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20 September
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Lose the attitude, embrace optimism. Doctor's orders! Quoting @NTFabiano Repetitive negative thinking is linked to Alzheimer’s protein buildup in the brain. Related
19 September
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
My positivity for this magical moment in computing is not born out of blind optimism for a possible future, but from awe of the present potential. Everything we've ever wanted to do with software is now possible. We can make anything. We can fix everything. Quoting @0xSero I interviewed DHH, the creator of Omarchy - The Agent Operating system + Ruby on Rails, one of the most important frameworks of our time. He's a father, builder, race-car driver, and such an inspiring person. One of the most positive people I've had the honor of meeting. Related
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.
18 September
Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.
Warren Buffett steps down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. “Serving as your Chairman has been the privilege of a lifetime, and I have never taken your trust for granted. Father Time always wins. He has, however, been generous with me. He has given me the opportunity to see Berkshire reach a point where I am more confident than ever about what lies ahead. The company is in excellent hands, and I look forward to remaining a shareholder alongside you.” Related
17 September
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
1/3 Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism. A veeery loooong time in the making, but I'm happy to say that the full collection is now out in @BBSJournal 🔥 I deeply thank all commentators - of fifty commentaries! - for their wise, broad, and deep opinions on this critical topic. I also thank them for their saintly patience. 🙏🏽 I remain highly skeptical about the prospects for conscious AI (for silicon digital systems), but I've learned an enormous amount from the privilege of engaging with these commentaries. Hands down one of the most rewarding experiences of my professional life. My hope… ted.com
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14 September
Design engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and what language models do to the way people write.
13 September
Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
11 September
Former option trader and risk analyst, now a distinguished professor at NYU. Author of the Incerto essay series, including The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.
Something bad for the (existing) class of mathematicians as they lose their privilege, but not necessarily bad for mathematics & our body of knowledge? Quoting @stevenstrogatz 24 Fields Medalists speak out against "A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics" Related
Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money, Same As Ever and The Art of Spending Money. Writes essays on investor behavior and posts frequently on X.
The Psychology of Money Podcast AI Optimism and the Agony of Waiting Most forecasts are hyper-optimistic or hyper-pessimistic. Not enough attention to the possibility that the main outcome in 10 years is that all businesses are 20%-30% more productive and life goes on. Related
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea. I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics). The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency. In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them. They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it.… Related
1 September
Labour politician. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 2024 to June 2026, and MP for Holborn and St Pancras from 2015 until standing down in 2026. Director of Public Prosecutions before entering Parliament.
It has been an honour and a privilege to represent Holborn and St Pancras for the last 11 years. My statement. Related
24 August
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July 2026 and leader of the Labour Party. MP for Makerfield since a by-election in June 2026; Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 before that.
It was a privilege to meet with Ukrainian veterans today at a military hospital in Kyiv. I’m proud that the patients here have been supported by a UK charity who have trained over 1,000 surgeons, anaesthetists, and other healthcare workers. Our support for Ukraine is unwavering, and I’m glad to be here to show it in person. Related
23 August
Professor of strategic studies at St Andrews; wrote How the War Was Won and The Strategists, and writes weekly on the war in Ukraine.
14 August
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
Technology optimism hour Back in 2022, I wrote Web technology optimism hour, highlighting the things I thought were cool about the state of technology. Time flies. Let's do it again. It's still easy to be pessimistic, but it's nice to mine your…
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3 August
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.
21 July
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.
I am pleased to announce that a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Republic of Kazakhstan and Network School. Our new campus will become a haven for global techno-optimism, with expedited visas, streamlined redomiciliation, and active recruitment of talent. Related
5 July
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
8 June
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.
29 April
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
A special week: I had the privilege of seeing two outstanding Hungarian scientists I deeply admire—Katalin Karikó @kkariko and Réka Albert—inducted into the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC. Join me in congratulating them both! @theNASciences America Related
4 April
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
25 January
Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.
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So let's suppose you add 100 customers a month and you have 5% cancellation. So 100 divided by 5% is 2,000. So a company like that will never have more than 2,000 customers.
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18 November 2025
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
2 November 2025
Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
31 October 2025
Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.
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Because I always thought that the games were kind of a mathematical equation. They were the personality of the world, you know, multiplied or divided by the personality of the protagonist.
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22 June 2025
Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.
14 June 2025
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
24 April 2025
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
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Finally, I’ll explain a deeper issue with the whole idea: we can’t neatly divide the causes of an outcome into slices that add up to 100%.
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1 October 2024
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
27 September 2024
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.
22 June 2024
Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.
24 December 2023
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.
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Best books I read in 2023: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa S. Kearney
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Best books I read in 2023: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa S. Kearney The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
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21 December 2023
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finishe…
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25 September 2023
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
28 January 2022
Aeronautical engineer and former fighter pilot; analyses aircraft design and airline economics at Leeham News.
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The model output, which uses data from 74 presently flying airliner variants, from short-haul Commuters to long haul Widebodies, made with aluminum or composites, shows that the OEW fraction (OEW divided by MTOW) never go below 47%.
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12 November 2021
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
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3 September 2021
Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.
A Science corporation Long story short, a couple friends and I — our unifying trait being persistent optimism that with the best possible tools and minimal red tape, more things are possible than most people realize — have started a new comp…
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