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19 September
Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.
15 September
Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
Growth tactic #13: "🎈Go anti-professional: One of the most viral LinkedIn posts of all time came from a manager who swapped her corporate headshot for a casual, no-makeup photo. Pick a norm of your own and break it in public. You might talk about how much roles actually pay or admit that a big launch didn’t actually meet internal expectations. People are tired of perfectly curated, glossy exteriors of the professional world, so a bit of human messiness will stand out." More here: lennysnewsletter.com
Quoting @lennysan 60+ creative growth ideas Everyone's running the same growth playbook: high-production launch videos, paid influencers, AEO, social, maybe some (poorly attended) events. Your competitors are in the same channels competing for the same eyeballs. But attention goes to what people don't see coming. Th… Related
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Just came across this cute little library by @nilbuild to add an interactive mascot on your site in just 4 lines of code! 👌 → Related
13 September
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
WebKit supports interactive-widget … and hopefully Safari will too? bram.us
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11 September
Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.
10 September
American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.
I'm teaching a workshop to support the Salem Lit Fest! Quoting @salemlitfest.bsky.social Speaking Tools: How to Tell Compelling Stories About Technology Writing Workshop with Ken Liu September 26 @ 1:00–4:00 PM Salem, MA 🔗 to register in bio. Related
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
9 September
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
“AI is full of scam artists. Why trust you?” Fair question. I’d be skeptical too Every new wave of technology attracts people who showed up last week with a new account and a course to sell So here’s my honest answer I’ve spent 13 years teaching people how to organize their thinking and do their best work I coined the term “Second Brain” and built the frameworks that came from it: PARA, CODE, and Progressive Summarization Two books based on those ideas have sold more than 500,000 copies in 25 languages And the ideas aren’t new They’ve been tested by 10,000+ alumni across 70+ countries, long b… Related
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
7 September
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
6 September
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
In the OS 27 update to Yearly Run Goals, I’ve added interactive widgets so you can add your completed workouts without ever going into the app 👌 Related
5 September
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
An interface is an abstraction implemented in code. Use it long enough and you learn to think through it. From Pokémon to GUIs to Requests: what are our tools teaching us to become better at? kennethreitz.org
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4 September
Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.
Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026 Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our more typically ~6,000) which left me with some non-blog catching up to do. Next week, we’ll be starting our next Teaching…
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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.
Every Expert Intelligence notebook we feature includes a note from the author and extra sources curated by them. Here's @AnnieDuke explaining how exploring her fascinating book Thinking In Bets in @Gemini_Notebook can help you make smarter decisions. Google Related
3 September
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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GPT-6 Astra represents a step-function change in model capability for interactive reasoning problems. It scores 66% on ARC-AGI-3 using our standard harness, and nearly 100% with a continuous conversation harness and custom compaction, at a cost of roughly $360 per game.
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2 September
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
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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and we're teaching them the worst habits in the world. And so we're giving them 12 years of the worst habits and then even their capability can't overcome that. That it's the super gifted athlete who literally has every bad habit in the book
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the best teacher you had, like everybody remembers the one or two teachers who changed their life. It wasn't because they marked up your paper really well. That wasn't what did it for them. It was because you had some block. They saw you and they convinced you you could do so much more.
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Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.
30 August
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.
Teaching is hard but worth it when you see this 🥰 @sh_reya and I are refreshing the material once again to incorporate the latest eval techniques in our next cohort Related
26 August
Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
25 August
American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.
I'll be teaching a workshop on how to write compelling stories about technology to raise funds for the Salem Lit Fest! Quoting @salemlitfest.bsky.social Thank You @Hankpryan! We loved your class! If you missed out there are two more classes coming up: 9/26 - Ken Liu 10/03 - Gillian Daniels Both in person in Salem. Check them out and sign up today so you don't miss out! Related
18 August
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Cool stuff I found on the internet lately: https://t.co/7GEFXLCKjz - Ride along with anything in the sky https://t.co/TjFvxyaSzB - Animated icons for React https://t.co/vmx6GxjRyZ - An interactive atlas of India https://t.co/bfhqMu2JRl - What is this UI element called? JavaScript Related
17 August
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
14 August
Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.
13 August
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
12 August
Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.
Has anyone curated a static download of the good bits of Wikipedia/YouTube/etc. for being able to learn or explore new things offline? We could call it "The Good Place". Related
10 August
Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.
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This is why public education is so important. This is why education is so important. I would love to see our schools K12 teaching prompting.
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28 July
Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.
I spent the last academic year (Sept 25-June 26) on sabbatical, looking after my baby granddaughter, and I loved every moment. I missed teaching, though, and I will be back in the classroom in spring 2027. In the meantime, I will be on the road in Latin America, Europe and Asia in 2026. bit.ly
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23 July
Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.
7 July
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
1 July
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.
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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I feel like a relevant insight in learning was um recognizing that like who matters more than what. So, like advice to any college student when they're choosing what courses to take. Uh, care a little bit less about your pre-existing interests because they're kind of arbitrary right now. and care a little bit more about whether like the person teaching it is a good educator and someone you resonate with.
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24 June
Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.
21 June
Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
12 June
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
6 June
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).
30 May
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
27 May
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
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In short, whenever we have high-quality evidence that rigorously compares two teaching methods, the research invariably favors strong, direct instruction plus practice
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13 May
Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.
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It was just better than all the competition. It was faster. It was smaller. Um it was more interactive and it was also cheaper. So, it was like 10 times better at a tenth of the price of the of the competition, right?
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4 May
Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.
One consequence of Mr. Buffett taking a back seat is that we now get to learn from the people who have moved into the front seat. For the longest time, Ajit Jain operated undercover. Now he is teaching the world how he thinks about pricing risk. Berkshire’s role as a teacher of business and investment management is far from over. Quoting @TrungTPhan Ajit Jain was asked when Berkshire Hathaway will start insuring ships in the Strait of Hormuz. “Depends on the price” Related
28 April
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
Kennedy supporting Trump's maths: a great example for teaching school students about percentage change. youtube.com
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22 April
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
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In particular, for example, coverage of MapReduce was quite detailed in the first edition. But basically, MapReduce is dead. Nobody uses it anymore.
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7 April
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
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3 March
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
One thing that I notice that my wife does and that works well when teaching our 8-yr-old certain things, is that she’ll talk to me when we’re all in the same room, and then she’ll say, “One thing I didn’t really understand when I was young…” and you can just feel the 8-year-old turning her entire being toward us, to try to figure out what secret knowledge we adults are trading in. Related
2 March
Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.
13 February
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.
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it's it's kind of purely a practical and empirical thing that we've observed that by teaching the model principles, getting it to learn from principles, its behavior is more consistent, it's easier to cover edge cases, and the model is more likely to do what people want it to do.
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9 February
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
30 December 2025
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).
19 December 2025
Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
16 December 2025
Software developer who wrote Winamp and Gnutella, and now develops the REAPER digital audio workstation at Cockos.
15 December 2025
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.
9 December 2025
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
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I instead use Datawrapper to create interactive charts very quickly. They follow great data visualization principles, have influenced my work, and their styles look great.
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22 November 2025
Founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and co-author of the books Traction and Super Thinking.
29 October 2025
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
Zig's New Async I/O (Text Version) In celebration of the std.Io introduction patchset landing today, here is the text version of a short, interactive demo I gave at Zigtoberfest 2025. This is a preview of the new async I/O primitives that will be availab…
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1 October 2025
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.
Selecting The Right AI Evals Tool Over the past year, I’ve focused heavily on AI Evals, both in my consulting work and teaching. A question I get constantly is, “What’s the best tool for evals?”. I’ve always resisted answering directly for two reasons.…
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28 September 2025
Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.
8 September 2025
Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.
1 July 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.
19 June 2025
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.
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It’s my summer reading project, which is a curated library of eighty pocket-sized books that encapsulate the breadth and diversity of literary history.
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28 May 2025
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.
7 May 2025
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
28 April 2025
Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.
[Past weekends side project] A quick introduction to contextual speech models I made some interactive visualisations to explain a bit better how recent contextual speech models and audio tokenization work (e.g. Sesame's demo). Related
4 March 2025
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
24 February 2025
Writer and web developer; founding editor of Lifehacker, co-creator of ThinkUp and of the todo.txt format.
12 February 2025
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
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mainly because of Interactive Broker's amazing "margin account" feature. This, when used very carefully makes it seamless to borrow cash against your own shares at some of the lowest rates on Earth
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3 December 2024
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
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The Anxious Generation is a must-read for anyone raising, working with, or teaching young people today.
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6 November 2024
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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A comprehensive and insightful analysis of interactive design.
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30 September 2024
Archaeologist of the Maya and the ancient Americas; directs the Maya Exploration Center and presents the ArchaeoEd podcast.
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I don’t think that Atlantis existed. I do think it was one of Plato’s many parables talking about putting it in an interesting story as a teaching device in his school.
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18 June 2024
Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.
14 June 2024
Language mentor and polyglot; teaches people to design their own learning method rather than follow a course.
9 May 2024
American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
How to Conquer Your Biggest Fear What is your biggest fear? What would it mean if you could overcome that fear, once and for all? In this article, I'm going to help you do exactly that by teaching you five tactics to conquer anything you might be afrai…
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8 April 2024
Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
27 February 2024
Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.
7 December 2023
Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.
27 November 2023
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.
9 August 2023
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
16 May 2023
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
9 August 2022
Research psychologist, instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making; developed the recognition-primed decision model, the PreMortem method and the ShadowBox training method, and wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't.
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What we could we could train people by saying, "Here's the recognition prime decision model. Now, you know, follow this." And that would be useless. Because of uh telling people the strategy isn't going to buy them anything. The intuition part is a reflection of the patterns they've built up through experience. And so there's no shortcut for that.
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17 July 2022
Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.
3 December 2021
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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Though the book perhaps gets a little too math-ey by the end (and this is coming from someone who is literally teaching discrete mathematics to university students at the moment), Dantzig provides a compelling overview of what we mean when we talk about "numbers," and why this is a question that we must repeatedly keep re-visiting.
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3 March 2021
Co-creator of the Go programming language, of UTF-8 and of the Plan 9 operating system; formerly of Bell Labs.
1 June 2020
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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Mathigon is a very beautifully done set of interactive articles on all sorts of fun topics in math. The experience sits somewhere between reading and playing a game, with a really wonderful blend of artwork, technology and pedagogical clarity.
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3 January 2020
Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.
20 December 2018
Physician and author on addiction, stress and childhood development. Wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, and developed the Compassionate Inquiry approach taught to therapists.
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Compassionate Inquiry is an in depth teaching and distillation of the approach I have developed to working with human beings beset by personal issues, health problems that need gently guided exploration, mental health challenges, addictions, relationship difficulties and, above all, an unhealthy relationship to their own selves.
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22 February 2018
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
Hidden Homework (updated 2021) When I was teaching at NYU, every year I ran a prototyping class where students make a new game every week, starting with a prompt or constraint that I give them. It became a tradition for me to hide one of their prompt…
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