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19 September
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.
This is lovely. Quoting @unfortunatalie.bsky.social "My house and his house are two different houses, territories overlaid and overlapping. Our topographies don’t yet mesh; we are both creeping around each other’s edges, living together but apart." My first few weeks with a cat. nothingbutawordbag.substack.com/p/where-a-ca... Related
President of the French Republic since 2017.
Bonnes Journées européennes du patrimoine à toutes et à tous. Nos monuments, nos paysages, nos forêts, nos savoir-faire et nos traditions : notre patrimoine raconte notre histoire et fait vivre nos territoires. Depuis 2017, nous avons fait de sa sauvegarde une priorité. Restaurer, protéger, faire renaître. Avec la Mission Patrimoine et le Loto du patrimoine, avec une mobilisation exceptionnelle de la Nation, nous avons agi partout en France pour préserver cet héritage commun. La renaissance de Notre-Dame de Paris a montré ce dont nous sommes capables lorsque nous unissons nos forces. Cet élan… English, from French Happy European Heritage Days to all. Our monuments, our landscapes, our forests, our know-how and our traditions: our heritage tells our story and brings our territories to life. Since 2017, we have made its preservation a priority. Restore, protect, revive. With the Heritage Mission and the Heritage Lottery, with exceptional mobilization of the Nation, we have acted throughout France to preserve this common heritage. The rebirth of Notre-Dame de Paris has shown what we are capable of when we unite our strengths. This momentum…
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Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
The EAs I know are generally lovely people, smart, thoughtful. I have a very low p(doom). I know many people with one much higher than mine. I believe each is sincere. AI safety debates are getting heated. Let's assume sincerity and good will of people we disagree with. AI alignment Related
18 September
President of the French Republic since 2017.
15 September
President of the French Republic since 2017.
Très fier de rencontrer à Orange les jeunes de la première promotion du Service national. Se former. Faire corps. Se dépasser. Servir la France. Pour cette année de lancement, 3000 jeunes volontaires de 18 à 25 ans serviront pendant dix mois sous l’uniforme, avec le statut militaire. Face au retour des menaces, nous continuons de renforcer nos armées. En dix ans, leur budget aura doublé. Nous renforçons aussi notre capacité à tenir ensemble. En assurant des missions utiles à notre défense, le Service national y contribue. Il rapproche notre jeunesse de ses armées et donne à une génération les… English, from French Very proud to meet the young people of the first cohort of National Service at Orange. To train. To bond. To push themselves. To serve France. For this launch year, 3,000 young volunteers aged 18 to 25 will serve for ten months in uniform, with military status. Faced with the return of threats, we continue to strengthen our armies. In ten years, their budget will have doubled. We are also strengthening our ability to stick together. By carrying out missions useful to our defense, National Service contributes to this. It brings our youth closer to its armies and gives a generation the…
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14 September
President of the French Republic since 2017.
Aux côtés du Premier ministre irakien Ali Faleh Al-Zaidi, qui a choisi la France pour la première étape de sa tournée européenne. Un choix qui compte et montre que la France peut jouer un rôle d’équilibre. Agir pour la stabilité de la région, c’est défendre les intérêts des Français. Sécuriser nos approvisionnements énergétiques en travaillant à la désescalade et en développant des routes alternatives au détroit d’Ormuz, c’est réduire la pression sur le prix à la pompe. Développer notre coopération de défense et de sécurité avec nos partenaires, c’est continuer ensemble la lutte sans relâche… English, from French Alongside the Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Faleh Al-Zaidi, who chose France for the first stop on his European tour. A choice that matters and shows that France can play a balancing role. Acting for the stability of the region means defending the interests of the French people. Securing our energy supplies by working towards de-escalation and developing alternative routes to the Strait of Hormuz means reducing pressure on pump prices. Developing our defense and security cooperation with our partners means continuing the relentless fight together…
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11 September
Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
Good question, even if framed too aggressively. But the answer is no. During QE, given the zero lower bound that prevented further decreases in policy rates, the ECB bought long maturity national bonds, including those of France, so as to decrease long-term interest rates and help countries, including France. Now, as we are away from the lower bound, there are few reasons to keep as many of them. As these are sold (or not rolled over at maturity) through QT, this indeed likely increases long rates a bit and makes it harder for France to adjust. If selling these bonds turns out to be strongly… Quoting @RobianoAntoine Le raisonnement paraît juste mais - L'annulation de la dette détenue retirerait à la BCE l'une de ces nombreuses sources de pouvoir exorbitant, celui de revendre des titres de dette publique d'un Etat pour contraindre politiquement ce dernier ? interest rates Related
Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
President of the French Republic since 2017.
Vingt-cinq ans. Le 11 septembre 2001 demeure gravé dans la mémoire du monde. Nous n’oublions ni les vies fauchées, ni le courage de ceux qui ont tout risqué pour porter secours. Aux victimes, aux familles, au peuple américain, j’exprime l’hommage de la France et sa fraternité. English, from French Twenty-five years. September 11, 2001 remains etched in the world's memory. We do not forget the lives lost, nor the courage of those who risked everything to help. To the victims, to the families, to the American people, I express France's tribute and its fraternity.
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Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY; co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.
A really lovely GRID VIEW is coming to Basecamp 5 shortly. We had a grid view in 4, but it wasn't any good and I didn't want to drag it into 5. Had we done that, we'd have called it done and never revisited. By intentionally leaving it out, we allowed pressure to build to bring it back. And with no legacy to battle or revamp, we were able to return to the drawing board and make something so much better, from scratch. Coming to a Basecamp near you. Soon. Related
9 September
Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
Inigo Fraser Jenkins (@AB_insights) on why the US track record isn't the whole story: Rank markets by market cap in 1899: the US and UK compounded beautifully. Japan, Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, France? Effectively wiped out. "There is this inherent survivorship bias in the way people think about long-run returns." Listen: https://t.co/mfnaUo1DNT Watch: youtube.com
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8 September
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.
x.com As news breaks of another robbery from a museum in France, it's probably timely to reshare this article I wrote about museum security after the heist at the Louvre last year. bbc.com
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7 September
Art critic, broadcaster and author; wrote on art for The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph and presents BBC art documentaries. Author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.
On the 11th November this year I will be heading back to the lovely Chipping Campden's Cidermill Theatre, to talk about someone other than Vermeer! Please join us for a relaxed evening talk. cidermilltheatre.com
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6 September
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
1 September
Author and journalist writing on food, plants and consciousness. Professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of its Center for the Science of Psychedelics.
Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.
Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.
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who has such lovely work. If you fall in love with it as I have, note that she sells greeting cards on her site. (Just fyi, no commission to me.)
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31 August
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
x.com The latest issue of my newsletter is out! We've got a lovely quote, a fun practice coding question, a punny joke, my latest hobby deep dive, and mooore. Check out the archive and subscribe: cassidoo.co
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24 August
Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.
21 August
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
x.com Had a lovely time talking with Marcia Dawood about angel investing, building @signedco, investing in sports, and how AI can help unlock all three of those. Yes, I used `unlock`. That's how you know it's business-oriented™. Full episode is on YouTube: youtube.com
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Bluesky Had a lovely time talking with Marcia Dawood about angel investing, building Signed, investing in sports, and how AI can help unlock all three of those. Yes, I used `unlock`. That's how you know it's business-oriented™. Full episode is on YouTube: youtube.com
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19 August
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
I got my Retroid Pocket Nova today and it's exactly as lovely as I hoped it would be 🥺 Retroid's own dual-screen accessory also feels very nice with it. Excited to dig in Related
14 August
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
10 August
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
I made a conscious effort to unplug during my vacation. Coming back, I noticed the lovely new Substack feature: Scan for AI text. Coincidentally, I had updated the About section for my Substack a while back with some notes on what my blog is *not*: "## What this isn’t Content creation isn’t my job. I write these articles because I a) love to write, and b) care deeply about our profession. It’s a fun hobby, not a job. Consequently, I don’t feel any pressure to publish on a schedule. I’d rather publish less and maintain a higher quality bar. So far, that has worked out to roughly one article pe… Related
6 August
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
Outburst Just had a little trip up to my favorite city of Juneau, Alaska. So lovely. Here's just one story from the trip.... chriscoyier.net
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22 July
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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The French and Germans will ban Tesla FSD to protect their car industry that's being decimated by Chinese EVs and Tesla Allowing Tesla full self driving would make it so popular that it'd probably the end of their car industry Because no French or German car has self driving like Tesla, many customers would probably flock to Tesla
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12 July
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
The will to power will return In the 1980s, France started 43 nuclear reactors across 14 sites. On average, each reactor took just seven years to build. Forty years later, all but one of these reactors are still running, and they continue to produce…
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7 July
Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.
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the temperatures seen in France show that climate models continue to underpredict the magnitude of heatwaves for a particular level of global warming.
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1 July
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
The Pacific Northwest is lovely. I'm so grateful my ankle has healed enough that I can finally hike again. Related
29 June
Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.
24 June
Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.
15 June
Music critic of The New Yorker since 1996 and author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This and Wagnerism.
4 June
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Heading back to Portland after a hard but energizing week at BUILD. What a lovely team. Related
23 May
Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.
I've been reading Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart novels on and off, each is about a specific topic in Second Empire France and all have some striking contemporary parallels or relevant insights. Most recent was Money (or L'Argent) which is about private credit. Review link below. Related
16 February
American budget-travel writer who publishes as Nomadic Matt. Author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day; runs nomadicmatt.com, a long-running site of destination guides, packing advice and gear recommendations.
14 January
Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.
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I also read critic Michael Dirda's On Conan Doyle, a lovely short book I'd never heard of that I spotted on the shelf at the library — hooray for the serendipity of the stacks!
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22 December 2025
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
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Notting Hill, in addition to being just a lovely little romantic comedy about two people from entirely mismatched stations in life, trying to negotiate a space in the world they might get to call their own, is one of the best films out there showing at least a little bit of what it’s like to be famous to everyone, everywhere, all the time, forever and ever, amen.
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7 December 2025
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
Oooh lovely! A Tiny Desk concert by Air. A band I've never seen live but really should have. youtube.com
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30 September 2025
Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.
Europe
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Because today, if you take France for example which is a beautiful country with a lot of talented people, but public expenses are 58% of the country's GDP, it's maybe as much more than in the latest stage of the Soviet Union.
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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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I think this situation, this historic wrong that’s been done is, put simply, is just a gigantic PR mistake for France. There’s no entrepreneur that sees, that aspires to be the next Pavel Durov to create the next Telegram, sees this and wants to operate in France after seeing this.
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19 September 2025
German writer and historian; wrote Blitzed, on drug use in Nazi Germany, and Tripped.
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Because the French also had a drug regulation. They received three quarters of a liter of red wine per man per day. So, of course, at night they're going to be sleepy on red wine, and the Germans were on meth and they were just running over them.
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24 May 2025
Historian of the Second World War; wrote Normandy '44 and Brothers in Arms, and co-hosts the We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast.
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James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles | Lex Fridman Podcast #470
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I mean, if ever there is, I think, a mistake that’s Britain and France should’ve been a bit more into realpolitiks than they were. It’s such an opportunity to ensure that, to snooker the Third Reich, and they don’t take it.
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There is just no stomach to do that again. So that makes them risk averse. And by being risk averse, you’re actually taking a far greater risk. That’s the irony of it.
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I mean, the reason why France is subdued in 1940 is 50% brilliance of the Germans and their operational art in that particular instance, and 50% French failure really, and incompetence.
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1 December 2024
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
31 August 2024
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Then use free and lovely rsync to synchronize: rsync -av --delete desktop:/home/me /home/
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26 August 2024
Founder and editor of Techdirt; coined the Streisand effect, and writes on platform liability, speech law and copyright.
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But, here, it’s hard not to see that as totally pretextual: an excuse to arrest Durov over other stuff they don’t like him doing.
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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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Coup de Chance (France) 3.0 Full of tastefully done scenes filmed by Vittorio Storaro, but somewhat inert and lifeless. For a major director, Woody Allen has surprisingly little feel for the art of cinema—a fact that is usually covered up by his clever dialogue. Working in French he seems out of his comfort zone (or is it the subtitles?) The dialogue seems less sharp, more predictable.
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4 March 2024
Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.
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So, Ukraine is the country where there is no right or far right in the Parliament. We can’t say that about Germany, we can’t say that about France, so that’s just one more way to stress this unique place of Ukraine in that sense.
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26 December 2023
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.
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A wonderful idea for a book and brilliant execution as she lives from Medieval France to modern day.
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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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This is incredibly interesting because from our perspective, we have forgotten (if we ever knew) what went into the process of taking the thousands of villages and regions differing in all sorts of ways
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22 August 2019
Writer and programmer; co-founder of the software studio Postlight and author of the Bloomberg Businessweek essay What Is Code?
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It is a shameless, down-to-the-packaging ripoff of the before-they-screwed-up-the-keyboard-era MacBook Pro, and thus just a lovely machine.
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28 May 2019
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.
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Scott Galloway, The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning: Galloway should be familiar to readers as both the brand strategy professor at NYU Stern School of Business, a regular guest on Masters in Business, and as the author of The Four. He usually writes about technology and business, but concern with his students’ life issues led to this 10 minute YouTube video that garnered nearly 2 million views. That became this lovely short book which is likely to be a graduation and holiday gift for years to come.
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19 October 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.
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Now, almost everything happens in Google Docs, except for when I write straight into the Axios or Substack CMS. (Both of which are lovely, WYSIWYG, very simple and easy to use.)
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31 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.
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