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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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  Technologies are not neutral but political, and AI founders' views mix millennialism, eugenics, utopia-seeking, and spreading beyond Earth.

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  Technologies are not neutral, but political. Money is indeed one of the incentives, but not the only one. A mixture of millennialism, eugenics, search for utopia and for a spread of the specie beyond the confines of the Earth, are all elements we find among the founders’ views.

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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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  The Elements of Style

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  I wish everybody read this book. The surprising thing is that many aspects and recommendations apply to virtually any language, not specifically English.

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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  A person cannot expect to find lasting balance between conflicting parts of their psychology.

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  There's no reason to believe that you will find persistent balance between these conflicting elements of your psychology.

  Without hope of resolutionsashachapin.substack.com

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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  Game design has no textbook, so a designer has to keep their own list of the elements of fun the way a writer keeps the elements of fiction.

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  And there’s no, like, textbook that exists for game design, at least none that has been introduced to me yet. But I think about, like, elements of fun.

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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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  The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth

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  Nicolas Niarchos, The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth is a good treatment of minerals issues as they relate to the Congo today.

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Long-time Debian developer and free-software maintainer (remctl, INN, pam-krb5) who has published book reviews on his personal site since the 1990s.

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  I Shall Wear Midnight

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  I Shall Wear Midnight was the best of the remaining Pratchett novels. It's the penultimate Tiffany Aching book and, in my opinion, the best. All of the elements of the previous books come together in snarky competence porn that was a delight to read.

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Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.

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  On Democracy

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  White, New Yorker editor, Charlotte’s Web author, Elements of Style co-creator, is among my favorite writers.

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Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.

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  SvelteKit

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  elements, JavaScript reigns supreme. SvelteKit's efficiency and reactivity make it my framework of choice, and TypeScript's type annotations bring a welcome layer of confidence to my codebase.

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Designer and co-founder of Lux, makers of Halide, Spectre and Kino; formerly a designer at Apple.

From one piece Physicality: the new age of UI 2 beliefs · lux.camera

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  Interfaces are returning to skeuomorphism, but as behaviour rather than lacquer: clear, graphic elements that act like materials from the real world.

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  We’ve come back, in a sense, to skeuomorphic interfaces — but this time not with a lacquer resembling a material. Instead, the interface is clear, graphic and behaves like things we know from the real world, or might exist in the world. This is what the new skeuomorphism is. It, too, is physicality.

  Physicality: the new age of UIlux.camera

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  Opaque, inert, obstructive interface elements will become as niche as the full-screen command line once interfaces are infused with dynamic materials.

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  Opaque, inert and obstructive elements might occupy the same place as full-screen command line interfaces — a powerful niche UI that was a marker in history, passed on by the windowed environment of the multi-tasking, graphical user interface revolution.

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Historian of the Second World War; wrote Normandy '44 and Brothers in Arms, and co-hosts the We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast.

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  Decapitate a strong leader without a solution for the power vacuum and bad elements sweep in very quickly — a lesson of the Second World War that Iraq ignored.

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  I think there are so many lessons from World War II that could have been brought into the history of the last 30 years, which weren’t, such as if you decapitate an incredibly strong leader, you get a power vacuum. And if you don’t have a solution for that power vacuum, lots of bad elements are going to sweep into that in very quick order, which of course, is exactly what happens in Iraq.

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Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.

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  The Elements of Graphing Data

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  How to present data, and the why of the how.

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Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.

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  Karabiner-Elements

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  Karabiner-Elements Keyboard customizer with Caps Lock enhancement

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Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.

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  TailwindCSS

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  Side note for CSS, I'm cool to use what ever tech available out there that makes my task done quickly & well, I have personally used Bootstrap 3 & 4, Bulma, Lostgrid, Materliaze, Skeleton, Tailwindcss, Styled-components, emotion, CSS modules, Tachyons & made my own micro CSS framework called Unnamed that has over 200 stars on GitHub. Still I prefer using Tailwindcss.

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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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  Most book authors optimise for the status of being published, chasing bestseller lists and reviews instead of the reader.

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  The authors of most books are looking for many of the magical elements of status that come from successfully being published. They pay attention to the bestseller list. They game it. They pay attention to reviews. They uh worry about what their friends think of the book, even though their friends don't read books.

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Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.

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  The graphical user interface will survive AI in a less dominant role: future AI systems will have hybrid interfaces that combine intent and command.

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  Thus, the 2nd UI paradigm will survive, albeit in a less dominant role. Future AI systems will likely have a hybrid user interface that combines elements of both intent-based and command-based interfaces while still retaining many GUI elements.

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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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  Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

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  This was my holiday gift this year to a few friends who I know love to cook.

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American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.

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  Alpaka Elements Backpack Pro

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  Alpaka Elements Backpack Pro - The perfect commuter backpack. Includes space for all of my tech gear, external water bottle pockets, and more.

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Photographer and writer based in Malaysia who publishes long-form camera, lens and photography-book reviews, essays and photoessays at blog.mingthein.com.

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  Creativity is never created from nothing but is always a derivation from existing elements, with greater creativity meaning a more distant derivation.

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  creativity is never about making something out of nothing: it's always derivative in a way, even if 'more creativity' means a more distant derivation: 1+1=5, instead of 1+1=3.

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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  The Bhagavad Gita

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  Fantastic, many similar ideas to Stoicism and Virtue Ethics, though with more mystical elements thrown in. Would highly recommend it as a “first taste” of eastern religion.

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Designer, illustrator and writer; author of The Shape of Design and of widely read essays on design and the web.

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  Designing for screens means arranging the elements first and assigning them a size afterwards, not drawing the box first.

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  The size of what we’re making is unknown until we know what we’re putting there. So, it’s better to come up with an arrangement of elements and assign them to a size, rather than the other way around. We need to start drawing, then put the box around it.

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Game designer; chief creative officer at Spry Fox (Triple Town, Realm of the Mad God) and author of the Lost Garden design blog.

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  Adobe Illustrator

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  I've been using Adobe Illustrator for interface design. My favorite technique is to set up all the UI elements on separate artboards and then I can quickly export them out with full name to all sorts of different resolutions with a single dialog.

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Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.

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  Elements

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  Elements on the iPhone is in many ways better than any of the word processors I've used on the Mac or PC.

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Computer scientist and professor; author of The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. and of a long-running blog on programming languages, research and academia.

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  Western Digital Elements

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  Every computer has a large dedicated external hard drive for backups. Currently, I'm partial to the Western Digital Elements series.

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