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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  Good transitions make an essay feel well-structured, and complaints about lack of structure often come from clumsy or abrupt transitions.

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  if you have good enough transitions, an essay will feel as if it has a good structure. And vice versa: when readers complain about lack of structure, the reason is often simply that they're bothered by clumsy or abrupt transitions.

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Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.

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  Almost every recent AI breakthrough has been in code and mathematics, the two domains with highly structured languages and huge specialised training sets.

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  But if you zoom out, it becomes clear that almost every “breakthrough” since last summer has concerned the narrow domains of computer code and math, which are defined by highly structured languages and come accompanied by massive amounts of specialized training data.

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

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  Every abstraction in agentic programming — RAG, memory, agentic history, structured output — is just a different way of passing tokens into a model, and understanding that beats learning any of them.

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  And at the end of the day, they're all like different ways to pass tokens into a model and ask it to produce usually some structured output. And understanding that is a lot more powerful than trying to learn memory and trying to pick some agent framework off the shelf and some memory framework off the shelf.

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General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.

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  Card payments cost two to three percent because of how the industry is structured, not because moving money has to cost that much.

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  the whole industry is is kind of stuck in this world where they make a lot of money because it is this way. But there's zero reason why it should cost 2 or 3%. Just zero.

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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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  Termius

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  this just works so well, I'm so fast, and each of my sites is just an open tab in Termius, I've never worked so structured and clean!

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Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, which he started in 2011 while studying product design at Stanford.

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  Large, structured organizations become risk-averse because everyone inside them is optimizing for the next promotion.

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  as soon as you have an organization that's very large and very structured like that, uh people become very focused on getting a promotion, right? Getting, you know, into the next step of the hierarchy. And that means that all of a sudden, uh they become a lot more risk-averse.

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Economist at George Mason University. Writes Overcoming Bias on prediction markets, signalling and the far future, and wrote The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.

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  The world is shaped by how consistently incompetent governance is, and competent governance would remake it

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  As an econ professor who specialized in governance, I can assure you that the world is greatly structured by the fact that we typically have pretty incompetent governance.

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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.

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  Structured concurrency makes it easier to write correct, safe concurrent code.

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  writing programs in this style makes it much easier to write correct and safe concurrent code

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Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.

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  The processes organisations build to make work uniform are usually the same processes that slow the work down.

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  Or like all of the the things that we have structured process around to try to make things more uniform are often the things that slow us down.

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Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

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  Zod

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  Zod - A great schema declaration and data validation library for TypeScript.

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Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.

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  A society structured to resist being catalogued and taxed by a central authority is for the same reason resistant to being reconstructed by archaeologists.

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  And what makes a society illegible to the tax collector also makes it illegible to the traditional archaeologist.

  Back To The Gardenadjacentpossible.substack.com

French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.

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  Xbox Elite Controller Series 2

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  For other games, I rely on xCloud (Xbox's cloud gaming platform) Xbox Elite Controller Series 2 is my controller.

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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  Most current software and ways of solving problems are structured the wrong way for the agent era.

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  Most software is the wrong shape now. Most of the ways we try to solve problems are the wrong shape.

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Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.

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  Price is not the number on the page; the structure and the positioning are as much a part of pricing as the number is.

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  the the largest point is pricing is not just the number on the page. It's positioning. It's how their budgets work. It's how it's structured.

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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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  Multiple Choice

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  Two other formally odd books I love: Alejandro Zambra's Multiple Choice (trans. by Megan McDowell), structured as a standardized test with e.g. chapters of fill-in-the-blank questions

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Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.

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  Braintrust

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  The panel had a generally positive view of Braintrust, highlighting its clean UI and structured approach to evaluations. The tool’s emphasis on human-in-the-loop workflows was a significant strength.

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Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.

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  Video Speed Controller

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  Video Speed Controller ← VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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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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  The post-Cold War order, like the Versailles order before it, was badly structured at its inception and carried the seeds of its own destruction

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  Both systems were badly structured at their very inception (Versailles and the end of the Cold War). Both contained within themselves the seeds of destruction.

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

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  Life is the process by which information structures matter over time and space, and any individual organism is only one instance of a lineage.

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  And so for me, I think life is the process of how information structures matter over time and space, and an example of life is what emerges on a planet and yields an open-ended cascade of generation of structure and increasing complexity. And this is the thing that life is. And any individual is just a particular instance of these lineages that are structured across time.

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  China’s World View

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  Senior academic advisor to the Chinese Communist Party feels most political tensions come from a misunderstanding of China’s world view, hence the subtitle “demystifying to prevent global conflict”, and his intrinsic desire to explain. I love its insights and historical context, especially around “Respect-centered diplomacy” and how the CCP is structured.

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Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.

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  Universities would be better run by business leaders than by academics the faculty approves of.

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  I would argue having a business leader run these institutions and then having a board that has, itself, diverse viewpoints, and by the way, permanently structured to have diverse viewpoints is a much better way to run a university than picking an academic that the faculty supports.

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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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  As models get better at following instructions, techniques like finetuning and constrained sampling for structured outputs will become less necessary

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  I suspect that in the future, it'll be easier to get models to output exactly what we need with minimal prompting, and these techniques will become less important.

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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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  Brilliant

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  I know a few of the people there, and I can vouch for the fact that they are extremely thoughtful about what makes for good learning. It shows in the product. Rather than putting lectures and videos front and center, problems and puzzles take precedence, all presented in a structured progression.

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Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.

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  Steam Controller

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  I use a Steam Controller, which honestly is a really great choice for PC gaming that didn’t catch on and now Valve seem to have given up on it.

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