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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.

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  As AI assistants become more agentic and take real actions, competitive advantage shifts toward platforms with deeper personal-data access.

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  But as workflows move more agentic - i.e. you want to use AI to take more actual actions - the advantage quickly shifts towards Meta.

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Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.

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  Catppuccin

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  Absolutely everything is themed with Catppuccin Macchiato. Not only do I love the theme, but I love how pervasive it is across all the apps/tools I use

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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  Economic inequality is growing because technology makes companies easier to start and faster to grow, not because of tax policy.

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  There's a pervasive myth that "tax policy changes" are the reason economic inequality is growing. Actually it's because technology makes it increasingly easy to start companies, and makes them grow faster once you do.

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Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport.

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  Business had become politics without anyone noticing, which is why almost everything said about a company a decade ago was negative.

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  the media landscape 10 years ago, 90% of what was said was very negative. Business had become politics and we didn't know it.

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Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.

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  You learn where something is by going to find it rather than by being told, and that act is the whole difference between seeing something and noticing it.

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  And so we've done this study where you have to, instead of me telling you where it is, you have to get up and find it. And so now you're engaging with the environment, you're going to go look for it and be like, gosh, it's been there the whole time. have walked by it so many times have never noticed it. And I think that's the difference between seeing something and noticing it.

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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.

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  AI can hand you the end result of a skill without the attentive practice that used to build it.

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  It gives you the destination without the hours of noticing that used to get you there.

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Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.

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  Manufacturing and batch-release requirements, not biology, are what kill most promising cell and gene therapies.

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  Excessive manufacturing requirements are a pervasive problem, especially in the field of cell and gene therapy and they are killing countless of promising medicines before they ever reach patients.

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Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.

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  AI coding assistants are leveling the skill gap between software developers who can afford to use them.

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  Skill-wise, most software developers, as long as they are willing/able to pay for AI assistants, are on the same page now.

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Co-founder and chief executive of Figma, the collaborative design platform he started in 2012 and took public in 2025.

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  Taste is not innate; it is a loop of noticing whether you like something, asking why, and learning the canon that led to it.

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  It's just this loop of okay, I'm having an experience of any sense. Maybe I'm looking at art, maybe I'm hearing music, maybe I'm literally eating food and tasting something, you know, but like do I like it? Do I not like it? Why?

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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  The difficulty of raising more children increases gradually enough that parents adapt to it without noticing.

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  It rarely gets hard all at once. You slide into the new level of challenge without really noticing it.

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Professor at Berkeley working on robot learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence, and argues that robots will learn from data rather than be programmed.

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  Robots will be given more scope as they get more capable, exactly the way coding assistants went from completing a function to writing a pull request.

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  So, I think it'll be the same thing that that we'll see an increase in the scope that we're giving that we're willing to give to the robots as they get better and better where initially the scope might be like there is a particular thing you do like you're making the coffee or something. Uh whereas as they get more capable, as their ability to have common sense and a broader repertoire of tasks increases, then we'll give them greater scope. Now you're running the whole coffee shop.

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