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  A developmental pathway for growth that includes a stage development model of leadership. In particular,

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Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.

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  Aid transforms a country only where a capable state with a development plan is already there to spend it.

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  All this to say: capable states with ambitious developmental plans, when hit with a bazooka of money, can seize the opportunity to transform themselves.

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Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.

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  React and TypeScript developers are infantilized by the ecosystem's thought leaders; anything beyond a simple CRUD app will need generics, mapped types and memoization.

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  One thing that drives me crazy about the React ecosystem, and more specifically "tech influencers" and "thought leaders" in the space, is the infantilization of the developers using and working in it. I’m tired of reading takes like TypeScript generics, mapped types, etc should only be needed and used by library authors for most use cases. Or today’s discourse; Don’t use `useCallback’, ‘useMemo’, and React.memo. If you’re building anything beyond a simple CRUD app or a an incredibly focused app with few features, you _will_ need these features.

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Design engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and what language models do to the way people write.

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  Writing that is specific, local and grounded in a real life is the cheapest available proof that a person wrote it, because models default to generics.

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  Referencing obscure concepts, friends who are real but not famous, niche interests, and recent events all make you plausibly more human.

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Management writer; co-author of In Search of Excellence (1982) and author of The Excellence Dividend.

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  An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization, by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey

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Medicinal chemist; has written In the Pipeline, the drug-discovery blog, since 2002, and the “Things I Won’t Work With” posts about chemicals that try to kill you.

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  Every new drug has to beat the cheap generics that came before it, and that competition with our own back catalogue is why drug discovery gets harder over time.

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  I think that this is insufficiently appreciated outside of the drug business. Nothing goes away unless it's well and truly superseded.

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