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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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  @turbopuffer – vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable. https://t.co/w9y67Gs8ab

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Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.

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  AI will soon become important enough that a senior government official becomes formally responsible for regulating it.

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  that doesn't have to persist long for AI to join the ranks of systems that are important enough that there's someone senior in the government who's responsible for regulating them.

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Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.

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  Getting vision, hearing, balance and motor signals in and out of the brain is an end in itself, because the world you experience is generated in there.

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  That world is is generated by the brain. And so, if you can get visuals the visual signal, auditory signal, balance, motor, like somatic sensory motor in and out of the brain, that is that is an end in itself. That is the central object.

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Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.

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  New in json-render: Named Slots Generative UI with more structure

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

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  Once AI and robotics do the manufacturing, the price of any object becomes the price of the energy used to make it.

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  If you keep asking this question, what you realize is energy is the fundamental input. When we figure out AI and robotics that allows us to do semi-aututonomous manufacturing, energy will become the cost of all things, right? The cost of buying a thing will become the cost of energy used to make it.

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Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.

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  A startup's speed is set by boring internal infrastructure — purchasing, recruiting, spending — and that matters as much as understanding the technology itself.

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  And so speed determines success and failure and speed is determined by infrastructure. This is driven by really boring sounding things like how well do your purchasing and recruiting and spending processes work. This is as important as how well do you understand understand the object level technical content of the thing that you're building.

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Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

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  Moving the computation to where the data lives is the fundamental design move in object-oriented programming, and it got lost in the noise.

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  So a a big challenge in object-oriented programming is dividing the responsibilities because you're moving the computation to where the data is. Saying, "Well, this object does this and that object does that is a really critical decision because you want to you want the computation near to the data so that there's less coupling between them." which is a lesson that I I think uh kind of got lost in the noise. That's the fundamental design move in ob in designing object-oriented programs and I I think I stand behind that.

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  It is far too soon for a manifesto about AI development: the Agile Manifesto took fifteen years of object-oriented practice before anyone could write it.

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  which is why when I see manifestos today I'm just like too soon. Not a bad idea. Would love to have one just too soon. It took 15 years for the technical change of object-oriented programming to come before we could say here are the consequences of it. Here's how in a simple way we can express how to effectively use this technology that we've been using day in and day out for 15 years. The genie comes along. People are like, "Well, what's the new manifesto? It's just not manifesto time yet.

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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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  Good automation design starts from whether context must persist between runs, not from building a complex system.

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  The best automations do not start with a complicated system. They start with knowing whether the next run needs a clean slate or the same thread.

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Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.

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  The real shift Kubernetes made was from infrastructure as code to infrastructure as data: you declare the object and control loops reconcile it, instead of running a program.

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  we went from infrastructure is code to infrastructure is data and infrastructure is code is like if this do that um bring in this module for loops all this stuff and Kubernetes is like no no no you have to specify exactly the containers you want how much memory that they need and then we have the status field to tell you if they were running or not

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Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

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  Building databases on object stores is a genuine architectural break, because replication moves out of the database and into the storage layer.

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  And now suddenly people are building databases on top of object stores, for example. And now the replication happens at the object store level, no longer at the database level.

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  Computing is not a car market: x86 and ARM persist because ecosystems cost too much time and energy for anyone to replace.

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  Computing is not like that. There's a reason why the x86 still exists. There's a reason why ARM is so sticky. These ecosystems, these ecosystems are hard to replace. It costs an enormous amount of time and energy and most people don't want to do it.

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Scientist and writer on quantum computing, memory systems and metascience; co-wrote the standard quantum computation textbook and wrote Reinventing Discovery.

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  A trained model is a new kind of object that should be taken seriously as an explanation, once we work out the operations to perform on it.

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  And I think the like the third and the most interesting possibility is no, that like they're they're a new type of object in some in some sense. They should be taken very seriously as as explanations, but where in the past we haven't had the ability to really do anything with them.

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Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

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  Using an AI tool well is something you have to learn, exactly as it was with object orientation; a bad first impression proves nothing.

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  one of the things that I took from that was to use this tool well, you have to learn how to use it well, which was also something very true of object orientation.

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  I’ve got a GitHub actions thing that runs a piece of software I wrote called shot-scraper that runs Playwright, that loads up a browser in GitHub actions to scrape that webpage and turn the results into JSON, which then get turned into an atom feed, which I subscribe to in NetNewsWire.

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  I’ve got a GitHub actions thing that runs a piece of software I wrote called shot-scraper that runs Playwright, that loads up a browser in GitHub actions to scrape that webpage and turn the results into JSON, which then get turned into an atom feed, which I subscribe to in NetNewsWire.

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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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  A solar panel is a manufactured object that produces wealth rather than consuming it, at a hundred times the rate of the best farmland.

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  Inert glass rectangles that, placed on the ground, print out wealth, at roughly 100x the rate of the best farm land.

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Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine; previously a research scientist at OpenAI and a PhD student at UC Berkeley.

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  A founder who picks an idea because the market wants it will give up, because nobody can persist at something that was never important to them.

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  I think the thing that most people get wrong after they’ve decided to start a company is work on things they think the market wants. Not being passionate about any idea but thinking, okay, look, this is what will get me venture funding. This is what will get me revenue or customers. That’s what will get me venture funding. If you work from that perspective, I think you’ll give up beyond the point because it’s very hard to work towards something that was not truly important to you.

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Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life.

From one piece Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #433 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Computation sits at the top of reality, not at its base: it is something our biosphere built after billions of years of evolution.

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  There’s this assumption that computation is at the base of reality, and I see it at the top of reality, not at the base, because I think computation was built by our biosphere. It’s something that happened after many billion years of evolution. It doesn’t happen in every physical object.

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  You are not constantly branching into many worlds — you are that space, and the quantum reality is not the one you live in.

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  So my interpretation of reality is if you fold it up, all that bifurcation of many worlds, and you just fold it into the structure that is you, and you just said you are all of those many worlds and your history converged on you, but you’re actually an object exists that was selected to exist, and you’re self-consistent with the other structures. So the quantum mechanical reality is not the one that you live in. It’s this very deterministic, classical world, and you’re carving a path through that space. But I don’t think that you’re constantly branching into new spaces. I think you are that space.

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  The modern technosphere is the largest object in time that we know of anywhere in the universe.

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  Yeah, I think the modern technosphere is the largest object in time in the universe that we know about.

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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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  A nuclear-armed submarine is as dangerous to civilization as an asteroid, and unlike an asteroid it cannot even be located.

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  I mean, the submarines are what are called second strike capacity. Submarines were described to me this way, they are as dangerous to civilization… And let me say a nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered submarine is as dangerous to civilization as an asteroid. They’re unstoppable. They are unlocatable, the former Chief of the Nuclear Submarine Forces, Admiral Michael Connor, told me it’s easier to find a grapefruit-sized object in space than a submarine under the sea.

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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  Intelligent liberal elites can badly mismanage the colonies they govern, in ways that persist for decades or centuries.

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  A simple understanding of coalitions, political competition, and limited resources will bring you rather quickly to the conclusion that intelligent liberal elites can screw up their colonies pretty badly and in ways that can persist for decades or centuries.

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Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company he started as Facebook in 2004.

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  Screens, books, art and board games are all better as holograms you can summon and dismiss than as physical objects.

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  I mean, any screen that you have can be a hologram, any media, in any book, art. It can basically be just as effective as a hologram, as a physical object. Any game that you're playing, a board game or any kind of physical game, cards, ping pong, things like that, they're often a lot better as holograms.

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Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.

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  It turns out that a breakthrough rice cooker is a bargain, even if it seems expensive at first. The Cuckoo is an extraordinary device. It comes in many shapes and colors, most of them will not be to your taste, but persist until you find one.

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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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  A designer must never stop at the object: a shoe, a chair or a building is only honestly designed once you account for the whole system it is sourced from.

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  And when you think about a product and you think about a shoe or a chair or a perfume or a building, you don't stop at the object. You want to go all the way to the system.

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Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

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  Color as perceived is not an objective property of objects, but a construct generated by the perceiving brain.

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  Redness is not "objective" in the sense of being "in the object", it only exists in the models generated by the sort of brains which are hooked up to eyes.

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Economist writing on why technological progress slowed and what would restart it — energy, supersonic flight, housing and the regulations around them.

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  Building a manufactured object at a high enough rate pushes its cost down toward the cost of its inputs.

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  A high rate of production tends to drive costs down toward the cost of inputs.

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Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.

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  Electric bikes are worth their cost, flaws and all, because they bring the world nearer

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  Sure, electric bikes aren't cheap. But I believe they're a rare object to be well worth the cost. This in spite of their annoying flaws, their often bad software, their defective geometries. Because they open the world.

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British novelist, author of the His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust trilogies.

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  Have you seen the Oxford historical thesaurus? Fantastic. It must be one of the last great books produced as a printed object.

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Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.

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  People persist with the method they enjoy rather than the one that is supposed to be best, and that is what decides the outcome.

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  In general, people will stick with the learning strategy that they like best, not the one that everyone says is best.

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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.

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  Enemy Of All Mankind

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  is both a great story and also an object lesson in how single event can have a compounding effect on global politics and economics

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Former options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter on trading, volatility, decision-making and how to think about risk outside markets too.

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  The Fountainhead

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  Naysayers will have a lot to object about Rand. But Roark embodied integrity. Integrity is more complicated than Rand presents. I don’t think the hardest questions are in here. But Roark is a good guide for many decisions life will throw at you even if he is an incomplete (or possibly just unfinished) hero.

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Creator of the Clojure programming language and of Datomic. His rationale for Clojure is one of the few language design documents that argues its case rather than describing its syntax.

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  Object orientation is overrated: it was born of simulation and is now applied everywhere, including where it does not fit.

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  Born of simulation, now used for everything, even when inappropriate

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Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

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  Code is procedurally oriented rather than object-oriented: objects are just constructs that emerge to let procedures be reused.

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  Code is procedurally oriented, and the "objects" are simply constructs that arise that allow procedures to be reused.

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British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.

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  iPhone 5C

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  The 5C? A gorgeous object, a great frame for iOS 7 – easier to hold too and less fragile.

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Software developer who wrote Winamp and Gnutella, and now develops the REAPER digital audio workstation at Cockos.

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  ClipX

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  For Windows development, a completely awesome tool is ClipX, which is a free clipboard manager written by my friend Francis Gastellu, however he still has not fixed the Windows User Object leak that occurs when you open the paste menu (*cough* Francis ahem *cough*).

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