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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  Lots of love to folks working on @shadcn, Svelte(kit), Nuxt, Node.js and security foundations.

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  Lots of love to folks working on @shadcn, Svelte(kit), Nuxt, Node.js and security foundations.

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  Lots of love to folks working on @shadcn, Svelte(kit), Nuxt, Node.js and security foundations.

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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  Mathematics is entering a period of turbulence that will stress-test its implicit values and practices rather than its foundations of truth.

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  I believe that we are now entering a era of comparable turbulence in mathematics. This time, though, what is being stress-tested is not our foundational framework for mathematical truth, but rather the largely implicit framework of mathematical values and practices: what we consider a contribution to be, what we reward, what we regard as understood, and who - or what - we regard as having done the work.

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Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.

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  Machiavelli held that every institution is gradually corrupted and must be reformed back to its foundations or collapse under the weight of that corruption.

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  All institutions are gradually corrupted and need to be reformed and returned to their foundations, or they will collapse under the weight of their corruption.

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Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  The Art of Gig, Volume 1: Foundations

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  An unconventional guide to the craft of indie consulting and life in the gig economy, mixing philosophy, pattern language, and very practical guidance for building a client-based solo career.

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Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.

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  China's industrial lead was manufactured by deliberate state industrial policy rather than by market forces alone.

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  The foundations of China’s success in EVs were built a decade ago, when the state decided to bet on batteries, and then bought up a lot of the mines for these metals.

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Political scientist at the University of Chicago and the leading exponent of offensive realism; wrote The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.

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  A state's power rests on two material foundations only: the size of its population and its wealth.

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  The two key building blocks of power are population size and wealth. You want to have a lot of people and you want to be really wealthy.

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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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  Foundations, on the whole, do not pay the maintainers of the projects they exist to support.

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  Virtually all maintainers are either volunteers or full-time employees of large companies. Foundations on average don’t pay maintainers.

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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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  Fourier Analysis: An Introduction

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  Not only is this a wonderful foundation for Fourier analysis, with a surprising and satisfying application to prime numbers given in the last chapter, but it's also a good starting point for analysis as a whole. Stein and Shakarchi have a series of four excellent books on the foundations of analysis, based on a now-famous series of lectures given at Princeton.

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Writer and researcher on how people organise online; wrote Working in Public, on the maintenance of open-source software, and Antimemetics.

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  A project that skips forming a foundation still has to formalise its governance, or it drifts into a tyranny of structurelessness.

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  On the other hand, by avoiding foundations, projects also avoid the question of how to formalize their governance, thus risking a “tyranny of structurelessness” that might range from projects living inside a company forever, to disorganized chaos that negatively impacts project velocity.

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Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.

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  The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe

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  I would recommend this book to everyone who has an interest in the foundations of physics.

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Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.

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  Multiagent Systems: Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic, and Logical Foundations

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  The title is the worst thing about this book. Otherwise, it's a nice introduction to algorithmic game theory.

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