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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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  China declined U.S. nuclear-talk proposals in 2023 and broke off meaningful arms control talks.

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  During the 2023 U.S.-China nuclear talks, America proposed missile-launch notifications, a nuclear crisis hotline, and processes to limit the use of outer space for military conflict. China declined all of those. Blame the U.S. if you wish (do we always keep our word?), but that is what happened. China also broke off meaningful arms control talks.

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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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  The path to efficient processes is person to agent to software, and stopping before software costs money and time.

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  You ➡️ agent ➡️ software This is the path to efficient processes and too many of you stop on the first two steps costing money and time.

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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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  The right starting point for studying AI is treating it as genuinely powerful while its consequences unfold unpredictably through multiple complex social processes.

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  a recognition that AI is powerful (and will reshape power relations among humans) but that the consequences will flow messily through multiple complex processes that we really need to start mapping and understanding

  How should social science think about AI?programmablemutter.com

Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.

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  Rising AI capability is undermining the assumptions that justify slow, manual government processes.

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  AI creates a crisis by making the assumptions on which government operates untenable.

  The Crisis We've Been Waiting Foreatingpolicy.com

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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  Almost every company now reports that engineering processes which worked fine for years have suddenly become outdated.

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  Almost every company we talk with currently says that processes which worked fine for years are suddenly pretty outdated.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  A formal code of conduct is not worth adopting, because those became struggle-session processes; courtesy without one is what actually wins.

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  Omarchy is not going to adopt a formal Code of Conduct because those turned out to be struggle-session processes in the last turning. But we are going to play nice. We're going to be courteous, professional, and composed in our direct interactions with users, competitors, and even haters. Because that's what's going to pave the path to the win.

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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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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.

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  The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

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  This is such a useful book. It makes the case that there's no such thing as "human error" - instead most catastrophes are caused by system issues, misaligned incentives, and unrealistic processes. You are not the custodian of an otherwise safe system that you need to protect from erratic human beings.

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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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  Science always bottlenecks precisely where the heuristics that worked before stop applying, which is definitionally what makes something a bottleneck.

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  the point is that where we always get bottlenecked is where the the previous processes and and and heuristics don't apply. Right? Like that's almost sort of definitionally what causes the bottlenecks.

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

From one piece Nicole Forsgren: Leading high-performing engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summit 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  AI did not create the bottlenecks in software delivery; it threw gas on processes everybody already knew were weak.

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  There were a handful of people probably managing a security review process or a launch process or a deployment process or, you know, sometimes reviews were a little slow and they got backed up. Well, now we just threw gas on the fire and so all of that is a problem.

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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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  AI sped up the part of software work we could see, and it is the delivery systems downstream that are now being overwhelmed.

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  And so, like in the immediate term, yeah, we were getting more out, but now our systems, whether technology systems or human systems or processes, are really kind of getting overwhelmed.

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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.

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  Regulation must precede reflection: cognitive insight fails while a nervous system is in defensive dominance.

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  Polyvagal theory provided me with a coherent framework for understanding why cognitive insight alone often fails when a nervous system is in defensive dominance. In such states, higher-order cortical processes are functionally constrained.

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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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  Langsmith

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  The overall workflow is intuitive, especially for those new to formal evaluation processes. The UI guides you through creating datasets, running experiments, and annotating results.

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Reinforcement-learning researcher; co-wrote the field's standard textbook, wrote The Bitter Lesson, and shared the 2024 Turing Award.

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  There is no basic animal learning process called imitation; the basic processes are prediction and trial-and-error control.

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  If you go to look about how psychologists think about learning, there's nothing like uh imitation. Maybe there are some extreme cases where humans might do that or appear to do that, but there's no basic animal learning process called imitation.

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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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  With nearly free solar power, industrial processes optimised for efficiency should be redesigned to use far more power and run faster and cheaper instead.

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  You can revisit a bunch of legacy industrial processes that are have been optimized for efficiency and say, well, what if we just like use twice as much power and we just want to do them faster and cheaper, right? Like less capex, less lead time, more power, right?

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Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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  Anything nature shaped can be learned efficiently by a classical neural network, because evolutionary processes leave structure behind.

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  And I think the reason that's possible is that in nature, natural systems have structure because they were subject to evolutionary processes that shape them. And if that's true, then you can maybe learn what that structure is.

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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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  CTO at Hatch. One email per week, 5 links of programming, big data, architecture, development processes and databases.

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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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  Writing your thinking down in public is a form of life after death -- for human readers and for the language models that will read it too.

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  I'm trying to thoroughly write my thought processes, values, and worldview, so that you can remember it, re-create it and improve upon it.

  Come and get me (both you and AI)sive.rs

Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  Fabs take roughly a third longer to build in the United States than in Asia, largely because of environmental review.

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  Fab construction time in the US has increased from just over 650 days on average in the 1990s to over 900 days on average in the 2010s, compared to around 600-700 days in Asian countries, in part because of increasingly stringent environmental review processes.

  How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fabconstruction-physics.com

Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.

From one piece Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War | Lex Fridman Podcast #415 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Ukraine's vote for independence is what ended the Soviet Union, and Ukraine is exactly as decisive today for anyone wanting to restore Russian control over the post-Soviet space.

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  And the combination of all this factors led to the processes in which Ukraine’s decision to go independent spelled the end to the Soviet Union. And if today anybody wants to restore, not the Soviet Union, but some form of Russian control over the post-Soviet space, Ukraine is as important today as it was back in December of 1991.

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  The biggest thing that happened in the 20th century was the redrawing of the map of the world and the birth of dozens, if not hundreds, of new states.

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  But the biggest global thing that happened was redrawing the map of the world and producing dozens, if not hundreds, of new states. That’s the outcome of the different processes of the 20th century.

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  The collapse of communism, the end of the Cold War and the end of the Soviet Union were three different processes, and people constantly confuse them.

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  Very often people confuse three different processes that were taking place in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and the one was the collapse of communism as ideology. Another was the end of the Cold War. And the third one was the end of the Soviet Union.

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Founder of Amazon in 1994 and of the space company Blue Origin in 2000.

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  Building a factory that turns out rockets at rate is at least as hard as designing the rocket in the first place.

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  So you need to have all of your manufacturing facilities and processes and inspection techniques and acceptance tests and everything operating at rate. And rate manufacturing is at least as difficult as designing the vehicle in the first place

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  Boeing's decline began when its management moved away from the factory and the engineers stopped running it.

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  The changes separated its management and board from the day-to-day processes at the heart of its business.

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Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google

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  If you're curious how Google built it's culture and the processes thanks to their extremely data & engineering driven nature, this is a great book. What held it back was being ~100 pages too long and Bock didn't always understand where what they did only fit at a $100Bn+, mega-profitable company. Still, the insights on the studies on their 50,000+ employees is well worth the read since so few of us can get similar statistical significance to apply to our teams.

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  The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million

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  Selling is hard. Building a repeatable model with a team that you attempt to rapidly scale is even harder. Fortunately, Mark Roberge, who was one of the very first employees at HubSpot shares the processes and frameworks he used to build a sales machine. If you like the principles behind Lean Startups, then his data- and experiment-driven approach to sales will be very appealing.

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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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  Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health

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  Facing Addiction in America is also the first governmental attempt to ground policy not in prejudice but in research, not in conjecture but in science. It collates an impressive body of evidence to illuminate the pathological processes and impacts of substance addiction in the human brain and body, and suggests evidence-based practices for treatment and prevention.

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Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.

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  I'm a heavy user of screen, particularly for monitoring long-running processes and being able to use the same session from different locations.

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Game designer; made Spelunky and Aquaria, and wrote the Boss Fight Books volume on Spelunky.

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  Finishing is a skill you get better at with practice, not a final step of the process.

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  If you treat finishing like a skill, rather than simply a step in the process, you can acknowledge not only that it’s something you can get better at, but also what habits and thought processes get in your way.

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