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19 September
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
Many people think that the words “Artificial Intelligence” are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI). This is a Poll, and I would appreciate everybody voting! Which is the best name for this ever growing “Revolution?” President DONALD J. TRUMP Related
18 September
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
The fact that people still care about 25 basis points is evidence that they don’t yet appreciate the depth of the fiscal dominance we are in. Anyway, have a nice weekend. Related
17 September
Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
ZCash is having a governance debate thanks to @maxdesalle, @zooko, @matthuang and others. It's a perennial debate because everything DeSalle says about the weakness of governance institutions is correct and yet when it comes to public goods, externalities and increasing returns--all of which are critical for ZCash-there is very little choice but a governance institution. N.B. All DeSalle says also applies to firms! Firms are islands of central planning. Central planning is inefficient. So shouldn't people who appreciate markets want to get rid of firms?! No. The boundary between firms and the… Quoting @matthuang A few thoughts on ZCash (disclosure: Paradigm is an investor in ZEC and ZODL): - All blockchain ecosystems struggle with long-term funding, especially of public goods, and an inflation-funded developer fund is an elegant mechanism to do so. How this fund is allocated is a fair debate, and we should… Related
16 September
Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.
In lots of 80s/early 90s profiles of quantitative investors, there's a list of the general strategies they used, and a surprisingly common one is "Japanese warrants." In today's Capital Gains, we look at what that meant and why it was such a common trade: Related
14 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.
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
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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11 September
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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You don't have to agree with everyone about everything to appreciate their contributions in certain domains.
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10 September
Programmer and writer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, and author of the Coding Horror blog, which he has written since 2004.
"I have declared what you are doing impossible from my dream fantasy bunker of a perfect world!" That's great pal, thanks, appreciate the feedback. Related
9 September
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
I definitely appreciate how many authors use their book primarily as a calling card to sell their speaking and consulting. I just don’t want to focus on those ancillary businesses, as I’m viewing my books mostly through the lens of a teacher who wants to affect change in the greatest number of people possible. I do worry about my ability to reach mass numbers of people with carefully crafted sequencing that actually changes beliefs and behavior. Related
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
8 September
Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data and author of Just Keep Buying and The Wealth Ladder. Chief Operating Officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management.
6 September
Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.
Depression & anxiety seem common & familiar but few can appreciate the psychopathological depths possible. Once in a while I come across an Omega level neurosis in the clinic, & it is like witnessing something alien & ancient, a horror & dread with the gravity of a neutron star… Related
Software engineer and founder of Block Party; previously an engineer at Pinterest and Quora, and a co-founder of the non-profit Project Include and the tech diversity data project Where are the Numbers?
ironically i now appreciate when someone egregiously misspells my name because i know it’s at least not ai slop Related
5 September
Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.
Generosity is not about fulfilling every request. It’s about giving what we can. Evidence: People appreciate receiving partial help more than we realize. Regardless of the result, they value the gesture of care. Kindness is defined by the effort, not only the impact. Related
4 September
Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
Smart retirement-savings strategies can save a lot of taxes, if you can take advantage of them. Here’s some ways to play the retirement tax guessing game. https://t.co/RbPEu89X1P via @WSJ Related
Founder and chief executive of Replit. Previously an engineer at Facebook and Codecademy. Writes essays on programming, philosophy and entrepreneurship at amasad.me.
Marvin Minsky wrote about this in The Emotion Machine. Emotions are a core part of human intelligence, not some epiphenomenal side effect of human evolution (which presumably many AI folks believe it is). Minsky describes a selector of sorts for different thinking strategies. Quoting @danysvnt OPENAI COFOUNDER SAYS EMOTIONS MAY BE WHY WE CAN MAKE DECISIONS ilya brings up a guy who lost emotional processing after brain damage. he could still talk normally and solve problems, but somehow became terrible at making basic decisions "It would take him hours to decide on which socks to wear." w… Related
Software engineer and founder of Block Party; previously an engineer at Pinterest and Quora, and a co-founder of the non-profit Project Include and the tech diversity data project Where are the Numbers?
i appreciate claude telling me “sleep well” after i gave it my final instructions for its overnight tasks Anthropic Related
3 September
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
We are working towards getting Astra in everyone's hands as quickly as we can; I know it is frustrating and I appreciate the patience. It should be quick. Related
29 August
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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The biggest failure, the one that counts in the end, was that the models were severely misaligned, and I don’t think they appreciate why.
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20 August
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
After all the years of public embarrassment, I think my kids might finally appreciate, in a world filled with AI, that I simply cannot be replicated. Related
18 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.
17 August
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
Emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London; wrote Strategy: A History and Command, and writes about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as they happen.
14 August
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
10 August
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.
1 August
China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.
23 July
Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.
20 July
Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.
17 July
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
15 July
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
Something few software engineers fully appreciate is how important personal connections can be as part of their work. I see far too many people thinking that "who you know" is relevant for *getting* a job but failing to realize it can be even more important for *doing* the job. Related
9 July
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
Years ago, I predicted that columnar storage would remake the landscape of observability tools. I thought we'd see a wave of new columnar-backed observability tools grow up to displace the old, creaky, three pillars model with tech that is faster, easier, cheaper, and better in every way. I was half right. Observability vendors, you are chasing the wrong ball. Datadog's great weakness is not their price point, it's their product. @ClickHouseDB, good job. You don't make me want to stab my eyes out. In this market landscape, that's high praise. charity.wtf
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8 July
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
2 July
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
New Article: How to Find Time for Learning https://t.co/PczMpCbpL2 Learning is exciting in theory, but fitting it into a busy life is another matter entirely. In this article, I share some of the strategies that have helped me make learning a consistent part of life. Related
4 June
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
What happens when agents with all possible strategies compete? That's a question for ruliology. With some surprising answers... Related
15 May
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
5 May
Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
24 April
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
13 March
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
@edison11051 I really appreciate all of the work you do, oftentimes behind the scenes 🚀🍻 Related
Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.
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Um I think at least this year we're going to see margins for the model vendors go up a lot, right? Because they're so capacity constrained, they have to demand destroy demand, right? there is there's no way they can continue anthropic can continue at the current pace without destroying demand.
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3 March
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
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Native APIs are terrible to use, and OS vendors use everything in their power to make you not want to develop native apps for their platform.
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24 January
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Hid an Easter Egg in the new Azure Friday website...I'm very happy with how this turned out https://www.azurefriday.com/ I think you all will appreciate it Related
21 December 2025
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
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I liked the book a lot more than the show but watching the show helped me appreciate the book more.
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25 November 2025
Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc., and previously co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI.
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I maintain that in the end there will be a convergence of strategies. So I think there will be a convergence of strategies where at some point as AI becomes more powerful it's going to become more or less clearer to everyone what the strategy should be.
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21 November 2025
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
17 November 2025
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
18 September 2025
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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Just imagine you use very bad software and um the team that started the project decided early to use Xamarin and then they never had a chance of making this as good as all the other things you really appreciate on your phone due to this decision no matter how good they are.
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11 September 2025
Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.
The 30-Minute Daily Routine: My Study Strategies The most effective study strategies aren't always the ones that look perfect on paper. Most people imagine polyglots engaging in flawless, high-level conversations from day one. They picture a smooth, linear path to flu…
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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.
22 July 2025
American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.
6 July 2025
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
The Rise of Bitcoin Stocks and Bonds Originally published: July 2025 During the past year or so, the Bitcoin ecosystem has largely been led by the rise of corporate bitcoin treasury strategies. Although Strategy (MSTR) pioneered the trend back in 2020, the…
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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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He takes a very proto-rationalist, practical approach to this, that I very much appreciate, complete with yearly predictions. The writing is consistently enjoyable and clear.
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1 June 2025
Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.
30 May 2025
Zurich-based value investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor. He hosts the VALUEx gathering in Klosters and publishes a podcast and newsletter.
20 April 2025
Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
31 December 2024
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.
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The C Programming Language - I've finally gotten to the point in my career where I can appreciate the elegance of this book.
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16 December 2024
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.
17 September 2024
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
12 August 2024
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
25 May 2024
Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.
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By all accounts, from people who become memory athletes, they weren’t born with some extraordinary memory, but they practice strategies over and over and over again. The strategy that they use for memorizing a particular thing, it can become automatic, and you can just deploy it in an instant.
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22 April 2024
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.
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And rather than trying to ask, how close is it to being a human-like intelligent, we should appreciate it for what its capabilities are, and that will both be more accurate and help us put it to work and protect us from the dangers better rather than always anthropomorphizing it.
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14 July 2023
Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".
The Cloud Is Not Optional When you hear that one of the vendors responsible for keeping government organizations safe had a security breach, you can easily decide that this is unacceptable. When you hear that it is hard to know who is affected a…
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23 April 2023
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
9 March 2023
Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.
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Terry shares five non-starters to avoid and practical strategies for bringing honesty, passion, and joy back to even the most difficult relationship.
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4 March 2023
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
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My view is that it’s going to take more than this regulatory campaign to defeat dynamism in China.
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What I did not sufficiently appreciate is that a state that would so casually decapitate a sector like online tutoring would also have the will to visit catastrophe upon whole cities.
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6 December 2022
Author of Fluent Forever and founder of the app of the same name; teaches pronunciation first and vocabulary through images rather than translation.
8 September 2022
Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.
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With her signature mix of rigorous research, easy humor, and personal experimentation, author Gretchen Rubin identifies the 21 habit-change strategies that will help every reader to create the habits that will transform their lives.
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12 July 2022
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
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When you want to remember something you’ve read, do you highlight it, reread it, or summarize it afterward? Those strategies don’t work very well.
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17 June 2022
Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind; worked on interpretability at Anthropic under Chris Olah before that, and teaches the field to newcomers.
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often the best way to maximise your impact is by pursuing high-risk, high-reward strategies
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25 November 2021
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.
Thanksgiving This year we give thanks for something we’ve all heard of, but maybe don’t appreciate as much as we should: electromagnetism. (We’ve previously given thanks for the Standard Model Lagrangian, Hubble’s Law, the Spin-Stat…
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