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14 September
Programmer and writer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, and author of the Coding Horror blog, which he has written since 2004.
"The effort from Conway’s San Francisco-based investment firm SV Angel, dubbed Project Blueprint, intends to fill a vacuum between policymakers and the AI industry ahead of a midterm cycle where Democrats are poised to make gains in Congress" politico.com
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11 September
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
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.
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The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency.
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6 September
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Apologies if you’ve sent in a pitch deck for your startup this week; I’ve gotten 150+ pitches the last few days and that’ll take me a bit to dig through. Angel investing is a real trip. startups Related
24 August
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Been digging into my own angel investor metrics lately; I currently invest in about 2% of the companies I see. If you're raising, just know that a lot of this is a numbers game. Even the hot startups I talk to get a lot of `no` before hearing `yes`. startups Related
21 August
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
x.com Had a lovely time talking with Marcia Dawood about angel investing, building @signedco, investing in sports, and how AI can help unlock all three of those. Yes, I used `unlock`. That's how you know it's business-oriented™. Full episode is on YouTube: youtube.com
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Bluesky Had a lovely time talking with Marcia Dawood about angel investing, building Signed, investing in sports, and how AI can help unlock all three of those. Yes, I used `unlock`. That's how you know it's business-oriented™. Full episode is on YouTube: youtube.com
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16 August
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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Somewhat simple, but still great. I guess we’ll see a mediocre Hollywood adaptation (or a TV show perhaps) soon.
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rakhim.org
14 August
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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there's so many people that are not willing to fight for the best idea because they're going to upset somebody else. And if you don't fight for the best idea, then what idea are you fighting for? You're fighting for the mediocre idea, the politically expedient idea
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11 August
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
QSBS is like, one of the most powerful things an angel investor can leverage. And it's crazy powerful for early startup employees too (with some caveats, of course). It's free money. Tracking QSBS treatment can save you thousands. Millions. Billions? Sure, maybe. Quoting @signedco It's tax week at Signed! First of our ships this week: the QSBS Clock: a way to tell at a glance all of your QSBS-qualifying positions across your entire portfolio. startups Related
Chief AI Scientist at Databricks, after its acquisition of MosaicML, where he was a founding team member; known for the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis from his MIT PhD (ICLR 2019 Best Paper).
Very excited to be an angel. The best investments are the ones where you learn in addition to making money! Quoting @zuzanna_pathway Pathway’s BDH-CQ model redefines the Cost-Efficiency Frontier on ARC-AGI-1: $.0007 at 29.5%. This is made possible by in-context learning and latent reasoning. Welcome to the Post-Transformer Era. Related
10 August
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
i’m wearing an ANGELS DESERVE DPI TOO shirt for @signedco today at an angel investor event and I don’t think many quite understand the joke, which in and of itself is pretty telling of the typical angel investor these days too. it’s a self-referential referential joke. Related
3 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.
5 July
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.
1 January
Founder and CEO of SaaStr, the B2B software community and events business, and a SaaS investor who previously co-founded EchoSign and sold it to Adobe.
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We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here's what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
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a lot of old school GTM leaders are like, you know, AI isn't going to hurt sales reps. It's just going to make them give them superpowers. The best ones, yes, the mediocre are just going to be like more mediocre, right?
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AI is replacing the jobs people don't want to do today, and it is displacing the midpack and the mediocre.
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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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The Jean le Flambeur trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi—The Quantum Thief, The Fractal Prince, and The Causal Angel—may be the most ambitious science-fiction story I've ever read.
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27 December 2025
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
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None of this is brilliant filmmaking, even if it is efficient, and much of it isn’t even necessarily good, but damned if I can’t stop watching it.
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26 November 2025
Writer of kottke.org, one of the oldest blogs on the web, published since 1998 and supported by its members. He writes about art, technology, science, design and visual culture.
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A House of Dynamite. A very tough watch, but I thought this was fantastic as a tour of some of the different kinds of people who hold the fate of every single person on the planet in their hands every damn day. They’re tired, stressed, distracted, at cross-purposes with themselves, set in their ways, more celebs than leaders, and mediocre. And none of them have ever seen Dr. Strangelove? (A)
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16 October 2025
Co-founder and chief executive of Figma, the collaborative design platform he started in 2012 and took public in 2025.
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if you want to win in the game of software, you need to differentiate through design. Like that's again how you win or lose. Craft matters. And so we're no longer in this era of good enough is fine. It's like good enough is not enough.
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6 November 2024
Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.
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A delightfully insane introduction to systematic invention.
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worrydream.com
17 February 2024
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
14 December 2023
Founder of Amazon in 1994 and of the space company Blue Origin in 2000.
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That's an inventor's greatest dream, is that their inventions are so successful that they are one day taken for granted. Nobody thinks of Amazon as an invention anymore. Nobody thinks of customer reviews as an invention.
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7 September 2023
Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.
30 June 2022
Co-founded GiveWell and led Open Philanthropy; writes Cold Takes, on the most important century and how to think about it.
22 November 2021
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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When I heard that one of my favorite authors, Walter Isaacson, was working on a book about CRISPR and its inventor, I was eager to read it.
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10 September 2018
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
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