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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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  The most obvious reason nations have stopped fearing Trump is the Iran war debacle.

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  Globally, the most obvious reason nations have stopped fearing Trump is the debacle in Iran.

  Fear Strikes Outpaulkrugman.substack.com

Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.

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  The United States is unusual among nations in letting legacy status influence college admissions.

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  The United States is the only nation in the world with colleges that use legacy status as a factor in admissions.

  Marriageable Women, Informants, Ego-Shockrobkhenderson.com

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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  Carbon capture technology is worth continuing to research, even though it is not yet a solution to climate change.

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  It is entirely prudent to keep researching and testing carbon capture technology-someday it may be part of the solution to the greatest problem humanity has ever faced.

  Facts on the groundbillmckibben.substack.com

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

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  Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

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  The book that sparked my interest in discrete math and abstract algebra. Other books by Simon Singh are also fantastic.

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Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.

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  A true pirate is defined by rejecting the authority of nations and empires altogether, not merely by breaking their laws.

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  To be a true pirate implies a broader disavowal. The pirate renounces the long-distance authorities of nations and empires.

  The Uses Of Terroradjacentpossible.substack.com

Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

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  Local-first technologies like CRDTs and open protocols can give nations more control over their critical software infrastructure.

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  Technologies from our community - CRDTs, sync engines, universal version control, and good old-fashioned open protocols and file formats - can give a nation more independence and control over its own critical software infrastructure.

  Politics and emotion at Local-First Confadamwiggins.com

Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

From one piece Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A CEO is in service of the company, so going deep into the technical weeds is a personality technique rather than a management technique.

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  in a lot of ways I think a a CEO is in service of the company, in service of all the people that are working there. And you want to empower them with some insight. And so that's really where it's coming from. It's not so much a management technique, but a personality technique.

  Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIAyoutube.com

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  This is the greatest time in sixty years to start a company, because the computer itself has been completely reset.

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  Obviously, this is the greatest time in the last 60 years to start a company. The whole industry has changed. It's a complete reset from a technology perspective. The single most important technology in human history, the computer, has been completely reset.

  Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIAyoutube.com

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

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  Partner dancing, not puzzles, has the best evidence of any activity for improving cognitive function in older adults.

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  there are meta analyses of these interventions in older adults showing that ballroom and line dancing have the greatest effect on cognitive function. And so both of those require other people as well as learning you know various sets of of movements.

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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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  Glorious Country

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  I loved this historical biography of America's greatest landscape painter, and not just because I have an intense personal interest in Church. Johnson's writing is luminously beautiful, her assiduous research never impedes the narrative, and the illustrations are spectacular.

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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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  AI represents the greatest business opportunity of this generation.

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  AI is the greatest opportunity any of us has ever seen, or is likely to ever see.

  Introducing the Alumni Mentor Corpsfortelabs.com

Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.

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  In choosing what to learn, who is teaching it matters more than what it is, because your existing interests are fairly arbitrary and a good educator is not.

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  I feel like a relevant insight in learning was um recognizing that like who matters more than what. So, like advice to any college student when they're choosing what courses to take. Uh, care a little bit less about your pre-existing interests because they're kind of arbitrary right now. and care a little bit more about whether like the person teaching it is a good educator and someone you resonate with.

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AI researcher at OpenAI; built the poker systems Libratus and Pluribus and the Diplomacy agent Cicero, and works on reasoning models.

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  There will be no overnight intelligence explosion, because a model's best work takes so much test-time compute that time itself is the bottleneck.

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  and I don't think we're headed to that world largely because of the fact that the models rely so much on large scale test time compute in order to achieve um their greatest intelligence. If you if it requires so much test time on compute to unlock the full capabilities of the model, then that means you're bottlenecked by time

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Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.

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  Living according to one's values long-term requires turning the realization into a habit, not just having the insight.

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  But in order to actually live in accordance with what you believe in long-term, you must make it a habit.

  How not to forget what mattershenrikkarlsson.xyz

Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.

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  The greatest thing a product maker can build is an internet treasure — a service people cannot remember life before or imagine life without.

  ambition

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  it's to build an internet treasure which is a service we can't remember life before or imagine life without. And I believe as product makers that that's the greatest ambition and the greatest thing that we can offer the world.

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Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.

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  No country has benefited more from the maritime order than China, which rejoined the family of nations under Deng Xiaoping.

  China

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  And if you think about China, it has benefited more than any other country from rejoining the family of nations in this maritime world under Deng Xiaoping.

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American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.

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  Reversing the takeover of childhood by technology requires a change in public opinion first, because that is the signal political leaders act on.

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  To change course in democratic nations will require a major change in public opinion as a signal to political leaders that the current course is not acceptable.

  Why You Should Be a Techno-Skepticafterbabel.com

Economist at George Mason University. Writes Overcoming Bias on prediction markets, signalling and the far future, and wrote The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.

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  Decision markets are the idea of mine with the biggest expected impact, though not the deepest

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  It’s not my deepest, grandest, beautiful, or hardest won insight, just the one with the biggest expected impact.

  My Best Idea: Decision Marketsovercomingbias.com

Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  Export controls cannot deny China compute: it already manufactures most of the world’s mainstream chips and has some of the world’s best computer scientists.

  China

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  And so you just have to first realize that chips exist in China. They manufacture 60% of the world's mainstream chips, maybe more. It's a very large industry for them. They have some of the world's greatest computer scientists.

  Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist?youtube.com

Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.

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  Sacred Therapy: Jewish Spiritual Teachings on Emotional Healing and Inner Wholeness

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  This book is so full of wisdom and insight. I pulled down my copy just now and it's filled with underlines and margin notes.

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Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.

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  NVIDIA and TSMC are two of the greatest companies in the history of human civilization.

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  I think NVIDIA, both NVIDIA and TSMC are two of the greatest companies in the history of human civilization.

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American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

From one piece Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  You cannot be an exceptional game designer without playing enormously, and a bad game teaches as much as a great one.

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  And the weirdest part about it is you’re not just looking for the greatest hits. You learn just as much from a shitty game that you do from an amazing game.

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  Breath of the Wild is the greatest game ever made: most games become best in their genre for getting one thing right, and it gets all of them right.

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  There’s so many things that that game gets right that other games are lucky if they get one of those things right, and are… become best in their genre just for getting that one thing right. And Breath of the Wild does them all right and the best.

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Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.

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  Regulation must precede reflection: cognitive insight fails while a nervous system is in defensive dominance.

  Polyvagal theory

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  Polyvagal theory provided me with a coherent framework for understanding why cognitive insight alone often fails when a nervous system is in defensive dominance. In such states, higher-order cortical processes are functionally constrained.

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Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  Raising Arizona

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  the Coen Brothers' Raising Arizona, which is, I will argue without apology, the greatest film they ever made.

  freddiedeboer.substack.com

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  Amour

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  If I was put on the spot to name the greatest movie of the 21st century, I would probably say Michael Hanneke's Amour, an achingly moving, relentlessly unpleasant portrait of an elderly couple sinking into illness and senescence, forced into making the grimmest decisions possible.

  freddiedeboer.substack.com

Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.

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  A/B testing cannot touch anything that actually decides a company: not strategy, not vision, not insight.

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  AB testing doesn't work very well and it doesn't work on most things. It won't work on strategy or vision or insights like nothing actually important to the success of the company. You don't AB test whether Uber is a good idea.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams

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  sports section looks at the leadership qualities of the most successful sports leaders in history. And they’re not what you think.

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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 Wealth of Nations

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  I first read it in college and recently, as we approach this milestone, decided to re-read it and was amazed about how fresh and vivid it felt, as well as how nuanced and humane it is.

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Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  Theragun

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  I gave a Theragun to my husband for Christmas, and it was the best gift I've ever given and the single greatest purchase of my life.

  mariandrew.substack.com

Anthropologist; wrote Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World and The Secret History of the Mongol Queens.

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  Genghis Khan's army was the greatest military force in history, and no power will ever repeat what it did.

  ChinaRussia

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  No other power in the history of the world has conquered Russia and China and Persia and Central Asia and Turkey and Korea. No power in the world has done that. Not Alexander, not the Romans. Nobody will ever do it again.

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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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  As AI makes code cheaper to produce, understanding and architectural design become more valuable.

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  Thus, code is cheaper than ever, but I suspect that insight and good architectural design and understanding, at least for now, will become more valuable than ever.

  Building personal software with Claudeblog.nelhage.com

Historian at Stanford and the Hoover Institution; wrote Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative and Goddess of the Market, on Ayn Rand.

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  Ayn Rand's strangeness was both her strength and her undoing, because she used herself as the model of humanity and never grasped how unlike other people she was.

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  That was her strength because she's so unusual, but it was also her downfall because she looked to herself as a model or to get insight about humanity, and she never quite processed how different she was from other people.

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

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  There is no private evidence behind frontier-lab confidence in fast AI progress; the evidence is public and outsiders have simply not absorbed it.

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  There is no secret insight that frontier AI companies have which explains why people who work there are so bullish about AI capabilities improving rapidly in the next few years.

  Time's Up for AI Policymilesbrundage.substack.com

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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  The Invention of the Jewish People

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  Fascinating subject. Countries are made of stories. Kings didn’t need their subjects to agree, but nations do. So to build a nation, they need to make a story that helps people feel a shared identity, nationalism, and what distinguishes them from their neighbors. Back-creating a history. Founders of Israel did this brilliantly.

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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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  Computer Lib/Dream Machines

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  Computer Lib -- one of the greatest books about the possibilities of computers ever written.

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Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine; previously a research scientist at OpenAI and a PhD student at UC Berkeley.

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  A startup does not have to set out to build the greatest business in history; a merely good business is a legitimate thing to aim at.

  Googlestartups

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  You can set out to build a good business and it’s still fine. Maybe the long-term business model of Perplexity can make us profitable in a good company, but never as profitable in a cash cow as Google was. You have to remember that it’s still okay.

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Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life.

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  The frontier of new physics is not high-energy particle physics or quantum gravity, but the problems of life and intelligence.

  energyTrauma

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  I think for me, the frontier in modern physics, where the new physics lies is not in high energy particle physics, it’s not in quantum gravity, it’s not in any of these sort of traditionally sold, “This is going to be the newest deepest insight we have into the nature of reality.” It is going to be in studying the problems of life and intelligence and the things that are sort of also our current existential crises as a civilization or a culture that’s going through an existential trauma of inventing technologies that we don’t understand right now.

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Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.

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  A live verbal presentation is one of the worst ways to transmit information, because a talk given in real time exists to deliver emotion.

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  If you want to exchange or deliver information to a group of people, one of the worst ways to do it is with a live verbal presentation. If your goal is actually to deliver that scientific paper or that insight, then you should either write a book or write a memo and say, here, in an asynchronous way, this is what we know. If you're going to show up live, in person, in real time, synchronized, you are performing. And the goal is to not deliver the information, but to deliver emotion.

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Investigative journalist; wrote Area 51, The Pentagon's Brain and Nuclear War: A Scenario, reconstructing what secret programmes actually did from interviews and declassified records.

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  As politics grows more viperous, leaders of nuclear-armed nations surround themselves with sycophants, so you can no longer count on a president being given good advice.

  America

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  So you don’t have wise decision makers. Long gone are the days where we had presidents who had advisors on both sides of the aisle. That’s really important, because you want to have differing opinions. But as things become more viperous, both here in the United States and in nuclear armed nations, all bets are off at whether your advisors are going to give you good advice.

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Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.

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  When Putin calls the Soviet collapse the greatest catastrophe of the century he is not mourning lives lost but great power status and the unity of the people he counts as Russian.

  Russia

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  So for him, the biggest tragedy is not the loss of life, the biggest tragedy is the loss of the great power status or the unity of those whom he considered to be Russian nations.

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Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.

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  Judging how wide a company's moat is is the hardest thing an investor does, and this is the most disruptable period in history.

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  The most difficult analysis to do as an investor is that, is kind of figuring out how wide is the moat, how much at risk is the business to disruption? And we're in, I would say, the greatest period of disruptability in history.

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Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.

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  AI-generated writing is already fairly good but still lacks the direction and insight of human editors.

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  As of today, computers write pretty good articles but lack the direction and insight of human editors.

  Encyclopaedia Automaticastevecoast.com

Marriage and family therapist working from attachment theory and emotionally focused therapy. Author of Secure Love and the person behind The Secure Relationship.

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  Attachment Style Quiz

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  Take the free Attachment Style Quiz and get personalised insight into how you connect, where your patterns come from, and your next step toward secure love.

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Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.

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  The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

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  With soulful curiosity channeled in his ever-lyrical prose, Pico Iyer chronicles a lifetime of pilgrimages to some of Earth's greatest shrines to that longing in The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

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Founder of Amazon in 1994 and of the space company Blue Origin in 2000.

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  An inventor's highest ambition should be that the invention is eventually taken for granted and stops being seen as an invention at all.

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  That's an inventor's greatest dream, is that their inventions are so successful that they are one day taken for granted. Nobody thinks of Amazon as an invention anymore. Nobody thinks of customer reviews as an invention.

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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.

From one piece GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Among the leading candidates for greatest economist of all time, Adam Smith was analytically the weakest, save perhaps Malthus.

  economists

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  Of all the contenders for GOAT, Smith seems to be clearly the worst economist, with the possible exception of Malthus.

  tylercowen.com

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  Milton Friedman was the best economist among the plausible candidates for greatest economist of all time.

  economists

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  Friedman has one big factor in his favor, namely that he is clearly the best economist on the list of contending names.

  tylercowen.com

Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.

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  King: A Life

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  King: A Life, is a clear and direct biography of one of our greatest citizens.

  seths.blog

Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.

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  The single greatest risk of AI is not AI itself but that China wins global AI dominance and the United States and the West do not.

  ChinaAmerica

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  The single greatest risk of AI is that China wins global AI dominance and we – the United States and the West – do not.

  Why AI Will Save The Worldpmarca.substack.com

Medicinal chemist; has written In the Pipeline, the drug-discovery blog, since 2002, and the “Things I Won’t Work With” posts about chemicals that try to kill you.

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  We have neither the data nor the insight to use machine learning to pick drug targets that succeed in the clinic more often.

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  But we do not have enough data and we do not have enough insight to use AI/ML to pick better targets that have a higher chance of succeeding in the clinic.

  AI and the Hard Stuffweb.archive.org

Founder of Pinboard; writes Idle Words — talks and essays on the web, aviation, politics and travel.

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  Planetary protection rules will keep astronauts on Mars away from everything on Mars worth studying.

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  The phenomena of greatest scientific interest on Mars (gullies, recurrent slope lineae, intermittent methane sources, and underground water) will all be off-limits to astronauts.

  Why Not Marsidlewords.com

American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.

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  The War of Art

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  Before I start any book project, I take a few hours and re-read The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, maybe the greatest book ever written on the creative process.

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Biochemist at University College London; writes about the origin of life and the role of energy in evolution, in The Vital Question and Transformer.

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  Oxygenic photosynthesis was the single greatest pollution event in the whole history of the Earth.

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  So you’re using the power of the sun to split water, take out the hydrogen, stick it onto CO2, and the oxygen is a waste product and you just throw it out, throw it away. So it’s the single greatest planetary pollution event in the whole history of the earth.

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Research psychologist, instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making; developed the recognition-primed decision model, the PreMortem method and the ShadowBox training method, and wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't.

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  Organizations sincerely believe they want insights and still suppress them, because insights are disorganizing.

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  What blocks insight is that organizations say they want insights and they want innovation and they really don't. But they're they're being serious. They think they want insights. But insights are disorganizing.

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Release engineering manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. Keeps a public log at tylercipriani.com of every book he reads, with a rating and notes.

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  An Elegant Puzzle

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  I read this book because I read Will Larson's blog and newsletter and they're frequent sources of management insight. This book reads like a collection of blog posts with smooth transitions.

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Product leadership coach and writer of the “Ask Gib” newsletter. Former VP of Product at Netflix and Chief Product Officer at Chegg; speaks and runs workshops on product strategy.

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  How I Built This

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  Like my startup books, each of these podcasts gives insight into product and strategy.

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American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

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  Greenlights

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  I was impressed with the depth and insight in this memoir. I hate to say it, but you rarely expect much from celebrity books. This one delivered though.

  markmanson.net

Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

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  CodeTrack

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  CodeTrack is a free .NET Performance Profiler and Execution Analyzer. It works on basically every version of .NET and will give you massive insight into how your code is running! The flamegraph view is fantastic.

  hanselman.com

Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  Antifragile

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  The book that’s had one of the greatest influences on my thinking. If you enjoy the content on this site, you’ll love Antifragile.

  nateliason.com

Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  Lean Startup Marketing

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  One of the hardest things about starting a business is getting your early customers. After that, you have to find a way to *scalably* acquire those customers at a cost you can afford (i.e.- profitably). Fortunately, there are thought leaders like Sean Ellis. This is collection of Sean's greatest wisdom on his startup marketing blog, updated with even deeper insights. A must read if you're just starting out on a new internet venture.

  jasonevanish.com

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  Iconoclasts

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  I read this because I was curious what sets the greatest entrepreneurs apart from everyone else? Where do they get their inspiration and how did they do it? While this book isn't completely satisfying, it does provide a number of interesting insights into the likes of Steve Jobs and other such icons.

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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  The Dialogues of Socrates

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  Socrates remains the greatest foundational influence on philosophy, and to understand his method, you have to read his dialogues. The rhetoric is brilliant, and at times, even hilarious.

  nateliason.com

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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  Assembling other people's products was never mere assembly: it trained the engineers who now drive the marginal innovation in hardware.

  Their words

  First, even if most of the workforce learns little, a few thousand line engineers become the world’s greatest experts in electronics assembly.

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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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  Apollo 11

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  It's well worth a watch, to see what it looked like at the time, but I also found it almost anticlimactic to watch: With the benefit of history there's no real uncertainty or tension about what will happen, and the format gives the viewer disappointingly little "behind-the-scenes" insight into just what it took to make the mission go off

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