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

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  Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works

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  I prefer and recommend this over the canonical "Lean Startup"

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Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.

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  Manufacturers generally prefer cutting per-unit production costs over retooling a design for small improvements.

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  Over time companies would vastly prefer to decrease the cost per unit rather than retool for a small tweak.

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Chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and AI control.

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  An AI should be built as a fiduciary, the equivalent of a lawyer for its user, rather than as an agent pursuing its own notion of the good.

  Anthropic

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  I do I do think that I wish that sort of my preferred constitution or like the way I would orient towards this like the thing I would prefer would be more like Claude is like look it would be structurally good for the way this technology work like the constitution should be like it would be structurally good for the way this technology works to be that AIS are like good fiduciaries, good representatives, the equivalent of a lawyer for a user

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Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.

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  Even as AI makes building software easy, people will still prefer to buy some software off-the-shelf rather than build their own.

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  My guess is that people will still want to buy certain types of software and tools "off-the-shelf."

  The value of software in a Fable worldjustinjackson.ca

Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

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  Naming the movement 'agile' was a mistake, because the word is indefensible: nobody will ever admit to not being agile, while nobody claims to be an extreme programmer without having done the work.

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  what I don't like about it I didn't like about it then and still don't like about it is it's not defensible. Nobody's going to say I'm not agile. Oh no, I prefer rigid development. Oh, I prefer inflexible development. No, everybody's going to say that they're agile, which extreme doesn't have that problem.

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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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  Even if AI curates better, people will still want a human curator they have a relationship with, because wanting to learn something is a social phenomenon.

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  I think we would always still prefer like a human that we had a relationship with because the way that we get motivated to be interesting interested in things is a social phenomenon.

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Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

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  HUANUO Dual Monitor Stand

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  I prefer using monitor arms over the default stand that most monitors come with, and at the end of 2022 I switched to the HUANUO Dual Monitor Stand. It's a single mount with two monitor arms, and it holds the monitors in place nicely. Each arm is flexible in where I can position them.

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  1Password

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  If you're not using a password manager, you're doing it wrong. I prefer to use 1Password. I honestly don't think I could live without 1Password. Having access to all my vaults across all my devices is also a plus.

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  Spark Mail App

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  On both my MacBook and iPhone, I prefer to use the Spark Mail App for handling my emails.

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  TablePlus

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  In the past, I've used DataGrip from JetBrains to manage my databases. Now, I prefer to use TablePlus, as it is much simpler to use.

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  Logitech MX Master 4 Mouse

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  Even when not docked, I still prefer an external mouse for most operations. I really love the Logitech MX Master 4 mouse. For me, it feels great to hold, and it also provides support for some macOS gestures like swiping up for mission control.

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Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."

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  Human preference is not an equation you can package by asking which of two answers people prefer; it is personal, cultural, geographic and generational.

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  I don't think that human preference is just an equation that people can just like package nicely and like, "Hey, ask people like which which of these two answers people would prefer?" It's very very personal, very culturally dependent, geographically dependent, age dependent.

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American budget-travel writer who publishes as Nomadic Matt. Author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day; runs nomadicmatt.com, a long-running site of destination guides, packing advice and gear recommendations.

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  Flash 55

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  My favorite bag is the Flash 55 from REI (I actually prefer the slightly smaller Flash 45, but it's been discontinued).

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  Kindle

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  Personally, I prefer physical books when I travel. However, I can't argue against the convenience and simplicity of the Kindle.

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Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.

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  Next.js

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  I now use different languages for different tasks. For web development, I prefer the Next.js stack.

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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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  Companies should offer dual career tracks so product managers can advance without becoming people managers.

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  Companies should embrace multitrack job ladders for product managers who prefer product leadership to people management.

  Best Books for Product Managers [2026]bringthedonuts.com

Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.

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  Hard Drugs

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  And if you prefer podcasts, may I suggest Hard Drugs

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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

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  The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

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  Stevenson is best known as a novelist, but I think I prefer his nonfiction: he had an interesting life and was interested in lots of things, and the sentences are marvelous and daring.

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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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  Most people will keep paying for software rather than build and maintain their own.

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  Good software requires maintenance and ongoing attention, which is why most people will still prefer to pay to use something someone else is maintaining.

  The Past and Future of Vibe Codingnateliason.com

Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  Claude Sonnet

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  I exclusively use the cheaper Sonnet model. It’s perfectly adequate for my needs, and in fact, I prefer its outputs over the more expensive Opus model.

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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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  American cities chose subways over elevated railways knowing they cost two to four times as much, because nobody would live under an el.

  America

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  Cities began to prefer subways to elevateds, despite the fact that they were two to four times as expensive to build as elevated trains.

  Why we stopped building subways cheaplyworksinprogress.news

Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.

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  GitHub Dark Default

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  I prefer dark VS Code themes. My current theme is GitHub Dark Default.

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Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.

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  TailwindCSS

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  Side note for CSS, I'm cool to use what ever tech available out there that makes my task done quickly & well, I have personally used Bootstrap 3 & 4, Bulma, Lostgrid, Materliaze, Skeleton, Tailwindcss, Styled-components, emotion, CSS modules, Tachyons & made my own micro CSS framework called Unnamed that has over 200 stars on GitHub. Still I prefer using Tailwindcss.

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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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  Nuclear-powered data centres are this decade's hydrogen car: a zero-emissions story incumbents prefer because it changes the least.

  data centers

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  Some efforts, like nuclear-powered data centers, are reminiscent of Toyota's hydrogen push.

  How to Make Off Grid Data Centers Affordableaustinvernon.site

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  Weaker AI models match stronger ones on simple prompts, but strong models are increasingly preferred as prompts get more challenging.

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  One pattern is that for simple prompts, weak models can do (nearly) as well as strong models. For more challenging prompts, however, users are much more likely to prefer stronger models.

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Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  The best opportunities to do good are the ones almost nobody is paying attention to.

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  These skewed priorities are the exact problem that effective altruism exists to solve - or the exact inefficiency that effective altruism exists to exploit, if you prefer that framing.

  In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruismastralcodexten.com

Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.

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  Breaking changes should be released frequently in small batches rather than saved up for one big yearly major version.

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  I actually prefer more frequent major versions with smaller sets of breaking changes. There is a real danger in saving up all your significant changes and releasing them in one whopping major version once a year.

  Major Version Numbers are Not Sacredtom.preston-werner.com

Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

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  Stereotypes of the past lead people to misperceive attitude change, and those misperceptions can legitimize policies people may not actually prefer.

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  Overall, our findings suggest that widely shared stereotypes of the past lead people to misperceive attitude change, and these misperceptions can lend legitimacy to policies that people may not actually prefer.

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