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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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Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.

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  Quarterbacks account for almost a third of a football team's total player value.

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  QBs literally account for almost a third of overall player value in the NFL, based on our analysis.

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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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Neurologist at Oxford; studies apathy, motivation and attention after brain injury, and edits the journal Brain.

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  Planning a day or a week in advance works because it pays the brain's decision cost once rather than dozens of times.

  energy

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  Every decision has a cost in terms as we've seen the brain having to put in invest fuel to make that decision. So if you're having to do that every time you make a decision, that can seem very burdensome. Whereas if you did it once in a big way where you planned it out for the day or the week, maybe the costs in terms of the activation energy required for the brain is much lower for you if you do that.

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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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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  Ready Player One

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  Loved it! Geeky, nostalgic, lots of action and lots of cool ideas. The pace is great, and it’s hard to pull off in a book this large.

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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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  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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Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.

From one piece Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  There are dozens or hundreds of things today's models can already do that nobody has discovered yet, and they are found by playing rather than by planning.

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  And my hypothesis is there's probably dozens, hundreds of opportunities like this with the models of today that no one has yet realized.

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  Software maintenance is on the path to being fully automated, with scheduled agents already doing what used to take dozens or hundreds of engineers.

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  we're on the path to fully automating the maintenance of our apps by doing this. And this is again hundreds of agents running every day, sometimes thousands of agents every day. It's doing the work of you know, dozens or hundreds of engineers.

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Chief executive of Intel since 2025, founder of the venture firm Walden International and chief executive of Cadence Design Systems for thirteen years.

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  A resilient chip supply chain cannot depend on one or two players in one geography, which is what makes manufacturing in the United States critical.

  America

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  And you have to have a robust and resilient supply chain. You cannot just depend on one or two player in different geographical. And so, I think, you know, the more and more people going to realize making in United States is critical.

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General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.

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  Knowing both the deep history of a field and its bleeding edge is what makes someone genuinely differentiated in it.

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  I'm suggesting you should understand the really old stuff, the history, because it's differentiating and shows a passion and it gives you a great frame of mind, but you also want to really understand the new edge. If you do both of those things, like you're I think you're a power player in your field, you know.

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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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Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.

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  Fast feedback is no longer straightforwardly good: agent-speed loops make you rebuild your mental model dozens of times in half an hour.

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  Well, now I'm getting feedback so quickly that I'm having to sometimes rebuild my mental model dozens of times in like a 30-minute period.

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  A group of individually solvent banks can still collectively fail if the banking system as a whole becomes too leveraged relative to potential withdrawal demand.

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  Another way of putting it is that a collection of dozens of solvent well-run banks can still be broken as a group if they become greatly overleveraged compared to how many depositors want their money back at once.

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American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

From one piece Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Ask gamers what kind of player they are and they describe the player they wish they were, so a designer has to watch what people do rather than believe what they say.

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  We all, to some degree, lack the self-awareness of how we tick. So we’re all different types of gamers, but if you ask me to describe the type of gamer I am, I might actually be giving more of a picture of the type of gamer I wish I was or the type of gamer I want you to think I am versus the type of gamer I actually am.

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  The best feature you can add for the player is shipping.

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  The best feature we can add for the player is shipping.

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Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.

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  The Player of Games

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  The Player of Games by Ian M. Banks is about a champion board-game player who gets roped into an espionage operation infiltrating an alien culture where political power is determined by the outcome of a uniquely complex strategy game. Set in a far-future human civilization run by a constellation of (mostly) benevolent and inscrutable AIs, Banks's science fiction is more relevant than ever.

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Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.

From one piece Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A video game character has no inner life, so what they say is the only thing that can make a player know who they are.

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  And then how do they speak? You know, because fundamentally, it doesn’t really matter what’s going on in their head; they haven’t actually got one, but what they say is what’s going to make you realize who they are.

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  New intellectual property needs single-player games, because launching a multiplayer game on a world nobody knows yet is extremely hard.

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  Luckily, if you want to do what we’re forced to do and also what I want to do, which is make new IP, you need single-player games. You can launch a multiplayer game with new IP. It’s just extremely hard.

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  A good open-world spy game may not be possible, because a spy story has to run against the clock and an open world needs the player free to wander.

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  But as a spy, that doesn’t really work because you have to be against the clock. So I think for me, I’m, I question if you can even make a good open world spy game.

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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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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

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  Local-first sync architectures are a natural fit for AI agents, since both are inherently multiplayer.

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  Agentic and sync are natural complements because local-first is multiplayer by default, and agents are another sort of "player" in addition to human collaborators.

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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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  Gas power plant projects under development deserve public clarity rather than opacity.

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  there are dozens more assets like this under development right now, all deserving clarity rather than opacity.

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Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

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  A game is quadratically more valuable the larger the share of a player's real-world friends it can connect them to, and that is the number one trend in gaming today.

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  It is the number one trend for pervading the world of gaming today. And it says that your game is quadratically more valuable the more percentage of a user's real-world friends they can connect to.

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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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  The United States cannot hold a monopoly on superhuman AI, so competing with China has to be paired with coexisting with it.

  ChinaAmerica

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  AI competition needs to be tempered with a recognition that China isn’t going away as a player in AI, and that coexistence must also be a part of America’s strategy.

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Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.

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  Every Hand Revealed

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  A hand-by-hand narrative of Professional poker player Gus Hansen winning the 2007 Aussie Millions tournament.

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Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.

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  Nobody knows how the Great Pyramid was built: neither ramps nor wet sand can lift seventy-ton granite blocks three hundred feet into the air.

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  But that is not going to help you get dozens of 70 ton granite blocks 300 feet in the air to form the roof of the King’s Chamber and the floor of the chamber above it, and the roof of that chamber, and the floor of the chamber above that, and so on and so forth. Wet sand never got those objects up there.

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Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.

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  Ready Player One

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  It is excellent to watch on a big screen in 3D despite how silly it ultimately is, so I’m not surprised it’s been successful.

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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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Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.

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  The biggest thing that happened in the 20th century was the redrawing of the map of the world and the birth of dozens, if not hundreds, of new states.

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  But the biggest global thing that happened was redrawing the map of the world and producing dozens, if not hundreds, of new states. That’s the outcome of the different processes of the 20th century.

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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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  The binding constraint on building anything in America is permitting and litigation, not money.

  solarAmerica

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  Yet solar development is hopelessly snarled by dozens of different development regulations which begin with the assumption that it will permanently and severely harm the environment unless proven otherwise, at exhaustive length.

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Game designer; wrote A Theory of Fun for Game Design and worked on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies.

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  A puzzle that invites guessing and then punishes wrong guesses stops the player learning the very method it could have taught.

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  Fundamentally, the game invites you to make guesses, but punishes you for them — and a missed guess doesn’t help you prune the logic space, only the trivia space.

  Why NYT’s Connections makes you feel badraphkoster.com

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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Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.

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  Keyboard Maestro

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  There are a multitude of ways to automate things on your Mac, but Keyboard Maestro is an S-tier player in this space and I use it for everything I can.

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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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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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Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  Own the Room: Business Presentations that Persuade, Engage, and Get Results

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  If you want one book to teach you everything you need to know about giving great presentations, this is the book. A film director, a psychologist, and an actor share their combined experiences to help improve your content, the design, your movements, and just about every other detail of being a great speaker. It was a slow start, but by the end, I had dog-eared dozens of pages and marked up many more which I was able to directly apply to a major talk I was working on.

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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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Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.

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  Sublime Text 3

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  Still the most productive text editing environment I've ever used. Any time I try something else, within minutes I run into dozens of things it's missing or that Sublime does better.

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Artist and developer who makes esoteric software, games and tools aboard a sailboat as part of Hundred Rabbits with Rekka Bellum; creator of the Uxn virtual machine and the Orca livecoding environment.

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  Krita

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  nnn file manager. Spreadsheet Calculator. Krita digital painting. Blender 3D editor. surf browser. Cozy audiobook player.

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  Blender

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  nnn file manager. Spreadsheet Calculator. Krita digital painting. Blender 3D editor. surf browser. Cozy audiobook player.

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  Micro

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  here's some notable software that I use daily. I also maintain an active list here. Fish Shell. Micro text editor. Toot Mastodon client. cmus audio player.

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  cmus

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  here's some notable software that I use daily. I also maintain an active list here. Fish Shell. Micro text editor. Toot Mastodon client. cmus audio player.

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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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  sea serpent bracelet

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  My sea serpent bracelet from Jill Platner. I put it on and take it off dozens of times a day, and slide it back and forth between my hands. It has the perfect weight and feel

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Sociologist and founder of Bismarck Analysis; writes on live players, institutional decay and why societies lose knowledge.

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  Institutions die at succession, and it is two problems rather than one: handing over power, and handing over the skill to steer.

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  The succession problem has two components: power succession (handing off the reins of the institution, keeping it piloted) and skill succession (transferring the skill needed to pilot the institution well, keeping it a live player).

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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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