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

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  Social media platforms across the industry rely on similar video formats, recommendation algorithms, and push notifications to keep users engaged as long as possible.

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  It's true that Meta's rivals do largely employ the same cocktail of video formats, recommendation algorithms, and push notifications to continuously derail their users' attention.

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Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.

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  Today's models see a thousand times more data than an eighteen-year-old and are no better for it, so far more data-efficient algorithms must be possible.

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  If you think about our large scale models today, they probably see a thousand times as much data as a human does by the age of 18. Yet, the human by the age of 18 is better in a lot of things and, you know, on par uh with those frontier models that have seen way more data. So could you come up with much more data efficient systems that can learn continuously learn from their own actions?

  Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AIyoutube.com

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.

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  AI is raising public expectations of government service at the same time it changes what government must deliver.

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  Every state, and the federal government right along with them, is about to be asked to do a lot more than keep the lights on.

  North Carolina’s bold move on civil serviceeatingpolicy.com

Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.

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  Ship for three to six months with nobody reading the code and the codebase gets so bad that starting over is easier than fixing it — we ran a lights-off software factory and shut it down.

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  We tried this. We built a lights off software factory in July of 2025 and by November we had shut it down. I think it takes about three to six months of you shipping all the time with nobody reading the code before you realize like, wow, this is getting way worse and it's easier to start over than it is to fix it.

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Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.

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  Walking three or four times a week grew older adults' hippocampus by one percent and left their memory better a year later, which no pill has managed.

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  But in the walking group the group that was randomly assigned to walk three four times a week for 40 minutes compared to a stretching group who's still engaging in exercise but not cardiovascular exercise. The walking group their you know hippocamp is actually increased in volume by 1%. So you're changing the the brain, but you're also changing the behavior. Their memory was much better a year later.

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Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

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  BenQ ScreenBar Halo 2 Light Bar

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  Using these BenQ light bars allows me to better illuminate my desk at night without having to keep my overhead lights on. What I really like about this light bar is that it can be configured to automatically turn off when I leave the desk.

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Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.

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  Philips HUE Lights

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  Since 2016, using this IoT amazing lights.

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Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.

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  Philips Hue

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  Philips Hue lights and Noguchi lamps — pricey but I love them.

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Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.

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  f.lux

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  Use red and amber lights in the evening . Bluelight is bad for sleep. You can get blue light blocking apps (f.lux), glasses and also turn red mode on your phone.

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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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  Batteries will replace transmission as the cheapest way to keep the lights on, and the grid will shrink rather than grow.

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  we will see batteries aggressively displace transmission as the most cost-effective way to ensure continuity of electricity supply, leading to an eventual pruning of the grid and drastic reduction in the average distance that power travels between production and consumption, even as the average time that power is stored increases.

  Their words now

  Do we need to drastically expand the grid in order to metabolize renewables? No.

Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Batteries will replace transmission as the cheapest way to keep the lights on, and the grid will shrink rather than grow.

  energy

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  Do we need to drastically expand the grid in order to metabolize renewables? No.

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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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German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.

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  Elgato Key Light

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  For proper lighting I use two Elgato Key Lights (they're pricey but absolute worth it) and the Sony ZV-1 as a fancy webcam. If you're aiming for a high quality in your recordings I can highly recommend this setup.

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  Sony ZV-1

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  For proper lighting I use two Elgato Key Lights (they're pricey but absolute worth it) and the Sony ZV-1 as a fancy webcam. If you're aiming for a high quality in your recordings I can highly recommend this setup.

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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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  Longevity is not one problem waiting to be cracked: lifespans rose because many separate problems were worked on continuously.

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  To me, one of them is that longevity isn’t one obscure problem that needs to be ‘cracked’ in order for us to live longer.

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  Palm Beach Finland

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  Mind candy: black comedy crime fiction / murder mystery, in rural Finland. I enjoyed both the comic darkness and the convincing happy endings all around. (At least, happy by the characters' own lights...) My first Tuomainen, but I'd read more if they crossed my path and I was in the right mood.

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Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.

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  Technology is a lever on the world -- the way to make more with less -- and productivity growth is the main driver of wages, industries and jobs.

  economists

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  We believe technology is a lever on the world – the way to make more with less. Economists measure technological progress as productivity growth: How much more we can produce each year with fewer inputs, fewer raw materials. Productivity growth, powered by technology, is the main driver of economic growth, wage growth, and the creation of new industries and new jobs, as people and capital are continuously freed to do more important, valuable things than in the past.

  The Techno-Optimist Manifestoa16z.com

American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.

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  The Drama Bookshop

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  Recently though, I went to The Drama Bookshop, which was a delightful surprise. It is the closest I have come to the experience of a Manhattan bookshop as a third place in the kind of Prairie Lights mode.

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German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.

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  Razer Huntsman Elite

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  Peripheral-wise, I have a mechanical Razer Huntsman Elite keyboard, a Razer Mamba Elite mouse on a Razer Goliathus Chroma mousepad, and Razer Nommo Chroma loudspeakers. The lights cheer me up.

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Software engineer and founder of Block Party; previously an engineer at Pinterest and Quora, and a co-founder of the non-profit Project Include and the tech diversity data project Where are the Numbers?

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  IA Writer

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  For longer-form writing, I switch somewhat randomly between iA Writer, Byword, and Medium (in the browser).

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Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.

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  Innovation tends to come from slack time away from firefighting, not from being fully utilized.

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  In this case, it’s to maintain enough slack in your team’s schedule that the team can build quality into their work, and operating continuously in innovation, and avoid backtracking.

  Staying on the path to high performing teams.lethain.com

Civil engineer and land use planner, founder and president of Strong Towns, author of Escaping the Housing Trap. Argues that the American pattern of development since the Second World War does not generate enough wealth to maintain the infrastructure it obliges cities to keep.

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  The break in how cities are built is that places used to be improved continuously and are now built once, at scale, to a finished state.

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  Pre-Depression development was incremental on a continuum of improvement while post-War development is built at a large scale to a finished state.

  The Power of Growing Incrementallystrongtowns.org

Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.

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  Razer DeathAdder

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  I actually don't care for its weird glowing lights, but the mouse is very comfortable so I don't really mind too much.

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