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19 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.
18 September
Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.
A series of bad decisions Sometimes we make poor choices. And, unrelated to that, sometimes bad luck happens. The real problem kicks in after that. One bad decision after another. Choices that compound the problem instead of solving it. Digging…
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17 September
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.
Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
Singaporean writer and author of FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD; blogs at visakanv.com about ambition, writing and thinking in public.
good news: I’m still available for marketing consults (see pinned tweet) Quoting @pmitu terrible news: Marketing (even with the use of AI) is still super hard Related
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.
16 September
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
this sort of tweet is fine. i have the same concerns Quoting @BlakeSNeff I think this is one of the most important facts to be aware of in the debate over Indian immigration: Even relative to other Asian immigrants, Indian Americans are on average very liberal, not just in terms of voting Democrat but also holding particularly left-wing views on specific issues. Indian… Related
so what should i do about it? not tweet about genetics? 🤷🏾♂️ Quoting @ProfBootyPhD @razibkhan "As usual when i get surfaced in some parts of X" - you are too generous to your followers (understandably). Almost every time you post about anthropology and genetics, the same people are there to slurp up every factoid that might support white superiority. Related
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.
As I’ve explained here before, at this stage in my life, my main goal is to pass along the principles and templates I've learned with the hope that they can help others as much as they've helped me. One thing that has been incredibly valuable to me is learning that just because something hasn’t happened before in my lifetime doesn’t mean it won’t happen. So I needed to look not only at what the markets have been doing lately but to also study big events—like debt crises, internal political conflicts, and international wars—throughout history. For example, it was by studying the Great Depressi… wmi.edu.sg
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Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.
Charting the Agentic Garden of Forking Paths Arjun Balaji, Batuhan Duru Yeltekin, and Tian Zheng write: Even with a fixed dataset and research question, data analysis involves many defensible decisions. Understanding how these choices influence the results is scie…
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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.
15 September
Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
op deleted his tweet (thanks I guess) but I get a ton of questions about why I sometimes limit replies, and if you’d like to know the answer you can look below. Quoting @deanwball @sponkostonko I limit my replies when it occurs to me to do so to make it slightly harder for people to threaten me and my family with violence, which happens frequently in my life now. It still happens, but at least with replies limited my wife is less likely to see it. Related
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
14 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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.
My tweet was less about how to do the task, and more about what happens when I tried to use a well-established tool (Google search). Also - isn't the very high failure rate interesting? 'Sometimes makes errors' is one thing. 'Always makes errors' is something else. Quoting @joshgans @TimHarford You need to use a real AI agent to do that task. Google Related
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
13 September
Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
I’m going to delete this tweet and post screenshots here for posterity. I stand by the argument but we shouldn’t fight. This is too important for squealy arguing. I am going to choose to see David’s OP as an olive branch and operate under that assumption. TYFYATTM! Related
10 September
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
Clicking the Grok button is rarely satisfying. If the tweet is “I like grooglefabs” Grok will delightfully tell you “FooBar comments on his love of grooglefabs. A common sentiment among the fabblegrooglers”. I don't want to type “wtf is a grooglefab”. You are meant to be AGI. AGI Related
9 September
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
Been really loving https://t.co/f0OCOuKkjP from @Meta and when I got early access it actually wound up helping me buy a bunch of stuff I would have struggled with otherwise. it has many thoughtful architectural choices around remote browsing ( really interesting UX modality ) and security that I think push the state of the art forward. Related
Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.
people reviewing jasmines tweet before the culture fit interview Quoting @jasminewsun I hear roughly 3 reasons people keep working at AI labs despite believing in ~10% extinction risk: 1) Techno-determinism: Someone will build ASI no matter what, and I can do it better & more safely than China/OpenAI/etc 2) Consequentialism: ASI might kill us, but it also might produce utopia/immort… Related
8 September
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
I spent much of the weekend talking with the team who did this work. Seb--and everyone else--acted with integrity and generosity throughout. Initially we believed the other team had also solved the problem. We wanted to collaborate and do a joint release. When we learned that they had Euler but not Navier-Stokes, we offered to let them go first, to suggest that they should be the ones to get the prize, and optionally for Tristan to be the lead author on a rewrite of the OpenAI proof. We felt it was challenging to offer the same to Levent (an Anthropic employee), who was not willing to talk or… Quoting @SebastienBubeck I would like to clarify a few things: 1) The screenshot is my reaching out to Levent to coordinate our releases. I hope it’s clear from the message that we came in with the best possible intentions. 2) I never ever asked for Levent to be removed from authorship of his own work (as indicated by my t… Anthropic OpenAI Related
7 September
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
6 September
Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.
i built a codex-native that maps your psychology about technological change and then tells you how you'd react to different eras of technology change throughout history JavaScript 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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Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
4 September
Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.
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I think three of us have total conviction about the scaling law. That that I think we do. I do think the exact architecture choices and data mixtures is where the the devils are in the details.
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3 September
Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.
2 September
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.
Where you go in life will depend on how you see things and who and what you feel connected to (your family, your community, your country, mankind, the whole ecosystem, everything). You will have to decide to what extent you will put the interests of others above your own, and which others you will choose to do so for. That's because you will regularly encounter situations that will force you to make such choices. #principleoftheday Related
Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.
I use this Vinod Khosla tweet with apologies to Vinod, since tweets are often out-of-context or emotive, to launch a discussion on the trade-off between scaling up and building business models (profitability) that every business faces. Related
Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
1 September
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
if you feel "too busy" to exercise, instead try finding active moments you can do throughout the day: - walk after lunch - take stairs instead of elevator - choose a parking spot farther away - give your kids an extra piggyback ride - listen to your all-hands call on a walk remind yourself you're doing it to have more energy to be more focused to be more present with your family to live a more enjoyable life whatever it may be energy Related
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
One thing I like about niri and Vim is having choices. There's many ways to do something. You can use the mouse, the keyboard or a combination of both to do a lot of different tasks. It lets you move at the speed of thought. Here's a few examples: nickjanetakis.com
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27 August
Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
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judges and juries have begun to accept the argument that platform design is not covered by either of those, and companies can be punished for harmful features.
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26 August
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
today is the day you stop doomscrolling stay with me - this will take 5mins 1. open the AppStore 2. download "ScreenZen" (free) 3. configure limits (e.g. 4 15-min sessions) 4. start with 1 social media app 5. a few days later, add another 6. repeat until you've added all apps too busy right now? add a calendar event with this tweet and do it this weekend trust me, you'll thank me next month Related
25 August
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
alright i have 2–3 spots left for a free 2-week energy experiment details: - no calls, just text check-ins - one new habit each week - text check-ins “The biggest value wasn’t the advice itself, it was the accountability… One habit in particular, eating a more substantial breakfast, had a noticeable impact on my energy throughout the day.” @_ScottC_ DM me “good energy” if you want a spot! energy Related
24 August
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
this old tweet is getting some likes (why? mysterious), so I re-read it, and still like it. it also applies really well to what I am working on now: I need lots of VMs for agents, but I don't need lots of CPU/RAM. hence @exedev Quoting @davidcrawshaw @danluu one of the big early ideas behind tailscale was a single computer is powerful enough to solve almost every problem, and that this is not widely understood. we need fewer distributed systems and more spreadsheet implementations. Related
18 August
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
Underrated tweet I think it also applies to any software, so long it has users Quoting @solomonstre Rule #1 of open-source: no is temporary, yes is forever. Related
17 August
Emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London; wrote Strategy: A History and Command, and writes about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as they happen.
15 August
Designer and engineer; formerly principal research engineer at GitHub Next; writes at wattenberger.com.
there's something rotten in the air when >90% of the replies to a tweet like this are mean spirited sure, it might not be your thing and it's easy to forget this box doesn't go straight into the void. but can we try to bring more kindness into the world? Quoting @Wattenberger I look away for one week and VSCode got cute?! Related
10 August
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
i wanted to take a second to say thanks today marks 52 weeks of working with @GuiBibeau he's been with me since i launched this side business and i've seen him: - completely change his wellness habits - prioritize sleep, clean eating and always getting his steps in (~45m walks multiple times throughout week) - experiment with new supplements - attend various workout classes (Muay Thai, HIIT, pilates) and he's continued it for an entire year. all while maintaining a digital nomad lifestyle. changing your habits is hard. staying committed over the long-run is even harder. cheers to Gui for insp… Related
9 August
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
It is interesting how little freedom there is in creativity if you take it seriously. If I’m writing a song, I have some freedom when I make the first one or two choices—picking the first section of the melody, say. But after that the form really demands what comes next: Related
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.
Sample Roesting In this post, I’d like to dive into our sample roasting system at Prodigal. Why do we sample roast? If you want to cup samples before purchasing green coffee, you have two choices: ask suppliers for…
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4 August
Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.
I saw Atul's tweet and it made me wonder too. How many establishments are actually compliant? So we asked the FDA. Here's what they say! mid-day.com
Quoting @atulkasbekar Serious question Of all the raids that were carried out on food establishments, were there any places that were given a clear green chit? As in, everything is perfect, well done! I’d really like to know which places were adhering to standards Related
28 July
Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data and author of Just Keep Buying and The Wealth Ladder. Chief Operating Officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management.
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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In fact, if if we are right that AI is going to be such a big change, startups will be much more important to making sure that the power of this technology gets widely distributed throughout the economy and society and is not just concentrated in a few companies or models.
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14 July
Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
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His narrative of the development of decision-making research over the past half-century is rich with personal anecdotes, gentle humor, continuous learning, and profound humility about how prone we all are to misjudge and misunderstand risks.
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13 July
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.
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They get women to sleep with them, but they attract both men and women and cause them to surrender their better judgment and make bad choices in a variety of contexts, including the voting booth.
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Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.
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But her work has shown that when you give people different time perspectives, they make different choices. So if you unfortunately tell someone who's younger that they only have 5 to 10 years left to live, they're going to make choices very much like older adults too.
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9 July
Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.
22 June
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
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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They fell because half of what happens in the world is never in our control. And you can do everything right and it's out of your control, but we have to evaluate what would have happened and therefore we should imitate them, because everything they did was right.
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13 May
Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.
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And so everything is lazy and deferred and functional and reusable inside the compiler. And it's a very different way of writing compilers than than what the textbooks will traditionally teach you.
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28 April
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
25 April
Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
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When a company dominates the market, they capture not only their own users but even the imaginations of people actively resisting them.
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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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Um, there's just too many interesting ways of combining things. There's too many sort of deep ideas waiting to be uh, discovered and when it you know, not only we, but but nobody ever is going to to discover most of them. So, choices about how to make how to do the exploration actually matter quite a bit.
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4 April
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
Farzapedia, personal wikipedia of Farza, good example following my Wiki LLM tweet. I really like this approach to personalization in a number of ways, compared to "status quo" of an AI that allegedly gets better the more you use it or something: 1. Explicit. The memory artifact is explicit and navigable (the wiki), you can see exactly what the AI does and does not know and you can inspect and manage this artifact, even if you don't do the direct text writing (the LLM does). The knowledge of you is not implicit and unknown, it's explicit and viewable. 2. Yours. Your data is yours, on your loca… Quoting @FarzaTV This is Farzapedia. I had an LLM take 2,500 entries from my diary, Apple Notes, and some iMessage convos to create a personal Wikipedia for me. It made 400 detailed articles for my friends, my startups, research areas, and even my favorite animes and their impact on me complete with backlinks. But,… LLMs Related
Wow, this tweet went very viral! I wanted share a possibly slightly improved version of the tweet in an "idea file". The idea of the idea file is that in this era of LLM agents, there is less of a point/need of sharing the specific code/app, you just share the idea, then the other person's agent customizes & builds it for your specific needs. So here's the idea in a gist format: https://t.co/NlAfEJjtJV You can give this to your agent and it can build you your own LLM wiki and guide you on how to use it etc. It's intentionally kept a little bit abstract/vague because there are so many directio… Quoting @karpathy LLM Knowledge Bases Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating knowledge (stored as mar… LLMs Related
12 March
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
🚀 Live from #SREDays #London at Everyman Canary Wharf! 🛳️ Checked in and ready for a day packed with SRE, observability, and production reliability stories. I’ll be sharing highlights throughout the day. #SREDaysLondon #SRE #DevOps #CloudNative Related
22 February
Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.
29 January
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
The cults of TDD and GenAI I’ve gotten a lot of flack throughout my career over my disdain towards test-driven development (TDD). I have met a lot of people who swear by it! And, I have also met a lot of people who insisted that I adopt it, too,…
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25 January
Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.
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I think if you if you tried to find a common thread throughout all this stuff about growth, it comes back to the customer getting value.
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7 January
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
1 January
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
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Nick Lloyd’s The Eastern Front covers the clashes between Imperial Germany and the Russian Empire as well as the Austro-Hungarians against the Italians and the Serbs. Whereas the western front was essentially static throughout the whole war, the east was characterized by the sort of maneuver warfare that most generals had expected to fight.
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22 December 2025
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
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A very useful background read for understanding later Indian history and religions, as well as the more general spread of religion throughout the southern regions of Asia.
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19 December 2025
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
14 December 2025
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
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See's Bridge Mix. My parents had this at their house when we visited in January and we've been buying them throughout the year whenever we come across a See's. The best box to have around the house.
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12 November 2025
Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
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But if someone has made poor lifestyle choices, that's not my problem.
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28 September 2025
Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.
18 September 2025
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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figuring out a document that is actually like sort of all the things that are not platitudes whereas like all the things where someone else like some other company would plausibly take the other side of and but that's but those are the real choices, right? Like if no one would take the other side, it's a platitude.
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14 September 2025
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
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They excel at predicting what a user will click or buy next, but can't be steered via natural language or reason on their choices.
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8 September 2025
Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.
30 August 2025
Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.
13 August 2025
Economist specialising in China's economy, international macroeconomics and global trade, and author of The New China Playbook.
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The US will lead for some time on breakthroughs on disruptive technologies, the zero to one technologies that ultimately change the world. But innovation is a process. It goes from invention to production and commercialization and diffusion, diffusing technology throughout all parts of the economy. And on those two stages, I think that China has a unique advantage, even if it still can’t do the zero to one breakthroughs, because in the end, how much this technology is adopted by the countries and by the various parts of the economy is fundamentally crucial to how much productivity will be unleashed.
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25 July 2025
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
Bluesky New video on the details of diffusion models: youtu.be/iv-5mZ_9CPY Produced by Welch Labs, this is the first in a short series of 3b1b this summer. I enjoyed providing editorial feedback throughout the last several months, and couldn't be happier with the result. Related
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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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There's a point in which all of your choices add up. And I typically find that right around 5 to 10,000 lines of code. The choices you've made either weigh you down or kind of free you up.
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19 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.
3 February 2025
Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.
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The important thing about, hey, is cost a limiting factor here? My view is that we'll have really awesome intelligence, like AGI, before we have it permeate throughout the economy.
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2 January 2025
Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.
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These headphones have a perfectly adequate sound for a decent price. Their long battery time is great for using them wirelessly throughout the day.
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22 December 2024
Astrophysicist at the University of Rochester; works on the search for life elsewhere and wrote The Little Book of Aliens and Light of the Stars.
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But I felt like what this paper showed was that the burden of proof is now on the pessimists. So, that's why we called it the pessimism line. Throughout history, there's been alien pessimists and alien optimists, and they've been yelling at each other, that's all they had to go with.
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10 October 2024
British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
31 August 2024
American science-fiction writer, author of the collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation, and an essayist on artificial intelligence for The New Yorker.
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Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art
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But let me offer a generalization: art is something that results from making a lot of choices.
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What I’m saying is that art requires making choices at every scale; the countless small-scale choices made during implementation are just as important to the final product as the few large-scale choices made during the conception.
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One is to take an average of the choices that other writers have made, as represented by text found on the Internet; that average is equivalent to the least interesting choices possible, which is why A.I.-generated text is often really bland.
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3 July 2024
Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
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The Thief Collector (US) 3.6 This documentary on a pair of art thieves is extremely enjoyable, despite a somewhat clumsy execution in places. Surprising revelations keep popping up throughout its 100-minute running time.
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28 May 2024
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
21 May 2024
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
30 April 2024
Writer and engineer behind the blog Melting Asphalt, and co-author with Robin Hanson of The Elephant in the Brain.
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25 April 2024
President of the French Republic since 2017.
Europe
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My message today is simple. Paul Valéry said, at the end of the First World War, that we now know that our civilizations are mortal. We must be clear on the fact that our Europe, today, is mortal. It can die. It can die, and that depends entirely on our choices. But these choices must be made now.
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25 March 2024
Writer and engineer behind the blog Melting Asphalt, and co-author with Robin Hanson of The Elephant in the Brain.
mind-expanding short story by @etirabys about a "sapient mitotic species" this is a rare piece of fiction that's well grounded in evolutionary biology and psychology i read it about 6 months ago and have re-read it twice since 👇 link in next tweet Related
4 March 2024
Music critic and historian; author of The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Writes the newsletter The Honest Broker on music and culture.
29 June 2023
Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.
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It just predicts what you are likely to re-Tweet and like, and linger on. That’s what all these algorithms do. It’s what Tik-Tok does, it’s what all these recommendation engines do. And it turns out that the thing that you are most likely to interact with is outrage. And that’s a quirk of the human condition.
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19 June 2023
Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
That's my first tweet with @typefully. How come I didn't know about this tool before? 🔥 Related
16 January 2023
Musician and writer; answers readers' questions weekly at The Red Hand Files, and fronts Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
OpenAI
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What ChatGPT is, in this instance, is replication as travesty. ChatGPT may be able to write a speech or an essay or a sermon or an obituary but it cannot create a genuine song.
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13 October 2022
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Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.
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It’s really impressive how Stapledon just casually scatters around handfuls of jewels that lesser authors might belabor singly throughout an entire book.
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13 September 2022
Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.
This tweet stream showcases some of the writing by USV analysts over the years. Though they have moved on to bigger and better things, their writing and their ideas live on at USV and https://t.co/btPOKgjAa4. It is a gift that keeps on giving. Quoting @nickgrossman Reminder that applications are now open for the next class of @USV analysts! One of the ways that USV analysts work is through writing, both about thesis areas and new investments. To give a flavor, here are some highlights of writings by USV analysts over the years: Related
1 June 2022
Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
4 April 2022
Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.
11 January 2022
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.
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It's definitely a book of its time (it was first published in the 1960s), but it introduces plot and style conventions that echoed throughout many adventure titles that followed.
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11 September 2021
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
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This book has been a massive influence on me, as has Dennett himself, throughout my career.
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18 August 2021
Product discovery coach; wrote Continuous Discovery Habits and writes Product Talk.
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Product discovery is a decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout that process.
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5 May 2021
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
30 December 2020
Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.
What does Twitter asymptote to? Consider the following interpretation of Twitter: Twitter is a process that is applied to a human thought vector $x$, a time $t$, and a state vector $c_{t-1}$ which emits a value $tweet$ and a new state vector $c_{t}$.…
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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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Decoded is a semi-autobiographical book that tells Jay-Z's story growing up and finding success in hip hop. It also helps you deeply understand the inner-city ghetto struggles (Jay was actually a drug dealer until age 27). In organized sections of hand picked songs with RapGenius-style lyric explanations (note: Decoded came first), you see through his eyes the difficult choices he and so many others faced while listening to some of his best tracks.
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If you've ever read Malcolm Gladwell's books, you know the formula: 5-10 specific anecdotes and a rule he emphasis throughout. Save yourself some time and read a blog post or review of the book. 4. "Startup Lessons Learned" by Eric Ries (10.12.10)
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This economics thought experiment is a classic book originally written in 1946. Like most books that follow Nassim Taleb's "all books worth reading are at least 20 years old" rule, it has timeless lessons throughout. It tackles all kinds of ongoing political/economic concepts like rent control, minimum wage, tariffs, "saving industries", and more.
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11 June 2020
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
Biohacking Lite Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew that you’re supposed to get some exercise and eat vegetables or something, but it stopped at that (“mom said”-) level of…
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25 April 2019
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
20 March 2018
Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.
15 November 2017
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.
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