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Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

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  Scaling up clean energy is more effective when it is paired with retiring fossil fuel infrastructure.

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  Building clean energy is much more likely, and much more effective, if we're also shutting down dirty energy.

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Senior space editor at Ars Technica; wrote Liftoff and Reentry on SpaceX, and reports on launch and rocket programmes.

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  SpaceX is retiring the rocket that made cheap launch possible in order to fly its own satellites on a bigger one.

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  The company that is almost exclusively responsible for the dramatic increase in launch availability in the 2020s has signaled that it intends to wind down Falcon 9 operations as quickly as possible in favor of the larger Starship rocket.

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Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.

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  The phrase "good cholesterol" should be retired: a high HDL-C number is not a free pass on cardiovascular risk.

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  High HDL-C is not a free pass.

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Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.

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  Crypto's real question was never how transactions settle: changing the currency is something that happens to retired people who have no way of making new money.

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  There have been countries that have gone through currency resets. This is not a nice experience because if you had a little bit of money, a currency reset can mean you have now no money. If you had no money, it may feel like it's impossible to ever get any more money. If you're retired, what do you do during a currency reset?

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

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  The way software gets built flipped in December: writing code yourself is now the exception, not the default.

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  I kind of went from 80/20 of like, you know, uh to like 20/80 of writing code by myself versus just delegating to agents. And I don't even think it's 20/80 by now. I think it's a lot more than that. I don't think I've typed like a line of code probably since December basically.

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Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.

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  A generated answer that looks like a page of search results but contains no link to the subject's own site has quietly removed the web from the reader's view.

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  I had typed "Taylor Swift" in a browser, and the response had literally zero links to Taylor Swift's actual website. If you stayed within what Atlas generated, you would have no way of knowing that Taylor Swift has a website at all.

  ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Webanildash.com

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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  Technological capability has to be practised to be kept: a country that stops making something forgets how.

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  The people who knew how to build and repair molds have either passed away or are long retired.

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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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  Javascript: The Good Parts

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  Before this book I used to think that Javascript is "bad" or a "hacky" language. This book changed my perspective, understanding some tradeoffs and some remarkable strengths of this weakly typed language that is starting to take over the world. Note that this book is now dated

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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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  NASA has deferred its next great telescope so far that the people who would build it will have retired first.

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  Current PhD students will be nearing retirement by the time these missions fly.

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