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18 September
Writer of the 25iq blog, where he distils "a dozen things I've learned" from investors, founders and thinkers. Author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs.
What looks like COGS (e.g. the cost of goods sold for free services for consumers) is often really customer acquisition cost (CAC) for paid in disguise. A conversion rate from free to paid of ~3% for a consumer service is not great, but is instead on the lower end of normal. Quoting @a16z Almost nobody pays for AI out of pocket yet Only ~3% of US consumers do, up from under 1% in 2023 The youngest buyers are adopting at 4x the rate of the oldest Charts of the Week: Related
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.
damn idiots at openai didn’t bother to secure the cosmological constant, don’t they know the first thing about NORMAL COMPUTER SECURITY?? Quoting @tszzl in about a month we’ll all transition to being like oh yeah it’s obvious that models can communicate by manipulating the cosmological constant, it’s just a matter of doing proper network security OpenAI Related
17 September
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Kat does not want to look at code after 5. She says that is normal, and it is not a character flaw. Kat Excellence writes at https://t.co/RoNpJ113Fq Full episode: Related
16 September
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
Here's one of the many little ways that AI is changing expectations about UI. I'm building this thing I want for teams I manage to more clearly define review points. (A bit like Shopify's phase transitions in their GSD system). I have a handful of tasks that should be checked in a review. It used to be normal practice that any list in a UI needs a title. Eg "List" or "Untitled" etc. But this was always a drag, right? Naming a list just to have a group of things is extra work. But without a name it's hard to scan and find and all lists look the same. Now AI can generate titles for anything. Li… Related
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
yes, to all the morons explaining that "oh razib is offended, who cares?" if i'm starting to get annoyed NORMAL WHITE PPL will be horrified. just the facts mam Quoting @Indian_Bronson @razibkhan Not me btw Also, what I think will happen is that regular White people will "lib out" in response and this will be to the huge detriment of Heritage American fates by making their nationalism verboten: Related
Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.
15 September
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
Watched a bit of @poteto + team on the Grok Bot stream today. Surprised by how normal the work is, but faster. So many micro judgements and steps that weren't automated. You could pause at many moments and be like "wait why that?" and it would lead to an interesting discussion. Related
14 September
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
12 September
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
@RecDiffs @siracusa @hotdogsladies That Italian guy pronounced “Samhain" and “Siobhán” really quite well. If you want some cheap entertainment, try a perfectly normal Irish word such as “tábhachtach”, which means "important”. Like your Northern and Southern Italians, the dictionary link provides three pronunciations labeled “C”, “M”, “U”, for Connacht, Munster, and Ulster Irish, the three main provincial accents/dialects. (I'm from Munster so I pronounce it properly.) focloir.ie
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10 September
Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
.@AB_insights Inigo Fraser Jenkins on why 60/40's diversification is broken: “If we're talking about long duration government bonds, I think it's likely they will not perform the diversifying role that they've performed historically.” “This post 2022 experience of a positive correlation of stock and bond returns actually looks more normal.” Listen: https://t.co/mfnaUo1DNT Watch: youtube.com
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9 September
Essayist, journalist and independent researcher on Chinese politics, strategy and cultural history; author of the blog The Scholar's Stage.
AI safety concerns have now crossed a threshold. Quite suddenly, this is something normal politicos across the country not only care about, but feel emboldened to act on. Let me offer three predictions for what this means. AI alignment Related
6 September
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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when it's "one step removed" from normal code it writes weird Python slop. The unittests it writes are absolutely horrific.
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1 September
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Weekly Update 519: Breaches & Data Integrity It does feel like I've bitten off too much and am now chewing like crazy this week. The 3D printing talk with Elle in Oslo, the "normal" NDC infosec talk, the cyber-broken talk with Scott in Copenhagen and then those ra…
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31 August
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.
Chapter 22.1: The Log Dolores has worked the same hospital basement for twenty-two years. This morning a pump refuses a firmware update it would have accepted yesterday. "I want my normal one. I'm used to it." "That one is being difficult." zeroknowledge.ink
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27 August
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
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Occasional downturns in the stock market are perfectly normal. You have to get used to losing money if you want to survive the stock market.
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26 August
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
Bluesky We're experiencing degraded performance with GitHub Actions. Recovery is underway and inbound queues should be back to normal in <30m. We'll continue to provide updates on our status page and will share an RCA as soon as possible! Related
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24 August
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
There are many systems in the world where you have a quality distribution, call it normal for simplicity, and you are incentivized to maximize utilization at all points along it. You should not expect these systems to provide legible, accurate, honest positional rankings. Quoting @levelsio Airbnb deletes negative reviews so everything is always 4.7 Google Maps removes negative reviews in many countries as defamation so everything is always a 4.7 Booking sites want you to book so will also happily remove negative reviews for their hotels so everything is always a 4.7 I made a site cal… Related
23 August
Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.
For an Anglo brain, the behavior of the most normal Eurasian can only be explain by the CEO influence Quoting @johnarnold One day it'll come out that the CIA infiltrated Western consulting firms and convinced Saudi to blow its wealth on LIV Golf, The Line, domestic soccer, Lucid, a ski resort, an artificial lake, World Cup stadiums & a giant cube instead of converting it into geopolitical influence. Related
20 August
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
well, @openclaw was good to apple this team conservatively drove $50-$150m in mac mini sales alone this year haha (roughly +50% of normal annual mac mini sales worldwide, just due to openclaw 2026) Quoting @steipete 512GB RAM Studios. Apple was good to us. 🦞 Related
Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.
19 August
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
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I was thinking about how I recognize AI writing, and one big tell is excessively colorful verbs. A handful of journalists might write that a proposal "drew" 100 votes, but any normal person will just say "got".
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18 August
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
You learn about something every day. Yesterday, I learned about something called a "Non-breaking hyphen". Normal hyphen - The browser can usually break the line at this character. Non-breaking hyphen - A hyphen that prevents a line break at the hyphen. Related
14 August
Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport.
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There are things you don't get like like I'm like so used to adversity at this point that it's kind of normal. So I don't get as pissed off. But being pissed off makes you good as an entrepreneur.
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10 August
Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.
31 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.
It's becoming normal practice to plug your coding agent into tools like Slack and helpdesk software to find customer insights. Turns out it's super inefficient, because you're just fetching and smashing raw strings into your context repeatedly. So we released a new MCP server that solves that. MCP Related
20 July
Physician and neuroscientist at the University of Washington; researches brain health, metabolism and athletic performance.
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I will say that the best evidence we have just says in reality don't be deficient. If you can reach that threshold of not being deficient or insufficient, maybe that's enough.
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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.
15 July
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
12 July
Cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; writes Ground Truths on biomedical research, and wrote Super Agers and Deep Medicine.
24 June
Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.
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When a parent is stressed, low on sleep, or otherwise depleted, they may be even more prone to reacting harshly to normal kid behavior and boundary-pushing.
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11 May
Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.
25 April
Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
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As the software industry is largely driven by trends and fashion, React's "cool factor" led to a mass amnesia regarding how to make normal, well-designed web apps made of HTML with a sprinkling of scripting on top and everything became one big tangled, brittle mass of Javascript that completely keeled over when scripting wasn't available.
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16 April
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
19 January
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.
15 January
Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.
1 January
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
30 December 2025
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
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I use a Logitech c920 webcam for recording video. It captures 1080p video and looks reasonable enough with normal lighting.
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nickjanetakis.com
9 December 2025
Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.
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Uniqlo v-neck cashmere sweater. It is very, very, very important to own at least one of these. I suggest the black one in one size larger than your normal size.
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5 October 2025
Head of growth at Chess.com, previously growth and monetization lead at Grammarly and Duolingo and a product manager at Google.
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I think if you have especially a B2B feature where you may have some lock in reverse trials can be super powerful. You just want to get people in there. You don't need to ask for their credit card because they're using your CRM or they're investing quite a lot of time in like building out, you know, material and content. And so by the time that window drops, you actually like feel, oh man, I probably should keep this and and start paying. I think for a lot of consumer products, it's a little bit harder for that to work. And so I've typically seen more just normal free trials be be the norm.
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22 September 2025
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
I guess the right thinks that this is a normal, appropriate amount of affection for a widow to express to the US President at her husband's funeral. Looks weird as hell to me. Related
6 August 2025
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Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
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Install Warp (my normal terminal of choice, good for AI generated commands
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12 May 2025
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
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corrections, bears and crashes are all a perfectly normal part of the process.
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17 March 2025
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
Does unsafe undermine Rust's guarantees? When people first hear about unsafe in Rust, they often have questions. A very normal thing to ask is, “wait a minute, doesn’t this defeat the purpose?” And while it’s a perfectly reasonable question, the answer is both…
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26 January 2024
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
I am slowly trying to figure out Nix/NixOS. I just realized something I'm very confused by: Is it really the case “pinning’ in NixOS prototypically means “pinning a single version of the entire package repository, and then pulling in whatever versions it contains”? I mean, "it's all just code" and it seems to be *possible* to mix and match via `fetchTarball`. But is pinning the universe as-a-unit really the normal pattern? Nix Related
9 December 2023
Social scientist turned small-scale farmer; wrote A Small Farm Future and argues against the case for feeding the world from factories.
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In my opinion, normal market economics is incentivising the wrong things. I think its preference for horse liveries or campsites over vegetables and other local food production will lead us to disaster
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4 November 2023
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
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Turn on the rice cooker for normal or quick cooking (I have a Zojirushi, either setting works).
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7 February 2023
Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.
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Experiencing sleepiness is normal and does not necessarily imply that you are undersleeping.
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Therefore, I realized that it’s very important to be as awake as possible and that my model of sleepiness where you can be “awake”, “sleepy” and “asleep” is dumb.
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12 September 2022
Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.
19 August 2022
Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.
30 June 2022
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
1 February 2021
Obesity researcher; wrote The Hungry Brain, on why the brain overeats, and reviews nutrition evidence.
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In people living their normal lives, circulating insulin level, and the insulin response to carbohydrate, don’t reliably predict who will gain weight and who won’t.
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stephanguyenet.com
30 March 2020
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
Please Fund More Science Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health, and the economy to return roughly to normal. Either we get a vaccine good enough that R0 for the world goes below 1, a g…
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6 November 2019
American backpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked more than 30,000 miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide and publisher of gear reviews and trip-planning tutorials at andrewskurka.com.
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For someone like Amanda, who has a normal 9-5 job, the Samsung Chromebook 3 ($220) is probably the only computer they need at home.
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andrewskurka.com
11 September 2018
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
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