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Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.

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  Big projects are not done with big efforts but with slow, steady, incremental work.

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  big projects are not done with big efforts. it’s a big marathon, just slow, steady, incremental work.

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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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  The Trump administration's recent foreign policy failures have significantly eroded U.S. deterrent power.

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  the steady accumulation of humiliating defeats that have badly eroded U.S. deterrent power.

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Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.

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  AI, not macroeconomic factors like interest rates, is directly responsible for a significant share of current job losses.

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  But I think there have been enough studies now isolating those variables that show that AI is directly responsible for a lot of this job loss.

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Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

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  The steady stream of "we had to rewrite the whole thing because it was too slow" engineering blog posts is the proof that deferring performance to hotspot optimization does not work.

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  They've got blog posts of we had to rewrite this whole thing because the performance was bad. If it was always hotspots that made your performance bad, you'd never have to rewrite the whole thing. So, we know that that doesn't work anymore.

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Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner and its Symphony engine.

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  You cannot find product-market fit for a supersonic jet by building one and seeing whether anybody likes it; it has to be worked out before anything is built.

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  You can't get to product market fit on a supersonic jet by building it and seeing if anybody likes it. You have to analyze very carefully the art of the possible and also what will maximize the market opportunity.

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Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.

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  Europe's corporate sector has become a net lender to the rest of the economy, and that low rate of productive investment is what left its industry exposed.

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  The two seemingly contradictory trends connect, because the relatively low rate of productive investment leaves European industry vulnerable to its most vigorous competitors whose firms are contending with an even more deflationary macroeconomic situation at home in China.

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Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

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  A steady pipeline of transit projects does not by itself prevent costly systems-engineering mistakes, as shown by London's Crossrail.

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  Standardized systems are important, and there is a systems premium in the US and UK, but it can't be about a regular pipeline because London has that and yet Crossrail engaged in some really dodgy systems decisions that drove costs up.

  IFP’s Transit Abundance Playbookpedestrianobservations.com

Economist at Oxford's Global Priorities Institute; works on what advanced AI would do to growth, saving and the long-run economy.

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  Most macroeconomic models cannot describe the AI transition, because they assume a single output that converts one-for-one into capital or consumption.

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  here prices are adjusting in this interesting way that too many macro models don't allow for, right? So, that what what a what's happening is what would be called investment specific technical change where yeah, the price of capital is like falling relative to the price of consumption instead of like the standard doing the standard macro thing of saying there's just output.

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Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.

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  Locality is what makes a language good for AI: if a single file states what it imports and what it offers, a model never has to hold the whole program at once.

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  but but if you have good locality where you you clearly stating what you're importing and whatever and and you can analyze just a single source file and from that extract its protocol to the outside world without having to to know anything deeper. Do you do you know what I mean? I think those are important aspects just simply to reduce the size of the of the of the context window and also make it easier to summarize each module in a program, right?

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Assyriologist and curator at the British Museum; reads cuneiform, and wrote The Ark Before Noah and The First Ghosts.

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  Religious feeling fluctuates and is usually a response to need, not a steady state of awe.

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  It’s a kind of conception that’s not actually based on reality, that the individual’s response to religious stimuli fluctuates and is varied and is often a response to need.

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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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  Steady experimentation is what a growth team controls, but the step changes come from outside waves the company did not create and would be foolish to ignore.

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  And it's like the growth experimentation is more the the the slow and steady or fast and steady, I should say, uh approach where you're just continually iterating. You're making the product experience better, but then every so often, right, there's a big wave that comes in. you can quadruple your, you know, registrations overnights and yeah, you'd be a fool not to take advantage of that.

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Economist specialising in China's economy, international macroeconomics and global trade, and author of The New China Playbook.

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  The American trade deficit is a macroeconomic fact, not a trade one: the US saves less than it invests, so no tariff can close it.

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  The trade deficits have widened since Trump, right? They haven’t closed the imbalance with China and with the rest of the world because ultimately the US saves less than it invests. And that’s a macrophenomenon. It’s not a trade phenomenon

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Energy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition, and was chief content officer at BloombergNEF.

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  Tariff policy is too erratic to reliably predict or plan around.

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  The short, and very much un-sweet, vision of a tariff-bound economy is that it is stochastic. We can observe it, measure it, analyze it, but we cannot really predict it.

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  Immigration cannot hold a rich country's working-age population steady, because doing so would require it to become 40 to 50 per cent foreign-born.

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  For rich countries to maintain their working-age population ratios in 2050 through permanent migration (where each worker brings one dependent), Lant Pritchett estimates they would need to become 40-50% foreign-born.

  Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally?ggd.world

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

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  Shipbuilding productivity depends on clustering yards and suppliers in one place, and it decays when the cluster thins out.

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  Specialized suppliers need multiple shipyards in one location to steady their business.

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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  Neither monetarist money-supply-focused models nor Keynesian macro models have outperformed simple random-walk models at forecasting the macroeconomy.

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  Friedman’s focus on the money supply has not held up, as Samuelson suggested, but the alternative Keynesian macro models recommended by Samuelson in the same interview have not done better and they were not outperforming simple random walk models of predicting the macroeconomic future.

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Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.

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  Judging by output kept near potential despite weak private demand, Japan's decades of high debt and low inflation reflect a qualified policy success, not failure.

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  Japanese macroeconomic policy is often characterized as a failure, with the central bank unable to achieve its inflation target, a low growth rate, and debt ratios steadily rising to reach more than 170% for net debt and 250% for gross debt. I think it should be seen instead as a qualified success, with the use of aggressive fiscal and monetary policies to compensate for very weak private demand: Output has remained close to potential.

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Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.

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  Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace

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  This book gave me the tools to analyze a text and identify the reasons why it doesn't work, for example stating the topic of a paragraph only in the middle of it. I found it very useful to consciously analyze my own writing.

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