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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  Some tasks inherently need a continuous stretch of time, so an appointment that splits the afternoon can leave no block long enough to finish them, and this is not limited to people with ADHD.

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  It's isn't just to people with ADHD that this happens. Some tasks inherently take a certain amount of time. An appointment that breaks the afternoon into two blocks of time could leave you with no block long enough to complete a task.

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Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.

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  Social media no longer works for writers to reach an audience; newsletters are a better channel.

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  As discussed, social media doesn't work for writers anymore. Newsletters are way better.

  Everything on the internet is a "show"kylechayka.substack.com

Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company he started as Facebook in 2004.

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  Curing, preventing or managing all disease by the end of the century is now too conservative a goal.

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  But still, I thought that by the end of the century was a stretch. Now, I think it's like uh too conservative.

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General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.

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  Venture capital bends toward the young, because the work is a hustle and later-life obligations cap how many hours anyone can give it.

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  I think the the whole industry bends towards youth for that reason and because it's a hustle business like there there's there's always a rock you haven't looked under and you know age brings children and homes and and and other requirements you get tied to and responsibilities and you're just not able to go spend 80 hours a week studying YouTube like you just can't.

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Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.

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  The tighter someone clings to an identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it, so identity drives change and then blocks the next one.

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  there's also a flip side to this or a dark side, a shadow side to identity, which is the tighter you cling to an identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it. And so once you have started to identify as a certain type of person, once you adopt that label, oh, I am a member of this group or I am the type of person who believes this thing, it becomes hard to stretch and grow outside of that.

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

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  American aid to sub-Saharan Africa has never exceeded $15 per person a year.

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  American aid obligations in Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, have never exceeded $15 per person

  A World Without Aid?global-developments.org

Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.

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  Sendy

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  I use Sendy for newsletters. It's a self-hosted service which uses Amazon Simple Email Service. It's written using PHP and thus it needs the LAMP stack to be hosted. I use a DigitalOcean droplet with the LAMP stack installed to host it.

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Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.

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  In a monotonous stretch of life the days crawl and the weeks vanish, because the sense of how much time passed is built out of what you can remember happening.

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  Almost everyone in the class said that the days were moving by slower. Then I would say, “Okay, so do you feel like the weeks are passing by slower, faster, or the same?” The majority of them said that the weeks were passing by faster. According to the laws of physics, I don’t think that makes any sense, but according to memory, it did because what happened was people were doing the same thing over and over in the same context.

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Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

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  Copyleft licences impose obligations rather than restrictions, and it is from those obligations on the powerful that software freedom comes.

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  Copyleft does not impose restrictions, but it does impose obligations. The obligations exist to guarantee rights to the users of the software – in other words, to ensure freedoms.

  Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive”drewdevault.com

Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.

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  Design Lobster

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  Ben Strak's short and sweet Monday newsletter offers weekly inspiration to designers and anyone else curious about the world around them. A good example of how newsletters thrive on the authentic curiosity of the people who write them.

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  Supervised

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  Longtime tech reporter Matt Lynley offers an uncommonly technical assessment of new AI developments in his newsletter Supervised. Original reporting and a fast cadence help this one stand out from other AI newsletters.

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