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17 September
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
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16 September
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
As I’ve explained here before, at this stage in my life, my main goal is to pass along the principles and templates I've learned with the hope that they can help others as much as they've helped me. One thing that has been incredibly valuable to me is learning that just because something hasn’t happened before in my lifetime doesn’t mean it won’t happen. So I needed to look not only at what the markets have been doing lately but to also study big events—like debt crises, internal political conflicts, and international wars—throughout history. For example, it was by studying the Great Depressi… wmi.edu.sg
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15 September
Writer of Today in Tabs, a daily media-and-internet newsletter started in 2013; earlier founded the community site Kuro5hin.
I spent last night on a 16 hour ferry ride between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in a full on gale, and I was well (WELL) over the legal limit on meclizine to the point where a sensation of seasickness was occurring in a body but whether that constituted “me” or not was a question for philosophers— Related
14 September
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
Few of us consider ourselves philosophers. “Philosophy” usually conjures images of dense textbooks and academic quibbling with no application to real life. It’s fun for professors, perhaps, but a waste of time for the rest of us. I felt this way for decades. Then, in 2004, I found the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, better known as Seneca the Younger or simply “Seneca.” Born circa 4 BC in present day Spain and raised in Rome, Seneca was simultaneously an esteemed playwright, one of the wealthiest people in Rome, a famous statesman, and an advisor to the emperor. He had to negotiate, persuade,… Related
9 September
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.
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
★ Big, beautiful boilerplate. Opinionated, optimized, reasoned, and wonderfully explained by Declan Chidlow. vale.rocks
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3 September
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.
2 September
Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.
1 September
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
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Evan Prodromou has the unenviable task of making the whole ecosystem easy to understand. Thankfully he does that well. Things are logically laid out, there are comprehensive descriptions of even the most obscure parts of the spec, and it builds up nicely from the fundamentals.
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31 August
Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning.
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And we explained to them, which is the key to your child's happiness is high standards. And I can't run a school that they love more than vacation if I have low standards.
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28 August
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
20 August
Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.
17 August
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.
16 August
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
I gave a talk to a bunch of high school students and accidentally explained most of what I believe about AI, startups, careers, power, taste, and being a person. My favorite idea: AI should create abundance, not efficiency. A few other things I apparently believe: startups Related
11 August
Chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and AI control.
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Second, I think ML is a very shallow domain relative to math. So I think in math there's much more of a you find some true deep abstraction um and then like that like if you really understand that thing which is hard to understand then you get somewhere
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7 August
Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.
4 August
Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.
2 August
Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.
1 August
Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.
31 July
Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.
28 July
Self-taught home cook and food writer who has run the Smitten Kitchen recipe site since 2006; author of four cookbooks.
spaghetti aglio e olio Do you ever look around at the ingredients available to you, the energy you have to give to the cooking process — or, as I recently explained to a medium-sized child shortly before I got uninvited from future family eve…
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23 July
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
18 July
Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
18 June
Chief executive of Intel since 2025, founder of the venture firm Walden International and chief executive of Cadence Design Systems for thirteen years.
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Just I explained to President Trump, TSMC when they started they have the Taiwan government as a shareholder. If you look at Japan, you look at Singapore, this is the infrastructure US government get to provide the support.
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17 June
Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.
Pro-worker AI, explained @MITSloan just published this excellent article on my recent paper with @DAcemogluMIT and @davidautor on building pro-worker AI. The priority: finding new ways to expand human capabilities across levels of education and skill mitsloan.mit.edu
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5 June
Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.
3 May
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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Slowly the culture around me changed, so now it seems I need to explain my strange behavior — why I don't monetize everything like everyone else.
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7 April
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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And so, you have what seem like three very different disconnected phenomena all being explained by this one set of ideas.
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Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
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Many of the indicators I use to track unfolding events are explained in Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order. I especially recommend Chapter 6, “The Big Cycle of External Order and Disorder,” and, if you are interested in the unimaginable-in-peacetime investment-related developments that typically happen during wars, I recommend Chapter 7, “Investing in Light of the Big Cycle.”
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6 April
Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
28 February
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
For the better part of a decade, I've been writing that the US government's restrictions on Chinese tech companies were unstrategic, poorly explained, and based in caprice (https://t.co/Ohrn9qFtIL). Now it looks like the administration is turning these controls on American firms Quoting @deanwball Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies. In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type of firm the DoD cont… China America Related
5 December 2025
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.
30 July 2025
Cyborg anthropologist and UX designer; author of Calm Technology and co-founder of the geolocation startup Geoloqi.
Did you know that BMW had a subscription model for their heated steering wheel?! $18/mo. Thankfully it died, but there are others out there and others in the works. When you buy something physical you should have access to it. edmunds.com
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5 May 2025
Astrophysicist at Barnard College; wrote Black Hole Blues and How the Universe Got Its Spots, and directs sciences at Pioneer Works.
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And that’s what I mean by science is agnostic. Right? It’s the same technology overcoming a critical mass, igniting thermonuclear fusion.
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30 December 2024
Software engineer and essayist who writes about programming, formal methods, philosophy and literature at thoughts.wyounas.com.
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I came across this book accidentally, but I'm so glad I did. Pierre Hadot was a French philosopher who could not only philosophize but also write simply—an ability not common among top-tier philosophers, if I may say so with respect.
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7 August 2024
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
30 May 2024
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
Zig's New CLI Progress Bar Explained Sometimes, programming projects are too easy and boring. Sometimes, they're too hard, never ending or producing subpar results. This past week I had the pleasure of completing a project that felt like maximum difficulty…
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