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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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  The Japanese concept of wabi-sabi occupies the same conceptual space that beauty does in Ancient Greek thought.

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  Interestingly, in Japanese culture, wabi-sabi represents the same conceptual space as "beauty" does in Ancient Greek thinking.

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

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  The Japanese sensitivity to impermanence known as mono no aware still shapes how present-day Japan appreciates cherry blossoms.

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  This concept is still alive in present-day Japan, where cherry blossoms are viewed with the bittersweet knowledge that their beauty lasts only for a short while.

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Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass, known for 'epistemic spot checks' of non-fiction claims.

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  In California, lack of money is not what stops public beautification projects from getting built.

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  The client was hoping for an instruction manual on buying beauty, but at least in California, money isn't the bottleneck.

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Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.

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  The recipe for great work is very exacting taste plus the ability to gratify it; it is easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty.

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  Could this phrase or sentence or paragraph or section be improved, even a little? That is, can I make myself (on this very localized turf) make myself dislike it less?

  On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com

Geneticist at Harvard; reads ancient DNA to work out how populations moved and mixed, and wrote Who We Are and How We Got Here.

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  A society that intensely values intelligence is unprecedented in human history; the Bible, Homer and other ancient texts value strength, courage and beauty instead.

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  First of all, I think we are speaking from the point of view of a society which intensely values this particular trait, you know, ability to score well on IQ tests or things like them or to go to school for a long time or whatever it is. And I think this is unprecedented in human history that we live in a time like this.

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Cannon

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  The result is something that's beautiful, sharp, critical and lingering. Long after I closed the cover, I found myself mulling over the delicate ways that Lai raised the contradictions, sorrows and beauty of queer love, racial identity, camaraderie, self-control, and self-indulgence. Lai's characters have no answers, only questions that can never be fully resolved. Instead, these questions are the defining puzzles, defeats and triumphs of their lives.

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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.

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  Beyond Beauty: A Portrait of John Singer Sargent

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  There is also Devon Cox, Beyond Beauty: A Portrait of John Singer Sargent

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Every tool is better as a CLI than as an MCP server: models are good at Unix commands, a CLI composes with jq, and MCP output clutters the context.

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  I think the main beauty is, is that models are really good at calling Unix commands. So if you just add another CLI, that's just another Unix command in the end. And MCP is… That has to be added in training. That's not a very natural thing for the model. It requires a very specific syntax. And the biggest thing, it's not composable.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Dropbox

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  Yes, I use Dropbox and GitHub to hold all the data that I care about, but the beauty of these systems is that they work with local copies of that data

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Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.

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  AOC ultrawide monitor

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  This beauty has so much screen real estate it feels like I've got two monitors in one. Which is great, because I'm not a fan of dual monitors.

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  Do not judge a product's beauty by its aesthetics; judge it by how it made you feel.

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  Do not judge a product’s beauty by its aesthetics; judge it by how it made you feel.

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Designer, architect and scientist, who led the Mediated Matter group at MIT and founded OXMAN, a company that builds products in collaboration with living organisms.

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  Beauty is agency: a thing is beautiful because it has agency, not because of how it looks.

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  To me, beauty is agency. To me, something that has agency, it is beautiful.

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