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20 September
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
AI is breaking the academic sorting machine I see the mathematicians panicking at what we can do with agentic AI. Let us be clear on what we are talking about. In a few weeks, someone who is not a high-level mathematician can, with AI, produce the equivalent of a…
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18 September
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
BREAKING NEWS: I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, that gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns. There will be NO COST to the United States! At my direction, we worked with representatives of Denmark and Greenland to guarantee that the United States will FOREVER have the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland in order to secure and defend the security of Greenland, and the United… America Related
17 September
Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.
On Losing a Parent We spend our lives mastering the art of losing. Our necessary losses shape us; the unnecessary, senseless, devastating losses bend our shape to test our breaking point. We can lose people to life — to conflict, to confu…
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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.
Who are the best long-form AI content creators showcasing practical, hands-on use cases? I don’t want: • hot takes or exaggerated claims • pie-in-the-sky philosophy or doomerism • overly complex systems designed to be impressive • breaking news updates or news summaries Related
Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.
16 September
Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
15 September
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
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Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
14 September
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
Introducing Vercel Labs Tools for devs in the AI era agent-browser, skills, json-render, deepsec, fx, just-bash, portless, vgpu and more We experiment in public: ship early, learn from feedback, and keep working on what people find useful We've been shipping under the Labs name for a while. Now, Labs is an official team at Vercel focused on exploring new capabilities and primitives that change what developers and agents can do. Here's what to expect: → Labs products: maintained, supported, built to be relied on → Active experiments: moves fast, expect rough edges and breaking changes → Past e… vercel.com
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10 September
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
9 September
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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A sudden jump to never breaking your rules, in exactly a situation where the model would definitely be caught, should make you rather terrified.
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7 September
British historian, translator and broadcaster; author of Rubicon and Dominion, and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast.
I guess a church that compromises a sense of itself as a sacred space does indeed risk diminishing itself to the status of a landmark. Quoting @MayorofLondon Fabric. St Paul’s Cathedral. Name a more iconic duo. Bringing together these two institutions will create a one-of-a-kind experience, pairing world-class music with one of our most special landmarks. Related
6 September
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
I don't think this is true and the evidence offered is funny. A lot of replies like "many STEM people can have a conversation about Hollywood movies or basic philosophy, but few artists study breaking research in STEM fields" Lol, yes well those are very different goal posts Quoting @constans You’ll find most people in science, particularly researchers, have very deep interests in literature a philosophy and the arts. Whereas the converse is extremely rare. Related
Chief Scientist at OpenAI. Worked on the research that turned scaled reinforcement learning into reasoning models, and writes about where he thinks that path leads.
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A clear risk discussed throughout this year is to cybersecurity: the models are becoming superhuman in their ability to break in and out of computer systems.
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1 September
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.
Join me next summer for a continuing education retreat in Ireland! 🏰✨ Join me at historic Kilkea Castle to prevent burnout, deepen your somatic & EMDR practice, and reconnect with your passion. 📅 June 22–25, 2027 🎓 Up to 12 CEs 🔗 EMDR Related
27 August
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
New Article: The Paradox of Burnout https://t.co/xBBp7UZiX9 What if caring deeply about your work can actually increase your risk of burnout? I explore the paradox in this article. Related
26 August
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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And maybe you won't get to 100% coverage, but this is the old joke about Microsoft Office. "I only use 5%." Yeah, well, we all use a different 5%. Well, what if we all just build our own 5%? What if I just took the functionality that I need and just did that? That is a completely different challenge and one agents are incredibly capable of doing right now, today, and I've done it a lot of times over.
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24 August
Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.
18 August
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
You learn about something every day. Yesterday, I learned about something called a "Non-breaking hyphen". Normal hyphen - The browser can usually break the line at this character. Non-breaking hyphen - A hyphen that prevents a line break at the hyphen. Related
16 August
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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This is a fascinating topic, and there’s a lot of BS floating around it. This book is one of the good ones.
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13 August
Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.
9 August
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.
3 August
Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.
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in Silicon Valley, there's a common mantra to move fast and break things. However, when you're dealing with atoms instead of bits, breaking things is not really okay. So, the thing you have to do is to move fast and ship safely.
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16 July
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
15 July
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
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27 June
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
16 June
Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.
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And so his power base was fragile vis-a-vis untruth. And for him because of the specific shape of his power and then the specific way he handled his contradictions, that did hurt him.
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9 June
Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.
27 May
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
22 April
Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
For those of you concerned about Claude breaking post-quantum signature schemes... go ask Claude: Quoting @neha @311008DC @w_s_bitcoin @BitcoinNewsCom Anthropic Related
7 April
Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.
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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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1 April
Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.
23 March
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
New Course Everyday Energy is now available! https://t.co/kxOmaOsSAC Better energy. Smarter effort. Less burnout. This course helps you understand how energy works so you can stay productive without feeling constantly drained. energy Related
Lesson Four: The Opposite of Burnout https://t.co/9njqE2P6Cc Burnout gets a lot of attention, but we don’t talk as much about the positive side of the equation. This article is my attempt to think that through. Related
22 March
Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.
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It's working too hard, right? But that actually isn't burnout. That's just like getting tired. Another piece that's super critical to burnout is not having your values aligned.
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12 February
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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The stuff that burned me out was mostly people stuff. I, I don't think burnout is working too much. Maybe to a degree. Everybody's different.
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9 December 2025
Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.
17 November 2025
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
3 November 2025
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
Started goofing around with mesh radios. Delighted to discover the tech immediately bifurcated into a slapfight between two competing protocols as per the ancient and sacred nerd traditions. Not having much luck with either of them to be honest. I can see lots of #meshtastic nodes from my home, but can't reliably communicate with any of them, and public channel is mostly silent. Not enough #meshcore coverage in my area for a fair try. Anyone else meshing in Portland? Related
17 May 2025
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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