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Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.

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  It is worthwhile to pause and think critically about what other people tell you before accepting it

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  Second, it is never a bad idea to stop and think for a moment about what other people tell you.

  Why the story of the Vegetable Lamb was believedtimharford.com

Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  Antithesis

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  @AntithesisHQ – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. https://t.co/AKYm4cbVCU

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  AntithesisHQ

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  @AntithesisHQ – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. https://t.co/AKYm4cbVCU

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

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  openclaw

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  amazing out-of-the-box integration for both Hermes by @NousResearch and @steipete's @openclaw

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  Hermes

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  amazing out-of-the-box integration for both Hermes by @NousResearch and @steipete's @openclaw

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Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner and its Symphony engine.

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  The engineering that lives in engineers’ spreadsheets is really baby software, and it should be written as real software, with the testing and integration that implies.

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  We said all of this engineering that historically exists in spreadsheets really should exist in software. The spreadsheet engineering is like it's like baby software.

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Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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  Fastmail

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  Email: Fastmail (referral link). I love it. The UI, the company's style, the calendar interface, the integration with 1Password.

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Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.

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  NixOS

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  The way that I use this daemon is that I run it on NixOS as a service, accepting requests on port 6000.

  vitalik.eth.limo

Writer of MacSparky and author of the MacSparky Field Guides on Apple productivity software. A lawyer for 30 years before going full-time on the site, he co-hosts the Mac Power Users and Focused podcasts.

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  NotePlan

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  NotePlan is more conservative, but it’s a native Mac app, which makes it easier to use on mobile and gives you all the traditional Mac benefits like Shortcuts integration and proper window management.

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Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  When politicians or executives offer a choice between two bad options, refuse the frame: reframe the question instead of accepting responsibility for either.

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  I believe this is the right answer. We're often being manipulated by politicians, by corporate leaders to make a choice from two suboptimal options. And then when we are forced to make this choice and we make this choice, it's almost as if it's something that we have to assume responsibility for. I don't think we should be buying into that.

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Philosopher at Oxford; co-founded effective altruism and 80,000 Hours, wrote Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future, and now works on what a good future would actually contain.

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  Working on how good the long-run future is does not require accepting consequentialism or believing that you should always maximise the good.

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  But I don’t claim you should always maximize the good, no matter the self-sacrifice, and no matter what means are involved.

  Introducing Better Futuresforethought.org

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

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  Vim

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  This approach has even revived my usage of Vim, which lacks AI integration.

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Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.

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  The old Canada-US relationship, built on ever-deeper economic integration and tight security cooperation, is over.

  America

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  The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over.

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Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI, and author of Co-Intelligence. Writes One Useful Thing, where the claims are dated and testable because the thing they describe keeps changing under them.

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  Gemini

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  Gemini’s advantage is a family of powerful models including reasoners, very good integration with search, and a pretty easy-to-use user interface, as you might expect from Google. It also has top-flight image and video generation.

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Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.

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  Handing out cheques during Covid and accepting the inflation was less damaging than price controls and rationing would have been.

  inflation

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  We got inflation, but we did not get the devastation that would have been caused by price controls and rationing.

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Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.

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  The Russian Empire acquired a sixth of the Earth by integrating conquered elites rather than their peoples, and nationalism is what made that model fall apart.

  Russia

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  The elites would be integrated, and the empire was based on the state loyalty and the state integration. But once you bring in the factor of nation and nationalism and language, then, once in a sudden, the whole model of the integration of the elites, irrespective of their language, religion, and culture, starts falling apart.

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Journalist and author writing on politics, liberalism and ideas; a contributor to Quillette and co-author of a book on Christopher Hitchens.

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  Effective altruism demands hard evidence of effectiveness in some of its causes while accepting abstract conjecture in others, and never justifies the split.

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  While there are interesting theoretical arguments for these causes, there’s a disconnect between an almost-neurotic focus on hard evidence of effectiveness in some areas of EA and a willingness to accept extremely abstract and conjectural “evidence” in others.

  How Effective Altruism Lost Its Wayquillette.com

Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.

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  The right response to lacking the ideal tool is to improvise a solution from what's on hand rather than accept you can't proceed.

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  It's important to look around you for solutions instead of accepting the current unavailability of options.

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