités européens ne dit ce que la BCE doit faire des titres de dettes des États dont elle dispose. Les mêmes arguments d’illégalité étaient utilisés contre le rachat des titres par la BCE… Related
Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.
”Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?” by Armin Ronacher: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/7/astra-why/ Fascinating reportage from the frontier-model coalface; especially since Armin has been in some respects a #genai true believer. Related
10 September
Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.
9 September
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Politicians, and people, are often deeply irrational. But it is often easier not to talk about it. In fact, it is considered impolite to talk about it. Case in point. In August 1914, British Columbia premier Sir Richard McBride spent $1.15 million of provincial money on two American submarines. That was about twice the yearly budget of the Royal Canadian Navy. Canadian provinces have no military. The man had no business buying weapons, let alone submarines. Let alone incredibly expensive submarines. A German attack on the West Coast was never likely. Germany did have cruisers in the Pacific f… Quoting @TristinHopper I regularly visit the grave of the B.C. premier who panicked at the outset of the First World War and used taxpayer money to buy a pair of random South American submarines. America Related
7 September
Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.
Huh, I was at Apple.com and glanced at the Mac Studio page - https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/ - I notice they're explicitly pitching it for LLM on the desktop. I wonder how realistic that is… Hmm, let’s ask @simon, he’s closer to this stuff than most of us. I’m pretty convinced that irrespective of all the issues, the economics of #genAI just don’t work with the current compute infrastructure requirements. Open models and what’s left of Moore’s law could be a really big deal. #apple LLMs Related
I updated my blog’s Colophon: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/misc/Colophon from which I quote: “The words here are not AI-generated”. #genAI Related
5 September
Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.
Many politicians are obsessed with the idea that non-citizens vote. The reality is often more complicated. Did you know that American Samoans have a US passport and yet cannot vote or run for office? Quoting @taniel.bsky.social Meaningful news earlier today. Many of you read and reacted to this story earlier this year on this Samoan woman in Alaska who was being prosecuted for voting alongside many in her family. A judge tossed her case today—a huge win, if just a first step in her story. America Related
4 September
American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.
1 September
Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science, and consults for organisations including the CDC.
31 August
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.
28 August
Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money, Same As Ever and The Art of Spending Money. Writes essays on investor behavior and posts frequently on X.
The Psychology of Money Podcast: Household debt/GDP has plunged at the same time Government debt/GDP surged. On net, we're about where we were 20 years ago. government Related
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
21 August
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
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The debt dynamics work the same for a central government as they do for a person or a company, except that a central government has a central bank that can print money (which devalues it) and it can take money away from people via taxes.
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17 August
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
How many people do you have to convince in a city to get the difference between 20k car break-ins and 5k break-ins? I think it’s probably something like 10-20. Plus politicians/cops/etc but they have much less direct control of the metric than the decisionmakers do. Quoting @JonathanHillis Now that’s the kind of user feedback you like to see for San Francisco’s public safety initiatives Related
11 August
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
Dunning Kruger Effect Wrong, Scientists Claim The dumber you are, the more certain you are that you aren't. That's the Dunning-Kruger effect, and it's been used to explain everything from bad politicians to the state of social media. Now psychologists have gone bac…
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4 August
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
This piece is out! 4 sites, 10 days, and 6000 words on the politics of data centers in the Midwest: https://t.co/uOL7vmf3wC I talked to union leaders and real estate brokers, activists and local officials, politicians from Kathy Hochul to Abdul El-Sayed. A few takeaways: - Activists are as pissed at their local officials as at AI companies - The bigger the dollar signs, the more skeptical people are - Past corporate failures (Foxconn, GM, DTE) prime community distrust - Even data center proponents regret the NDAs - Media narratives turn local grievances into national movements - Residents fea… Quoting @jasminewsun I’m spending the next week driving around Wisconsin and Michigan to get a firsthand view of the data center buildout and backlash am visiting sites, talking to tons of people — tradespeople, activists, planners, residents — then writing up a story lmk what questions I should dig into! data centers Related
1 August
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
looking forward to this being implemented everywhere so we can live in a world where all politicians are unemployed 🙏🏻 Quoting @adamemedia1 Every country on earth needs to do this. Related
23 July
Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.
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But it's also true that when I change, a relationship changes; when I change, the atmosphere of my household changes; when I change, others may imitate me.
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21 July
British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
Pleased that UK govt has scrapped the single digital ID scheme. IMO: illiberal and a single point of failure Instead: create a wallet of the various IDs we use — council tax per household, road tax per car, NHS per patient The only place they should connect is my private phone Related
Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.
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The fossil fuel industry's great political achievement is not that it has persuaded every Republican that climate change is a hoax. It is that it has made the truth unspeakable among Republican politicians-even when their constituents are choking on it.
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19 July
Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group.
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I think anytime a new technology comes along, especially one that's as transformative as GenAI, you go through a storming phase before you go through the forming phase of things. And I think we are in the middle of that right now.
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17 July
Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.
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Permanent Daylight Saving Time Is the Perfect Stupid Idea for Our Stupid Time
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politicians acting based on what they think polls well, rather than based on what will actually produce results that make voters happy
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the increasing unreasonableness of an electorate that wants all its groceries in one bag and also doesn't want the bag to be heavy is a primary driver behind permanently low approval of politicians in both parties
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16 July
Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.
Factories were built back when politicians still wanted their constituents to have jobs. Quoting @MTSlive Zane Hengsperger on the surprising reason NIMBY protests never come for factories the way they come for data centers: "I would argue NIMBYism does not matter for factories. It obviously for data centers is a major problem." "Look at any city mayor who brings a manufacturing company to their city. T… Related
1 July
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.
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What is happening is that GenAI's climate harm comes from the system design, such as Google's AI overview triggering constantly whether users want it or not, in addition to significantly worse digital bloat tools dominating overconsumption.
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16 June
Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.
I have a new book coming out this fall and now I’m getting SLAMMED with GenAI invitations to join their book community (for a fee of course). I doubt I’m alone. But what I can’t work out is how the economy of these pay-to-play networks is working. Has anyone investigated? Curious minds want to know. Related
28 May
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
When it comes to merge conflicts, GenAI truly delivered on the 10x promise. Related
9 May
Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.
29 January
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
The cults of TDD and GenAI I’ve gotten a lot of flack throughout my career over my disdain towards test-driven development (TDD). I have met a lot of people who swear by it! And, I have also met a lot of people who insisted that I adopt it, too,…
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18 January
Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.
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Politics Without Politicians by political scientist Hélène Landemore (February)
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adamgrant.substack.com
10 October 2025
Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.
30 September 2025
Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.
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I believe this is the right answer. We're often being manipulated by politicians, by corporate leaders to make a choice from two suboptimal options. And then when we are forced to make this choice and we make this choice, it's almost as if it's something that we have to assume responsibility for. I don't think we should be buying into that.
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12 September 2025
Professor at Berkeley working on robot learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence, and argues that robots will learn from data rather than be programmed.
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Uh but it uh I think we kind of like know like roughly the puzzle pieces and it's something that we need to work on and I think if we work on it and we're a bit lucky and everything kind of goes as planned I think single digit is reasonable.
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1 December 2024
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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Does Women’s Rise trigger Backlash?
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13 October 2024
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
27 November 2023
Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the origins of modern growth.
Briefly relaxing my Twitter embargo to suggest that you read @oliverwkim's JMP, on the economic consequences of the Household Responsibility System in China. It's a clever and counterintuitive example of how creative data work can help us answer important historical questions. Quoting @oliverwkim 🚀JMP alert🚀 My paper w @FergJoel applies machine learning to 1970s-80s satellite imagery to revisit one of the 🇨🇳 Chinese Miracle's first major reforms, the Household Responsibility System—the end of collective socialist agriculture. What we found was quite surprising. 🧵 China Related
20 June 2023
Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
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