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Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.

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  High long-term rates are a natural market response to the rush to invest in AI, not the fault of the current administration.

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  I don’t think it’s responsible for high long-term rates, any more than Bill Clinton was responsible for high rates in the late 1990s. This looks like the natural market response to the rush to invest in AI.

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

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  Launch costs are on a declining trajectory comparable to Moore's Law-driven chip cost declines in the 1990s.

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  One reason Starcloud has been so successful at fundraising is that it's a bet on launch costs decreasing, and that's like betting on Moore's Law in the 1990s.

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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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  Claude

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  I keep rejected by Claude for the most benign things now Like it wouldn't download and install a 1990s game from archive(dot)org because of copyright

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture

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  Jenkins understands it, though. I've been reading, writing, and debating about this stuff since the late 1990s, and I learned something new on every page of this delightful book.

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  AI-validated pull requests beat human review at exactly the things humans are bad at, which frees the humans to argue about direction instead.

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  It's like they have all the wisdom of their most senior engineers looking at every single diff and that is fantastic. Which means that you don't have to worry about remembering and looking and nitpicking and all the things that we're not good at anyway

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Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.

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  Scientific discovery is ready to be rewritten, because for all of history it has run at the speed of smart humans remembering what other smart humans learned.

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  I think we're we're ready for complete re rewriting of how scientific discovery can be done because for ages, I don't even know how long, it relies on smart humans retaining what they have learned from other smart humans

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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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Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.

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  Remembering the past and imagining the future are one brain process, which is why what you can imagine is bounded by what you have already lived.

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  And our brain does a lot of interesting things in terms of, you know, reconstructing the past also has a similar brain signature as imagining the future. which you know in some ways makes sense. We shouldn't have separate parts of the brain for thinking about the past and thinking about the future.

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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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  Parental stress and sleep deprivation make harsh reactions to normal child behavior more likely.

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  When a parent is stressed, low on sleep, or otherwise depleted, they may be even more prone to reacting harshly to normal kid behavior and boundary-pushing.

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Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  Factory-built construction has not raised productivity: the countries that prefabricate most, Sweden and Japan, have had flat construction productivity for decades.

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  Sweden, for instance, is often praised for its high adoption of prefabricated construction, but since the 1990s Sweden has had roughly flat construction labor productivity, even as it has made more extensive use of prefabrication.

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Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers. Publishes essays and an annual presentation on where the industry is going.

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  Large language models have no network effect, and remembering a user is a switching cost rather than one.

  LLMs

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  there's no apparent equivalent in LLM right now there's no reason why the LMS get better because more people use them now that may come you have that open AI and people have doing memory where it remembers what else you've asked, but that seems more like a switching cost than a network effect.

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Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.

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  Even if all progress on LLMs stopped today, LLMs would remain the second most important development in a software career spanning the mid-1990s to now.

  LLMs

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  All progress on LLMs could halt today, and LLMs would remain the 2nd most important thing to happen over the course of my career.

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

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  Remembering is an imaginative construction: we do not replay the past, we reassemble a plausible version of it out of fragments.

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  So what he concluded was that he called remembering an imaginative construction, meaning that we don’t replay the past, we imagine how the past could have been by taking bits and pieces that come up in our heads.

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Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  Fabs take roughly a third longer to build in the United States than in Asia, largely because of environmental review.

  America

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  Fab construction time in the US has increased from just over 650 days on average in the 1990s to over 900 days on average in the 2010s, compared to around 600-700 days in Asian countries, in part because of increasingly stringent environmental review processes.

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Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.

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  Transformative Experience

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  This is a fascinating book on a fascinating topic—how we choose (and how we should choose) whether or not to make radical life changes, such as becoming a parent.

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Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".

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  Veterans of the 1990s free software movement do not understand the world today’s maintainers work in, and should listen before proposing fixes for it.

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  This is not the same world that you were part of. The complexity is off the chart; we are hidden layers and layers under the scaffolding. And we are used everywhere.

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American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.

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  Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

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  I just interviewed Dr. Becky too but I don’t think it will come out until January. Stay tuned and in the meantime, you just HAVE to read this book

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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.

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  The Two-Parent Privilege

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  Best books I read in 2023: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa S. Kearney

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  The Cold War: A New History

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  Best books I read in 2023: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa S. Kearney The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis

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Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?

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  Expecting parents should be required to take a mandatory course before caring for a newborn.

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  There should obviously be like a mandatory four-hour course every expecting parent has to take before they're actually in charge of a newborn.

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Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.

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  Every failed dot-com idea of the late 1990s has since been made to work by somebody.

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  you can go through the entire, I think at this point, catalog of all of the failed dot com ideas of the late 1990s, and I believe they've now all worked.

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Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.

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  Relic

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  One of the best thrillers of the 1990s. I re-read this book in honor of Halloween this year (but didn't finish until November) and was pleased to find that it held up.

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Author of Fluent Forever and founder of the app of the same name; teaches pronunciation first and vocabulary through images rather than translation.

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  Failing to hear a language's sounds is what makes its words impossible to remember.

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  For one, if you don’t learn to hear the sounds in a new language, you’re doomed to have a hard time remembering it.

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Interpretability researcher at Anthropic, which he co-founded; before that at OpenAI and Google Brain, where he wrote the explanations of neural networks most people learned them from.

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  LSTM architectures are designed so that retaining information over long time spans is their default behavior rather than something they must struggle to learn.

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  LSTMs are explicitly designed to avoid the long-term dependency problem. Remembering information for long periods of time is practically their default behavior, not something they struggle to learn!

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Cryptographer; created Signal and the Signal Protocol, and writes occasionally about cryptography, web3 and sailing.

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  GPG is a failed experiment and will not be the thing that brings end-to-end encryption to ordinary people.

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  In the 1990s, I was excited about the future, and I dreamed of a world where everyone would install GPG. Now I’m still excited about the future, but I dream of a world where I can uninstall it.