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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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  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.

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Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

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  Rapidly building out cheap solar, wind and battery capacity is currently the one climate action the world knows how to execute at scale.

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  there is actually one thing we do know how to do, and that is build out lots of cheap solar, wind, and batteries.

  Facts on the groundbillmckibben.substack.com

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  The last nine months have compressed decades of progress into weeks, and this is one of the rare moments a person gets to watch the world change inside their own lifetime.

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  I love this quote. I think it's Lenin. There are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen. And we have seen decades of progress happen in the last nine months.

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Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.

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  "Is the page loaded?" was never a real question, and web performance only became measurable once it was broken into the distinct moments a user actually notices.

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  I think for a very long time we had this this almost nebulous way of thinking about page load times. And the team felt like it was finally time to come up with a more nuanced perspective around how we reason about performance.

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Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

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  Battery storage is becoming the defining transformative energy technology of the second half of the 2020s, as solar and wind were of the first half.

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  Batteries are the transformative technology for the second half of this decade, as sun and wind were for the first half

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Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.

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  The best moments in physical AI will look like nothing happened at all.

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  That the best AI moments will look like nothing happened. It's just the task got done safely and smoothly.

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  Great startups do not arrive evenly; they cluster at the moments when the ecosystem shifts and incumbents lose most of their advantage.

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  the great startups tend to cluster when the ecosystem shifts and incumbents lose a lot of their advantage.

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Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.

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  A well-designed AI-integrated approach to schoolwork can produce better learning outcomes than pre-AI research and writing methods.

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  I truly believe that following this kind of approach to AI in the classroom would, in the aggregate, produce better learning outcomes than the research and writing workflows available to students pre-AI.

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Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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  Garmin Forerunner 945

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  The watch's battery lasts a long time, it doesn't distract me, I don't have my phone notifications piped into it, I love it.

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Geneticist at Harvard; reads ancient DNA to work out how populations moved and mixed, and wrote Who We Are and How We Got Here.

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  Periods of migration are the worst moments to look for natural selection, not the best, because they drown the signal in huge frequency swings.

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  And really from a statistical point of view, what happens at these times of migration is there's just huge fluctuations in frequencies, and these are extremely uninformative times for looking and detecting natural selection.

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Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.

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  Learning a language happens through exposure to language you can mostly understand; classroom drills feel productive and build nothing.

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  Classroom activities like grammar drills and vocabulary tests feel productive. You are doing something. But none of it builds the network your brain actually needs.

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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.

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  Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.

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  The rapid drop in renewable energy costs in the last decade (alongside huge improvements in battery technologies) has started to break this deadlock.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Seasonal energy storage is a heat problem rather than a battery problem: electricity is hard to store for months and heat is easy.

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  Storing electricity for months is economically difficult, but storing heat is easy.

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Head of growth at Chess.com, previously growth and monetization lead at Grammarly and Duolingo and a product manager at Google.

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  You cannot manufacture virality, but you can find the moments users already screenshot and make those moments far better.

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  So as opposed to going against I guess human intuition and trying to get them to share stuff that they otherwise wouldn't on the margins want to share like lean into it more actually like grab the moments where users are already organically screenshotting and make those much much much better and you can kind of 5x or 10x and and drive a lot of growth that way too.

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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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  Apple's risk is being reduced to hardware: people keep buying the best phone while everything they do on it comes from someone else's model.

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  But you're still going to buy a smartphone. You're still going to buy the nice one with a good battery and the fast chip to run the models and the good screen and the best camera, which will still be an iPhone because Apple still has the best chip team and a whole bunch of other hardware advantages. But everything you do on it will be from someone else.

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Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.

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  A modern phish is automated end to end: the stolen credentials are used and the data exported within moments of being entered.

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  This was obviously highly automated and designed to immediately export the list before the victim could take preventative measures.

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Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.

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  Marshall Major III

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  These headphones have a perfectly adequate sound for a decent price. Their long battery time is great for using them wirelessly throughout the day.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Past a point it is cheaper to overbuild solar than to add batteries, because a battery kept for the rare bad day is barely used.

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  A battery that’s discharging every day gets great utilization, but one that’s only there in case the sun doesn’t come up for two days in a row, barely gets used.

  Solar and batteries for generic use casescaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.

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  The comparative cost of hydrogen fuel-cell cars versus battery EVs depends on which infrastructure costs are counted and to whom they are allocated

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  The only way you can make H2FC cars look cheaper than BEVs is to underestimate or ignore the cost of hydrogen production and infrastructure, socialise it, and then load the entire cost of grid build-out onto the marginal BEV.

  Are BEVs more expensive than H2FC cars?liebreich.com

Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.

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  Safari

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  Safari to make sure whatever I build works across browsers, and when I need to conserve my battery usage (Safari is incredibly battery-efficient)

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

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  The brain does not record experience continuously; it lays down an episodic memory at moments of surprise, uncertainty and prediction error, because that is where the useful information is.

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  is this idea that we form these internal models at particular points of high prediction error or points of, I believe also points of uncertainty, points of surprise or motivationally significant periods. And those points are when it’s maximally optimal to encode an episodic memory.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  An off-grid data centre can delete its uninterruptible power supplies entirely, because the battery bank outside already is one.

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  Deleting the UPSs could knock off ~$750/kW after considering equipment, installation, and square footage reduction.

  How to Make Off Grid Data Centers Affordableaustinvernon.site

Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  The end state of the grid is not a fifth solar backed by spinning generation, but twice the demand in solar with days of storage behind it.

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  The logical end state of this displacement is not some hybrid grid with around 20% solar backed up by spinning generation, but a much more dynamic, versatile grid with around 200% solar generation and hours to days or weeks of battery storage, fully decoupling time of generation and consumption.

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Designer, architect and scientist, who led the Mediated Matter group at MIT and founded OXMAN, a company that builds products in collaboration with living organisms.

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  Plants already have a language and it is made of molecules, not words; decoding it is what would let us hold a conversation with them.

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  These incredible life forms are communicating using a different language than ours. We use language models, they use molecular models. At the moment where we can parse, we can decode these molecular moments is when we can start having a conversation with plants.

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  You Can Negotiate Anything

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  Everything is negotiable. Challenge authority. You have the power in any situation. This is how to realize it and use it. A must-read classic from 1980 from a master negotiator. My notes here aren’t enough because the little book is filled with so many memorable stories — examples of great day-to-day moments of negotiation that will stick in your head for when you need them. (I especially loved…

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Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

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  Evaluation should be taken out of the classroom and given to people whose whole job it is.

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  One solution is to separate instruction and evaluation. Let teachers be teachers and cops be cops.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  Cargo ships can be electrified with a cheap, heavy, low-performance battery, because carrying heavy things cheaply is the one thing ships are good at.

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  Ships are great at carrying bulky and heavy stuff with minimal cost and energy usage. We need a battery chemistry that leans into that and sacrifices performance to reduce cost.

  Why Battery Powered Cargo Ships are Compellingaustinvernon.site

Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  Surrender

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  Bono’s new book, Surrender, is packed with funny, poignant moments like this.

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Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.

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  Keychron K3

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  Mechanical keyboard with Gateron Brown switches that are comfortable for long coding sessions. Long battery life and bluetooth connectivity make it highly flexible.

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  14" MacBook Pro M2 Pro

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  Primary laptop for development. High performance with amazing battery life, and an ecosystem that integrates well with other Apple devices.

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Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.

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  Knowing conjugation tables, word lists and the names of the tenses has nothing to do with being able to use a language.

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  In traditional classroom settings, the development of skills often gets overlooked in favor of facts. Facts in the form of conjugation tables, word lists, grammar explanations, the names of verb tenses, and so on. All of these things are related to language, but it’s important to realize that knowing these things has nothing to do with speaking and using a language productively.

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Aeronautical engineer and former fighter pilot; analyses aircraft design and airline economics at Leeham News.

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  Battery-electric airliners do not work even on optimistic assumptions, and the arithmetic said so before anyone built one.

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  Having done the sums before hitting the keys, I was a skeptic. It just didn’t work, even with optimistic assumptions around the parameters for the aircraft and its batteries.

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American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

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  Payback

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  Brilliant for stretches but also kind of weird and rambly for stretches as well. A very uneven book, but the great moments make the others worth it

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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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  MacBook Air (M1)

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  This is an amazing laptop. Its battery life is iPad tier. I can run iPad and iPhone apps seamlessly.

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Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.

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  Proofs from the book

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  If you like clever proofs, this is the book for you. It's filled with some of the most elegant arguments in math, taken from combinatorics, geometry, graph theory, analysis, set theory, and more. I can't think of any other books with a higher density of "aha" moments.

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British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.

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  15" Macbook Pro (Mid 2014)

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  I use a 15" Macbook Pro (Mid 2014) for work and it's been a great laptop for many years now. The battery does drain far too quickly now though.

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British military historian and former army officer; author of Stalingrad, Berlin: The Downfall 1945, D-Day and The Second World War.

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  The Face of Battle

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  The very first historian to inspire me was John Keegan, who I studied under at Sandhurst, because he wrote The Face of Battle, which was one of the key moments in the turning points of military history.

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Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.

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  Withings Activité

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  I love anything that doesn't come with battery anxiety, like, well, my Masahiro Maruyama eyeglasses, or my original Withings Activité watch, which is waterproof, so I almost never take it off.

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Author of The Talent Code, The Little Book of Talent and The Culture Code, writing on how skills and group cultures are built.

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  The Power of Moments

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  You should check out Chip and Dan Heath's new book, which is essential reading for anybody who cares about culture and leadership.

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