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

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  Adam Kay's This Is Going To Hurt is a textbook case study of moral injury and post-traumatic stress in a competent doctor, narrated by the patient himself.

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  This Is Going To Hurt is, read with a clinical eye, a textbook case study of moral injury and post-traumatic stress in a competent doctor, narrated by the patient himself, with the diagnosis hidden in plain sight.

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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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  AI-assisted ('vibe') coding has made it so easy to build competing SaaS apps that a plain, unremarkable SaaS product can no longer easily attract signups.

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  A regular boring but non-superficial SaaS app would do well 5 years ago but now it might not get anyone to sign up because it's so easy to vibe code by tens of thousands of other people

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

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  One reliable tell of AI writing is excessively colorful verbs where a normal person would use a plain one.

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  I was thinking about how I recognize AI writing, and one big tell is excessively colorful verbs. A handful of journalists might write that a proposal "drew" 100 votes, but any normal person will just say "got".

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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  Mindfulness in Plain English

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  One of the best books on mindfulness. No frills, no BS, straight to the point. I guess, if you could pick one book in the topic, I’d go for this one.

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Graphic designer and type designer, who created the original Macintosh icons and typefaces at Apple from 1982 and has since designed interface graphics for NeXT, Microsoft, Facebook and Pinterest.

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  A plain drawing of a pencil stands for writing better than a glossy realistic pen, because the more detail an image carries the more particular the thing it depicts.

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  which is why I think like a simple drawing of a pencil can stand for writing in some ways better than a chrome pen with a reflection, which is real very fancy, but it's a very particular kind of pen that not everybody might write with.

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Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.

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  Plain end-to-end learning is not enough for a safety-critical agent that has to be superhuman, however fast it gets you started.

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  But if you need to reach superhuman levels of performance in a fully autonomous agent in a safety-critical environment, uh, just doing kind of that basic vanilla end-to-end is not enough.

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Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner and its Symphony engine.

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  Great ideas are not all taken: many multi-billion-dollar businesses were buildable years earlier and nobody built them for no reason other than that nobody did.

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  There are many many unsolved problems in the world, many great ideas hiding in plain sight that were actually solvable that could have been multi-billion or multi-t trillion dollar businesses a while ago, but nobody's building them and not for any reason other than nobody went and did it.

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

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  HTTPS is now simply how the web works, and the long tail of plain-HTTP sites shrinks every year.

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  HTTPS is now simply how the web works, and the long tail of plain-HTTP sites is shrinking every year.

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FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.

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  Eventually Known Consistency is a better theoretical model for distributed systems than plain eventual consistency, even though it's harder to reason about.

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  but I still think the model of Eventually Known Consistency is the better theoretical model even if it is harder for users to reason about.

  20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Jobdaemonology.net

Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.

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  McCann's Irish Oatmeal

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  McCann's Irish Oatmeal, which I find to be far superior to Quaker. When I make it with whole milk, I could eat the entire bowl plain.

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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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  Metallic Realms

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  A reminder that my novel Metallic Realms is available at a bookstore near you. Reviews call it "brilliant" (Esquire), "a total blast" (Chicago Tribune), "unrelentingly smart and inventive" (Locus), and "just plain wonderful" (Booklist). Maybe the perfect holiday gift for the booklover in your life?

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