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19 September
Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.
17 September
Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.
16 September
CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.
Occasionally, an interview has a very special energy to it in the room which reads as “this person is telling me the truth” in a special way. It’s rare. This was one such “true” conversation. One of my personal favorites. Video is important. Quoting @patrick_oshag My conversation with Michael Moritz, one of the great venture investors of the last 40 years. Michael joined Sequoia in 1986 and co-led the firm with Doug Leone (@dougleone) from 1995 to 2012. His investments include Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and Stripe. His new book, Ausländer, traces his parents' es… energy Related
15 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.
Artist and developer who makes esoteric software, games and tools aboard a sailboat as part of Hundred Rabbits with Rekka Bellum; creator of the Uxn virtual machine and the Orca livecoding environment.
I've been scratching my head trying to think how to package assets for my #lispGameJam project, I really REALLY wanted to be able to inline assets as raw hex code, like I normally do for uxn projects, not have to read binary files, so I added a special form with square brackets that lets me to just that! This is the first sprite(a little arrow) I was able to store in my source code. Related
14 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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migrations (e.g. replacing one service with a new one, or switching database engines, or whatever) are part and parcel of software engineering and are a skill that you should invest in and get good at, not avoid or treat as special one-offs.
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12 September
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
11 September
Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
Still processing from yesterday's event (one of the most meaningful days of my life)— more to come—but a few quick things for now: 1. Thank you to everyone who came. You are what made it special. 2. There's so much need for IRL community. I've rarely felt this kind of pull for anything I've done. Wow. 3. All of the talks will be posted to my YT channel in the coming weeks. Get excited. 4. An unbelievable thank-you to the @Stripe team for helping me put this event on. It takes something special to create an event with 1,000+ PMs that has such great vibes. If you think they're great at payments… Related
10 September
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
9 September
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
Javier Gomez-Serrano will give a special lecture at Harvard this Friday on recent developments in fluid mechanics: cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
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5 September
Writer and programmer; co-founder of the software studio Postlight and author of the Bloomberg Businessweek essay What Is Code?
Bluesky provides a mobile web view that runs great on my four-year-old phone and never pushes me to download an app. That is special and appreciated and I hope it continues. Related
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
4 September
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
1 September
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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Training tiny models for special purpose use cases works so incredibly well if you have a great self improving recursive flywheel.
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29 August
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
A bit rich for Senator Bernie Moreno — by far the #1 beneficiary of crypto super PAC spending in 2024, now a champion of the industry's legislation — to accuse anyone of caping for special interest super PACs #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics crypto Related
28 August
Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.
26 August
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.
👇 we're paying for 20 folks to fly in across the world to attend SF Tech Week in Oct and attend our special events focused on global founders details below Quoting @tkexpress11 it’s live! we’re flying 20 top builders from around the world to San Francisco for Tech Week Oct 5-11th Applications for the Global Founder Sprint by @speedrun are now live What? - up to $3K to cover travel costs to SF (by @Airwallex) - small dinner with a16z investors - invites to VIP a16z events… startups Related
21 August
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
16 August
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
“Nobody ever achieved suspension of disbelief in a Gwar concert.” (On staging weird stories without special effects,) Related
15 August
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
14 August
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
AIE NYC CFP wave 1 acceptances are being finalized today. last day to get in for wave 1! https://t.co/ldei0UywCk our NYC event last year was the most successful summit we've ever had. excited to head back to 🗽 bigger and better than ever - note the special requirements for our mainstage finance keynotes Quoting @aiDotEngineer 🗽 AI Engineer returns to NYC! Oct 12-14, a beautiful time to visit. Tickets go on sale soon, but the Call for Speakers is now open! https://t.co/E3ojLGFbTg If you do leading AI work in NYC, especially for AI x Finance, speaker applications for AIE NYC 2026 opened today. For mainstage keynotes, we… Related
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
12 August
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
If you’re struggling to get hold of special eclipse glasses, then you can always look at the shadow it produces through a colander. This worked well for us last time. Related
7 August
Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.
4 August
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
#BigWalk is out now in all regions on Steam, PS5 (free on PS Plus), Switch 2, and Mac App Store! It's something really special. Hope you can round up a friend or ten and enjoy! ❤️ youtube.com
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30 July
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
In this special episode of Lives Well Lived, I am the guest on my own show. Recorded shortly after my 80th birthday, Kasia and I discuss how my ideas have changed, whether philosophy can help us live better, and what moral progress requires from us now. 🎧 Listen to the full episode, link in bio. Related
18 July
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
8 July
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
4 July
American historian of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust; author of Bloodlands, On Tyranny and On Freedom, and writer of the newsletter 'Thinking about...'.
23 June
Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.
15 June
Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.
9 May
Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.
29 April
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
A special week: I had the privilege of seeing two outstanding Hungarian scientists I deeply admire—Katalin Karikó @kkariko and Réka Albert—inducted into the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC. Join me in congratulating them both! @theNASciences America Related
7 April
Scientist and writer on quantum computing, memory systems and metascience; co-wrote the standard quantum computation textbook and wrote Reinventing Discovery.
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his expertise seems to be getting in the way. He knows so much, he understands so much, um and then he's not able to let go of these these things.
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Um and so, it's not a big leap to realize, "Oh, we have a big problem here." Um and so, you know, that's kind of the that's the forcing function there. It's it's you've realized that your old explanation is not sufficient. You need something new.
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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.
2 April
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
25 March
Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
11 March
Programmer and essayist who has worked at Amazon, Google, Grab and Sourcegraph. Best known for the long-form essays collected as Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants.
12 February
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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there’s like a line to walk between being seriously concerned, but not fearmongering because fearmongering destroys the possibility of creating something special with a thing.
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4 February
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
So this happened… Remember: They’re not conscious! Had a great time on CBS today talking about AI agents, how they operate, and more! Special appearance by Reachy cbsnews.com
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28 December 2025
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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Swift’s build infra is good enough for most things these days. codex knows how to run iOS apps and how to deal with the Simulator. No special stuff or MCPs needed.
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12 December 2025
Assyriologist and curator at the British Museum; reads cuneiform, and wrote The Ark Before Noah and The First Ghosts.
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It is actually a special place because you cannot point to another museum in the world with the same task. For example, the Louvre is basically a museum of art, basically a museum of art, not a museum of ideas.
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9 December 2025
Vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, the advertising agency; author of Alchemy (2019) and the Wiki Man columnist at The Spectator.
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it doesn't matter how good the drink is if people think you've bought it for $8.95 it's not doing the job it's supposed to do which is to signal generosity to signal hospitality or to mark a special occasion
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26 November 2025
Writer of kottke.org, one of the oldest blogs on the web, published since 1998 and supported by its members. He writes about art, technology, science, design and visual culture.
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Fantastic Four. It was ok? Aside from a few things, I’m having trouble getting excited about post-Infinity Saga Marvel. There was just a special alchemy about that whole arc that is proving impossible to reproduce. (B)
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18 November 2025
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
12 November 2025
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
Yeeeehaw! Houston, the FIRE Movement has arrived on your airwaves via this great little Fox special that Heather Sullivan @Fox26Heather put together. Nicely done and thanks for the opportunity Heather! Quoting @HeatherSulliTV Wish you could retire early? More people are following the principles of the F.I.R.E. movement, living more simply in order to save and invest more money, and ultimately retire early. Here's how they do it! @mrmoneymustache Related
30 August 2025
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
This ChinaTalk podcast felt special because @jordanschneider had me hold his one-year-old just before the recording, encouraged both of us to reflect on our time in Beijing, and tolerated my remarks on how sentences must be wreathed in splendors chinatalk.media
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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
28 July 2025
China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.
1 May 2025
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
Why We Think Special thanks to John Schulman for a lot of super valuable feedback and direct edits on this post. Test time compute (Graves et al. 2016, Ling, et al. 2017, Cobbe et al. 2021) and Chain-of-thought (CoT) (Wei et al. 202…
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22 March 2025
Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.
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You kind of Google and you try to solve a problem in the language based on all of your previous experience. And so you don't have what makes that language special. You have what all the other languages make special.
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4 February 2025
Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.
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I recently interviewed Mike Huemer on his new Progressive Myths. To repeat, I consider it “the best book on wokeness.” You know you’re reading a special book by page 3
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9 December 2024
Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill and Karen Pirie novels; former journalist and broadcaster.
Still puzzling what to buy the reader in your life for Xmas? Pop along to In the Company of Books with me and @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social plus special guests Paula Hawkins and Alan Cumming to hear about our recommendations! Sunday 15th, 4pm, Assembly on the Mound. Good craic guaranteed Related
19 June 2024
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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What makes humans special though, is our curiosity. Even if AI’s cracked this, it’s us still asking them to go explore something. And one thing that I feel like AI’s haven’t cracked yet, is being naturally curious and coming up with interesting questions to understand the world and going and digging deeper about them.
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11 March 2024
Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.
Happy to see that our work on diffusion model objectives (https://t.co/0qJRyangWX) is starting to get noticed, with e.g. Stable Diffusion 3 (https://t.co/vHxqwLH0eY) building on our result that the flow matching objective can be simply understood as a special case of diffusion. Related
5 February 2024
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
12 January 2024
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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Edith Hamilton’s The Greek Way is a wonderful discussion of what made the Greeks so special, what they can teach us and how they thought about life.
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28 December 2022
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
I just published a new course on Svelte & SvelteKit @sveltejs You can get it with a special discount from this link: udemy.com
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20 January 2021
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
4 October 2020
Founder of Pinboard; writes Idle Words — talks and essays on the web, aviation, politics and travel.
Protests and Power In August 2020, the New York Times asked me to write an op-ed for a special feature on authoritarianism and democracy. They declined to publish my submission, which I am sharing here instead. When the George Floyd prote…
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24 August 2020
General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. SPACs are all the rage, and everybody and their bro…
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1 August 2020
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
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A special dishonorable mention goes to Slack, which can easily suck away a quarter of your time without you noticing. If you use Slack and you haven’t disabled the “unread messages” badge, stop reading this post and do it now.
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21 April 2020
Self-taught home cook and food writer who has run the Smitten Kitchen recipe site since 2006; author of four cookbooks.
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For special cooking, or simpler bean dishes that really glow up with better ingredients, I use Rancho Gordo.
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22 February 2020
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
Check out my new course "The Complete GitHub Actions & Workflows Guide" with a special discount when using this link: udemy.com
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