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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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  The US war on Iran ended up delivering Osama bin Laden's original strategic goal of ending American military presence in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula

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  Osama bin Laden's one concrete strategic goal was to end the American military presence in the Gulf and on the Arabian Peninsula. A generation later, Donald Trump's war on Iran has apparently delivered it for him

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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.

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  Astra

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  Been using Astra for the last few weeks and it’s so good and proactive. There’s a bunch of PRs on vitest, tsx or SwiftPM where Astra debugged OC and ended up finding and patching issues in upstream dependencies.

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British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.

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  Netlify

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  Netlify - for hosting static sites

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Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.

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  AI agents will need persistent unique identifiers that trace their actions back to a responsible actor, and so will the humans directing them.

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  Agents will need persistent, unique identifiers that allow their actions to be traced back to a responsible actor. Doing this successfully will also require human users to possess a unique identifier.

  On the Loosehyperdimensional.co

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Letting non-programmers vibe-code features into a large existing product destroys its architecture, even when every individual change looks defensible.

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  And we ended up with a lot of PRs that individually perhaps could have been justified for a hot moment, taken all together, destroyed the architecture of the system. And we actually had to clean up manually, mop it up by hand, by human hand, to get back to an architecture that felt cohesive and coherent.

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Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.

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  As of 2026, local mixing has not yet sufficiently eliminated correlations between original circuit values and their obfuscated counterparts.

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  But, so far, mixing has not proved to be good enough. There ended up being too many correlations between values in \(C\) and values in the obfuscation that remained.

  Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixingvitalik.eth.limo

Founder and CEO of Valar Atomics, a nuclear-reactor company founded in 2023.

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  Small modular reactors are the right idea, but you only reach them by iterating on real hardware -- which is what everyone else missed.

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  what was missing is that people did not realize that you're going to have to pursue that model through hardware iteration. And that's where really where Valor is unique is that yes, we believe in SMRs, we believe in reactors that are manufactured, but we also know that in order to get there, you have to do it through hardware iteration.

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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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  A thought that was never captured was never uploaded, so AI has never seen it, and that is where humans remain unique.

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  that thought is not captured therefore it's not on the internet therefore AI has not seen it so that is where humans still remain so unique

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Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.

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  The best companies come out of scenes: a moment and a community that nucleate the founding team, and once that moment passes it is hard to get back.

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  I think the best companies in my experience come from what might be characterized as scenes. There's like a moment that enables a new company to be born and there's a bunch that comes together that really creates this like unique nucleation for the new company.

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Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.

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  Needing fewer people per unit of output does not mean a company ends up employing fewer people.

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  if you are using these systems right you can just grow more quickly you can build more things you can take on more stuff so you know I would be surprised actually if we ended up with like net fewer

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Software is the only field of human labour with practitioner conferences and freely shared knowledge; every other field has only academic conferences and trade shows.

  open source

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  Software is kind of unique in having the third kind of the practitioner conference where we are just meeting to get better at what we do. We also are really the only kind to really focus heavily on like open source in making our knowledge freely available.

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Founder of Scale AI and, since 2025, Chief AI Officer at Meta, where he leads the company’s superintelligence lab.

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  AI has ended the David-versus-Goliath era of startups: a startup that properly embraces agents can now easily outcompete incumbents.

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  And now I actually think with the power of agents um and AI broadly speaking, it's much closer to Goliath versus Goliath. Like I think but maybe the startup is like a Mecca Goliath that is like vastly enhanced by the power of agents and AI and you know, the the large companies are the sort of like more traditional Goliath, so to speak. But I think that startups now like if you properly embrace AI agents and um figure out the way to leverage their strengths in the most like ambitious ways, you can easily outcompete incumbents.

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  What makes a great company is a unique perspective about the world that its founders deeply believe in — not the technology and not even the market.

  startups

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  one of the things I've always believed believed in is what makes great companies is a unique perspective about the world that you deeply believe in. It's not so much the technology, it's not so much uh the market even.

  Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIAyoutube.com

Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

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  Remembering Indonesia from My Grandpa

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  What stands out about Hsieh's version is that her roots occupy such a unique spot in history: her grandparents were Chinese born in Indonesia, which means they got caught between the rock of the Cultural Revolution and the hard place of anti-communist backlash.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Framework Laptop

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  I did try Dell's laptops a few years back, didn't like what I saw, and ended up spending a few years using Framework computers instead (they're still great too).

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Head of Instagram since 2018, previously head of Facebook's News Feed.

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  Directing an AI will turn out to be like leading a team: too prescriptive stifles good ideas, too open-ended wastes time going the wrong way.

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  I believe that if you are too prescriptive as a leader with a team you end up stifling good ideas but if you're too open-ended sometimes teams just waste time um going in the wrong direction.

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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  Natural-language LLM mathematical reasoners are fundamentally limited by lacking machine-checkable semantics, which blocks autonomous verification needed for open-ended research.

  LLMs

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  However, these LLM reasoners that generate informal reasoning in natural language are fundamentally limited by the lack of precise, machine-checkable semantics, making their outputs prone to hallucinations [Huang et al., 2025b] and precluding autonomous verification, a prerequisite for tackling open-ended mathematical research.

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Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

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  Programs exist to communicate intent to other people and now to models as well, and we do not understand at all how to communicate effectively to models.

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  part of the goal of programs is to communicate intent to other human beings and now to models as well which which is a much more open-ended problem. We understand a lot more about how to communicate to other human beings whether we apply that understanding or not. We don't understand at all how to communicate effectively to models

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Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.

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  Mathematics alone can be left running: point a prover at a formal library, walk away for ten years, and there will be something there when you come back.

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  That's a very unique thing that math has that nothing else has where you could press go and then just like just just poor compute at it and like look away for 10 years and then come back and say like what do you have and there's there's going to be something, right?

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Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.

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  As models keep growing, AI is running out of enough high-quality unique training tokens to keep up.

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  As the model size grows significantly, we are running out of enough high-quality unique tokens.

  Scaling Laws, Carefullylilianweng.github.io

Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.

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  The papacy made Italy uniquely unstable in Europe, because each new pope inherited a precedent that he could overthrow any government he liked.

  Europegovernment

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  And soon we have a precedent that every new pope feels he has the authority to knock down every pawn upon the chessboard if he feels like it. Once that is the norm, even a fairly nice pope still inherits the idea that the pope is going to overthrow and replace governments. And this creates a unique instability within Italy that no other part of Europe is subject to

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Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.

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  Even the most advanced AI cannot be followed blindly in investing, where value added is zero-sum and what is widely known is therefore worth little.

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  I know through my experiences that even the most advanced artificial intelligences don’t have adequate enough insights to allow one to blindly follow them and that unique human understanding and insights are still invaluable, and that that is especially true in investing where value-added is a zero-sum game (so that, when it comes to adding value, what is widely known is of little value.)

  Principled Thinking and AI Need to Go Togetherraydalio.substack.com

Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.

From one piece Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The Linux kernel is unique in having thousands of contributors paid to work on it; Rust does well by any other standard and is still nowhere near that.

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  I would say here that the Linux kernel is truly unique in this particular aspect in that they have thousands of contributors doing it on work time. I actually think that the Rust project is doing pretty well at having people do it and get paid for it like by their employer, but it's nowhere near the to the same extent as as the Linux kernel.

  Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com

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  What is unique about Rust is not any one feature but the combination: high-level reliability with no garbage collector, so it runs in kernels and firmware.

  Linux

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  I think where Rust is really unique is in the combination of things. So on one hand, it it doesn't have a garbage collector and it it's usable in low-level context like the Linux kernel or firmware or whatever.

  Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com

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.

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  Tailwind is a good way to build a site you're happy with, even without strong CSS skills of your own.

  CSS

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  I ended up making this site with Tailwind CSS, and it helped me make a site I felt pretty happy with my minimal CSS skills and just 2 evenings of work!

  Their words now

  I’m a lot better at CSS than I was when I started using Tailwind Ultimately Tailwind is limiting: if you want to do Weird Stuff in your CSS, it’s not always possible with Tailwind. Those limits can be extremely useful (a lot of this post is about me reimplementing some of Tailwind’s limits!) but at this point I’d like to be able to pick and choose.

Geneticist at Harvard; reads ancient DNA to work out how populations moved and mixed, and wrote Who We Are and How We Got Here.

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  The right way to think about Neanderthals may be as culturally modern humans who ended up mostly archaic genetically.

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  So, uh I'm interested in the possibility that actually the right way to think about Neanderthals is actually as somehow culturally modern humans. Uh and uh even though that genetically they're mostly Denisovans.

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  Anthropic is a unique instance and not a trend: without it there would be essentially no TPU or Trainium growth at all.

  Anthropic

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  anthropic is is an is a unique instance um and not a trend. Uh without an anthropic, why would there be any TPU growth at all? It's 100% anthropic. Without anthropic, why would there be any tranium growth at all? It's 100% anthropic.

  Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist?youtube.com

Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  The month in which AI one-shot solutions to open Erdős problems kept arriving has ended, and it was not for lack of people trying.

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  Um we are seeing a lot fewer sort of pure AI solutions now where um they are just one shots the problem. Um so so there was there was a month where that happened and and that has stopped.

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Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

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  Programming is essentially the craft of turning ambiguous ideas into precise, specific instructions.

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  It's not trivial to one shot something unique, because programming is the art of making the ambiguous incredibly specific through sculpting.

  The danger of glamourizing one shotsfeeds.hanselman.com

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.

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  The internet is unusual among universal technologies in having made about as much worse as it made better.

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  The internet is unique in the history of technology because there’s a list of things it improved (communication, access to information) but another list of things it likely made worse for almost everybody

  A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure Aboutcollabfund.com

Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.

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  Cloudflare

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  Cloudflare: I'm also a fan of Netlify and Vercel. I moved some projects to Cloudflare to have more control over the infrastructure.

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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

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  Specimen Days

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  Tying them all together is Whitman's love for the American landscape and people, and his unique voice, so fresh he still seems like a contemporary.

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Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  The recent fall in test scores is a rich-world phenomenon, and steeper in several European countries than in America, so it cannot be blamed on American policy.

  EuropeAmerica

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  Learning loss is a global phenomenon, exacerbated by a catastrophic event, not a structural flaw unique to the American education system.

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Reinforcement-learning researcher; co-wrote the field's standard textbook, wrote The Bitter Lesson, and shared the 2024 Turing Award.

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  Starting from human knowledge is never forbidden, but in practice it has always ended badly because people get locked into it.

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  But in fact and in practice it has always turned out to be bad because people get locked into the human knowledge approach and they psychologically or you know now I'm now I'm speculating why it is but this is what has always happened.

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

From one piece ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  At the end of life you meet the person you could have become, and the work of a life is minimising the distance to them.

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  I I I just feel at the end of life you meet the people the person you could have become. Um, and uh I So so you I think the work in life is try to minimize the difference between um that person and and who you actually ended up being.

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  Everything you dislike doing is somebody else's dream job, so a founder should delegate the work they hate rather than the work they enjoy.

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  And I I just ended up like realizing everything I don't like is someone else's dream job. And that's like incredibly liberating.

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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

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  Ensorcelled

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  Ensorcelled by Eliot Peper is genius. It’s a unique format that can be read in one setting. The writing is beautiful.

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Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers. Publishes essays and an annual presentation on where the industry is going.

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  What destroyed Kodak was not missing digital photography but that digital cameras were an undifferentiated low-margin commodity.

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  film was this high margin product where they had a bunch of unique intellectual property and digital cameras are a low margin um commodity where they were competing with the entire consumer electronics industry with no differentiation.

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Economist specialising in China's economy, international macroeconomics and global trade, and author of The New China Playbook.

From one piece Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Chinese industrial policy worked, and the evidence is that the cities which pushed hardest on a sector ended up best at both production and patents.

  China

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  Industrial policy was heavily criticized and again, if I talk to my Harvard professors, they’ll be very, very, very skeptical about the role of the state, especially in such a major way. But if you look at the Chinese experience, the evidence for success is all there. The cities that have pushed the most on supporting that particular sector ultimately did the best in terms of production, but also in terms of innovation, measured by patents. It’s all in the data.

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  America will keep leading on zero-to-one breakthroughs, but it is diffusion that decides how much productivity a technology actually releases, and China is better at that.

  ChinaAmerica

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  The US will lead for some time on breakthroughs on disruptive technologies, the zero to one technologies that ultimately change the world. But innovation is a process. It goes from invention to production and commercialization and diffusion, diffusing technology throughout all parts of the economy. And on those two stages, I think that China has a unique advantage, even if it still can’t do the zero to one breakthroughs, because in the end, how much this technology is adopted by the countries and by the various parts of the economy is fundamentally crucial to how much productivity will be unleashed.

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Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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  The productivity AI creates should be shared out as a universal basic provision, with rare skills still buying you more than that.

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  Including things like universal basic provision or something like that where a lot of the increased productivity gets shared out and distributed to society and maybe in the form of services and other things where if you want more than that, you still go and get some incredibly rare skills and things like that and make yourself unique. But there's a basic provision that is provided.

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Chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, which he has led since 2005 after turning around Bank One.

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  Silicon Valley Bank failed because its deposits were concentrated, not because they were uninsured -- the usual account of it is a misstatement.

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  But they they both had something something unique that we didn't know at the time. I'm going to call them concentrated deposits. Not uninsured cuz people are misstating that, concentrated.

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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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  Writing behind a unique paywall puts a post outside the broader conversation

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  If something is behind a unique paywall, then almost all of my readers can’t read it, and the post is effectively outside of the broader conversation.

  Substack and Other Blog Recommendationsthezvi.substack.com

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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  Silver Bulletin

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  He offers a unique form of grounding on political, sports and other issues, and a way of bridging my kinds of ideas into mainstream discourse. I almost never regret reading.

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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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  A product leader's position at the intersection of every function in the C-suite comes at the cost of belonging to any one group.

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  Product's unique identity in the C-suite-at the intersection of everything-often comes at the expense of belonging to anything.

  Product Leadership is Lonelybringthedonuts.com

Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.

From one piece Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Speed was an available brand position because almost no software has ever been sold on the value proposition of being fast.

  Their words

  I then asked myself, is the position of speed unique? and is it available? And the answer was overwhelmingly yes because almost no software was being sold or has ever been sold on the value proposition of speed.

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  The best-known brands each stand for one clear thing, so a startup has to occupy a position that is unique, still available, and a reinforcement of its product strategy.

  startups

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  And it struck me how the most well-known brands have stood for one clear thing. Like they have a clear position. And so in order for superhuman to be memorable, I believed that we needed to occupy a clear position that was unique and which was available and which reinforced our product strategy.

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Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.

From one piece ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  An addiction is not ended by finding something better to put in its place; you do not stop a problem by replacing it.

  Addiction

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  You don't stop a problem by replacing it. And so I didn't have a girlfriend, I didn't have all that. I just realized that I was truly taking away from something from my future wife.

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  Leaning on AI trades knowledge for speed, and the price may be a generation of programmers in which juniors stay juniors forever.

  Their words

  Sometimes you have to move fast at the sacrifice of knowledge, and I'm totally on board for that, but I worry that what we'll create is an entire generation of incompetent programmers who can do some amount of things well, but anything that is unique, bespoke, or requires some extra like little elbow grease, might become very difficult. It might cause a whole chasm where juniors remain juniors forever.

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Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

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  A unique lens on work in the late 90s that still resonated when I read it in 2018. It's a soulful exploration of how to maintain your humanity, creativity and inner fire in environments that often prioritize conformity and efficiency.

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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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  Falling birth rates ended cousin marriage in the Arab world by leaving too few cousins, pushing marriage onto individual choice.

  Their words

  But over the past 50 years, there has been a massive decline in fertility. This entails fewer cousins of a suitable age.

  Why are Marriage & Fertility Plummeting in MENA?ggd.world

Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.

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  Your growth problem is not unique, and treating it as unique is a pure opportunity cost.

  Their words

  but I'm very sorry to break it to all of you, but your problem is not unique. I'm 99% sure of that. Your problem has been felt by somebody somewhere and probably many, many places

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Software engineer and essayist who writes about programming, formal methods, philosophy and literature at thoughts.wyounas.com.

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  Born Standing Up

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  It's a nice, short, and moving memoir by the comedian and actor Steve Martin. The book details his early working days at shops and clubs, his relationships, and eventually his rise to fame. He shared his struggles, his failures, long hours of practice, his reflections to refine his craft, and his efforts to find his own unique voice as a comedian. Any memoir that only talks about successes and never discusses struggles, rejections, or weaknesses is suspect. This one is not. What I like about his writing is that it feels candid and, at times, funny.

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  Hire for a person’s unique strengths rather than for their lack of weaknesses, because a team exists to cover what any one person is not.

  Their words

  you want to hire people for their unique strengths, not their lack of weaknesses. If they’re strong where you need them to be strong, it’s okay if they aren’t equally superpowered at everything — that’s why we build teams, to supplement and balance each other out.

  “Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmakingcharity.wtf

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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  The Little Schemer

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  One of the most unique and effective pedagogic books ever written.

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American science-fiction writer, author of the collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation, and an essayist on artificial intelligence for The New Yorker.

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  A work does not have to be unlike everything before it to be worth making; what makes it new is that this particular person made it.

  Their words

  What you create doesn’t have to be utterly unlike every prior piece of art in human history to be valuable; the fact that you’re the one who is saying it, the fact that it derives from your unique life experience and arrives at a particular moment in the life of whoever is seeing your work, is what makes it new.

  Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Artnewyorker.com

Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.

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  SvelteKit

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  This website is built with SvelteKit, hosted on Netlify and the code is hosted on GitHub. Amazon's S3 and CloudFront are used to host some assets.

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Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life.

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  Life is the process by which information structures matter over time and space, and any individual organism is only one instance of a lineage.

  Their words

  And so for me, I think life is the process of how information structures matter over time and space, and an example of life is what emerges on a planet and yields an open-ended cascade of generation of structure and increasing complexity. And this is the thing that life is. And any individual is just a particular instance of these lineages that are structured across time.

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German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.

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  Netlify menubar

  Their words

  To keep track of ongoing builds, I use my self-written tool, Netlify menubar. Netlify menubar lets you access build status right in your menubar.

  stefanjudis.com

Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.

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  Lume Cube Edge

  Their words

  I ended up sticking with this as part of my more sophisticated light setup

  lennysnewsletter.com

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  BILIONE Portable Foldable Tripod

  Their words

  ended up using the BILIONE Portable Foldable Tripod

  lennysnewsletter.com

Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.

From one piece Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War | Lex Fridman Podcast #415 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Ukraine's vote for independence is what ended the Soviet Union, and Ukraine is exactly as decisive today for anyone wanting to restore Russian control over the post-Soviet space.

  Russia

  Their words

  And the combination of all this factors led to the processes in which Ukraine’s decision to go independent spelled the end to the Soviet Union. And if today anybody wants to restore, not the Soviet Union, but some form of Russian control over the post-Soviet space, Ukraine is as important today as it was back in December of 1991.

  youtube.com

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  Russians and Ukrainians behave differently even when they speak the same language: police violence ended the protests at Bolotnaya and began them on the Maidan.

  Russia

  Their words

  You have Bolotnaya in Moscow and police violence, and that’s the end of it. You have the Maidan in Ukraine and you have police violence, and that’s the beginning, that’s not the end.

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  Ukraine, at war, is the country with no right or far right in its parliament, which cannot be said of Germany or France.

  Their words

  So, Ukraine is the country where there is no right or far right in the Parliament. We can’t say that about Germany, we can’t say that about France, so that’s just one more way to stress this unique place of Ukraine in that sense.

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Semiconductor analyst; writes Fabricated Knowledge on the chip industry and the companies in it.

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  High-bandwidth memory costs roughly twice the capital per bit that ordinary DRAM does, because its dies are twice the size.

  Their words

  HBM has the unique dynamic of costing a lot more than traditional DRAM, and the dynamic 2x higher capex is driven by the twice as large die size for HBM.

  Why HBM is the Hottest Thing in Memoryfabricatedknowledge.com

Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.

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  James

  Their words

  Briefly, James is Huckleberry Finn retold from the perspective of Jim. It has all the energy and humor of Twain's work—in Everett's own unique voice of course—and adds a whole new level of depth to the story.

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Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.

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  When pre-training data is limited, it is better to train a smaller model for multiple epochs than to train a larger model on unique data once.

  Their words

  In sum, whenever we don't have infinite amounts of pre-training data, we should train smaller models for more (up to 4) epochs.

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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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  Doing the science first does not win the industry: America laid the scientific groundwork for solar and Chinese firms ended up making the cells.

  solarChinaAmerica

  Their words

  Consider the solar industry, for which the US laid the scientific groundwork, only for Chinese firms to make all the photovoltaic cells.

  2022 letterdanwang.co

Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  Pandemic relief checks function mainly as retroactive social insurance rather than stimulus, because people receiving them during a pandemic save or pay down debt instead of spending.

  Their words, before

  If you get a check during a pandemic, you’re not going to go out and spend it at restaurants and bars, because…well, there’s a pandemic. Instead, you’re more likely to stick it in the bank, pay down debt, or pay the back rent that you owe.

  Their words now

  I had some theory and some evidence on my side for this prediction, and yet I ended up being very wrong about what would happen to consumption.

Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.

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  Reading further back in history shows that what feels new and unique to the present era is usually a very old pattern.

  Their words

  What what I find generally is if I don't understand something, I I try to read backwards and and and kind of the further back back I read, the more universal things I find. And the more things that I think are kind of remarkable and unique to our era actually turn out to be quite universal.

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Almost nothing programmers believe is unique to software is actually unique to software.

  Their words

  Almost everything we think is unique about software appears in every other field of engineering.

  We Are Not Specialhillelwayne.com

Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.

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  GoatCounter

  Their words

  Other software I use to build stuff includes Netlify for hosting, GitHub for version control and collaboration, SVGO and TinyPNG for optimization, Kap for screen recording, GoatCounter for analytics, and Chrome and Firefox dev tools.

  usesthis.com

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  Kap

  Their words

  Other software I use to build stuff includes Netlify for hosting, GitHub for version control and collaboration, SVGO and TinyPNG for optimization, Kap for screen recording, GoatCounter for analytics, and Chrome and Firefox dev tools.

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Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  Alchemy

  Their words

  Rory Sutherland was part of one of the most legendary ad agencies in the world (Ogilvy) and shared the truth of what he has seen work best in advertising. The truth is that most of it is totally unexpected and counterintuitive. It was always the craziest, boldest, most unique things that outperformed the "tried and true" methods. This book will help your marketing get out of the incremental rut and on track with bolder ideas.

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Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.

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  Labyrinths

  Their words

  I was most influenced by the essays in the book, and I ended up being attracted to the same sort of writers as Borges, mostly Anglo-American writers of 1820-1920.

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Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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  Cree 100W-equivalent 5000K LED bulbs

  Their words

  Update 2020-11-16: For my home, I ended up switching from the corncob bulb to three 7-way splitters and 21 100W equivalent 5000K Cree bulbs from Home Depot. I found the Cree bulbs on sale so they were about the same price, the light was more diffused and they have a higher color-rendering index.

  benkuhn.net

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.

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  12 Rules for Life

  Their words

  A unique thinker with strong opinions presented as indisputable fact. More surprisingly interesting ideas than almost any book I've ever read. Extremely thoughtful, but occasionally abruptly concludes with an unsupported point. It has a conservative “this is how it is” certainty. It’s a broad collection of thoughtful insights on life, mixed with a lot of Bible interpretation.

  sive.rs