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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.

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  Apple TV's overall show quality now exceeds Netflix's and Prime Video's, though it still lacks HBO's peak-level top-tier content.

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  While the average overall quality of Apple's shows are higher than those on Netflix or Prime Video, they still don't have the type of 'A+' content that HBO was regularly pumping out at their peak.

  Apple TV Dethrones HBOspyglass.org

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

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  Quake

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  I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.

  x.com

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  StarCraft

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  I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.

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  Unreal

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  I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  The era of heavy U.S. involvement in the Middle East has been a disaster for U.S. power and prestige and should end.

  America

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  But overall, the era of heavy U.S. involvement in the Middle East has been a disaster for U.S. power and prestige, and it’s time for that era to end.

  Get the Middle East out of my politics!noahpinion.blog

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.

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  Overall, America is a better and more tolerant society than it was in 2001.

  America

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  the truth is that while there are plenty of haters, overall we are a better, more tolerant society than we were in 2001.

  The Long Decline of Americapaulkrugman.substack.com

Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.

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  "Carbon intensity" metrics let oil companies claim climate progress even as their total emissions rise from increased production.

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  "Carbon intensity" is a greenwashing term: It measures pollution per barrel, allowing oil companies to claim climate progress even as rising production drives up total overall emissions.

  heated.world

Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.

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  A knife company's clip design quality is a sign of the maturity of its overall design aesthetic.

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  Good, endemic clip designs are the sign of a mature design aesthetic in a knife company

  Spyderco SpyNano Revieweverydaycommentary.com

Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.

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  Quarterbacks account for almost a third of a football team's total player value.

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  QBs literally account for almost a third of overall player value in the NFL, based on our analysis.

  2026 ELWAY NFL projectionsnatesilver.net

Chief Scientist at OpenAI. Worked on the research that turned scaled reinforcement learning into reasoning models, and writes about where he thinks that path leads.

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  AI is grown rather than designed, which is why its overall behaviour resists any description we can fully understand.

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  AI is grown more than designed - it is, to first degree, the product of repeating a straightforward optimization step many times on a hard-to-imagine amount of compute.

  An Alien Mindopenai.com

Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.

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  The OpenAI-Hugging Face attack is one of the most important things to happen this year, and has gone strikingly under-covered.

  OpenAIHuggingFace

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  Overall, I’m very surprised at how little media coverage there’s been around the OpenAI / Hugging Face attack. It’s clearly one of the most important things to happen this year.

  @patrickc on Xx.com

Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.

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  The data-centre backlash is about the buildings themselves, not about what people think of AI.

  data centersAmerica

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  All this combined with the survey data on Americans’ stated reasons for opposing data centers makes me think that attitudes toward AI are probably a meaningful factor for a minority of people opposed to data centers, but I don’t think the backlash overall is driven by people’s thoughts on AI.

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Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.

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  Excelling at one attribute doesn't make a product superior overall to alternatives.

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  just because something does one thing better than another thing doesn't mean it is superior.

  Cloud Defensive MCH Micro Revieweverydaycommentary.com

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".

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  AI alignment should be approached like governing a corporation through institutions, not like raising a virtuous individual.

  AI alignment

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  If you do think it's the overall system that matters, then the alignment that's needed is far less like training a virtuous child and more like managing a semi-virtuous corporation!

  AIs are companies, my friendstrangeloopcanon.com

Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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  Longer device upgrade cycles are beneficial because they reduce e-waste, pollution, and churn.

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  But either way, it's good that upgrade cycles are longer: it means less e-waste, less pollution, less churn overall.

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Climate scientist and energy systems analyst; writes The Climate Brink with Andrew Dessler and leads climate research at Stripe.

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  The US warming trend since 1970 is consistent across raw, adjusted, satellite, and surface temperature datasets

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  The overall US warming trend (around 0.5F per decade since 1970 in max, min, and mean temperatures) is robust in every dataset, raw or adjusted, satellite or surface.

  Hot days, cold thermometerstheclimatebrink.com

Physician and neuroscientist at the University of Washington; researches brain health, metabolism and athletic performance.

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  No single food explains the link between a Mediterranean diet and lower dementia risk, so what matters is overall diet quality rather than olive oil or avoiding meat.

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  And there was no food or you know olive oil or food group or you eating more or less meat that changed the relationship between the Mediterranean diet and dementia risk. So what that tells me is it's much more about whole foods.

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Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.

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  Stay Calm: Learn to Embrace Uncertainty in Investing and Life

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  It might have worked even better as two separate books, rather than as one short book trying to do two things. But Booth's writing is soothing, and his overall message — investing is simply a bet on human innovation and progress — is a truism worth repeating. Young people, in particular, might benefit from reading it.

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Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.

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  Caldigit TS4

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  I got the CalDigit TS4 as soon as it was released, in 2022. It was perhaps a little bit better but overall I was disappointed to still sometimes encounter a machine that would not wake up.

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Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.

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  8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard

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  sounds like a dream, and is overall an excellent keyboard that I have used a lot to play Diablo II: Resurrected.

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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  The mind's planning and goal-setting function is only a small fraction of a person's overall intelligence.

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  The planning part of your mind, the one that generates ambitions and hypothetical situations, is a small part of your overall intelligence.

  Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com

Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.

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  A human life has no overall narrative arc, so nothing is lost by refusing to see it as a story that needs an ending.

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  But there’s no overall narrative arc—it’s just been one thing after another.

  Immortality Sounds Pretty Good, Actuallysmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net

Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

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  Sanodesk 72x30 Standing Desk

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  Another part of my recent office upgrade was the Sanodesk 72x30 Standing Desk. Overall, I love this desk so far. The bamboo top looks and feels great, and I have plenty of room on the desk to set it up how I want to. Being able to raise it to a standing position is also nice too when I get sick of sitting.

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  16-inch MacBook Pro M4 Max

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  Overall, I'm loving the M4 Max so far, and I've noticed that it does handle certain tasks such as running Pest PHP tests about twice as fast sometimes as the M1 Pro did, which is nice.

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Economist at Oxford's Global Priorities Institute; works on what advanced AI would do to growth, saving and the long-run economy.

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  Some goods really will get a fully automated supply chain, and yet what that does to the overall capital share is genuinely ambiguous.

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  I do think there's this qualitative shift that we I think we agree is coming, which is that there will be at least some goods whose network-adjusted capital share goes to one, right? Because the whole supply chain can be automated and there's no part in it that we care intrinsically about having a human do. Um, so that'll be a, you know, that'll be a qualitative shift. Interestingly, the implications of that shift for the overall capital share are ambiguous

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Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  It has virtually never got cheaper to build a house or an office: construction costs rise at or above general inflation, in every rich country and over a century of data.

  inflation

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  Construction costs tend to rise at, or above, the level of overall inflation, and it rarely (if ever) gets cheaper to build houses, offices, or other buildings.

  Construction Costs Rarely Fallconstruction-physics.com

Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  Making code easier to write will lead to much more software being created overall.

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  Agents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software.

  I am building a cloudcrawshaw.io

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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  Unbeatable: The Brutally Honest Case for Free Markets

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  It is definitely my broadest and least inhibited book — and in my judgment, the best-written and the best overall.

  betonit.ai

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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  The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary

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  There is something deeply satisfying with reading out loud phrases like: “for in mere breath did it come, and into darkness it goes, and in darkness its name is covered.” Though King James is iconic, Robert Alter better conveys overall the literary power of the Hebrew Bible.

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Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  Stagnant construction productivity is not an American failure but a worldwide one, and most rich countries that once had it have lost it.

  America

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  Overall, my take when looking at this data is that stagnant construction productivity is an extremely widespread problem.

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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  Relying on AI to replace performance engineers reduces an organization's overall technical expertise over time.

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  If a company spends less on performance engineers as it's considered AI'd, it will reduce the company's effective "performance IQ."

  On "AI Brendans" or "Virtual Brendans"brendangregg.com

Chairman and chief executive of Microsoft since 2014; joined the company in 1992 and ran its cloud business before that.

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  The biggest competitor to any new AI accelerator is the previous generation of Nvidia.

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  the thing that is the biggest competitor for any new accelerator is kind of even the previous generation of Nvidia right I mean in a fleet what I'm going to look at is the overall TCO

  Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGIyoutube.com

Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  The knowledge a model soaks up in pre-training is holding it back; what we actually want is the intelligence with the knowledge stripped out.

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  And actually, you don't actually need or want the knowledge. I actually think that's probably actually holding back the neural networks overall because it's actually like getting them to rely on the knowledge a little too much sometimes.

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Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.

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  Langsmith

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  The overall workflow is intuitive, especially for those new to formal evaluation processes. The UI guides you through creating datasets, running experiments, and annotating results.

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Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  The best way to hire engineers is a coding contest, because competition leads to progress and picks the most qualified people for the task.

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  Well, it's in line with my overall philosophy. I think competition leads to progress. If you want to create an ideal process for selecting the most qualified people for certain specific tasks you have in mind, what can be better than a competition?

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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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  A solar-powered data centre can cut its power draw a great deal while giving up very little compute, which is how it survives a run of bad weather.

  solardata centers

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  actually it turns out that you can significantly decrease power consumption with a very small reduction in overall compute. So if you if you've got like three really bad days in a row or something, you can actually just like you can dial back your power usage quite a lot without compromising your inference or or um or training.

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Chief executive of Alphabet and Google; joined Google in 2004 and led Chrome and Android before taking over in 2015.

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  We are in the phase of artificial jagged intelligence: dramatic progress alongside models that still trip on counting letters.

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  I feel like we are in the AJI phase where dramatic progress, some things don't work well, but overall you're seeing lots of progress.

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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.

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  AI tooling and interface design lags behind the underlying models' actual capabilities.

  LLMs

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  Overall, though, this experience reinforced my belief that the tooling and interface design around LLMs is lagging way behind the actual capabilities, and is an area of active experimentation and development, even aside from any future model improvements.

  Building personal software with Claudeblog.nelhage.com

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

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  Hiring a head of growth to reverse a declining business is destined to fail, because the cause of the decline is deeper than the missing team.

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  If you have the overall business slowing down, your head of growth is destined to fail because the reason business is slowing down is much deeper than not having a growth team.

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

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  Principles of the SPIN Model Checker

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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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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  The Engineering Executive's Primer

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  "It’s honest in how it covers topics like navigating tricky power dynamics with CEOs, surviving 'peer panic,' dealing with competition within leadership teams, and in its overall breadth and depth."

  blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Energy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition, and was chief content officer at BloombergNEF.

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  Riding in a Waymo robotaxi is a better overall experience than being driven by a human driver.

  self-driving cars

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  I found it to be a superior experience to a human driver, for a few key reasons.

  Inflecting and Overtaking, SunPower, Waymonathanielbullard.com

Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.

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  The Dream Machine

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  The Dream Machine -- probably the best overall book about the early days of computing and the internet.

  patrickcollison.com

Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

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  Nix is worth switching your day-to-day package management to, over Homebrew.

  Nixdeveloper tools

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  I’m also still not sure how much I like nix – it’s very confusing! But it’s helped me compile some software that I was struggling to compile otherwise, and in general it seems to install things faster than homebrew.

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  I’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me

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

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  Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint

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  Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint (Germany, 2019, CC) 3.6 When thinking about the most overlooked female artist, Artemesia Gentileschi often comes to mind. This documentary makes a persuasive case for Hilma af Klint. To my eyes, her most appealing works are not the large scale abstractions, rather it’s the small Klee-like gems that stand out. Don’t assume that if you have seen a half dozen of her most famous works that you have any conception of her overall career.

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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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  Amy

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  Overall, required viewing for any Winehouse fan and of general psychiatric interest; possibly too painful to watch for others.

  gwern.net

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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  La Sportiva Mutant

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  The La Sportiva Mutant (men's, women's) is my overall pick for backpacking and light canyoneering, and my personal favorite.

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