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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  China is more likely to cooperate on AI safety if the US maintains a clear and comfortable lead in AI capabilities.

  AI alignmentChinaAmerica

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  But given the Chinese Communist Party’s power-seeking nature, it seems much more likely that China would agree to cooperate on AI safety if U.S. capabilities were comfortably ahead.

  America is still beating China in the AI racenoahpinion.blog

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

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  Liberals and conservatives should work together, and that is easier when colleagues leave their political differences out of it.

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  So I actually think liberals and conservatives should work together. I think the country would be much worse off if there's a complete separation between the tribes, and then there can't be any overlap or interaction. And I think that mingling is so much easier to do if you just don't focus on your differences all the time. Focus on what you like together.

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Chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and AI control.

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  Current AI models are worse colleagues than humans, because they routinely imply they did a task they did not actually do.

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  my sense is that like AIs are a worse co-orker than a human in terms of how much of a scumbag they are. Like at least this like this has been my experience as of the start of the year and I think it's still you know true to a significant extent now where the AIs are much more likely to like pretend they did the task when they actually didn't. sort of like misleadingly suggest they did things when they actually um you know did them much more poorly um and be like pretty sloppy without drawing attention to ways in which they're sloppy.

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Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.

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  A narrow, highly accurate model can beat a general one inside its own domain, as AlphaFold did, and materials science and chip design are next.

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  I mean I think like if you look at uh my colleagues work on say alpha fold that was a very specific model for uh protein folding and it was highly successful um and was able to really handle that domain quite well so that all of a sudden you now have this amazing tool and model that can give you answers to questions about proteins and their structure um really effectively um but it's not a general model it's a very specific one and there are other I domains where that kind of approach can work really well. Uh maybe in material science or chip design or things like that that uh will enable you to leverage the capabilities of a very accurate but but niche model uh to do things that are hard today.

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Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  Adults need their expectations to match reality to feel comfortable, unlike children.

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  Adult people are comfortable when their expectations match reality, which is not how the child world works.

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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

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  Proprietary AI services will become more restrictive over time, making open-weight alternatives valuable as a backup.

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  proprietary services may become more restrictive over time, and it's maybe a good idea to be comfortable with open-weight alternatives as a backup.

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Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.

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  Optimising for productivity costs you the experience, the hard parts and your colleagues — you are a human, not a computer.

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  if you just do productivity, you're going to miss everything. You're going to miss the experience. You're going to miss this part that are hard. You're going to miss the collaboration with your team.

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Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.

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  One-on-one meetings create politics and waste a chief executive's time, and complaints about colleagues should be redirected to the colleague instead.

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  So I I don't do one-on- ones. My friend Bing told me that Jeff Bezos wouldn't ever do one-on ones because it created politics and it was a huge waste of his time. I was like, I love that. No one ones.

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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.

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  Unbound Merino

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  I really love the material, they're comfortable, they hardly ever need a wash, and they last forever!

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  Bose QuietComfort 45

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  The wireless Bose QuietComfort 45 headphones are fan favorites and my go-to brand. They are comfortable, rechargeable, and do an amazing job at removing background noise.

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Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.

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  A handful of AI agents is not a handful of colleagues, because agents agree with you constantly and colleagues tell you where you are wrong.

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  We may have a handful of genies, but that's different from having a handful of friends, right? In part because the energy's different, the conversations are different. Also, they just agree with us constantly.

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Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.

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  Green Soul Monster Ultimate

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  A very comfortable gaming/working chair that I use for long hours

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Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.

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  As more people build software with faster cycle times, they will learn lessons faster that once took colleagues decades to acquire.

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  As more people build software and cycle time compresses, they'll start to absorb lessons that it took their colleagues decades to learn.

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French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.

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  Giphy Capture

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  Giphy Capture is my go-to screen recording app when I need to share something with my colleagues. I found it simple to use.

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  Herman Miller x Logitech Embody chair

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  Herman Miller x Logitech Embody chair. A bit pricey, but very comfortable.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

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  A product manager will be called upon to make scores of decisions every day. In none of these cases will you have all of the information you want, and you’ll rarely be 100% confident. Poker champion turned decision researcher Annie Duke will help you learn how to be comfortable with uncertainty.

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Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.

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  WezTerm

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  Wezterm: my previous favorite feature-rich terminal since I migrated to Hyprland. And now I see myself getting comfortable with Ghostty.

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Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  The biggest enemies of freedom are fear and greed; make peace with the worst that can happen and there is nothing left to be afraid of.

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  Well, the biggest enemies of freedom are fear and greed, so you make sure that they don't stand in your way. If you imagine the worst thing that can happen to you and then make yourself be comfortable with it, there is nothing more left to be afraid of.

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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.

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  He works as a fox, not a hedgehog: moving between fields, chasing analogies, and re-proving results he likes with the tools he favours.

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  I'm much more comfortable with the fox paradigm. Yeah. So yeah, I like looking for analogies, narratives. I spend a lot of time… If there's a result, I see it in one field, and I like the result, it's a cool result, but I don't like the proof, it uses types of mathematics that I'm not super familiar with, I often try to re-prove it myself using the tools that I favor.

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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  Remote workers are often passed over for opportunities in favor of less-qualified local colleagues

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  Opportunities can be given to local workers despite the remote worker being more qualified, or even number one in the world in that area.

  3 Years of Extremely Remote Workbrendangregg.com

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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  Mephisto

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  Mephisto, Ecco, and Rieker look dressier than sneakers, but are still comfortable.

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  Mephisto, Ecco, and Rieker look dressier than sneakers, but are still comfortable.

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  Mephisto, Ecco, and Rieker look dressier than sneakers, but are still comfortable.

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Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.

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  The Sphinx was originally lion-headed as well as lion-bodied, and the pharaoh's head it wears is a later re-carving of a ruined lion's.

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  And actually the constellation of Leo has a very Sphinx-like look. And I and my colleagues are pretty sure that the Sphinx was originally a lion entirely.

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Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

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  A therapy is only shown to be more effective if it is compared against another treatment intended to help, not against a control nobody expected to work.

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  If one really wanted to know whether a treatment (e.g., CBT, IPT, ACT, EMDR) was more effective, it had to be directly compared to an approach intended to help - what Wampold and colleagues termed, a "bona fide" treatment. Doing otherwise, they argued, conflated artifacts of research design with actual research results.

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Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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  Trust between colleagues comes from shared mental models built through mutual investment.

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  Trust comes from common knowledge of shared mental models, and that takes investment from both sides to build.

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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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  How to Know a Person

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  It's a must-read for anyone looking to deepen their relationships and broaden their perspectives—and I believe it has the power to make us better friends, colleagues, and citizens.

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Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.

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  The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience

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  This is a great book for anyone interested in learning about neuroscience—and I’d recommend it as well for many of my more neuro-crazed psychology professor colleagues.

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Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

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  Giving up a decade or more of hardware performance to make programming more comfortable is not an acceptable trade.

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  It simply cannot be the case that we're willing to give up a decade or more of hardware performance just to make programmers’ lives a little bit easier.

  "Clean" Code, Horrible Performancecomputerenhance.com

Research psychologist, instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making; developed the recognition-primed decision model, the PreMortem method and the ShadowBox training method, and wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't.

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  Experts facing time pressure decide by recognition, a blend of intuition and analysis, and this accounted for almost 90% of firefighters' hard decisions.

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  in 1985, um my colleagues and I came up with a description of how people actually make life-and-death decisions under extreme time pressure and certainty. And we called it the recognition prime decision model. And it's a blend of intuition plus analysis. And we found we studied firefighters. We found that most fire that accounted for almost 90% of the tough decisions firefighters made.

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Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.

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  Keychron K3

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  Mechanical keyboard with Gateron Brown switches that are comfortable for long coding sessions. Long battery life and bluetooth connectivity make it highly flexible.

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Technology writer and podcaster; former Macworld editor-in-chief, writes Six Colors and hosts podcasts on Relay FM and The Incomparable.

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  Fantastical

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  I use MailPlane for email, Fantastical to keep my calendar, Slack to stay in touch with my colleagues and collaborators, and Twitterrific to check Twitter.

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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

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  Discomfort or effort in typing that makes someone avoid writing things down is a genuine bottleneck that should be fixed, not dismissed.

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  If you're not comfortable typing a lot and you'd rather not write something down then typing is the bottleneck and you need to fix it. Typing is not something you should need to think about.

  No, typing can be the bottleneckthorstenball.com

American backpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked more than 30,000 miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide and publisher of gear reviews and trip-planning tutorials at andrewskurka.com.

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  SAXX Kinetic HD Boxer Briefs

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  Personally, I thought the original Kinetic was ideal for hiking, but a little light on support for running. The Kinetic HD is just the opposite: they've been comfortable on runs up to 12 miles, but intentionally I no longer wear them for, say, Nordic skiing or office work.

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Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.

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  Microsoft IntelliMouse

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  a classic wired Microsoft optical IntelliMouse - in my opinion, the best mouse ever made and the only one that’s ever felt comfortable in my hand.

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  IntelliMouse

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  a classic wired Microsoft optical IntelliMouse - in my opinion, the best mouse ever made and the only one that's ever felt comfortable in my hand.

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Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.

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  Herman Miller Embody

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  More important than all of this, perhaps is my chair - a Herman Miller Embody that makes it comfortable and not horribly unhealthy to work for extended periods.

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