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20 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.
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
18 September
Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.
There’s lots of hand-wringing about people being principled in not supporting candidates who will not stand by basic human rights for trans people, a point they wouldn’t concede just a few years ago. I have a simple solution: support killing dogs instead. Some people don’t like dogs. Be pragmatic. Related
17 September
Economist at George Mason University. Writes Overcoming Bias on prediction markets, signalling and the far future, and wrote The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.
"Enterprising bettors could theoretically pick a longshot candidate & boost them … [by] amplifying their media coverage." So the risk to democracy is that some might try to promote underdog candidates? Horrors! magzter.com
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Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
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.
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11 September
Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
AI consumption is not a smooth curve anyone can extrapolate : it arrives in three waves, each an order of magnitude larger than the last. The second one has already broken. The third is on the horizon. Related
8 September
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.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tristanbuckmaster/117233413705701198 A remarkable achievement: Alpöge and Buckmaster have managed to push one of the major promising approaches towards constructing blowup solutions to fluid equations --- as developed by Cordoba and Martınez-Zoroa --- to establish finite time blowup for many key fluid equations, including 3D incompressible Euler, with a smooth forcing term. (Previous work by these authors on similar equations could obtain a smooth forcing term for the IPM equation, and a subcritical but not smooth regularity for other equations.) The arguments hav… Related
6 September
Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.
A couple of people have commented on this series of videos that they thought I was a metahuman? I guess because I do a smooth transition from thumbnail to video and that I have a high-quality camera. I can't figure out if this is bad or good though. Quoting @lzsthw Learning OpenGL Day 5 -- Pretty laid back day where I do some transforms, and then slap on a little Box2D code to play with physics: Related
29 August
Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.
Come visit our Burning Man art piece that we installed today. It's a mile-long line of solar powered LED strobes that create a streak of light moving at the speed of the Earth's rotation. You can feel your spin. At 11:00 and far fence. solar Related
28 August
Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.
25 August
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.
Most people have never heard of siRNA, but it’s going to change the face of medicine. https://t.co/RLP1pxuICA Much drug development today involves developing chemicals to fit into proteins and block them. But this almost never turns out as planned: many drug candidates get broken down in the body, interfere with other proteins and cause toxic side effects, or fail to be absorbed at all. The majority of proteins are considered undruggable, because they lack a pocket for drugs to bind, or they are ‘intrinsically disordered’, without coherent structure. What if, instead of trying to block the pr… worksinprogress.co
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22 August
Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.
Here is the actual threat to Western democracy and freedom. AIPAC is battling the DSA and extreme left but portrayed as anti American. Meanwhile Qatar, muslim brotherhood, CAIR are supporting the most America hating candidates. Hiding in plain sight as always. Quoting @paulsperry_ BREAKING: The Shariah-ruling arm of the US Muslim Brotherhood has issued a fatwah unlocking an estimated $140 million a year in tithing (zakat) from American Muslims to finance the campaigns of Muslim leaders for public office including the House & Senate America Related
21 August
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Devbox from @namespacelabs is fantastic. I can easily instruct the agent to compile and test Rust code on Linux without any complications. Plus, the Namespace GitHub Actions runner is incredibly fassssst. Running the gh actions for https://t.co/kEGJe02vUE very smooth and fast. Linux Related
16 August
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
I asked my mom for my grandma's cast iron if she wasn't going to use it. 100+ years old, smooth inside, but unfortunately it's a little warped and doesn't work great on our electric stove. But this is me about to unwrap it, and I'm glad I have it now :). Related
9 August
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
1 August
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Built a Playbit app that implements Stable Audio 3 completely from scratch in C and WebGPU compute shader. Fun little toy; a spin-off from my Dream Together tooling! Related
30 July
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
The funniest model limit I run into with Shelley is we let the model choose subagent models. All models today seem to be bad at this without guidance. E.g. gpt-5.6-sol xhigh will spin up sonnet to make a key architectural decision. Fable will defer to luna. OpenAI Related
19 July
Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group.
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And even for things like coding interviews, allowing candidates, of course, to use AI tools because that's going to be part of what the work requires now.
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14 July
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
🎙️ State of Agentic Coding #8 with guest Mario Zechner is out. In this episode: - Vibe-checking Fable & GLM 5.2 - @mitsuhiko.at teaches us RL - How harnesses smooth out model jank - Loops, surviving AI fomo, and more YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lfp... Spotify: open.spotify.com
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13 July
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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How can you make learning kind of uncomfortable, but that you'll remember things better? And it goes against a lot of our intuitions. A lot of teachers will want to say, how can we make learning easier? And I think that's probably the first problem is you don't want it to be easy.
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24 June
Makes NeetCode, the structured practice list and video walkthroughs people use to prepare for coding interviews; a former Google engineer.
15 June
Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business — "building models of the world to understand these problem areas and to define them better".
3 June
Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.
6 April
Director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology; an OpenAI board member until November 2023, and writes Rising Tide.
23 March
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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And so the next scaling law is the agentic scaling law. It's kind of like multiplying AI. Multiplying AI, we could spin off agents as fast as you want to spin off agents. And so, you know, I… You know, I have four scaling laws.
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22 March
Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.
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I'm going to sound old when I say this, but like I one time had a company tell me, "Oh, well, they have to use that CI/CD system." I'm like 20 bucks, they're just spinning up Jenkins. And they were, right?
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15 March
Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.
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Perfect TV box, smooth and lag-free, plus Apple ecosystem
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28 February
Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
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Even if AI can help design more effective drugs, timelines will not compress until we solve the operational and regulatory bottlenecks of trials.
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5 February
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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Agents are good at using gh (GitHub CLI), so I manually scripted a quick way to spin up a bunch in parallel to triage issues.
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mitchellh.com
21 November 2025
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
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I love this smooth and creamy Mānuka honey, and I use it before bed to help with sleep.
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17 November 2025
American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.
30 September 2025
Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.
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This is a short (~150 pp), brisk first book on the topic for physicists. Most of the book --- the first ten chapters --- are good introduction to common models of spin glasses.
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11 September 2025
Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.
The 30-Minute Daily Routine: My Study Strategies The most effective study strategies aren't always the ones that look perfect on paper. Most people imagine polyglots engaging in flawless, high-level conversations from day one. They picture a smooth, linear path to flu…
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6 June 2025
Director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology; an OpenAI board member until November 2023, and writes Rising Tide.
5 May 2025
Astrophysicist at Barnard College; wrote Black Hole Blues and How the Universe Got Its Spots, and directs sciences at Pioneer Works.
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So they’re flawless in the sense that you can completely understand a black hole by looking at just its electric charge, its mass and its spin. And every black hole with that charge mass and spin is identical to every other black hole.
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15 April 2025
Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.
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What's Really Wrong With Standardized Tests
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23 March 2025
Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.
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And that's why when you have a missionritical product like email where you are interfacing with customers with candidates with investors it turns out to really matter. Email is mission critical. So it's not something where you can simply launch with a halfbaked product.
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30 December 2024
Software engineer and essayist who writes about programming, formal methods, philosophy and literature at thoughts.wyounas.com.
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This book gave me both insight and a deeper curiosity about the subject. This book introduces the SPIN model checker and exposes the reader to the nuances of verifying programs using SPIN. A nice feature of the book is how it explains concepts using thoughtfully developed, freely available tools (such as jSpin) that the author created for pedagogical purposes. It's a demanding book, but the content was interesting. The book presents details about concurrency, temporal logic, non-determinism, advanced SPIN topics, and even case studies. I've already written a few blog posts about the topics I explored while reading this book, and I plan to write more. Overall, it's a good book. I'm sure I'll revisit the latter half again.
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15 August 2024
Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.
Spin up a highly-available Vector Search engine in seconds with the latest rqlite Docker image! Loading sqlite-vec is now super-easy at Docker launch. Thanks @agarcia_me rqlite.io
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11 June 2024
Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.
22 March 2024
Investigative journalist; wrote Area 51, The Pentagon's Brain and Nuclear War: A Scenario, reconstructing what secret programmes actually did from interviews and declassified records.
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Because why on earth there would be two candidates, one of whom has cognitive problems and the other of whom has judgment problems? These are the two biggest issues with the nuclear launch, judgment and cognition. And so where’s the young-ish, thoughtful, forward looking, wise, dedicated civil servant running for president? I know that sounds fantastical, but I wish it weren’t.
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9 February 2024
Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?
23 January 2024
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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I worry however that one of America’s superpowers is to spin up yarns to reduce the urgency for action.
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23 November 2023
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
Thanksgiving This year we give thanks for a feature of nature that is frequently misunderstood: quanta. (We’ve previously given thanks for the Standard Model Lagrangian, Hubble’s Law, the Spin-Statistics Theorem, conservation of mom…
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1 October 2023
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
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GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter?
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economists
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Of all the contenders for GOAT, Smith seems to be clearly the worst economist, with the possible exception of Malthus.
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Friedman has one big factor in his favor, namely that he is clearly the best economist on the list of contending names.
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24 November 2022
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
Thanksgiving This year we give thanks for Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem. (We’ve previously given thanks for the Standard Model Lagrangian, Hubble’s Law, the Spin-Statistics Theorem, conservation of momentum, effective field theory,…
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13 October 2022
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Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.
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The prose is so smooth that like Gene Wolfe’s, it becomes invisible, and you pass through it to the slow silent sorrow of the protagonist.
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6 September 2022
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
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The Vanmoof is much smarter — the brain and software within it are refined, the app good, the acceleration curves smooth — but the bike is all custom components, and they aren't the highest quality at that.
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6 August 2022
Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.
How do we know anything? Consider the following mathematical idea: A function $f(x)$ is smooth and continuous (i.e., it is differentiable everywhere) At some point $x_1$ the slope of $f$ is negative, $f’(x_1) < 0$ At some other point $x_2 > x_1…
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22 May 2022
Release engineering manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. Keeps a public log at tylercipriani.com of every book he reads, with a rating and notes.
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I read this book because I read Will Larson's blog and newsletter and they're frequent sources of management insight. This book reads like a collection of blog posts with smooth transitions.
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25 November 2021
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
Thanksgiving This year we give thanks for something we’ve all heard of, but maybe don’t appreciate as much as we should: electromagnetism. (We’ve previously given thanks for the Standard Model Lagrangian, Hubble’s Law, the Spin-Stat…
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