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20 September
Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
Kody can do many things. Have to niche down to catch people's attention. I've decided on: making it easy to use more than one and move between them seamlessly (something big labs aren't incentivized to do). But what of I change it up and talk about how it's better than skills? Related
Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.
19 September
Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.
Taking a break from working on Nestflix to catch up on shows. Really enjoyed “Legends” (love Steve Coogan) and “How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.” Both on real Netflix. Related
18 September
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
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Export controls work. "Export controls just make Chinese companies work harder or catch up" is propaganda ass shite
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15 September
Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.
Lazy work used to mean too little output. Now, with AI, it often means too much and more work for everyone else. @tobi call it "slop grenades." A "Slop Grenade" is when you let AI produce the work and pass it on without adding any value (including checking it). Someone else has to wade through it, catch the mistakes, and clean up the mess. You save time and look productive but someone else pays for it. Quoting @shaneparrish My third conversation with Shopify co-founder and CEO @tobi. 0:00 How Shopify Uses AI 7:18 River: Shopify's Internal AI 8:55 How to Encourage Osmosis Learning 10:52 AI Dreaming and Self-Reflection 11:53 How to Use AI for Strategic Decision Making 14:11 The One Thing AI Cannot Do 16:04 What AI is Ma… Related
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.
I'm excited to be appearing at Gloucester History Festival this Autumn - you can catch me on the 20th Sept at 4pm, at Blackfriars Priory. https://t.co/9kwJ2iJTr8 Come along and say hello—I can't wait to see you there! @gloshistfest #GlosHistFest26 Related
14 September
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.
ChatGPT gift cards are live in the US! Gift cards give people a new way to share ChatGPT with friends and family. They also bring ChatGPT to the places people already shop for gifts, ahead of the holiday season. Recipients redeem their card at https://t.co/oX1jDGtz1t to add funds to their wallet, then use the balance for eligible subscriptions, renewals, and usage-credit purchases on ChatGPT web. Redemption is currently available in the US for accounts billed in USD. OpenAI Related
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Kat says juniors are the best code reviewers on the team. No context means you catch what the seniors stopped seeing. Kat Excellence writes at https://t.co/RoNpJ113Fq Full episode: Related
Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.
I'm fascinated by the laurel forests of La Gomera, one the Canary Islands. They're full of different species of trees with shiny, waxy leaves. Mosses and lichens grow on the branches, and the ground is covered with a green mantle of dripping ferns and liverworts thriving in the permanent damp. The place has a mysterious, prehistoric air. The lower altitudes of this island are deserts, but the upper parts catch fog, known locally as "horizontal rain" (lluvia horizontal). Near-constant northeasterly trade winds carry moist Atlantic air that condenses into a persistent low cloud layer. This "sea… Related
Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.
i wish i could gift people the feeling of deep okayness with not having a plan Related
13 September
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
11 September
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.
Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
𝗕𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗡𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗼𝗻, 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸. 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁. My guest today is Robin Wigglesworth (@RobinWigg), editor of @FTAlphaville and author of A Fabulous Debt, a thousand-year history of the market that sets the price of everything else. We get into: • An Austrian 100 year bond that lost 80%, while a defaulting Argentina paid off better • Why T-bills feel safe but can lose you 50%+ in real terms after inflation • Is private credit the next systemic blowup? • Why the $12 trillion repo mar… inflation Related
5 September
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
Things my (Chinese) mom thinks are unbearably white: - snacks with no flavor (eg pretzel) - spending a disproportionate amount of total gift value on packaging (eg gift bag, tissues, bow) - investing into pets rather than kids China Related
2 September
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.
Chapter 23.1: The Third Chair An FBI agent counts three chairs at a bench in the empty Basalt lab. Payroll says two people worked there, and the third name on the filing resolves to nothing. "You brought a casserole to a manhunt." "It was a gift." zeroknowledge.ink
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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
1 September
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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But if there was some amount of cheating that the monitor didn't catch, then those rollouts wouldn't be removed. And it might be like structurally very analogous to just positively reinforcing whatever the cheating rollouts were that happened not to be caught by your monitor.
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31 August
Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning.
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The most positive use case if you said, you know, what's the number one thing we could use AI for? It's not giving kids chatbots that's going to work. It's giving them an individualized lesson plan based on their level to catch them up to grade level. And that would be the single best thing we could do to fix education in America.
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30 August
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
28 August
Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.
27 August
Independent iOS developer and podcaster; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue), and makes the apps Callsheet, MaskerAid and Peek-a-View.
26 August
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
One of the best recent podcasts on AI. Neil has a gift for explaining all of the jargon and insights simply. (I’m not involved, just found it unusually educational). Quoting @patrick_oshag Neil Movva (@neilmovva) started his career at Nvidia, working on GPUs and kernels, and has an unusually deep understanding of inference, from software to chips to power. We spend a lot of time on each of those layers, how they connect, and where the important tradeoffs are. What makes this conversa… Related
Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business — "building models of the world to understand these problem areas and to define them better".
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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There's not any accumulation, which is in some ways a great relief.
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25 August
Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science, and consults for organisations including the CDC.
24 August
Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.
21 August
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I'll be headed down to Massachusetts to spend some time with my sister next week and I've already got my clipboard out and am making lists. Maybe I'll catch Super Troopers 3 at the local movie house. Either way, my mind is nowhere near my email. Fortunately it does not have to be. Image credit: Randolph Historical Society, on Flickr Commons flickr.com
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17 August
Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.
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The catch is that the future world that has been warmed by greenhouse gases and a present-day world that has been temporarily warmed by El Niño can have the same global-average temperature while having significant differences in the impacts of this warming.
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15 August
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
14 August
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
“Nobody who loved architecture and cats as much as Lovecraft could ever be a good nihilist.” (Didn’t catch which panelist this was) Related
11 August
Chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and AI control.
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One concern you might have is there are like large categories of reward hacks which humans can't detect well and which we consistently fail to detect and which consistently get reinforced and then this category is sufficient to cause the most natural behavior for the AI to learn to be like cheat when the humans can't find out
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10 August
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
nice birthday gift for the guy who hasn't written a single line of his review so far 😅 (can you blame me though) Related
9 August
China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.
“Trump tuba tariffs” is such a gift to headline writers Quoting @scottlincicome Also, LOL Related
29 July
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Jose-Miguel x Ryo Fukui I was only able to catch the tail end, but Jose-Miguel Yamal, alongside Thomas Helton and Sam Knight, did an awesome tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ryo Fukui’s Scenery at Echoes in Houston. Jose-Miguel is t…
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18 July
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.
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They excel at making the dull delightful. There are a lot of big and serious facts to get through, but they have a gift for communicating them simply and eloquently. I just wish they'd've come to a different conclusion.
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16 July
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.
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I have the Wigglesworth and Moore books on my desk, queued up for my hammock reading
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15 July
Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.
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.
14 July
Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
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Yes, a book about the history of the bond market can be entertaining and enlightening.
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9 July
Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.
6 July
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
Had such a fun time chatting with @debbiemillman.bsky.social on her fabulous pod about all the things including why my life has been one big attempt to get back at Razorfish for snubbing, 18-year-old idiot me: podcasts.apple.com
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3 July
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
2 July
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
The Washington Monument on the Potomac River, Kawase Hasui, 1935 - depicting the cherry trees that were a gift from the Japanese government and planted in 1912. America government Related
30 June
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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And so having anything that's able to give you that green check mark that says even if this is going to be complicated to understand, even if it's going to be a pain, you at the very least know it is correct. Like every other field would kill for that, right?
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19 June
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
When to reach for a well-known URI — and the traps that catch most protocol designers. mnot.net
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18 June
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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He and I, we share the same view that semiconductor infrastructure actually is not catch up with the AI growth.
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11 March
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.
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There’s this phrase of catch the wave, ride the wave. Most games fall off the back of the wave. They don’t catch the wave. No one plays it or plays it for two weeks.
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23 February
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
Hey friends! If you only follow me here, you're missing a lot of delightful messages I share with the world on ALMOST EVERY OTHER NETWORK. I don't like X because Elon Musk is an asshole AND behaves like a fascist. Catch up with me anywhere. Ciao! Related
8 February
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
19 December 2025
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
11 December 2025
Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.
America
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The US has a lot to learn from other countries for how to catch up to the efficient frontier, especially for certain types of construction (ie: transit) and in certain places in the country (ie: expensive coastal metros).
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9 December 2025
Vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, the advertising agency; author of Alchemy (2019) and the Wiki Man columnist at The Spectator.
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it doesn't matter how good the drink is if people think you've bought it for $8.95 it's not doing the job it's supposed to do which is to signal generosity to signal hospitality or to mark a special occasion
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28 November 2025
Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.
Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.
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I gave a Theragun to my husband for Christmas, and it was the best gift I've ever given and the single greatest purchase of my life.
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18 November 2025
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
1 November 2025
Novelist and writer, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough; previously worked at Twitter and Current TV.
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Consumable gifts Fat Gold The Fat Gold Gift Set My work life has two great lobes.
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14 October 2025
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.
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I keep an eye on China’s open models, and it’s impressive how quickly they catch up. GLM 4.6 and Kimi K2.1 are strong contenders that slowly reach Sonnet 3.7 quality
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I keep an eye on China’s open models, and it’s impressive how quickly they catch up. GLM 4.6 and Kimi K2.1 are strong contenders that slowly reach Sonnet 3.7 quality
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27 September 2025
Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.
EU–INC is the single best thing Europe could do to catch-up in the AI race A simple unified pan-European startup structure, with modern employee ownership and simple access to capital, able to tap into Europe’s full talent pool. ‼️ but it’s at high risk of not seeing the light of day. You can help👇 startups Europe Related
21 September 2025
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
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It's easier to even predict whether growth will slow down at a certain point. it's easier to catch these trends earlier. If you don't have good observability over how your business runs and what the company's um key levers are, then you will be scrambling.
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14 July 2025
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
6 July 2025
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
21 January 2025
Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.
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Catch-up growth in the 20th century was almost entirely state-led.
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22 April 2024
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
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This is the 2001 monolith hypothesis. I would be less surprised to find a quiescent alien artifact in our solar system than I would to catch a radio signal from an intelligent civilization.
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22 March 2024
Investigative journalist; wrote Area 51, The Pentagon's Brain and Nuclear War: A Scenario, reconstructing what secret programmes actually did from interviews and declassified records.
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Now, does that mean that every UFO sighting in the world has been a U-2? No, but I come from it from that lane of thinking, and there are so many strategic deception campaigns, and as I look over the decades of how these same UFO stories, and again, this is just my opinion based on my reporting, this narrative that keeps reoccurring, it seems to me like a very large catch- all to keep the public’s attention on that, not on that.
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13 December 2022
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
13 September 2022
Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.
This tweet stream showcases some of the writing by USV analysts over the years. Though they have moved on to bigger and better things, their writing and their ideas live on at USV and https://t.co/btPOKgjAa4. It is a gift that keeps on giving. Quoting @nickgrossman Reminder that applications are now open for the next class of @USV analysts! One of the ways that USV analysts work is through writing, both about thesis areas and new investments. To give a flavor, here are some highlights of writings by USV analysts over the years: Related
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