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Co-founder of Ximian and Xamarin; CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021; now an independent investor and funder of open technical projects, including the Vesuvius Challenge to read the Herculaneum Papyri.

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  You should work on raising the ceiling, not the floor

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  You should probably work on raising the ceiling, not the floor Enthusiasm matters! It's much easier to work on things that are exciting to you

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Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology at Caltech, where he studies the neuroscience of emotion and social cognition.

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  Awe is a uniquely human emotion, resting on the metacognitive ability to detach conscious experience from the here and now.

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  I think it's a uniquely at least as we have it it's uniquely human emotion and it's based on a broad sort of metacognitive ability we have which is to detach our conscious experience from the here and now and do like mental time travel.

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Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.

From one piece Context engineering with Dex Horthy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Harness engineering is raising the floor: optimising the environment a coding agent runs in so that the results of every single turn are as good as possible.

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  Well, harness engineering just is like how do I raise the floor so that every single turn of this thing, the results are as good as possible.

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  Agentic code review raises the floor but cannot be trusted, because the model reading the code is the same model that wrote it, and it will tell you the code is great.

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  yes it will catch things and it will raise your floor but I don't believe like the model writing the code is the same model reading the code and if you ask a model hey is this code good it's going to be like oh yeah it's great comprehensive it's got unit tests

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Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.

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  Inference is a high-margin business even for a middleman: renting GPUs at scale, some models carry an eighty per cent margin over their sticker price.

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  cuz because we rent GPUs at scale to run the models and we still use middleman by the way. So we're not like going all the way down to the down to the floor. Even for us there are some models the sticker price and the cost to us there's like an 80% margin in there.

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Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.

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  Extreme Cashmere

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  Extreme Cashmere — Dutch brand making oversized, genderless cashmere knits. Their pieces are numbered instead of named.

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Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.

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  The single most effective free thing anyone can do for their health is to lower their resting heart rate before bed.

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  After spending years working on health, lowering your resting heart rate (RHR) before bed is the single most effective thing you can do for your health.

  Bryan's Protocolprotocol.bryanjohnson.com

Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.

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  Swedish dishcloths

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  If you're a paper towel demon and feel guilty about it, I can't recommend these enough. Perfect for cleaning counters and random floor messes (talking to parents).

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

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  There will always be a fairly capable open-source model in the world, which puts a permanent floor under what anyone can charge for one.

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  structurally I think there will always be an open- source model uh that will be fairly capable in the world that you could then use as long as you have something that you can use that uh with which is data uh and a scaffolding

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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  A good tool raises the floor of what people can build without lowering the ceiling, and almost every tool quietly lowers the ceiling.

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  what you are try like trying to do as a tool maker, as an infrastructure builder, um as a product maker is you want to make a uh tool that brings the floor up significantly, but doesn't constrain the ceiling. And that is extremely hard.

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Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.

From one piece America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A humanoid robot is the wrong tool on a factory floor, because a machine specialised in the task beats it.

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  They are not useful in industrial environments where, if a humanoid robot can do it, an industrial machine which is specialized in the task can do it even better.

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  Innovation depends on being near the factory floor; you cannot improve what is thirty hours of travel away.

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  When the factory floor is down the hall, instead of 30 hours of travel away, it’s easier to make improvements and invent.

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Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.

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  The Seventh Floor

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  one in a series about the CIA’s efforts to subvert Russian spies

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  At the Midway

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  Mind candy, historical creature-feature thriller: in which the US military, in the form of the very worst ship in Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet, comes up against beasts which are not oversized plesiosaurs. (Exactly what they are instead would be a minor spoiler.) I have no idea how I found this online, but it's perfectly enjoyable as a specimen of the genre.

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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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  Nobody knows how the Great Pyramid was built: neither ramps nor wet sand can lift seventy-ton granite blocks three hundred feet into the air.

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  But that is not going to help you get dozens of 70 ton granite blocks 300 feet in the air to form the roof of the King’s Chamber and the floor of the chamber above it, and the roof of that chamber, and the floor of the chamber above that, and so on and so forth. Wet sand never got those objects up there.

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

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  A licence is only the floor of open source; what keeps a project alive is an ethos of contribution that no licence can compel.

  open source

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  But what makes Open Source work isn’t the law, it’s the ethos. It’s the social mores.

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Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

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  New York's subway cost premium is overstaffing, oversized stations and procurement, not high wages.

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  Well, we’ve divided the New York cost premium into three tranches: labor (mostly overstaffing, not high wages), station and system design, and procurement and soft costs.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  A data centre powered by solar and batteries alone needs an array so oversized that the design is not worth building.

  solardata centers

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  The solar array sizes under these assumptions are prohibitively large.

  How to Make Off Grid Data Centers Affordableaustinvernon.site

Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.

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  Artemide Tolomeo

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  I've put a little circular side table next to it which is perfect for a glass of wine or whisky, alongside an Artemide Tolomeo floor lamp; it's my own little corner of modernist bliss.

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Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.

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  Repeating a single floor plan vertically remains the default model for large-scale residential construction.

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  I wish he were right, but the fact is the repeat-the-floor-plan model is very much the default, still.

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