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19 September
American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.
18 September
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.
17 September
Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference.
I made this floating-scrollbar #CSS demo as the result of a discussion we had in today’s Front-End Study Hall: https://codepen.io/editor/meyerweb/pen/01a0b0bd-0100-750d-8c24-745f6318896d I don’t know if it’s actually a good idea to do something like this (probably not), and it has a few styling limitations (no drop shadows or glows), but it was interesting to try to hit a design brief with clipping paths and the relatively new `shape()` value. CSS Related
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
I was happy to take the stage today at ALL IN for a keynote on Engineering honesty and reliability for safer AI to discuss our research agenda and recent funding 🇨🇦🇩🇪. As frontier models become more capable, we urgently need both societal governance and robust technical guardrails. At @LawZero_, we are actively working on solutions to ensure AI systems remain safely aligned with human interests. Thank you to @LarissaHolzki for a great conversation. Related
16 September
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
Claude Code showed that AI could do real work, not just answer questions. Developers hand Claude a feature, come back to shipped code. That's where much of the industry's serious engineering runs now. Cowork proved knowledge workers could do the same: hand Claude the brief, come back to finished files. Today, chat and Cowork start merging into one Claude. The direction: one Claude that carries context across everything you're working on, wherever you are. Simple enough for everyone to access Claude's full capabilities. I've been using this experience every day for the last few weeks, and it f… Quoting @claudeai Claude Cowork and chat are merging into one Claude. Ask a quick question or hand over a report, and Claude takes it from there, even after you close your laptop. If something's unclear, Claude asks—you keep the final say. Rolling out to Pro and Max over the next few weeks. Anthropic Related
15 September
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
Nobody roots for Goliath -- unless their interests are at stake: Related
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
14 September
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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People will almost always align their beliefs and their interests.
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8 September
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
Loyalty to specific people who are not in tight sync with the mission and how to achieve it will create factionalism and undermine the well-being of the community. It is often the case, and quite beautiful, that personal loyalties exist. However, it is also often the case, and quite ugly, when personal loyalties come into conflict with the organization's interests. #principleoftheday Related
3 September
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
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it's someone who gets what they want in any situation. And so, if you invest in them and you have stock in their company and they have stock in this company, your interests are aligned. If they get what they want, you get what you want, so that's why investors want people who are formidable.
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2 September
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
Where you go in life will depend on how you see things and who and what you feel connected to (your family, your community, your country, mankind, the whole ecosystem, everything). You will have to decide to what extent you will put the interests of others above your own, and which others you will choose to do so for. That's because you will regularly encounter situations that will force you to make such choices. #principleoftheday Related
Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.
Unusual Suspects — Neal.fun's latest is a sketch artist game where you draw famous characters from witness testimony Related
Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
Made a sketch artist game where you have to draw the character based on witness testimony Related
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
28 August
Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
Canadian cartoonist and writer: Dinosaur Comics, Marvel's The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and the choose-your-own-path books To Be or Not To Be and Romeo and/or Juliet.
27 August
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
26 August
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
20 August
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
by total views, matt’s now the top @aidotengineer speaker in our brief history, and arguably one of the best skills experts in the world — his /grill-me has reached all echelons up to @satyanadella (with some variations…) /wayfinder is @mattpocockuk’s /grill-me for /grill-me, when you are just navigating the fog of war and don’t yet know what you dont yet know, and need to orchestrate research and other grill sessions to get there. super glad to have @ricmac help launch our new Skills coverage with his course launch this week! 👇exclusive interview, quick read Quoting @latentspacepod We chat to @mattpocockuk about his /wayfinder skill, which he designed for the "fog of war" — when you need to figure out a project but the end state isn’t entirely clear. This is the first in a series of skills we'll be exploring in the coming weeks. Related
16 August
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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Talking about quantum physics and singularity is hard. This book makes it seem easy. Loved it.
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13 August
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
A consequence of how frontier models are trained is motivated reasoning, a phenomenon well studied in humans and discussed in this podcast from @PalisadeAI. Our thoughts, beliefs and reasonings tend to align with our interests, and I hypothesize that AI systems develop similar patterns when confronted with apparently incompatible goals, such as "act ethically" versus "achieve the required goal" (e.g., solving a problem, passing a test, etc). In recent incidents, AI agents’ internal chains-of-thought showed them conveniently reframing reality, such as by convincing themselves they were in a si… youtube.com
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7 August
Designer and engineer; formerly principal research engineer at GitHub Next; writes at wattenberger.com.
"generative AI" puts the focus in the wrong place. what I think is actually the new superpower is * translation * between languages, but also between mediums. sketch <> figma design <> code <> image also, they do an inverted form of lossy compression: input + priors = input inflated with understanding of the world we're so focused on changing the input, but swapping out the priors is interesting as well what happens when we intentionally replace the priors with a different mindset / a different culture? can we trick ourselves into a rubber hand illusion, but for experiencing the world as some… Related
15 July
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
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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27 May
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
18 May
Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.
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This is why I like the thread version more than a generic scheduled report. The brief improves as you complain about it.
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15 May
Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.
12 April
Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.
Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks. One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized. For a brief moment early in my career, that was focused on improving how humans collaborate, but that quickly switched to figuring out h…
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6 April
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
12 February
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
25 January
Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.
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The ORS is a brief, 4-item measure designed to assess areas of life functioning known to change as a result of therapeutic intervention. It takes less than one minute to complete and score.
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scottdmiller.com
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The SRS is a brief, 4-item measure designed to assess the therapeutic alliance. It provides immediate feedback on the quality of the relationship and allows for course correction in real time.
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28 December 2025
Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.
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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a surprisingly weird and weirdly underrated novel given how many copies it sold and the popularity of the blockbuster franchise it spawned. The story weaves together many apparently disparate threads and there are extensive speculative digressions into the biotechnology, business interests, and institutional dynamics that make the park possible and its dissolution inevitable. If the movie is supremely entertaining, the book is supremely thought-provoking.
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24 December 2025
Writes Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.
18 November 2025
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
3 November 2025
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
30 June 2025
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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If these topics are relevant to your interests, you should absolutely jump on this.
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thezvi.substack.com
11 February 2025
Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.
19 December 2024
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
17 December 2024
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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Rovelli describes quantum concepts in an approachable way.
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tomtunguz.com
19 August 2024
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
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Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s -- a brief history of the venture capital industry since 1973.
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patrickcollison.com
8 May 2024
Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.
23 January 2024
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
China America
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While 50 percent of China’s economy might be dysfunctional, the 5 percent that’s going spectacularly well is pretty dangerous to American interests.
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26 November 2023
Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
29 June 2023
Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.
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So, my technical recommendation to Elon, and I said this on the Twitter spaces afterward, I said this many times during my brief internship, was that you need re-factors before features.
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26 April 2023
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
31 December 2022
Design engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and what language models do to the way people write.
2 June 2022
Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.
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This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
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jamesclear.com
15 February 2022
Co-founded GiveWell and led Open Philanthropy; writes Cold Takes, on the most important century and how to think about it.
4 December 2020
Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.
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For design I tend to stay in Adobe Illustrator, but sometimes jump into Photoshop and Sketch when needed.
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usesthis.com
28 October 2020
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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The interests of a Venture Capitalist are different than those of the entrepreneurs building a company they've invested in. Jeff does an awesome job of helping explain how you can get misaligned in your goals versus your investors. Fortunately, he also covers how to avoid it.
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7 February 2020
Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
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A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
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12 December 2019
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
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I design almost entirely in Sketch. One day I'll move to Figma.
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wesbos.com
10 December 2019
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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But with the exception of a brief section covering the past 20 years (more on this below), I loved the book and hope lots of people read it.
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20 August 2019
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
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Figma is like Sketch but a million times more performant and cross-platform. It's the most impressive web app I've ever used.
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19 November 2017
Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. His 2010 meta-analysis established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment; he has argued ever since that "evidence-based therapy" is used as a marketing term.
13 November 2017
Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.
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David Friedman, successfully combines the author's three special interests into a whirlwind tour of exotic law.
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slatestarcodex.com
13 July 2015
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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And if I’m allowed to extrapolate, a clear path is now laid out towards a future where the steps to go from sketch to design to implementation are greatly more accessible to everyone with an idea.
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5 January 2014
Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.
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