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Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.

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  Founder-controlled AI infrastructure companies pose a strategic-default risk to lenders that standard credit ratings fail to capture.

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  The usual default math assumes debtors want to pay. But founder-controlled firms with a "you lent us too much" attitude introduce a strategic-default option that standard systems of ratings do not fully capture.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  English people are becoming smarter due to the cognitive demands of navigating Heathrow Airport.

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  English people are becoming smarter because of the cognitive workouts they're forced to complete by navigating Heathrow Airport

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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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  The camera pose is the most critical piece of information about the geometry of a space, which is why estimating it for every frame is the real advance.

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  And I do believe Atlas is a significant step forward because now with every single frame, you have a you can generate an estimate a important piece of information, which is the the view viewpoint, the camera pose. And that is the most critical information one needs about the geometry of the of the space.

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Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

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  AI and the data-center buildout underlying it pose real and significant dangers to society.

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  Its's clear by now that AI, and the data center development underlying it, pose real and significant dangers.

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Music critic of The New Yorker since 1996 and author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This and Wagnerism.

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  Prose written in an intensely musical, rhythmically dense style is inherently difficult for composers to adapt successfully into music.

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  Writers of such concentrated style can pose a danger for composers.

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Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

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  Raycast

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  I've never liked Spotlight on macOS, and previously I used Alfred as a replacement. However, now I've discovered Raycast. Raycast is my primary mode of navigating through macOS, as I've bound the keyboard shortcut to

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Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  Difficulties parents and disabled people face navigating public infrastructure stem from structural failures, not individual behavior.

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  I no longer think the problem is individual behavior so much as structural failure: a world with so little margin, tenderness, or infrastructural mercy that people are forced into constant friction.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Product Leadership

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  : “Your guide to navigating product leadership, the one I never had. Within these pages you’ll hear a diversity of opinions from the industry’s most successful and respected product leaders, insights that will help you lead your team and deliver exceptional products.”

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Co-founder of the AI agent company Sierra, and previously an eighteen-year Google executive who ran product for Workspace, virtual and augmented reality, and Google Labs.

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  Building at the AI frontier is science rather than programming: you pose hypotheses and invalidate them again and again.

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  so it's not a simple matter of programming it's not you know typing into a keyboard until or or I guess asking cursor to do something until a piece of software emerges, it's exploration, it's discovery, it's posing hypotheses and validating or invalidating those again and again and again.

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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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  The Engineering Executive's Primer

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  "It’s honest in how it covers topics like navigating tricky power dynamics with CEOs, surviving 'peer panic,' dealing with competition within leadership teams, and in its overall breadth and depth."

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  De-Coding The Technical Interview Process

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  A fresh take on navigating the tech the interview process, tailored for frontend engineers. She wrote the book after she found Cracking the Coding Interview to be too Java/backend-focused. The book comes with 1, 2 and 4-week learning plans as well. A great book to start with.

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  Where women's economic rise is too mild to resent, the far right turns its grievance politics onto immigration instead.

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  Since women did not pose an economic threat, far-right politicians have instead galvanised society-wide opposition to immigration.

  Does Women’s Rise trigger Backlash?ggd.world