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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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  Trump is globally hated but not feared, the opposite of where Machiavelli said a prince should be.

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  Globally, then, Trump is in exactly the opposite position of where Machiavelli said a prince should be: hated but not feared.

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Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.

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  Trump is globally hated but not feared, the opposite of where Machiavelli said a prince should be.

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  In Machiavellian terms, Trump is no longer feared, and he's definitely no longer liked. Instead, he is hated - which is the one thing Machiavelli stressed should be avoided at all costs.

  Donald Trump Is No Longer Feareddanieldrezner.substack.com

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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  Policymakers should avoid being boastful or belligerent so they can save credibility for when it is really needed.

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  Policymakers should avoid being boastful or belligerent, not simply as a matter of good manners, but to save their credibility for moments when it’s really needed.

  Bessent and the Bondspaulkrugman.substack.com

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

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  Growth impresses investors more than any credential does.

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  No credential will get you more credibility with investors than growth.

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Music critic and historian; author of The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Writes the newsletter The Honest Broker on music and culture.

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  The Brandenberger Family

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  At least that’s what I felt hearing (and seeing) the Brandenberger Family. If you love those old records by the Carter Family, but feared that style of singing had disappeared, this is the band for you.

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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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  The personal computer made countless individual tasks easier without delivering the productivity gains everyone expected, and AI may go the same way.

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  it’s also true that their impact on our output was never as tremendous or as clear-cut as that of prior innovations, such as the steam engine or the power loom, and that integrating them effectively into the workforce took a long time

  Beware of Productivity Paradoxescalnewport.com

Co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management; author of the Oaktree memos.

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  Leverage in the AI build-out is neither to be applauded nor feared; what matters is how much debt there is and what backs it.

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  Debt is neither a good thing nor a bad thing per se. Likewise, the use of leverage in the AI industry shouldn’t be applauded or feared.

  Is It a Bubble?oaktreecapital.com

German writer and historian; wrote Blitzed, on drug use in Nazi Germany, and Tripped.

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  Hitler stopped the tanks at Dunkirk because he feared his own high command and had been convinced by Göring's morphine-high promise that the Luftwaffe could finish the job.

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  This was just because Hitler was afraid of the power of his army high command, and convinced by Goering's morphine-high vision that he would stop it with the air force, which he couldn't.

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Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.

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  Changing societal outcomes requires changing minds, and the credibility many diverse co-authors lend to a conclusion is hard to replicate with AI.

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  I think that changing societal outcome requires changing minds, and the "heft" that comes from many authors with different backgrounds endorsing a certain set of conclusions is hard to replicate with a link to a shared ChatGPT chat.

  Megapapers and How to Write Themmilesbrundage.substack.com

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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  Playfulness and humor in leadership build authenticity and credibility rather than undermine it.

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  Playfulness and humor won't erode your credibility. They amplify your presence. They make you real. And people follow real.

  Why Great Leaders Embrace Humor and Playfulnessbringthedonuts.com

Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.

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  Calling the lost civilisation advanced means only that it could calculate longitude, not that it built machines.

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  And when I say that, as I have said on a number of occasions, that it had technology equivalent to ours in the 18th century, I’m referring specifically to the ability to calculate longitude. I’m not saying that they were building steam engines. I don’t see any evidence for that.

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Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.

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  Handing an ancient society a modern machine would have achieved nothing: the Romans could neither have built a steam engine nor found a profitable use for one.

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  If you had given the Romans the designs for a Newcomen steam engine, they couldn’t have built it without developing whole new technologies for the purpose (or casting every part in bronze, which introduces its own problems) and then wouldn’t have had any profitable use to put it to.

  Collections: Why No Roman Industrial Revolution?acoup.blog

Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.

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  Anbernic Win600

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  I don't know who I would reccomend this device to. The premise of this device has a lot of promise, but in practice it has so many problems that it's overall not really worth choosing in comparison to devices like the Steam Deck.

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  Steam Deck

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  The Steam Deck was my first taste of PC gaming in a handheld form factor and I love the snot out of my deck.

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Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  A writer should keep a public list of the things they got significantly wrong, so that readers can judge their credibility.

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  But if I get something significantly wrong, I'll try to put it here as an acknowledgement and an aid for anyone trying to assess my credibility later.

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Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.

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  Steam Controller

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  I use a Steam Controller, which honestly is a really great choice for PC gaming that didn’t catch on and now Valve seem to have given up on it.

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