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Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.

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  You often only understand a problem by experiencing the journey of building a solution for it.

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  you often only understand a problem by experiencing the journey, i.e. building a solution for it.

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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  Jev

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  The data and the anecdata on Jev's adoption are shocking. Everyone is adopting it. I think it's a great product, but this is also downstream of the "AI is too expensive/slow" zeitgeist.

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Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.

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  Effect

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  i will never start another typescript application or project without @EffectTS_ it’s reached critical enough adoption, provides distinct tailwinds to agents, and has great cloudflare support

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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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  A cabin in literature typically serves as an escape from trouble or a place where new trouble is found.

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  The cabin is a classic literary setting. It's the getaway spot where characters can flee to escape their troubles or journey to in order to find new ones.

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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

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  Widespread AI adoption makes it easier to go a whole day without talking to another person.

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  the more we adopt AI, the easier it becomes to spend an entire day without talking to a real human being.

  Introducing AI Second Brain Meetupsfortelabs.com

Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

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  One of the good ones. If you’re interested in mindfulness and the nature of consciousness, check this out.

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  Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

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  This was a great motivation when I started running, but it’s a very niche book.

  rakhim.org

Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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  Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

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  Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass. In essence, this is a book about an industry that refuses to learn. That was true 25 years ago when this book was published, and it's probably twice as true today. (Just think about all the AI adoption metrics being rolled out — back to productivity mistaken for lines of code produced, only more elaborate. And expensive). What I like about this book is that Glass doesn't present anything new. Quite the opposite, actually. Rather, it's about research lessons that we all should know, but tend to forget. Ever had to do an estimate, or plan according to a requirements spec? Or maybe you thought that enough eyeballs make all bugs shallow? Then this book is for you. A great work by a fantastic author.

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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.

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  Google declining to use io_uring in its own products (ChromeOS, Android, production servers) holds back the technology's broader adoption.

  Google

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  The feature is disabled by Google in ChromeOS, Android and in production Google servers which certainly holds back some use of it.

  Workshop Basel day threedaniel.haxx.se

Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.

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  Content Security Policy adoption has more than doubled while nearly half of the policies still contain directives that undermine them.

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  So while CSP adoption has more than doubled, nearly half of all policies are in need of some TLC.

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Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.

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  A programming language is a ten-year play: version one has issues, version two fixes them, version three is finally good — and only then does adoption start.

  TypeScript

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  But but the thing is like doing programming languages, you come to realize it's a long play. I mean, if if you look back at the the stuff I worked on, it it it goes in 10-year cycles at least. And TypeScript didn't really, for example, or C# for that matter. I mean, it took it it takes 10 years to get to, you know, version one is great, but it has all sorts of issues, and then you got to do version two, and then it's not until version three that it really starts to be great.

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Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, which he started in 2011 while studying product design at Stanford.

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  Listing out your jobs to be done is how a company brings order to AI, because it shows exactly where an agent belongs and what it should improve.

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  by listing out all these jobs to be done, you know, really for the for the community journey and for advertisers as well, it became very clear where we could use agents, where we needed to be very focused in terms of building cross-functional teams around those jobs supported by AI tools.

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Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.

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  The mass adoption of React and single-page-app architecture across nearly all web apps was driven by trend-following rather than technical fit, producing fragile, scripting-dependent software.

  JavaScript

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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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Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.

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  Adoption is worth measuring first despite being a bad metric, because developers are cranky enough not to use a tool that is awful.

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  I I will say I tend to start with adoption. I am not a fan of an adoption metric. I don't like it, but also devs are like a gloriously cranky bunch.

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Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.

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  Even a country of geniuses in a datacentre will not be an infinitely compelling product; it buys three to ten times growth a year, not instant adoption.

  AGIdata centers

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  but it's not an infinitely compelling product, and I don't think even AGI or powerful AI or country of geniuses in a data center will be an infinitely compelling product. It will be a compelling product enough maybe to get three or five or 10x a year growth even when you're in the hundreds of billions of dollars, which is extremely hard to do and has never been done in history before, but not infinitely fast.

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Author and journalist writing on food, plants and consciousness. Professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of its Center for the Science of Psychedelics.

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  A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

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  a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.

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Roboticist; co-founded iRobot and Rethink Robotics, directed the MIT AI Lab, and publishes a scorecard grading his own dated predictions about AI, robots and self-driving.

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  A robotaxi that still needs remote human help loses the cost advantage that motivated it, which pushes out when it can scale.

  self-driving cars

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  Systems which do require remote operations assistance to get full reliability cut into that economic advantage and have a higher burden on their ROI calculations to make a business case for their adoption and therefore their time horizon to scaling across geographies.

  Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01rodneybrooks.com

Founder and CEO of SaaStr, the B2B software community and events business, and a SaaS investor who previously co-founded EchoSign and sold it to Adobe.

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  The next constraint on AI adoption is not what the agents can do but how many of them a company can absorb.

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  And so that's going to be a headwind that today everything seems like it has tailwinds, right? Everything's on fire. But people are going to get exhausted for having so many agents.

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Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.

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  Breakneck

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  Breakneck by Dan Wang takes you on a fascinating journey through China's engineering state, juxtaposing it against America's lawyerly society in an effort to reveal what each country should learn from the other. I've been a keen reader of Dan's personal blog for many years and am delighted to report that this book, his first, features everything I love most about his writing: his unbounded curiosity, thoughtful analysis, compelling storytelling, self-awareness, offbeat sense of humor, and insights born of lived experience.

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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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  Colors of Asia: A Visual Journey, Photos and Design

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  There is Kevin Kelly, Colors of Asia: A Visual Journey, Photos and Design

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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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  Factory-built construction has not raised productivity: the countries that prefabricate most, Sweden and Japan, have had flat construction productivity for decades.

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  Sweden, for instance, is often praised for its high adoption of prefabricated construction, but since the 1990s Sweden has had roughly flat construction labor productivity, even as it has made more extensive use of prefabrication.

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Co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management; author of the Oaktree memos.

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  Transformative technologies reliably attract more investment and infrastructure than they need, and that excess is what speeds their adoption.

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  There’s a consistent history of transformational technologies generating excessive enthusiasm and investment, resulting in more infrastructure than is needed and asset prices that prove to have been too high. The excesses accelerate the adoption of the technology in a way that wouldn’t occur in their absence.

  Is It a Bubble?oaktreecapital.com

Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.

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  Bitcoin's roughly $2 trillion market capitalization is still early relative to its long-term adoption potential.

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  In my view, Bitcoin at a ~$2 trillion market capitalization remains rather early.

  Why Most Cryptocurrencies Won’t Accrue Valuelynalden.com

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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  Gamification needs three things at once — a tight core loop, a metagame to strive at, and a profile that accumulates the user's investment.

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  Then you need a metag game, which for Duolingo is kind of like the path, but it's also the leaderboard, achievements, kind of long-term things that you're going to strive to such that you have like long-term, I guess, motivation uh to continue doing the thing. And then the profile is also critical because you build up a profile over time. It's a reflection of your investment inside the product experience. And so when you nail those three things, you can end up with a long-term learning journey that can be quite successful.

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Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  He does not drink, because alcohol damages the one tool you most need for success and happiness, and trading that for short-term pleasure is ridiculous.

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  So think about this. If your brain is this most valuable tool you have in your journey to success and happiness, why would you destroy this tool for short-term pleasure? This sounds ridiculous.

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Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers. Publishes essays and an annual presentation on where the industry is going.

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  Around a tenth of people use a chatbot daily and another fifteen to twenty per cent weekly, far below the headline adoption figures.

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  It's like something around 10% give or take three or four percent of people depending on the survey are using this say they're using this every day. Another sort of 15 to 20% of people say they're using it every week.

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  Solar's growth is not merely continuing but accelerating, and the rate of that acceleration is itself still rising.

  solar

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  It is not only the case that solar adoption, production, price decreases are continuing. They're accelerating. And the rate that they're accelerating is still accelerating.

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Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.

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  Today's approach to frontier AI assessment is superficial last-minute product testing rather than real auditing, threatening safety, stability, and commercial adoption of AI

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  The state-of-the-art today can be more accurately described as "last-minute, black-box product testing" rather than auditing, and I think this situation threatens public safety, international stability, and sustainable commercial adoption of AI.

  AI Auditing 2027milesbrundage.substack.com

Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.

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  Permissive licences are the better way to release free software and free content, because they maximise adoption.

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  Historically, I was a fan of the permissive approach (eg. my blog is under the WTFPL). More recently, I am warming up to the copyleft approach.

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  A new monetary network with its own unit can only bootstrap from zero to mass adoption through a period of upward price volatility.

  interest rates

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  If a new monetary network with its own unit (i.e. not pegged to an existing currency as a credit rail on top of it, but rather a fully parallel system to central banks) is going to bootstrap from zero to massive, it requires upward volatility.

  The Rise of Bitcoin Stocks and Bondslynalden.com

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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  The Worst Journey in the World

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  The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Penguin, 2006/1922)

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Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.

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  The journey is better than the destination is a shallow phrase: taken literally it says every place you are heading from now on is worse.

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  The journey is better than the destination. Everyone's heard this. Just take one second to apply what that means. That means forever starting from now, you are only going towards a place that's worse.

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Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  Reclaiming Control: Looking Inward to Recalibrate Your Life

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  A short but 'pathless' journey through stepping off the conventional path a year after graduating, daring to ask the questions that linger below the surface. A big inspiration for deciding to write my book!

  pathlesspath.com

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  Anything You Want: 40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur

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  I love Derek's writing. He knows who he is, what he wants, and shares the true journey of what it means to embrace those things.

  pathlesspath.com

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  The Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife

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  Ben's personal reflections on reinventing himself at "midlife" (though relatable at any age). I love how he leaned into a new version of himself without dramatically blowing up his life.

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  The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling

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  A nice personal + historical deep dive into finding your dharma by embracing both your gifts and limitations in service of something greater than yourself.

  pathlesspath.com

Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.

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  Kindle

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  Audiobooks is what got me started on my reading journey. I've since switched to the Kindle for the majority of my reading but I keep Audible specifically for biographies.

  seastone.io

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  Audible

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  Audiobooks is what got me started on my reading journey. I've since switched to the Kindle for the majority of my reading but I keep Audible specifically for biographies.

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Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.

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  The same afterlife journey along the Milky Way turns up in cultures too distant in space and time to have shared it, so it is an inheritance from one remote common source rather than a coincidence.

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  And I don’t feel that that can be a coincidence. I feel that what we are looking at is an inheritance of an idea, a legacy that’s been passed down from a remote common source to cultures all around the world, and that has taken on a life of its own within those cultures.

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Co-founder and CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management. He wrote The Reformed Broker for over a decade, now publishes the Downtown Josh Brown newsletter, and co-hosts The Compound and Friends.

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  You Weren’t Supposed To See That

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  No matter where you are in your investing journey, this book will help you reach a higher understanding of what’s really going on and why.

  downtownjoshbrown.com

Language mentor and polyglot; teaches people to design their own learning method rather than follow a course.

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  Nobody can be taught a language by anyone else; a teacher can help, but the learning is the learner's to do.

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  I'm convinced that it's not possible to teach anyone a language. A good teacher can help you on this journey – but they cannot give the language to you on a silver platter.

  About Melanguagementoring.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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  The Biggest Bluff

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  The Biggest Bluff is a highly enjoyable book that chronicles Konnikova’s journey from a novice at poker to a world champion—but it’s not just that.

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Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.

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  The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

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  I particularly appreciated The Journey of Humanity because it is an ambitious and deep story about the past tens of thousands of years of economic development that is also well grounded in a growing economics literature into the deep origins of growth

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Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.

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  Nobody chose cloud backup: a handful of Silicon Valley executives made the choice for everyone in pursuit of adoption metrics.

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  A handful of Silicon Valley executives made the choice for us, in pursuit of adoption metrics and a “magical” user experience.

  Why encrypted backup is so importantblog.cryptographyengineering.com

Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  Mendeleyev’s Dream

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  Paul Strathern’s terrific book Mendeleyev’s Dream traces that journey all the way back to ancient Greece, when people first started questioning why the world is the way it is.

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Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the origins of modern growth.

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  The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

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  The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective is the best book on the country’s adoption of sustained economic growth at the turn of the nineteenth century, full stop.

  blog.daviskedrosky.com

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  The Messy Middle: Finding your way through the hardest and most crucial part of any bold venture

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  Part autobiography, part startup + life philosophy, and part product book, I could have categorized this in a few sections. However, the strength of this book is clearly the advice and insights for how Scott's 7+ year journey led to a fantastically successful exit to Adobe for his startup, Behance. The middle of the book is a great mix of anecdotes and tactical things you can apply if your startup is in "the Messy Middle" to turn the corner for your product.

  jasonevanish.com

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  PayPal Wars

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  Paypal survived the dot com crash to become a massively successful company. They also led to the Paypal Mafia, the most famous group of people formerly of the same company that went on to do other successful things. I wanted to know the story of the company and this book covers the good, the bad and the ugly of their journey to success.

  jasonevanish.com

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  Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process

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  I've never read a book before that captures the journey of going from meh to amazing when building a product. This book does it. Part Apple / Steve Jobs pron, part memoir, and part product insights, this book is a great read on how the iPhone came to be and how they solved really hard problems. For anyone that remarks "Apple isn't what it used to be," this book helps you see what made the difference then.

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Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.

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  The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

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  This is about the craft of software development, and thinking about how to produce good code. As the name suggests, it's a very pragmatic and hands-on book. It really helped me on my journey as a software engineer, to be able to write quality code day in and day out, and be confident that it's going to work correctly.

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