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20 September
Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.
As the view from Moscow becomes increasingly embarrassing, it seems increasingly likely Putin will start a new more desperate phase of his war against Ukraine. Experts expect him to start a quiet mobilization of troops shortly after tomorrow's parliamentary elections. He seems to want 300,000 - 500,000 new soldiers. Despite increasing payments, recruitment has been failing to keep pace with the rising casualties. We can also expect Putin to step up attacks against Europe. More drones flying into European air space, and more stuff like this: • On August 4, 2026, a bomb squad at Leipzig/Halle A… pravda.com.ua
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19 September
Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
17 September
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
@drstevex.bsky.social may I introduce you to @hayleygullen.com who wrote a brilliant and funny graphic novel about cancer? She'd be excellent for your medicine event. Related
Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
16 September
British historian, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford; author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed.
Important speech by @GenGJenkinsRM about the realities of rising challenges in the Atlantic thetimes.com
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Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
15 September
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
14 September
Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
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Income of capitalists is likely to increase because AI companies are owned by actual people and these people, like shareholders in general, are well-off. Thus the rise in the capital share also means rising incomes of the rich and higher inequality of income.
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Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.
13 September
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
12 September
Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
I find myself disagreeing with Terence Tao (a very scary phrase to say!) and think the core question posed is whether the "misalignment" is between the mathematical community and humanity. In other words - are the Millenium Prize problems meant to incentivize advancements for humanity or foster the field of mathematics and mathematicians? As a counter example, if there was a prize for creating a drug that cured a rare strain of cancer, we would not care if it was AI that did it. We would be happy it has been solved. On the other hand, if long running agents figured out the puzzle in "Kryptos"… AI alignment Related
Former option trader and risk analyst, now a distinguished professor at NYU. Author of the Incerto essay series, including The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.
If AI mapped a cure for terminal pancreatic cancer I don't think anyone would dare complain about its effects on medical unemployment. But people are upset that AI can solve math problems and cause unemployment in performative mathematics. Fuck them. AI and jobs Related
Mathematicians rank problems according to their difficulty. Society looks at them in terms of relevance. I've fought that cancer in mathematical finance where these retards ignore v. relevant issues, some critical, because they deem them trivial. Let AI wipe them out. Quoting @nntaleb Something bad for the (existing) class of mathematicians as they lose their privilege, but not necessarily bad for mathematics & our body of knowledge? Related
11 September
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
This happens as long-term rates rise relative to short-term rates. Though they try to hold short rates down, long rates are climbing, a trend we are already seeing. We are also seeing a weakening dollar and movements in gold. As rates rise, it starts to affect the stock market. With bonds dropping and stocks rising, the prospective returns of stocks are now low compared to bonds, translating into broader stock market pressure. This classic dynamic creates a stagflationary environment that the Federal Reserve struggles to manage. With current stagflation, the Fed wrestles with whether to tight… interest rates Related
10 September
Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.
On a trading day when interest rates are moving markets, I look at rising rates in 2026, hazard a guess as to why they are rising, and make a stab at explaining the resilience of equities in the face of rising rates, with nary a mention of the Fed. bit.ly
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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.
9 September
Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.
@anildash has written a few pieces about “cancer” capital recently, and his most recent, “Cancer Capital: It Sucks For Founders, Too!” gets specific about malfeasance: https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/09/cancer-capital-founders/ Also: Hey Anil, could you relax the kerning on that big-outline title font? It’s so tight it looks like it’s going to explode and shred my face. #venturecapital startups Related
Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.
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"Carbon intensity" is a greenwashing term: It measures pollution per barrel, allowing oil companies to claim climate progress even as rising production drives up total overall emissions.
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7 September
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
anyone using a small portable circadian / 10k lux lamp they like? sun’s rising later and i still want the 4:30–5am morning routine without wrecking my circadian rhythm Related
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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The narrative around why building AGI was a good idea has always been about invention -- "it will cure cancer", "it will solve fusion energy", etc.
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6 September
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
3 September
CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.
more and more software will be n of 1. We recently invested in a company that is doing an n of 1 cancer treatment. They are creating a cancer drug that will only work for one very very specific person and will be essentially useless for every other person. The n of 1 way of thinking is going to pervade everything that we do. More and more software that's being written is n of 1. It's going to be useful for just one person or useful to just one organization and have almost no use at all to anyone else. Yet it will be just extraordinarily useful for that one person, just like the cancer drug. n… Related
Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.
1 September
Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
29 August
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
28 August
Zurich-based value investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor. He hosts the VALUEx gathering in Klosters and publishes a podcast and newsletter.
I'm in a clinical trial for a brain cancer vaccine. Last month I sat down with the two men who invented it. Michael Ciesielski and Robert Fenstermaker. The idea is a vaccine called SurVaxM. It teaches the immune system to recognise survivin, a protein that helps cancer cells refuse to die. Glioblastoma is full of it. Fifteen years to get it from a Buffalo lab into patients. Related
26 August
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
x.com I wrote about the Moderna melanoma cancer vaccine news briefly for our weekly round up Related
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22 August
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Tore a hole in my tire on a bump today. Only thing on hand: a sticker I made for Yves. Stuck it inside the tire and rode home on it. Yves died last year from cancer. Today his sticker saved my ride. Weirdest place I ever pictured one of his stickers ending up. 💫 🚴♂️⚡ Related
21 August
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
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Early in the final stage of the Big Debt Cycle, the market action reflects this dynamic via interest rates rising led by long-term rates, the currency declining especially relative to gold, and the central government’s treasury department shortening the maturities of its debt offerings because of a shortage of the demand for long-term debt.
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20 August
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
(Almost) everything you'd want to know about cancer vaccines can be heard in this great @owl_posting podcast episode from June, feat @iskander @BenjaminGVincen. Highly recommended! owlposting.com
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19 August
Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.
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And it's effectively the next step of, you know, every phase of of software evolution is just like a rising tide of abstractions. This is the next abstraction.
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22 July
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
19 July
Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group.
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So, we are hiring more people who can look across all the business domains and abstract that to here's the building blocks we're going to need in a world with AI.
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15 July
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
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When uncertainty rises, your horizon should become shorter-term.
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13 July
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
4 July
Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.
3 July
Cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; writes Ground Truths on biomedical research, and wrote Super Agers and Deep Medicine.
2 July
Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.
The S&P 500 capped off a middling month in June 2026, but had a stunning 2nd quarter, up 14.87%. Rising earnings helped, and the equity risk premium for the index stood at 4.17% over the 10-year treasury rate. Related
14 June
Writes Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.
13 June
Cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; writes Ground Truths on biomedical research, and wrote Super Agers and Deep Medicine.
12 June
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
9 June
Climate scientist and energy systems analyst; writes The Climate Brink with Andrew Dessler and leads climate research at Stripe.
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But broadly speaking we expect atmospheric CO2 to keep growing until we cut emissions pretty substantially (e.g. to <50% of current levels).
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Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.
Russia
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You set them up to fail, you destabilize the rising, you ingest the failing, and you set up buffer zones in between, and you await the opportune moment to pounce and absorb. This is Vladimir Putin's game.
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4 June
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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then the quantity of everything that's not a ballerina, say, goes to infinity, but our the marginal utility in that stuff goes to zero faster than the quantity is rising.
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30 May
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
https://t.co/b8OEpYqvYT This seems a predictable failure, as 2021 data showed the test only picked up 28% of Stage 1/2 cancers. How much did this study of 140,000 patients cost? And the list price for detecting one cancer using GRAIL is $200,000 - was it ever feasible for NHS? Related
27 May
Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
I joined @JeanChatzky on the @HerMoneyMedia podcast to honor my dear friend, the late @ClementsMoney, and his final book, "Money and Me." We talked about: * why his simple, sound investing philosophy still endures * what his terminal-cancer diagnosis taught him about the meaning of money * why the shift from saving to spending in retirement is so psychologically difficult * what Jonathan's final year, spent eating good food with good friends, can teach us all about living well Listen here: lnk.to
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24 May
Cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; writes Ground Truths on biomedical research, and wrote Super Agers and Deep Medicine.
3 May
Writes Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.
There was only mom One morning I got a call from my younger brother Jaime. He was crying. He tells me my mom’s health, which had been slowly declining over the past month from advanced cancer, had reached the point where not much time was…
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13 April
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.
15 March
Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
21 January
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
Man. What a week! Started on a high on the weekend with doing good progress on a secret project and on Monday at work as well. Tuesday, still good progress but also had a quick shocker as a friend didn't answer their phone for 3 hours and we thought something happened to them. And today started with getting the notice that a friend from the local gym died after their cancer returned. 😭 And the whole world politics definitely starts to pull me down more and more. Can't wait for Saturday! Related
18 January
Genomics researcher and investor; writes The Century of Biology on where biotechnology is actually going.
17 January
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
https://t.co/ENzer2fHqJ I will be saving £250 a month in future, as Abi helps keep my locally advanced prostate cancer under control. I can afford it, but absurd it's taken so long for NHS to pay for this very effective drug. Hats off to campaigners and @BBCHughPym for coverage Related
15 January
Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.
24 December 2025
Writes Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.
27 October 2025
Writes Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.
14 October 2025
Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.
11 October 2025
Founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and co-author of the books Traction and Super Thinking.
🆕✍️ The paradox of progress gabrielweinberg.com/p/the-parado... If progress = rising living standards, why doesn’t a progress agenda command top billing in U.S. politics? • Timescale mismatch. • Change aversion. • Lacking urgency. America Related
5 October 2025
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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And if I'm starting to see like more and more experiments that are not statistically significant, that may be a signal to me to say, okay, we might have kind of tried to exploit a little bit too far. Like there might not be as much juice to squeeze.
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4 September 2025
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
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The baseline of user expectation quality and craft keeps rising.
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15 August 2025
Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
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It is not only the case that solar adoption, production, price decreases are continuing. They're accelerating. And the rate that they're accelerating is still accelerating.
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2 August 2025
Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.
24 April 2025
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
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In my view, without smoking, we probably would have seen cancer mortality decline much earlier.
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Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.
20 April 2025
Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
21 January 2025
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
20 January 2025
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
1 November 2024
Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
3 November 2023
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
24 January 2023
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
1 June 2022
Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
22 November 2021
Semiconductor analyst; writes Fabricated Knowledge on the chip industry and the companies in it.
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21 June 2021
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
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