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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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  AI data centers function mainly as a new way to sustain natural gas demand for an oil-and-gas industry facing declining gasoline demand.

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  one way to understand a data center is that it's a device for burning natural gas, the latest excuse (after Ukraine and Iran) for the fuel that Big Oil is counting on to keep its business model afloat even as the world turns away from internal combustion cars and crude demand begins to drop.

  The Two Horsemen, Riding in Formationbillmckibben.substack.com

Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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  Once a technological arms race begins, escalation can be hard to stop even if it leaves everyone worse off.

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  Once an arms race has begun, strategic uncertainty means that it may be difficult to prevent escalation, even if it ends up making everyone worse off.

  The downside of robot solutionismprogrammablemutter.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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  Reproductive incompatibility between diverging human lineages grows roughly as the square of their separation time, because it takes pairs of interacting genes.

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  there's as populations become more apart, there begins to be biological incompatibilities rapidly developing, probably as the square of the distance separation, because you need pairs of interacting genes, and therefore it's the square of the separation.

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American author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and The Undoing Project, and host of the podcast Against the Rules.

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  Until you know how a story ends you cannot know how it begins, and that is why a book with material but no shape cannot be written.

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  I just don't know where this is going. I don't know what the end is. When I don't know what the end is, I don't know what the beginning is. And it's that simple.

  10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)youtube.com

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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  It is only in dense cities that land dominates the price of a home, and there the land is expensive because of the rules limiting what can be built on it.

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  It’s only in dense urban areas that the cost of land begins to dominate the cost of new housing, driven by regulatory and zoning restrictions that limit how much housing can be built in a given area.

  What Makes Housing So Expensive?construction-physics.com

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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  Moonwalking with Einstein

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  The book Moonwalking with Einstein explores humans' relationship to memory, our ideas of knowledge, and how that's shifted over time. But it begins with an exploration of competitive memorization and the techniques used by memory champions.

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Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

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  Poor internal quality begins to slow a team down within a few weeks, so almost no project is short enough for cutting corners to pay off.

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  Developers find poor quality code significantly slows them down within a few weeks.

  Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?martinfowler.com