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Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.

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  In the Title IX debate, conservatives are the side seeking to shrink funding and opportunities for girls' sports.

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  And the broader Title IX fight is a classic left/right political battle, where conservatives just want to shrink opportunities and funding for girls' sports.

  Destroying women’s sports in order to save itslowboring.com

Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  Funding for mathematics and interest in the topic will rise considerably in the medium term

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  I expect the funding for mathematics, and the interest in the topic, to rise considerably, at least in the medium term.

  The mathematicians rebel against AImarginalrevolution.com

Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science, and consults for organisations including the CDC.

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  Defunding public health surveillance systems allows foodborne disease outbreaks to go undetected.

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  When the public health systems meant to catch and stop this stuff are cut (less funding, less staff, less historical knowledge, and less leadership), outbreaks can, and will, emerge between the cracks.

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US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.

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  The postwar settlement for American science is obsolete: the federal share of R&D has inverted, with private money and philanthropy now funding about 70% of it.

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  Over time that has sort of inverted completely. The private sector plus philanthropy now do about 70% of R&D and the and the government only does about 30.

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Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.

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  Some ideas are worth funding with fifty million dollars or with nothing, and never with five million, because underfunding buys you an ambiguous outcome instead of an answer.

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  there are definitely some ideas that are worth funding with $50 million or zero dollars, but not $5 million. Um you won't run the experiment. It'll be really frustrating experience. You'll get an ambiguous outcome.

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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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  Philanthropy can never operate at the scale of government, no matter how well-funded it becomes.

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  Even with the influx of funding that may come with the AI companies' IPOs, philanthropy can never act at the scale of government.

  Thinking the unthinkableeatingpolicy.com

Chief executive of Intel since 2025, founder of the venture firm Walden International and chief executive of Cadence Design Systems for thirteen years.

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  AI factories and foundries are too capital-intensive for venture money; they need government or sovereign funds behind them.

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  And then in terms of the capital intensive like AI in a factory and also the foundry and then you really need to tap either government funding or some sovereign fund

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Only the US and China have substantial startup activity left; the rest of the world cannot really do startups.

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  I just realized the only 2 countries left with actual substantial startup activity now are literally only the US and China The rest of the world can't really do startups, doesn't have the funding, can't grow them and it's more like performative hobby projects for their governments Which might tell us where the future wealth will be concentrated in the world

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Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.

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  R&D spending varies more than tenfold across diseases for no good reason, which is where the best opportunities in science funding are.

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  Our punchline is that R&D spending varies by 10X+ across diseases for no good reason. I've been poking at that punchline for the last six or so years, from different directions, and I am confident it's true.

  A Quantitative Approach to Vaccine Fundingblog.jacobtrefethen.com

Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.

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  Funding education does not make a country rich; being rich is what makes a country fund education lavishly.

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  Lavishly funding education doesn’t cause countries to become rich; being rich causes countries to lavishly fund education.

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Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine; previously a research scientist at OpenAI and a PhD student at UC Berkeley.

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  A founder who picks an idea because the market wants it will give up, because nobody can persist at something that was never important to them.

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  I think the thing that most people get wrong after they’ve decided to start a company is work on things they think the market wants. Not being passionate about any idea but thinking, okay, look, this is what will get me venture funding. This is what will get me revenue or customers. That’s what will get me venture funding. If you work from that perspective, I think you’ll give up beyond the point because it’s very hard to work towards something that was not truly important to you.

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Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.

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  Ten billion dollars over ten years would deliver most of a list of missing life-saving health technologies, so their absence is a funding choice rather than a scientific limit.

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  With an extra $10 billion over 10 years I’m pretty sure we’d get to 5 or 6 of the 10 on the list, and millions of unnecessary deaths would be prevented.

  10 technologies that won't exist in 5 yearsblog.jacobtrefethen.com

Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.

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  Taking venture capital funding pushes a company toward extreme binary outcomes and pressures it to extract more value from customers.

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  When you take venture funding, you sign up for a rocket ship ride that will either take you to the moon or to crash-land painfully back on earth. Those are the only two choices. And both rides tend to require heavy extraction of value from the customer.

  Announcing RedwoodJS 1.0 and $1M Fundingtom.preston-werner.com

Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.

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  Paying a maintainer must not buy a say in the project’s direction; funding and governance have to be kept as separate as possible.

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  Governance is a delicate and complex topic, and you want to leave it as orthogonal as possible to funding.

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  Funding should pay for maintenance, not features, because every new feature adds to the burden the money was meant to relieve.

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  Finally, the health of the project depends on issue triage, bug fixes, refactors, and design work more than on new features. In fact, new features increase the maintenance burden.

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Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and VC

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  If you're considering raising institutional funding for your startup, then this is a key book to read to understand the fundamentals of the legal documents and terms. It came recommended by a number of fellow entrepreneurs and it didn't disappoint. I haven't raised money yet myself so I may change this score up or down significantly once I have that first hand experience.

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  Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of Salesforce.com

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  Want to know the story behind how Salesforce was built? This is that story in founder Marc Benioff's own words. At times I found him overly prescriptive without an appreciation for his unfair advantages he had (getting to start it while having a big salary at Oracle, having $6Mn in "bootstrapped funding", etc). However, he also helped pioneer the cloud and SaaS as a business model, so there are many great lessons to glean if you're building a high-growth SaaS business.

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  Pitching Hacks

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  This is a really short book that just gets to the point. It's a great checklist to think about what you need to pull together if you're going to raise money from investors. It helps you avoid some common pitfalls and gives you a good start on what you need to do to nail your elevator, recruiting, and funding pitches.

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Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.

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  Short-termism and a lack of funding for young scientists are smaller problems in academia than outsiders assume.

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  Parts that seem to be less of a problem than I initially thought: short-termism; lack of funding for young scientists.

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