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19 September
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
My clothes washer is currently making a noise that sounds like the extraterrestrial signal from "Contact," I don't actually think it's a good thing, either for the washer or for the aliens trying to get a message to us through my appliances youtu.be
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18 September
Canadian cartoonist and writer: Dinosaur Comics, Marvel's The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and the choose-your-own-path books To Be or Not To Be and Romeo and/or Juliet.
17 September
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
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consuming its publications is so easy for the models (the world's knowledge is neatly serried in their pretraining corpora) and so cumbersome for most humans (with trenches of CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls ensuring that only the unusually dedicated reader will ever make contact)
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14 September
Essayist, journalist and independent researcher on Chinese politics, strategy and cultural history; author of the blog The Scholar's Stage.
With all respect to Chris, who has done much great work in this area, I do not agree. A Global Times “quick take” editorial is not the sort of government communique that “clearly and unmistakably” communicates anything. Between them the PRC government and the CPC have many organs and forums more authoritative than this, all better suited for drawing lines in the sand. A GT editorial should not be dismissed, but it is worth asking—if Xi’s mind was made up on the matter, why he would choose *this* uncertain venue to make point? Were I to sift the tea leaves, I would say this: to me this looks l… Quoting @ChrisRMcGuire The Chinese government has now clearly and unmistakably rejected serious collaboration with the United States on AI safety. This was a predictable development. It is also a clarifying moment for the importance of U.S. export controls on AI chips and other technologies, which are now indisputably a… government Related
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
I'm not saying replacing Steam is trivial but I am saying that a version of steam where I am not signed out of the website after 22 seconds would have a chance. Related
12 September
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
Why, in his 1513 “Letter to Francesco Vettori”, does Niccolò Machiavelli so dramatize the simple act of opening a book? Why the stripping off muddy clothes, the donning court robes, the crossing a threshold into “the ancient courts of ancient men” where he asks questions of Livy and Cicero and they answer him? Because for Niccolò the thing was new. He had spent fourteen years running his intelligence on live human contact: Borgia’s menace, a king’s facial expression, a council’s mood... 1/ Related
11 September
Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.
In 51 days: > 37% reduction in ground contact time > from 267 ms to 167 ms > 87% improvement in reactive strength > 45% reduction in knee valgus under impact > transitioned muscular braking to achilles tendon recoil I'm 49 years old and I'm training to dunk for the first time in my life. Related
4 September
Co-founder of Ximian and Xamarin; CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021; now an independent investor and funder of open technical projects, including the Vesuvius Challenge to read the Herculaneum Papyri.
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It's important to do things fast You learn more per unit time because you make contact with reality more frequently Going fast makes you focus on what's important; there's no time for bullshit
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2 September
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.
It's funny to me watching renters have a realtor contact to rent and then the realtor asks for a finders fee from the landlord. That could be fine, except every case of this they've been more of a pain to deal with than people who are capable of using listing sites themselves and thus have no fee for showing up. Related
26 August
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
PSA: do not use codex "locked use" capabilities right now. it is currently relying on unstable mac features and has completely locked me out of my macos keychain twice this week. thx @_chenglou for linking to apple developer forums acknowledging this is a "known bug". just avoid. ofc, would be nice to do everything in cloud, but cloud isn't there yet. Related
20 August
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
17 August
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
In case anyone else trips over this: There seems to be an IPv6 routing loop between us-west-2 and the network Let's Encrypt sends HTTP challenges from; this is causing renewals to fail. I've emailed the network engineering contact listed in ARIN whois. Related
4 August
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
#BigWalk is out now in all regions on Steam, PS5 (free on PS Plus), Switch 2, and Mac App Store! It's something really special. Hope you can round up a friend or ten and enjoy! ❤️ youtube.com
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31 July
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
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And so, every, you know, every week, we had actual customer feedback, requests, new users coming in. We're learning things from reality as opposed to our own kind of hypothesized or extrapolated conception of it.
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4 July
Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.
Message from my daughter Meet Lulu: born on the streets of Delhi but meant for only fine treats, Lulu is an orphaned female puppy who lost her mother and her littermates. A rough start to life hasn’t dampened her spirit though: Lulu is a feisty, energetic, adorable ball of fun! Give her a chance - you won’t regret it 💛 Contact Garima if interested in adoption. Related
29 June
Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.
12 June
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
4 June
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
Open Postdoc Positions in Network Materials and Physical Networks (and perhaps Network Medicine and Science of Science). See https://t.co/vCahNzjgvg to learn more about the Lab’s profile. Contact me if interested, or apply here: https://t.co/1zSRqdVzuJ P: Puklus #NetSci2026 Related
3 March
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
When my Substack had sub-100 subscribers, I would contact nearly everyone who commented (on internet forums where I cross posted my essays). Most people are up for a conversation if they think you wrote a decent post, but it usually doesn’t happen if you’re not the one asking for it. I met some truly extraordinary people that way, and grew so much from our conversations. I think it is a very underrated way to use the internet. Related
1 January
Founder and CEO of SaaStr, the B2B software community and events business, and a SaaS investor who previously co-founded EchoSign and sold it to Adobe.
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We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here's what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
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go fire up your browser. Do it in incognito. Go to your app and do everything with a fresh Gmail address. Try support. See how your support is. Try to contact sales.
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The contact mess that we see, we have no need for them today. They should be extinct next year.
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12 December 2025
Assyriologist and curator at the British Museum; reads cuneiform, and wrote The Ark Before Noah and The First Ghosts.
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And my hunch is that the archaeological evidence that we have on this score is ultimately misleading, because I think this: that probably for a very, very long time before the Sumerians, people in the world, the world of what we call the Middle East, were in contact.
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23 September 2025
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
https://blippo.plus If you missed it because you don't have a Playdate (I forgive you -- just this once), you can now experience alien channel-surfing sensation Blippo+ on Nintendo Switch, or PC (Steam/Itch). Boing boing! Related
31 July 2025
Anthropologist; wrote Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World and The Secret History of the Mongol Queens.
Europe China
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We really don't have any well-documented case of anybody, say, from China visiting Europe or Europe visiting China before the Mongols. But since Chinggis Khan, there's never been a year without contact between east and west. It was permanent. Once he created it, it was permanent.
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23 March 2025
Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.
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And that's why when you have a missionritical product like email where you are interfacing with customers with candidates with investors it turns out to really matter. Email is mission critical. So it's not something where you can simply launch with a halfbaked product.
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13 February 2025
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
Presenting "Terry's Other Games"! A messy little collection of short games I've made over the past 20 years, out now on Steam and Itch! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2824580/Terrys_Other_Games/ Itch: terrycavanagh.itch.io
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8 January 2025
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
21 November 2024
Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.
16 October 2024
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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And when I say that, as I have said on a number of occasions, that it had technology equivalent to ours in the 18th century, I’m referring specifically to the ability to calculate longitude. I’m not saying that they were building steam engines. I don’t see any evidence for that.
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7 December 2023
Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.
13 March 2023
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
26 August 2022
Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.
19 August 2022
Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.
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I don't know who I would reccomend this device to. The premise of this device has a lot of promise, but in practice it has so many problems that it's overall not really worth choosing in comparison to devices like the Steam Deck.
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The Steam Deck was my first taste of PC gaming in a handheld form factor and I love the snot out of my deck.
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25 June 2019
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
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I use a Steam Controller, which honestly is a really great choice for PC gaming that didn’t catch on and now Valve seem to have given up on it.
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22 June 2017
Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.
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I use a ton of software. Here's a list: Xcode, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Sublime Text, Corona SDK, Unity, Final Cut Pro, Versions, Perforce, VMWare Fusion, Messages, REAPER, Transmit, Coda, Dropbox, Skype, Dashlane, Slack, Terminal, Assembla, Airmail, Spark Mail, Google Docs, Pixelmator, Pixen, TexturePacker, Particle Designer, Tiled, iTunes + Music + Match, Screenium, Steam, Twitter, Facebook.
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I use a ton of software. Here's a list: Xcode, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Sublime Text, Corona SDK, Unity, Final Cut Pro, Versions, Perforce, VMWare Fusion, Messages, REAPER, Transmit, Coda, Dropbox, Skype, Dashlane, Slack, Terminal, Assembla, Airmail, Spark Mail, Google Docs, Pixelmator, Pixen, TexturePacker, Particle Designer, Tiled, iTunes + Music + Match, Screenium, Steam, Twitter, Facebook.
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22 May 2014
Game designer; lead designer of Street Fighter HD Remix, founder of Sirlin Games (Yomi, Puzzle Strike) and author of Playing to Win.
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To make contact sheets of card images, I use Adobe Bridge CS6 even though it's old. The newer Adobe Bridge CC mysteriously can't output anything anymore. (Literally, it no longer includes the "output module", WTF.)
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24 February 2014
Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
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