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20 September
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
19 September
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.
Today’s America: 3 million business owners worth an average of $25 million each, notables in their towns but not individually visible to the nation. And more than half the rise in the top 1% share since 1985 flowed through the pass-through businesses that was a “tax efficiency innovation” feature of the Reagan Revolution. The Reagan Revolution promised faster growth in exchange for lower taxes on the rich. The rich won; the growth never showed up: **Passthrough Tax Loopholes & the Rise... 1/ America Related
16 September
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
agent-browser, now more human --cursor Visible pointers and click feedback --human Smooth, curved mouse movement / drags For demos, bug repros, reviewing agent runs Related
14 September
CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.
Favorite photo and passage: 'Two hundred years of peace will not come for free; you have to do certain things. You wake up, you hit people, you pay them to hit you. Then it’s another subpoena, another lawsuit. The president whose election is your fault is calling. Witness testimony. Congressional hearing. The president whose election isn’t your fault demands you censor the opposition or else there will be new taxes, new investigations. Product review until 3am. Facebook is causing genocide in the Third World. Instagram is responsible for teen suicide. There’s another whistleblower with a book… Quoting @colossusmag Mark, by @colossusjeremy. This is a story about the head of history's largest nonterritorial empire, who nonetheless remains a prisoner of his rivals. Has he finally found a way out? The profile has been nearly a year in the making. Stern interviewed three dozen people, including Zuckerberg, his MM… Related
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
What do you call that thing in old movies where an actor’s shadow is visible on the matte painting? Like they’re standing on top of a “mountain” gazing at the “sky” but their shadow appears on the sky. And somehow the film gets released with that mistake in it? Related
12 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
OpenAI
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Frustratingly, the actual code it ran and exact details of what it did weren’t visible to me in the ChatGPT UI. I see this lack of transparency is an anti-feature.
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11 September
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
I was surprised and rather amused to discover that the BBC now considers me part of history. Listen to the full Witness History episode on BBC 🎧 www.bbc.com/audio/play/w... #PeterSinger #EffectiveAltruism #Philosophy #Ethics #BBCHistory Related
10 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.
9 September
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
One very visible effect of AI this summer has been a large influx of bug fixes. In some sense, it is the opposite of AI slop. I manage widely deployed libraries and, in some cases, the number of pull requests has been doubled. In the simdjson library, I merged 92 pull requests in 2024, I am at 134 thus far. In many instances, AI found long standing well hidden bugs. It makes me happy because I dislike bugs. But this puts stress on people packaging and distributing these libraries. Sadly, I have also never received so many pull requests that I have not merged. For simdjson, I received 219 pull… Related
British historian, translator and broadcaster; author of Rubicon and Dominion, and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast.
Today on @TheRestHistory, what Cicero - our best witness to the final decades of the Roman Republic - has to tell us about Marius and Sulla Related
3 September
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.
2 September
Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.
Unusual Suspects — Neal.fun's latest is a sketch artist game where you draw famous characters from witness testimony Related
Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
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Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.
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1 September
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
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28 August
American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.
26 August
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
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Then there's another possibility which is that it actually already has worked but just the productivity boost isn't as big as would be obvious if people got 10% more productive. That would still be pretty impressive because it's hard to get a 10% across the board uplift.
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25 August
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.
America
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It’s not that any one of these things represents a mania, but collectively they do. And I know what can happen after that mania.
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Since then U.S. stocks are up 16% (total return) and my bearish prediction turned out to be misguided.
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21 August
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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Because one can measure these things, one can monitor this debt dynamic happening, so it’s easy to see problems approaching. I’ve used this diagnostic process in my investing and I’ve kept it to myself, but I’m now explaining it in detail in How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle because it is too important to keep to myself.
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20 August
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Bluesky I've updated all the Visible Zorker pages to include a search field. You can search for objects, routines, variables, and game text. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/08/visi... Yes, the word “Zork" is temporarily swamped in gaming news due to some FromSoftware article. Big deal. Related
Mastodon I've updated all the Visible Zorker pages to include a search field. You can search for objects, routines, variables, and game text. https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/08/visible-zorker-search Yes, the word “Zork" is temporarily swamped in gaming news due to some FromSoftware article. Big deal. #Zork #InteractiveFiction Related
17 August
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
Had a mini heart attack: contents of my iCloud drive disappeared... Somehow, still visible on https://t.co/56g50Dzvl1, on another computer, and on my phone - wtf is going on idk, but just in case, did a local backup and copying it over to my NAS. I've been putting it off to automate this for too long, will have to look into automating all that (already do it for photos btw) Related
15 August
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
Completed tasks are visible for an hour after completion, so you get the satisfaction of having done a thing for a little while. (You can also just delete them if you want them gone.) Related
13 August
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?
this framing seems wrong to me. even one employee who leans into "be richer" makes the gains from ai visible (to peers and managers) and market dynamics mean others will copy and the standard rises Quoting @arampell The Principal-Agent vs. Agents Problem Every human in the workforce has two crude goals: 1. Be richer. 2. Be lazier. Get paid 2x more, or keep salary flat? Get paid more! Go home at 11:01 PM, or stay up until 5 AM? Go home at 11:01 PM! This isn’t a moral judgment. It’s just…economics. Which brings… Related
12 August
General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
The word “watermark” comes from photos and is visible by all. This is only identifiable by Anthropic. Once again they are judge, jury, and prosecutor. Lots of reasons to not use their products. Quoting @stevesi They chose to make this mark invisible and manipulative while the EU regulation here required neither. The EC is on vacation and does not provide guidance on how to comply with their regulations anyway. Anthropic Related
8 August
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Experimental feature for Visible Zorker: search bar in the source pane. eblong.com
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7 August
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. Summer stretches on here and I've got a weekend full of outdoor activities, many of them requiring outfits. I'm spending this afternoon in a frenzy of visible mending and I'd love to not also feel compelled to reply to your last-minute email. We'll all sweatily muddle forward. Image credit: Provincial Archives of Alberta, on Flickr Commons flickr.com
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5 August
Designer and engineer; formerly principal research engineer at GitHub Next; writes at wattenberger.com.
still really loving this tweetdeck view I'm usually actively juggling ~3 tasks. Having them all visible with the relevant agents/outputs a keypress away feels real nice Related
13 July
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.
The internet doesn't bring out the worst in people. It makes the worst people more visible. Across all 30 countries studied, those who are nasty in online political discussions are nasty in real life, too. They seek status through hostility. Don't feed the hand that bites you. Related
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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And as a result of identifying that person in a lineup, that person then replaces what they actually saw. So our memory can be contaminated just like any form of evidence could be contaminated.
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1 July
Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
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So, we're going to see people get into those where they're like, "Well, I vibe code the tip of the iceberg. I throw away the rest of the iceberg and now I'm in trouble because now I don't know what to do. Now I get to these downstream problems that I didn't even know existed." So, we're going to see on the on the side of the the the vibe coding replacers, we're going to see that kind of a naivity play out.
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19 June
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.
16 June
Editor at Works in Progress writing on architecture, urbanism and housing policy, and a fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies and Create Streets. Has worked in think tanks, academia and government in Britain.
Europe
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I suspect the same is often true in the rest of Europe: NIMBYism is the ultimate reason why the French and German states don’t solve their housing shortages through unbanning densification, but since the claims of the NIMBYs have been preemptively conceded by everyone, NIMBYism has basically remained latent.
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8 June
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
20 March
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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And I think if you're outside of that frontier lab, your your judgment fundamentally will start to drift because you're not part of the you know, what's coming down the line. And so I feel like my judgment will inevitably start to drift as well.
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11 March
Programmer and essayist who has worked at Amazon, Google, Grab and Sourcegraph. Best known for the long-form essays collected as Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants.
16 February
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.
Thank you for the warm welcome, @ncbn. It’s exciting to witness Andhra Pradesh’s growth being accelerated through AI, technology, and innovations across health, agriculture & education. Quoting @ncbn Technology must serve humanity. Our Real Time Governance System (RTGS) is transforming lives across Andhra Pradesh - delivering speed in governance & ease of doing business in real time. Grateful for my 1990s meeting with Mr. Bill Gates, which inspired this tech-driven citizen empowerment. Delighte… Related
23 January
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.
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1 January
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19 December 2025
Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.
Building a Transparent Keyserver We apply a transparency log to a centralized keyserver step-by-step, in less than 500 lines, with privacy protections, anti-poisoning, and witness cosigning.
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25 August 2025
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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3840x1620 makes 4 Claude instances + Chrome all visible without moving windows.
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19 June 2025
Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.
28 May 2025
Engineering leader and writer; wrote The Manager's Path and Platform Engineering, and blogs at Elided Branches.
20 February 2025
Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.
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