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Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.

From one piece Where’s the Beef (Coming From)? 2 beliefs · paulkrugman.substack.com

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  The Trump administration is trying to undo even the most essential functions of government and turn the country back to the 19th century or before.

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  It’s an administration that’s trying to turn us back to the 19th century or before. It’s really just trying to undo even the most essential functions of government.

  Where’s the Beef (Coming From)?paulkrugman.substack.com

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  Food safety regulation is an essential government role that cannot be left to the private sector or to individuals doing their own research.

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  And this is not something that you can leave up to the private sector. It’s not something where you can do your own research. It’s a very complicated world out there. And the informational burden of trying to figure out whether the people responsible for your package of hamburger are actually following safe procedures, that’s beyond everybody.

  Where’s the Beef (Coming From)?paulkrugman.substack.com

Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives

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  Words are tools to hide truth. I can’t say much about these recordings and books by Alan Watts. It wouldn’t be fair to do so.

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Professor at Stanford working on robot learning and meta-learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence.

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  Letting a robot imagine the next image helps, but it is not essential — the model was surprisingly good without it.

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  uh the we found that that leads to improvement and we saw in the shirt folding example we saw like a quantitative bump from using that sort of imagination compared to not using it. At the same time I think that the model actually performed surprisingly well without that as well.

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Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group; wrote Inspired, Empowered and Transformed on how product organisations work.

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  The product role remains essential in the AI era, whatever the tools become.

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  Ben’s article serves as a great reminder of why the product role is so essential, and is likely to remain essential.

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Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.

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  Consistent roast color in sample roasting is essential for making fair, informed green-coffee buying decisions.

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  Roast quality and color can have a big impact on perceived cup score and buying decisions, so if you are serious about choosing the right green for your company, it is a good idea to do your own sample roasting, using a system that yields your preferred roast level consistently.

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Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.

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  Any one person or small group placed at the top of the hiring funnel will bottleneck the whole organisation, so first-round review should be distributed across the company as a vote.

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  And so we can distribute the voting across a lot of the company for this initial review, which is essential because if you're doing anything cool, by the time you get a couple years into it, that top of funnel is overwhelming. And if you place any in any small group of employees or any one person in the way as a bottle bottleneck on this, they will absolutely bottleneck the whole rest of the organization.

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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.

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  Details are the essential substance of human communication, creativity and productivity.

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  Details are the very heart and substance of human communication, creativity, and productivity.

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Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.

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  Success now requires combining the best human intelligence with the best artificial intelligence

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  I believe that the path to success is best achieved by putting the best human intelligence together with the best artificial intelligence and that the way of thinking I am describing here is essential to understand and use in the new human/artificial intelligence era.

  Principled Thinking and AI Need to Go Togetherraydalio.substack.com

Musician and writer; answers readers' questions weekly at The Red Hand Files, and fronts Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

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  Suffering is not an interruption of a good life but the ground the good things grow out of.

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  Suffering is the essential and nourishing ground from which all the delightful gifts of life emerge.

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Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.

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  Blueprint Longevity Mix

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  These are in the Blueprint stack including Essential Capsules and Longevity Mix

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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  The effectiveness of a plot twist depends on how carefully a story's point of view relates to its audience.

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  Point of view is essential for effective twists. Contrast Frozen with Fight Club, where the narrator's unreliability works because the entire story flows through his perspective and he maintains a direct relationship with the audience through fourth-wall breaks.

  Frozen's Lie: How a Tiny Detail Can Ruin a Storynateliason.com

Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  Maths is essential schooling: it trains you to split big problems into small ones and to think for yourself, the same skill programming, project management and founding a company need.

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  Yeah. I still think math is essential. It's something that shapes your brain, it teaches you to rely on your logical thinking to split big problems into smaller parts, put them in the right sequence, solve them patiently, trying again if it doesn't work.

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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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  China Talk

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  When this is good and on point, it is very, very good, and provides essential perspective I couldn’t have found elsewhere, especially when doing key interviews.

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Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  Rest

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  A refreshing counterargument to our culture's obsession with busyness, showing how deliberate rest is an essential component of the good life.

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  In Praise of Idleness

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  A collection of timeless essays from philosopher Bertrand Russell, including his famous 'In Praise of Idleness' which challenges our obsession with work and argues that leisure time, properly used, is essential for a fulfilling life and a better society.

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American travel writer and broadcaster. Runs Rick Steves' Europe and writes the guidebooks, packing advice and travel-tip articles published on ricksteves.com.

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  Money belt

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  Money belt. This flat, hidden, zippered pouch — worn around your waist and tucked under your clothes — is essential for the peace of mind it brings.

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Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.

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  Telegram urges people away from default-encrypted messengers while refusing to build the features that would encrypt its own users.

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  Indeed, it no longer feels amusing to see the Telegram organization urge people away from default-encrypted messengers, while refusing to implement essential features that would widely encrypt their own users’ messages.

  Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.com

Biologist at the MIT Media Lab; invented CRISPR gene drives and then spent years arguing for safeguards against their misuse and against engineered pandemics.

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  Every synthetic DNA order should be screened for hazardous sequences and shipped only to researchers whose work a biosafety authority has approved.

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  That makes it essential to ensure that all synthetic DNA orders are screened to determine whether they contain hazardous sequences, which should be shipped only to legitimate researchers whose work has been approved by a biosafety authority.

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Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  Not the End of the World

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  His life and work have influenced my own tremendously—and just a few pages into Ritchie’s essential and hopeful new book, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, it became clear that she was carrying on his tremendous legacy.

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Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.

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  As models keep scaling up, modularity will become essential to how they are developed.

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  Given the trend of pre-training larger and larger models, we believe modularity will be crucial.

  Modular Deep Learningruder.io

Psychotherapist who trained with Jeffrey Young from 1989 and founded The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and the Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. Wrote Disarming the Narcissist.

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  Schema Therapy Training Institute video series

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  This video series is grounded in an understanding, both conceptually and practically, of the essential value of the therapy relationship in schema therapy

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Licensing is a political and social construct, so an unlicensed profession can still be doing engineering.

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  licenses exist because we are part of society and have legal requirements, not because they are essential to what it means to do engineering

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Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up

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  If you're deep into building a company, or serious about building something that lasts, this is an excellent read. Written by a man who has built multiple $100Mn+ revenue companies. He has a great, matter of fact language and lessons that are key to the most essential parts of building a business. This is a must read for any serious founder.

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Author of The Talent Code, The Little Book of Talent and The Culture Code, writing on how skills and group cultures are built.

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  The Power of Moments

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  You should check out Chip and Dan Heath's new book, which is essential reading for anybody who cares about culture and leadership.

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Mathemusician and video maker known for the Doodling in Math Class series; directed the eleVR virtual reality research group at the Communications Design Group.

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  MouseRug

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  My mousepad is a MouseRug. It is essential to my mental health that my mouse live on this tiny Persian rug with fringe and everything.

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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  Minimizing network round trips is essential to a good user experience, because bandwidth keeps improving and latency will not.

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  The bandwidth capacity of your users' connections might improve noticeably, as it steadily has, but the latency needle won't move much at all. This means that minimizing the number of roundtrips you make to display information on page is essential to great user experience and responsiveness.

  7 principles of rich web applicationsrauchg.com

Industrial designer; head of design at Braun from 1961 to 1995; designer of Vitsœ's 606 shelving system; author of the ten principles for good design.

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  Good design is as little design as possible: less, but better, because it concentrates on the essentials.

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  Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials.

  Dieter Rams: ten principles for good designvitsoe.com