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Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.

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  Humans are amazing in part because their minds are such a complicated mess.

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  Humans are amazing. In part, because our minds are such a damn complicated mess.

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Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.

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  The Trump administration is accelerating the decline and fall of American global hegemony.

  America

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  I honestly do not know if the Trump administration will be able to completely eviscerate American power over the next two year - but damn they sure seem to be accelerating the decline and fall of American hegemony.

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Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.

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  Feeling highly generative during a phase of creative experimentation tends to coincide with producing nothing of finished, production-grade quality.

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  When you're in a phase of experimentation, it's not particularly surprising that you will feel very generative and, at the same time, that nothing will be of production-grade quality, so to speak.

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

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  Cynicism, irony, and cowardice are finished, and the next turning has arrived.

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  We are done with cynicism, irony, and cowardice. The next turning is here.

  @dhh on Xx.com

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  Nous has some of the best visuals and brand talent in the industry.

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  Nous has some of the best damn visuals and brand wizards in the game.

  @dhh on Xx.com

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  Nous

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  Nous has some of the best damn visuals and brand wizards in the game. Absolutely perfect fit for where we're going with Omarchy!

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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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  The methods and techniques a writer uses to compose a work shape the finished work as much as a painter's or musician's technical choices shape theirs.

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  The methods we choose to use to compose the work determine the final work as much as any decision by a painter or musician.

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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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  Talking and writing are not read-outs of a finished thought -- they are the thinking, so a faster brain-to-text channel would not make you think faster.

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  Well, I mean first of all, I think that talking or writing is thinking.

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Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.

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  Legislators generally lose interest in an issue once the political work of passing a law is finished.

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  our lawmakers tend to stop paying attention once the political work is done.

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US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.

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  The EU AI Act is the cautionary case for regulating early: Europe's language models must obey a rule that was finished before large language models existed.

  LLMsEurope

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  have to abide by this rule that was written before LLMs were even a thing. And that shows how challenging sort of the the the situation is if you try to set the line too firm to begin with.

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Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company he started as Facebook in 2004.

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  Disease will never be finished, because the body is a dynamic system: fix one thing and the next appears.

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  I mean, I'm optimistic it'll be sooner. I mean, I think that the thing that's complicated is that it's a dynamic system, right? So, if you fix something, there will obviously be future things that you need to work on.

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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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  mpv

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  Everything but Firefox in the terminal, so command-line tools like mutt for email, ffmpeg and mpv for audio/video, mupdf for ebooks, and ssh everywhere.

  sive.rs

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  Firefox

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  Firefox browser with uBlock Origin and Link Hints

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Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  Human beings are inherently "completion freaks," always needing to know whether something is finished or if there is more to do.

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  One of the many problems with being human is that we're Completion Freaks.

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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.

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  The markets worth entering are the ones everybody treats as mature and finished, because they usually have not started yet.

  Google

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  Well, I love these markets and they're all around us where we think they're mature and over and they haven't even started yet. And that was search before Google. You know, Google was the 56th search engine. It was a mature, slow growth business. Google made us reimagine what search could be in our lives and obviously turned it into a trillion dollar company value.

  youtube.com

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  Mojito Island is a mirage: there is no retirement for ambitious people, and leisure without purpose is misery, not happiness.

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  Mojito Island is a mirage. It always was. There is no retirement for ambitious people. There is no just sitting back on the beach and sipping a mojito for what? For two weeks before you go damn crazy and wanna get back into the action?

  Their words now

  I think that's the other big misconception that some people have about wealth is that they conceive of it as some sort of checkpoint. Like once you've made it, then you can just kick back in leisure as though that was happiness.

Scientist and writer on quantum computing, memory systems and metascience; co-wrote the standard quantum computation textbook and wrote Reinventing Discovery.

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  You learn almost nothing from writing you finished in a couple of days; the pieces that took months are the ones you still remember years later.

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  I've written sometimes 10,000 word essays in you know, a couple of days and I've written them in you know, 3 months or 6 months. Uh I I feel like I did I I didn't learn very much from the ones that that that only took a couple of days.

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Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.

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  As labs sell finished white-collar work rather than reasoning traces, Chinese models will lose the ability to distil their way to parity.

  AI and jobsChinaAmerica

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  As we move from, you know, hey, [clears throat] these companies are selling tokens where they provide the entire uh reasoning chain and all that to uh selling automated, you know, white collar work, right? Automated software engineer, send them the request, they give you the result back and there's a bunch of thinking on the back end that they don't show you. The ability to distill out of American models into Chinese models will be harder.

  youtube.com

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  A migration must be finished once it is started, because a half-migrated codebase confuses models as much as it confuses people.

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  always make sure that when you start a migration, you finish the migration.

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Writer of MacSparky and author of the MacSparky Field Guides on Apple productivity software. A lawyer for 30 years before going full-time on the site, he co-hosts the Mac Power Users and Focused podcasts.

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  Obsidian

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  Obsidian has this massive community plugin ecosystem that lets it do damn near anything.

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Long-time Debian developer and free-software maintainer (remctl, INN, pam-krb5) who has published book reviews on his personal site since the 1990s.

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  Ghostdrift

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  I also finished Suzanne Palmer's excellent Finder Chronicles series, reading The Scavenger Door and Ghostdrift. This series is some of the best science fiction I've read in a long time and I'm sad it is over (at least for now).

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  The Scavenger Door

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  I also finished Suzanne Palmer's excellent Finder Chronicles series, reading The Scavenger Door and Ghostdrift. This series is some of the best science fiction I've read in a long time and I'm sad it is over (at least for now).

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

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  Zen

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  Zen: I'm also a fan of Brave, but Zen is a great browser because it's open-source and firefox-based, but with all the customization and utilization I need.

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American author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and The Undoing Project, and host of the podcast Against the Rules.

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  If you take a deadline deadly seriously and refuse ever to violate it, your mind simply finishes the work when it needs to be finished.

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  somehow if you take your deadlines seriously, that's the key. You take the deadlines deadly seriously and you just refuse to violate them. Um then you're serious when you establish them and you your mind just finishes when it needs to finish.

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Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.

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  Safari

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  I switched to Firefox when Safari 15 was released. John Gruber summarized the issues I had with it perfectly. Since Apple reverted their design changes in recent releases, I'm back at using Safari as my primary

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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

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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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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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  ccusage

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  I used some token counting tools like ccusage and it’s all somewhat imprecise, but even if it’s just 5x it’s a damn good deal.

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Professor at Berkeley working on robot learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence, and argues that robots will learn from data rather than be programmed.

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  The date that matters for robotics is not when the technology is finished but when the data flywheel starts turning.

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  So to me like what what I tend to think about a lot in terms of timelines is not the date when it will be done but the date when it will when like the flywheel starts basically.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  The United States could localise the entire solar supply chain, from dirt to finished module, in two years or less if it started today.

  solarAmerica

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  And I think the United States could probably do that in 2 years or less if you started today. Like it's currently 11:00, so like we're going to start cutting checks by noon.

  youtube.com

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  Parents have an obligation to talk up having children, because the case against is made a thousand times louder than the case for.

  Their words, before

  I think we need to correct that ratio somewhat by some testimony of just how God damn amazing it is to literally create life

  Their words now

  those of us who've chosen to do the traditional thing to get married and to have children have an obligation to kind of talk it up a little bit, which would've seen ridiculous again 50 years ago that you'd have to talk up something so fundamental of that.

Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.

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  Grass-fed organic beef is worse for the climate and the planet than beef finished in a feedlot.

  Their words

  We need better beef - which means more efficient beef, not organic grass-fed beef, which is even worse for the climate and the planet than conventional feedlot-finished beef - but in the rich world we also need to eat less beef.

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  Pillow Book

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  A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

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  Conquest of the Useless

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  A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

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  Pensées

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  A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

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  Carnets

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  A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

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  Brown and Blue Notebooks

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  A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

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Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.

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  Tariffs on imported components and machinery hurt the American manufacturers they are supposed to help.

  America

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  They applied the same tax to the components that you need to make things in America that they did to finished goods that were made outside of America.

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Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.

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  Firefox Developer Edition

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  Firefox Developer Edition for development/sandboxed work

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Game designer; made Spelunky and Aquaria, and wrote the Boss Fight Books volume on Spelunky.

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  The right way to size a project is by the size of the projects you have already finished, not by how skilled you are.

  Their words

  the best metric for scoping a project is not technical skill, but the scope of the previous games you've finished!

  Indie Game Dev: Death Loopsderekyu.com

Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.

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  The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

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  I just finished this book a few weeks ago and it is still reverberating in my mind

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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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  Netlify

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  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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  GoatCounter

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  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

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  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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Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.

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  Firefox Developer

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  Firefox Developer has been my main browser since January 2020.

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Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.

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  Chrome

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  I primarily live in Chrome, but keep flirting with Firefox, and could see heading back full-time in the next few months.

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Programmer and writer; specified JSON, wrote JavaScript: The Good Parts, JSLint and How JavaScript Works.

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  JSLint

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  I improve my JavaScript with JSLint. I test my JavaScript on Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, in that order.

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Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.

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  DuckDuckGo

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  DuckDuckGo is my default search engine. Firefox is my default browser.

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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

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  Tridactyl

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  Firefox is my favorite web browser. This is in large part due to Tridactyl, an add-on that makes the interface Vim-like, which makes the interface far more capable.

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Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.

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  Zoom

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  I hate the app so much (so many damn modals and toolbars everywhere!) but the call quality is better and more reliable than any other tool so I tolerate it.

  adamwathan.me

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  The Courage to Be Disliked

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  Wow. A profound little philosophy book from Japan, communicating the psychology of Alfred Adler - a rival of Freud. Told as a conversation between an angry student and a patient teacher. A little book so good that I rushed home from other activities to keep reading it, and finished in a day. A surprisingly fresh perspective on how to live. (The “disliked” part is not the point, so don’t let the…

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  Sapiens

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  I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches”, on the same subject. But wow - this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that “truths” are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along wi…

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Civil engineer and land use planner, founder and president of Strong Towns, author of Escaping the Housing Trap. Argues that the American pattern of development since the Second World War does not generate enough wealth to maintain the infrastructure it obliges cities to keep.

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  The break in how cities are built is that places used to be improved continuously and are now built once, at scale, to a finished state.

  Their words

  Pre-Depression development was incremental on a continuum of improvement while post-War development is built at a large scale to a finished state.

  The Power of Growing Incrementallystrongtowns.org

Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  The 4-Hour Body

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  Rough Notes. Never finished it to be honest, but the part about dieting supplements the classic Why We Get Fat (the former explains the theory well, while Ferriss’s book gives practical dietary ideas)

  radex.io

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.

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  HTTPS Everywhere

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  Firefox is my browser, with a whole bunch of security plug-ins like AdBlock Plus, BetterPrivacy, and HTTPS Everywhere.

  usesthis.com

Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.

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  What a finished work is remembered for comes down to a few key pieces, and most of the work that went into it barely matters.

  Their words

  the final experience often comes down to just a few key pieces or insights.

  tynansylvester.com

Programmer, musician and author of The Passionate Programmer; organised RubyConf and RailsConf and has worked as a CTO.

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  Yamaha Custom Alto Saxophone

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  For music I play a Yamaha Custom Alto Saxophone from the early 90s. This is about as uncool as you can possibly get when it comes to pro-level saxophones, but the damn things just sounds good.

  usesthis.com

Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.

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  Damn Right!

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  In her excellent book, “Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger,” the author, Janet Lowe, relates the 1967 story:

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Programmer and author of Modern C++ Design and The D Programming Language; a lead contributor to the D language.

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  Concrete5

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  My personal website uses Concrete5, but I'm unhappy with it, it's too damn slow

  usesthis.com

Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.

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  Firebug

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  I keep Firefox around for testing and because Firebug is still the best way to debug a site.

  usesthis.com

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  Stayfocusd

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  I use LeechBlock on Firefox and StayFocusd on Chrome to permanently block all timewasting sites.

  usesthis.com

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  LeechBlock

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  I use LeechBlock on Firefox and StayFocusd on Chrome to permanently block all timewasting sites.

  usesthis.com

Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.

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  Chef

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  Things I use every day are: Evernote, Omnigraffle, vi, git, svn, ssh, Chef, Firefox, and Adium.

  usesthis.com

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  Evernote

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  Things I use every day are: Evernote, Omnigraffle, vi, git, svn, ssh, Chef, Firefox, and Adium.

  usesthis.com

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  iTerm2

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  I've recently become a huge fan of iterm2 instead of the default Terminal. The transparency is lovely, and the visual tab alerts tell me when long jobs have finished running.

  usesthis.com

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  Camino 2

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  Camino 2 is my personal-surfing browser, whereas Firefox plus Firebug and the Web Developer Toolbar is my development environment.

  usesthis.com

Letterer, illustrator and type designer; creator of Daily Drop Cap and of many hand-lettered book covers and typefaces.

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  WordPress

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  I use Wordpress for my blog, Tumblr for my Daily Drop Cap site (though I will be switching to another format once the project is finished for better archiving).

  usesthis.com

Interactive narrative designer and critic; author of interactive fiction including Galatea and Counterfeit Monkey, and a long-time contributor to the Inform development system.

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  Scrivener

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  For assembling research for academic purposes, I like Scrivener. It keeps together a lot of odds and ends of information and makes it easier to go from a pile of quotes and references to a finished document.

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British programmer and video maker whose YouTube channel ran weekly educational videos on technology, language and geography from 2014 to 2023.

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  Canon HV20

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  My main workhorse video camera is a Canon HV20 - picked up cheap as an ex-demo model. Even years after its release, I have yet to find a better mid-range video camera anywhere; yes, it records to MiniDV tape rather than a hard drive, but that means that the footage is a damn sight easier to edit.

  usesthis.com

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  Gmail

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  Firefox with about twenty extensions for browsing, Gmail for email - which I don't like, but I can't find a better alternative to suit my needs.

  usesthis.com

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  A project has not started until something exists that can be played; plans, documents, teams and art are not a start.

  Their words

  Just remember: a damn game can be played, and if you have not created something that can be played, it’s not a damn game!

  Finishing a Gamemakegames.tumblr.com

Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY; co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.

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  TextMate

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  Mostly: Basecamp, Highrise, Campfire, Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List, TextMate, Dropbox, Git, Safari/Firefox/Chrome, Propane, Terminal, Instapaper, Photoshop, Mail, Divvy, MobileMe, Transmit, Logbook (desktop client for the Backpack journal), Airfoil, iTunes, Keynote, 1Password, Pulsar (desktop client for Sirius radio).

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  Basecamp

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  Mostly: Basecamp, Highrise, Campfire, Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List, TextMate, Dropbox, Git, Safari/Firefox/Chrome, Propane, Terminal, Instapaper, Photoshop, Mail, Divvy, MobileMe, Transmit, Logbook (desktop client for the Backpack journal), Airfoil, iTunes, Keynote, 1Password, Pulsar (desktop client for Sirius radio).

  usesthis.com

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  Divvy

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  Mostly: Basecamp, Highrise, Campfire, Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List, TextMate, Dropbox, Git, Safari/Firefox/Chrome, Propane, Terminal, Instapaper, Photoshop, Mail, Divvy, MobileMe, Transmit, Logbook (desktop client for the Backpack journal), Airfoil, iTunes, Keynote, 1Password, Pulsar (desktop client for Sirius radio).

  usesthis.com

FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.

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  Konqueror

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  I use Konqueror as a web browser whenever possible, but have Firefox 3.6 installed for websites where Konqueror doesn't work.

  usesthis.com