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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  Notion has been going native since 2019 by rewriting one page at a time, and by 2024 had migrated most of the app with only a few pages remaining.

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  They’ve been going native since 2019, rewriting one page at a time. Did an interview with their team in 2024, by when they migrated most of the app to native. The last few pages still remain.

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British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.

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  GitHub Pro

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  GitHub Pro - Well worth $48 per year for GitHub Pages, traffic stats and all the other benefits.

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Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.

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  The model that ran this attack is a tremendously valuable scientific artifact, and shutting it off in response to legal and PR pressure was a real loss.

  AI alignmentOpenAI

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  But actually, this is a tremendously useful scientific artifact for understanding misalignment. And it's tremendously important for researchers at OpenAI and ideally also at third parties to be able to run counterfactual tests on this model.

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Every large language model is trained on billions of pages of copyrighted data

  LLMs

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  Also the irony knowing that every single LLM is trained on billions of pages of copyrighted data

  levels.io

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 will increase the number of software engineers needed and let them take over legal, marketing, and accounting work.

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  I actually think the opposite, which is that there are going to be many more software engineers than even the rosiest current predictions, and that software engineers will take over these other jobs: legal, marketing, accounting.

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Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.

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  A military that disconnects its orders from the law and from legal advice has no limit on what it will do when commanded.

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  But once the military disconnects its orders from the law, the Constitution and the counsel of “lawyers in the cheap seats,” there is no limit to what it will do if commanded.

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  The Open Copyright Casebook

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  Jenkins' flair for legal communications carries over to her scholarly work, of course, which is why her Open Copyright Casebook is a standard text for American law schools:

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Founder and CEO of Valar Atomics, a nuclear-reactor company founded in 2023.

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  The legal pathway to test new reactors sat unused in American law for forty years, waiting for an administration to use it.

  Americagovernment

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  it's just been sitting there in legislation for like 40 years and no one's really taken advantage of it except for one government program here or there where they want to, you know, do a NASA space reactor or something like that. But it has from a legal perspective been waiting for an administration to say, "Hey, this might be a way to accelerate nuclear R&D."

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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

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  A low-effort AI-designed landing page costs a product its audience before the product itself is ever judged.

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  I'm so incredibly tired of seeing low-effort AI-designed web pages. I basically bounce off any new product immediately when I see it (never get a chance to judge the product itself). Lots of thin lines, glowy styles, inconsistent fonts, lots of monospace.

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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

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  Calling an intelligent, self-aware being legal property does not resolve whether it has an interest in freedom.

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  But it recognizes that calling an intelligent, self-aware, emotionally complex being "property" does not answer the question of whether that being has an interest in freedom.

  “KEY OUT”: When a Chimpanzee Asks to Be Freeboldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com

Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, who advises companies on corporate governance and mission protection.

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  Every founder on standard documents has already signed a charter obliging them to sell their company to the buyer they would least want to have it.

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  did you know that according to the legal documents you yourself signed, your company's literal charter that you have right now, and this is not some hypothetical future thing, you've already put in motion, a rule that says you have a fiduciary duty to say yes in this situation.

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Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.

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  For a New Liberty

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  In all honesty, I think that these are the best eight pages of economics I’ve ever read.

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Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."

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  AI web search is imitating a human habit for no reason — revisiting the same pages for snippets instead of taking the whole page once.

  Google

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  And I feel like it's a very human way of doing web search, right? Because we enter things in the Google and we see all the like citations, the quotations part. But like why would we limit AI to that? If AI already visit a page, why don't just pull the entire page out?

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Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.

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  The bargain that funded the open web was that a crawler could take your pages because it would send you readers; an AI crawler that sends nobody has broken it.

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  The deal was always simple: search engines had permission to crawl sites because they were going to be sending users to those sites. If they're hitting your site half a million times for every one user they send to your site, all they're giving you is higher costs.

  Endgame for the Open Webanildash.com

Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

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  A business, not its AI vendor, bears legal responsibility when an integrated AI tool causes harm to a customer.

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  If you have a customer chatbot and it causes damage, it's not the chatbot company that's responsible. It's you.

  AI Liability: The Landmines Under Your SaaSthebootstrappedfounder.com

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

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  Building third-party clients for messaging platforms is a legal gray area and often only partially supported by their APIs

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  building a third-party client to read and route messages is a gray area in their terms of service, and perhaps only partially supported in their API surfaces.

  Firehose authentic useadamwiggins.com

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  When two expert users argue over whether documentation is clear, that debate is unproductive — the way to actually find unclear documentation is to test it on real readers, not to have experts argue about wording.

  documentation

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  I don’t think this is very productive (expert users of a piece of software are notoriously bad at being able to tell if an explanation will be clear to non-experts), so I needed to find a way to identify problems with the man pages that was a little more evidence-based.

  A data model for Git (and other docs updates)jvns.ca

Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Product Leadership

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  : “Your guide to navigating product leadership, the one I never had. Within these pages you’ll hear a diversity of opinions from the industry’s most successful and respected product leaders, insights that will help you lead your team and deliver exceptional products.”

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Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.

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  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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  Fiction, 416 pages, which go very quickly. #76 on the NYT's list of The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. This was a new find in 2025.

  tim.blog

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  Gold

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  Gold by Rumi and Haleh Liza Gafori. Poetry, 112 pages. A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking new translations by Haleh Liza Gafori, an American poet of Persian descent. Read 1–2 poems before bed each night and thank me later.

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Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.

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  The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise

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  The Art of Asking is a delightful and quick read. Only 80 pages in fact.

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Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".

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  Open source won because it let companies bypass procurement, legal review and contracts, not because it was free of charge.

  open source

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  FOSS solve that problem far more than it solves “we don’t want to pay”. Most corporations would be surprised by how cheap it would cost them to pay for the FOSS software they use.

  How FOSS Won and Why It Matterssoftwaremaxims.com

Co-founder and chief executive of Sierra, chairman of the board of OpenAI, and formerly co-chief executive of Salesforce and chief technology officer of Facebook.

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  Turning expertise into a commodity is democratising, because access to medical, legal and mental-health advice has always tracked wealth.

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  I just think about like really simple things like access to mental health care, access to education, access to medical advice, access to legal advice. We're essentially taking expertise and making it a commodity. And I think that will is generally democratizing.

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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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  Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

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  However, after reading a few pages my original inhibitions were overturned and I bought the book.

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Law professor at Berkeley and the leading scholar of the Fourth Amendment as it applies to computers; writes at the Volokh Conspiracy.

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  When technology changes what an old legal rule does, courts should preserve the rule's purpose rather than its literal terms.

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  My book argues that courts should preserve the role, not the rule—and it then shows what new specific rules should follow from that.

  reason.com

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  The Inner Compass: Cultivating the Courage to Trust Yourself

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  A perfect sized companion (~100 pages) to understanding and trusting your intuition—breaking free from external validation and building courage through three core principles.

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Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.

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  The copyright problem in AI training already has a legal solution nobody is taking: train the models in Japan, where copyright does not apply to training data.

  energy

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  So, Japan has a law which you're allowed to train on any training data and copyrights don't apply if you want to train a model, A. B, Japan has 9 gigawatts of curtailed nuclear power. C, Japan is allowed under the AI diffusion rule to import as many GPUs as they'd like.

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  Euphoria Days

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  Like the previous two books, this one is short (just under 200 pages) and written in lively prose and fast-moving chapters.

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Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.

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  The Silk Roads

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  This last one is kind of a cheat. I've only just begun reading it. But I have absolutely savored those first pages:

  jlcollinsnh.com

Theoretical computer scientist, Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and director of its Quantum Information Center. Writes the blog Shtetl-Optimized.

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  2040

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  Having said all that: I confess I enjoyed "2040." The plot is tightly constructed, the dialogue crackles (certainly for a CS professor writing a first novel), the satire at least provokes chuckles, and at just 215 pages, the action moves.

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Founder and editor of Techdirt; coined the Streisand effect, and writes on platform liability, speech law and copyright.

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  Complicity is a dangerous legal standard for platforms, because every platform hosts some illegal material and stopping it entirely is impossible.

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  The list of “complicity” in various bad things worries me because every platform has some element of that kind of content going on, in part because it’s impossible to stop entirely.

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  The encryption-licensing charges against Durov are pretextual, a legal hook for prosecuting things France dislikes about Telegram.

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  But, here, it’s hard not to see that as totally pretextual: an excuse to arrest Durov over other stuff they don’t like him doing.

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Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.

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  Price gouging should be legal, because a sharply higher price is what sends scarce supply to the people who need it most.

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  Price gouging is wonderful for all the reasons that letting supply equals demand is wonderful. When there is a limited supply, then a sharply higher price directs that supply to those who really need it.

  Praise for Price-Gouginggrumpy-economist.com

American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.

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  Pontius Pilate

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  Ann Wroe’s biography of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judaea–the man who sentenced Jesus to his gruesome death–was so overwhelmingly good that I could only read a couple pages at a time.

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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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  Not the End of the World

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  His life and work have influenced my own tremendously—and just a few pages into Ritchie’s essential and hopeful new book, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, it became clear that she was carrying on his tremendous legacy.

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First Amendment lawyer and former federal prosecutor; writes The Popehat Report and explains what the law actually says when people shout about free speech.

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  Anyone who tells you a contested legal question has one obvious answer is lying to you rather than analysing it.

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  Here’s the point: there are legal and factual defenses to this indictment, but anyone telling you that it obviously, inarguably violates the law is lying to you.

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  The way to tell legal analysis from partisan lying is to distrust absolute certainty and to trust conceded ambiguity.

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  Be skeptical of absolute certainty not backed up with proof. Be skeptical of pronouncements that there’s only one way a court will ever possibly interpret something.

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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

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  Unshackled: A Practical Guide For Highly-Skilled Immigrants To Thrive In The United States

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  breaks down how legal immigration works in America in a way that is friendly, accessible, and human

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Development economist; argues that letting people move to rich countries does more for the poor than aid, and wrote Let Their People Come.

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  Opening legal pathways for people to move to the jobs would solve rich countries’ labour shortage and lift millions out of poverty at the same time.

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  If we collectively devoted the same levels of investment and inventive power and entrepreneurship to developing more and better legal pathways for people to move across borders to needed jobs, including a variety of modalities for labor mobility, we could solve the growing challenge of labor scarcity.

  Choose Peoplelampforum.org

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  The world economy is flat for capital, goods and ideas, and has a legal cliff at the border for people.

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  This is not because there are not people who would drive trucks for Amazon in the world, and not because “natural” scientific progress has made machines that drive trucks easy and cheap, but because in a global economy which is “flat” for capital, information, and goods, there is a legal “cliff at the border” for labor, as prices don’t reflect scarcity.

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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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  Obliquity

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  One of those business books (and there are many) that you can get the main idea within the first 20 pages and can stop reading there. I skimmed through most of it.

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Licensing is a political and social construct, so an unlicensed profession can still be doing engineering.

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  licenses exist because we are part of society and have legal requirements, not because they are essential to what it means to do engineering

  Are We Really Engineers?hillelwayne.com

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.

  jasonevanish.com

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  Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and VC

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  If you're considering raising institutional funding for your startup, then this is a key book to read to understand the fundamentals of the legal documents and terms. It came recommended by a number of fellow entrepreneurs and it didn't disappoint. I haven't raised money yet myself so I may change this score up or down significantly once I have that first hand experience.

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  Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google

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  If you're curious how Google built it's culture and the processes thanks to their extremely data & engineering driven nature, this is a great book. What held it back was being ~100 pages too long and Bock didn't always understand where what they did only fit at a $100Bn+, mega-profitable company. Still, the insights on the studies on their 50,000+ employees is well worth the read since so few of us can get similar statistical significance to apply to our teams.

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  From Impossible to Inevitable

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  This book is a great overview of the keys to building a repeatable sales model for your SaaS business. It's a great mix of the best lessons from Jason Lemkin and his SaaStr blog and Aaron Ross's top tier consulting work. You can skip the last 50 pages which transitions to being a bad self-help book.

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  Permanent Record

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  If you care about privacy, or want to understand what the NSA and CIA really do to monitor Americans, this book is an important read. It explains from beginning to end how Snowden became the privacy hero he is today, why he decided to leak the information, and how he did it. It's an interesting and important read, but also probably 100 pages too long.

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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  Amusing Ourselves to Death

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  Everyone needs to read this book. The observations were made in a pre-internet era, and they’re 10x as relevant today. Nothing will do more to help cure your information addiction that the healthy dose of reality provided in these pages.

  nateliason.com

American backpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked more than 30,000 miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide and publisher of gear reviews and trip-planning tutorials at andrewskurka.com.

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  Dreams of El Dorado

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  My wife Amanda is the real reader in our house, and last month she came home from the library with Dreams of El Dorado: A history of the American West, by H. W. Brands. I moved quickly through its 480 pages (with an occasional photo), and thought it was one of my more enjoyable recent reads.

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Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.

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  Jekyll

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  I've run all my sites on Jekyll and GitHub Pages for a while now. I have found it easier to manage than WordPress (particularly as I know next to nothing about databases),

  usesthis.com

Art critic, broadcaster and author; wrote on art for The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph and presents BBC art documentaries. Author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.

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  Turner: Imagination and Reality

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  This catalogue was published on the occasion of the first ever exhibition of a long-dead painter at the Museum of Modern Art. It's only about thirty pages, but it is utterly brilliant.

  fivebooks.com

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Legal Systems Very Different From Ours

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  David Friedman, successfully combines the author's three special interests into a whirlwind tour of exotic law.

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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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  REAPER

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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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  Unity

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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.

  usesthis.com

Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.

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  Plain HTTP lets anyone on the path rewrite the page, so HTTPS is about the integrity of what readers get, not only secrecy.

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  When you serve your pages over HTTP, anyone along the transport layer can do basically anything they want to your pages. More and more often it's becoming increasingly common for somebody in the chain of custody to do something to your pages that you don't want them to do.

  Still think you don't need HTTPS?scotthelme.co.uk

Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.

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  An access mechanism built for the police cannot be limited to the police, so a backdoor weakens the system against every attacker at once.

  Their words

  As technologists, we can’t build an access system that only works for people of a certain citizenship, or with a particular morality, or only in the presence of a specified legal document.

  Security vs. Surveillanceschneier.com