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Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.

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  AI-developing companies cannot be trusted to protect the public from the dangers of their own systems

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  The systems are really dangerous, but we cannot trust the companies that develop them to protect us from them.

  Urgent: Raise the Wage Actstallman.org

Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.

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  Innovations in Psychotherapy Conference

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  Honored to be speaking at the 2026 Innovations in Psychotherapy Conference (Nov 10–13 in Anaheim & Online)! Join us for evidence-based education & practical strategies to enhance your practice. Use code SPEAK26 to save $50:

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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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  Even well-informed AI insiders frequently develop something like "AI psychosis" from engaging with these ideas.

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  Though be very, very careful when speaking with others, whether it be the less informed public or the more informed insiders who often come down with AI psychosis.

  Anthropomorphizing AI?marginalrevolution.com

Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning.

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  Children develop by struggling and failing on the road to success while a caring adult supports them, and school should be running that loop all day instead of leaving it to after-school sports.

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  The key to developing a child is that they struggle and fail on their road to success supported by a caring adult. And you just want to run that loop.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  Japan's loss of innovation is mostly a finance story: companies can no longer get the cheap plentiful bank loans they had in the 70s and 80s.

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  In the 70s and 80s, Japanese companies could get cheap plentiful bank loans to develop new products and explore new markets. Today, they can't. Innovation is downstream of finance.

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

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  Trying to anticipate what AI will look like two model releases from now is a waste of time and a route to AI psychosis.

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  Don't try to anticipate anything. You will literally go crazy. Because even the smartest brains in the business cannot anticipate what two model hops from here is going to look like. It's an absolute waste of time, and you will develop an AI psychosis trying to deduce what two years from now is gonna look like. Focus on right now, and right now is the most incredible time to be into computers.

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Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.

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  emulate

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  New: emulate a GitHub App in a few lines of TypeScript Generated App keys, installation auth and stateful repository APIs Develop locally, test in CI or give sandboxed agents their own isolated GitHub environment

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  Knip

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  Knip is a fantastic tool

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

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  You Are Not So Smart

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  More like a series of blog posts than a cohesive narration, but still a fantastic book about most common cognitive gotchas.

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  Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

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  Feynman was a Teacher. This book is as fantastic as the man himself.

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  The Design of Everyday Things

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  Must read not only for designers, but for software developers too, even if you develop backend exclusively. I wish everybody read it really.

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  The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

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  One of those cases when a nonfiction book can be 10 times shorter, but you don’t really want it to be, since is’s so fun and interesting. Author’s style is fantastic.

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  Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

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  The book that sparked my interest in discrete math and abstract algebra. Other books by Simon Singh are also fantastic.

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

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  Physical AI has to make far fewer mistakes than any AI deployed so far, because it is only useful when it acts autonomously on the world.

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  Uh and this means that they're going to be far more useful when they're operating fully autonomously. And as a result, this requires us to develop physical AI systems that make far fewer mistakes than the machine learning systems that have been deployed thus far.

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  AI-validated pull requests beat human review at exactly the things humans are bad at, which frees the humans to argue about direction instead.

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  It's like they have all the wisdom of their most senior engineers looking at every single diff and that is fantastic. Which means that you don't have to worry about remembering and looking and nitpicking and all the things that we're not good at anyway

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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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  Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

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  Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass. In essence, this is a book about an industry that refuses to learn. That was true 25 years ago when this book was published, and it's probably twice as true today. (Just think about all the AI adoption metrics being rolled out — back to productivity mistaken for lines of code produced, only more elaborate. And expensive). What I like about this book is that Glass doesn't present anything new. Quite the opposite, actually. Rather, it's about research lessons that we all should know, but tend to forget. Ever had to do an estimate, or plan according to a requirements spec? Or maybe you thought that enough eyeballs make all bugs shallow? Then this book is for you. A great work by a fantastic author.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Reviewing agent-written code is risk management rather than reading: how long the change took and how big it is tell you when to look closely.

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  Part of it is just like you develop a little bit of a feeling how long something should take. So if I do a small tweak that should like change how dragging works and it takes three hours, I know something's wrong. I'll look closely. But otherwise, part of code review is simply like observing, looking how big it changes and trusting your gut.

  Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"youtube.com

Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  Coding is not just another application domain for AI; it is the meta-skill that lets AI generate its own training material and start the recursive self-improvement loop.

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  Coding isn't yet another application domain -- it's the meta-skill required for AI to automatically develop its own training material, via symbolic world models. That's how the RSI loop actually kicks off.

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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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  The next frontier of AI lies beyond language, because intelligence in nature ran for 500 million years before words existed.

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  The next frontier of AI as I have been saying is beyond language because again humans develop first preverbally. evolution took, you know, 500 million years without verbal communication

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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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  AI-driven bureaucratic systems will develop their own internal politics and be gamed by the people subject to them.

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  (and it will be gamed - AI bureaucracies will absolutely have their own politics)

  The downside of robot solutionismprogrammablemutter.com

Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.

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  The only style worth having is the one you cannot help; setting out to develop a personal style is the wrong goal.

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  And that there might come a moment, while reading a new, just-edited-for-the-thousandth-time draft, where that true self, or voice, pops out at you, suddenly revealed, as if someone else, not you, had done it.

  On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com

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

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  Software is the only field of human labour with practitioner conferences and freely shared knowledge; every other field has only academic conferences and trade shows.

  open source

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  Software is kind of unique in having the third kind of the practitioner conference where we are just meeting to get better at what we do. We also are really the only kind to really focus heavily on like open source in making our knowledge freely available.

  Formal methods with Hillel Wayneyoutube.com

Founder of Scale AI and, since 2025, Chief AI Officer at Meta, where he leads the company’s superintelligence lab.

From one piece Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A swarm of agents with the right loop and the right metric can already out-produce a team of a hundred engineers.

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  Like I think we've seen internally at Meta um cases where if you can develop the right agentic loop and you have the right eval or the right metric for the agents to optimize, you can have a swarm of agents accomplish more than like a team of 100 engineers in, you know, uh very very handily actually, very very easily.

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  A founder who takes their bearings from what everyone around them is saying will end up nowhere; you have to build your own compass for what the future looks like.

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  you just you can't base your business decisions based on what everyone else is saying around you. Like, if you go too much with the herd, you will get immensely confused and you will end up nowhere. And so you have to develop your own compass of what you think the future is going to look like because everyone else will just confuse you.

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  The only way to build something that matters is to develop conviction in a set of beliefs nobody else agrees with yet, long before they become consensus.

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  I think the the key thing is you need to develop conviction in a set of beliefs that nobody else um agrees with. Like, I think if you look at all the most successful companies in the world, um they were started at a time long before the sort of like core idea was popular.

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  The single most valuable thing a founder can find is a belief they can hold with reason that the conventional wisdom says is wrong.

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  is find the things that you can develop like reasonable conviction in that people decide like the conventional wisdom is they're just wrong. And be okay with it taking a long time and having people be like very you know, very frustratingly wrong and dismissive.

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Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.

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  The engineering intuition that matters cannot be taught from a textbook — you know bad patterns in software because you have debugged them at three in the morning.

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  there's a different kind of intuition that you that you develop over years as a software engineer and uh there's many categories of it but the one I'll I'll call attention to that is like a thing that you cannot teach you cannot do you cannot learn in a textbook. The only way to learn it is like I know bad patterns in software because I have debugged them at three in the morning.

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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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  Believing that ageing goes well is itself protective: people with a positive attitude to ageing live longer and are less likely to develop dementia.

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  And actually, more recent research shows that those who have a positive attitude live longer, they're less likely to develop dementia.

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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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  The best product CEOs stay in the minutiae: micromanaging pixel-level details is not a failure of leadership but the job itself.

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  And I believe the best product CEOs are in the minutia of the details. you know, all the stories about Steve Jobs. I was so impressed when I heard that he insisted on picking out the carpeting in the conference rooms, you know, and and I tried to have that same mentality of micromanaging the really small pixel level details that matter.

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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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  MCP is not a new foundation for anything — it is API design, and Kubernetes was already turning one intention into seven calls a decade ago.

  MCP

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  So I'm looking at this like guys the fundamentals of this isn't like everything is going to change because of MCP. What the hell? A whole conference guys? This is just API design.

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

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  Sony WH1000XM4

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  Headphones: Sony WH1000XM4. The noise-cancelling is fantastic. These just work

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Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.

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  A language does not need a benevolent dictator: if the responsible team does not sign off on a change, it does not happen.

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  Honestly, if the team doesn't sign off on it, it doesn't happen. I mean if something is really contentious contentious or really big it will probably end up being discussed at a conference for example.

  Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com

Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

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  People in industry routinely short-circuit their reasoning, adopting what they heard in a conference talk instead of thinking it through from first principles.

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  Often people in industry I feel like sort of have short circuit reasoning. Like don't maybe don't quite reason something through from first principles but just like oh I heard this from a conference talk I'm just going to go with that

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  The install base is the single most important part of a computing architecture, and everything else about it is secondary.

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  They come to a computing platform because the install base is large. Because a developer, like anybody else, wants to develop software that reaches a lot of people. So, the install base is, in fact, the single most important part of an architecture.

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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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  Moondrop Aria 2

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  Fantastic in-ear monitors, to satisfy my audiophile needs, currently my favorite

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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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  Elon Musk can probably build the cleanroom for a million-wafer fab, but he cannot develop the process technology quickly, because that knowledge is accumulated rather than invented.

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  but I think he can build the uh clean room. It'll take a year or two. Maybe initially it won't be super fast, but then over time you'll get faster and faster at it. But then the really complex part is actually developing the process technology and building wafers. And I don't think he can develop that uh quickly. I think that has a lot of built-up knowledge.

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Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

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  Prisma

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  Prisma - A fantastic ORM for Node.js (I use it with Postgres/SQLite hosted on Fly.io).

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Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.

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  Native OS APIs are worse to develop against than web APIs, and platform vendors discourage native app development.

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  Native APIs are terrible to use, and OS vendors use everything in their power to make you not want to develop native apps for their platform.

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  He runs tests locally and pushes straight to main, DHH-style; there is no develop branch and main should always be shippable.

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  I even switched to local CI, you know, like DHH inspired where I don't care so much more about the CI on GitHub. We still have it. It's still, it still has a place, but I just run tests locally and if they work locally, I push to main.

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  Local-first software will not become the dominant architecture, and that is an acceptable outcome.

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  Local-first is not going to win, but that's okay We'll explore the complexities of traditional stack (db-server-frontend), develop a theory of software evolution: which systems succeed and why.

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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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  The Power of a Positive No: Save The Deal Save The Relationship and Still Say No

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  . Saying no gracefully and firmly is one of the most important skills for a product manager to develop. This is the classic guide for learning to do so.

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  The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

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  This book dramatically changed me as a leader and as a person. It will help you develop self-awareness and connect deeply with your sense of purpose as a leader. If I could recommend one book to help you develop the human skills behind the

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  Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization

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  . Understanding how we grow and develop will help you become a better leader and a more empathetic colleague. More accessible than his academic work, this book also provides a framework for understanding underlying beliefs and motivations that might be holding you back.

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  Strong Product People: A Complete Guide to Developing Great Product Managers

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  Whether you’re a product leader coaching a team member or still early in your product maangement career, Petra Wille will help you break down the essentials of the job and develop a plan for growth.

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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  The Notebook

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  Another favorite of 2025. The author traces the evolution of notebooks, from wax tablets and parchment to paper, and examines how figures like Leonardo, Darwin, and Newton used them to develop ideas.

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  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

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  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Great spy thriller. Gary Oldman is fantastic in this. Cold War? Spies? Britain? I will pretty much watch as many of this type of movie as you can make. (A)

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  A House of Dynamite

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  A House of Dynamite. A very tough watch, but I thought this was fantastic as a tour of some of the different kinds of people who hold the fate of every single person on the planet in their hands every damn day. They’re tired, stressed, distracted, at cross-purposes with themselves, set in their ways, more celebs than leaders, and mediocre. And none of them have ever seen Dr. Strangelove? (A)

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  Fantastic Four

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  Fantastic Four. It was ok? Aside from a few things, I’m having trouble getting excited about post-Infinity Saga Marvel. There was just a special alchemy about that whole arc that is proving impossible to reproduce. (B)

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Designer, illustrator and writer; author of The Shape of Design and of widely read essays on design and the web.

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  AI should be treated as an instrument to play rather than a tool to use, because there is no purpose to better machines if they do not also produce better humans.

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  You use a tool, but you play an instrument. It’s a more expansive way of doing, and the doing of it all is important, because that’s where you develop the instincts for excellence. There is no purpose to better machines if they do not also produce better humans.

  Beyond the Machinefrankchimero.com

Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.

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  Visual Studio Code

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  My primary code editor. Extensible, fast, and has excellent TypeScript support. The integrated terminal and Git features are fantastic.

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German writer and historian; wrote Blitzed, on drug use in Nazi Germany, and Tripped.

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  The Neanderthals lost to us because they had no drug culture — they were too sober for the future.

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  And I think, a lot of evidence kind of points to it that we were able to develop our consciousness in a better way than the Neanderthals, who did not have a drug culture. They were basically too sober for the future. We assimilated them.

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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.

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  City on the Edge

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  It’s fantastic and is going to be a powerful and definitive story of San Francisco from 1990 to the present day.

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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

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  Competition and experimentation among local officials has been a major driver of China's economic growth.

  China

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  China does much better in basic service delivery-and its local governments have also played a very obvious and important in driving growth, thanks to the competition and experimentation among local officials driven to develop their jurisdictions.

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Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind; worked on interpretability at Anthropic under Chris Olah before that, and teaches the field to newcomers.

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  Research taste, the harder-to-learn conceptual skills behind good research strategy, takes a long time to develop but very little time to apply once acquired

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  My model is that research requires a mix of skills. The day-to-day coding and execution is crucial. But there's also a set of harder-to-learn conceptual skills, collectively called research taste. These skills take a long time to gain because they have poor feedback loops, but they take very little time to use.

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  Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

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  Dan Wang suggests in his fantastic forthcoming book, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

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Co-founder and chief executive of Sierra, chairman of the board of OpenAI, and formerly co-chief executive of Salesforce and chief technology officer of Facebook.

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  Even generalised superintelligence will change society more slowly than the AGI community expects, because intelligence is not the only rate limiter.

  AGIAI alignment

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  I don't think all parts of the economy can absorb intelligence equally. So let's just say we develop fairly generalized super intelligence. I always use the analogy like you can invent a lot of drugs, but if clinical trials still take a long time, you're not necessarily going to get new therapies rapidly.

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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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  Useful Fictions

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  the rate of return on considering them, why they might work and what you might want to do with them is fantastic, and it’s a joy to read about it.

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Director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology; an OpenAI board member until November 2023, and writes Rising Tide.

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  Nobody has built a model that resists targeted jailbreaking, so the ability of AI companies to steer their own models is still limited.

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  But no one has (yet) been able to develop a model that is resistant to targeted “jailbreaking” that evades these restrictions.

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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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  Young Money: A Field Guide to Wealth and Purpose in Your Twenties

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  Fantastic memoir of figuring it out in your twenties and alternatives to blindly pursuing the default path.

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  Most of the price gap between o1 and R1 is margin rather than efficiency: OpenAI's inference gross margins are north of 75% because nobody else could serve the capability.

  OpenAI

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  OpenAI has a fantastic margin. When they're doing inference, their gross margins are north of 75%. So that's a four to five X factor right there of the cost difference, is that OpenAI is just making crazy amounts of money because they're the only one with the capability.

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Historian at Stanford and the Hoover Institution; wrote Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative and Goddess of the Market, on Ayn Rand.

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  Milton Friedman is almost single-handedly responsible for there being any political and ideological diversity in the field of economics at all.

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  And almost single-handedly, Friedman will introduce political and ideological diversity into the field of economics because, from his beachhead in Chicago, he will develop the theory of monetarism.

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Energy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition, and was chief content officer at BloombergNEF.

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  Official forecasts consistently underestimate the pace of real-world change, with reality outperforming conservative predictions.

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  Until we develop better ways to bridge this gap - aligning what analysts understand with what is formally forecast - we'll continue to see the same pattern: reality consistently outperforming conservative predictions.

  AI data and Theories of Changenathanielbullard.com

Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

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  Building a business on open source is a good thing; the objection is to trademark abuse, not to commercial use.

  open source

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  I think it’s fantastic when businesses are built on open source, the WordPress ecosystem is at least 10B+ a year; Automattic and WP Engine are less than 5% of that.

  Response to DHHma.tt

Writes about the biotech industry, drug development and forecasting — “I write to learn, mostly about biotech.”

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  Pharmaceutical R&D productivity has fallen for decades: far more money spent per drug, with no matching improvement in the odds a candidate reaches the market.

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  The cost to discover and develop a drug today is orders of magnitude higher than in the 1950s. Despite this, the probability that a drug entering clinical trials will eventually reach the market has hardly improved in the intervening years.

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Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.

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  Stay True

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  Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True: This book is now out in paperback, and you probably don't need me recommending it (it won a Pulitzer), but it is fantastic.

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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.

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  The Great Depression: A Diary

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  This fantastic work is a primary source material to one of the darkest times in American economic history.

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Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.

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  Conference programmes and the tech press over-represent complex architectures, so teams copy techniques their scale does not need.

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  Despite the unreasonable effectiveness of simple architectures, most press goes to complex architectures.

  In defense of simple architecturesdanluu.com

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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  The World-Ending Fire

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  After years of people recommending him to me, I finally took the plunge into the literary world of Wendell Berry. Now I can't help but wonder what took me so long. This 2018 collection of Berry's best essays is a fantastic introduction into his genre-defining polemic style, which mixes razor-sharp commentary with a poetry grounded in lived experience, to argue on behalf of land, the environment, and a slower, richer approach to life.

  calnewport.com

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  Klara and the Sun: A Novel

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  Klara and the Sun is an absolutely remarkable example of how to develop this understanding.

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British novelist, author of the His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust trilogies.

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  Oxford historical thesaurus

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  Have you seen the Oxford historical thesaurus? Fantastic. It must be one of the last great books produced as a printed object.

  fivebooks.com

Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

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  CodeTrack

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  CodeTrack is a free .NET Performance Profiler and Execution Analyzer. It works on basically every version of .NET and will give you massive insight into how your code is running! The flamegraph view is fantastic.

  hanselman.com

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  LINQPad

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  A fantastic learning tool for those who are just getting into LINQ or for those who want a code snippet IDE to execute any C# or VB expression. Free and wonderful.

  hanselman.com

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  Ear Trumpet

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  Ear Trumpet - Fantastic advanced volume control for Windows! If you have ever wished that volume on Windows could turn their UI up to 11, Ear Trumpet is that app.

  hanselman.com

Front-end developer and writer on Svelte, Vue, CSS and WordPress; blogs at joshcollinsworth.com.

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  Notion

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  my current favorite notes app. Can grow and get as complex as you need it to be, but for simple notes, the markdown and code highlight support is fantastic.

  joshcollinsworth.com

American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.

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  Keeping You Awake

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  Keeping You Awake is a fantastic app for preventing your mac from going to sleep.

  joeprevite.com

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  The Bhagavad Gita

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  Fantastic, many similar ideas to Stoicism and Virtue Ethics, though with more mystical elements thrown in. Would highly recommend it as a “first taste” of eastern religion.

  nateliason.com

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  The First 20 Hours

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  This is basically a much worse version of 4-Hour Chef. Kaufman doesn’t bring nearly as much to the table as Ferriss, and it feels a little rushed and under researched. Wouldn’t recommend it if you’re trying to quickly develop skills, I’d read 4-Hour Chef instead.

  nateliason.com

Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.

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  Audio Hijack Pro

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  I use this to record all of my podcast interviews. Fantastic software, highly recommended.

  adamwathan.me

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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  The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

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  David McCullough, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West: Ever since I read The Wright Brothers” (on an earlier summer reading list of ours — and it was fantastic) I have been a fan of the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough writes about. This tale of how the American Northwest Territory was settled looks intriguing.

  ritholtz.com

German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.

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  Ubuntu

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  I primarily develop on Ubuntu. I use Git all the time.

  usesthis.com

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  Bose QuietComfort 35

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  My go-to headphones are wireless Bose QuietComfort 35’s, which are fantastic for when you need to concentrate or you’re just tired of noise from a plane or train.

  usesthis.com

Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

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  Rust

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  Let me close by offering a sincere thanks to those in the Rust community who have been working so long to develop such a terrific piece of software – and especially those who have worked so patiently to explain their work to us newcomers.

  bcantrill.dtrace.org

Wine writer and Master of Wine; Financial Times wine columnist, editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine and co-author of The World Atlas of Wine.

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  The Wines of Bordeaux

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  He was chairman of the Wine Society and wrote a fantastic book called The Wines of Bordeaux, which was an increasingly thick Penguin paperback.

  fivebooks.com

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  World Atlas of Wine

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  The World Atlas of Wine has unrivalled maps. Hugh did a fantastic job, the real spadework, of getting some top quality maps of the world's classic wine regions and many of the new ones. The original editions had Hugh's matchless prose, trying to encapsulate the spirit of each region in surrounding texts, but the maps are the thing, and some photographs.

  fivebooks.com

Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.

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  Nexus

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  Nexus is fantastic.

  x.com

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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  Origin Story

  Their words

  It does a fantastic job distilling the latest thinking about the origins of the universe.

  gatesnotes.com

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  Factfulness

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  Factfulness is a fantastic book, and I hope a lot of people read it.

  gatesnotes.com

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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  Bacon’s scientific project produced almost nothing useful for two hundred years after it began.

  Their words

  It really took two hundred years for Bacon’s academy to develop anything useful.

  On Progress and Historical Changeexurbe.com

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.

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  Behavioral science can matter more in policymaking if practitioners start from large-scale economic questions and develop complementary insights.

  Their words

  Behavioral science can play an even more important role in the policymaking process in coming years if practitioners instead begin with some of the large-scale questions that economic policymakers face and then develop insights that, often as a complement to more traditional policy tools, can help solve them.

  doi.org

Internet artist and programmer; makes bots and small web projects as Tiny Subversions and co-founded the Feel Train studio.

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  Vim

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  Since everything I develop is for the web, I use Vim on the command line, and I run my development servers there too.

  usesthis.com

Norwegian web pioneer who proposed Cascading Style Sheets in 1994 while at CERN, and was CTO of Opera Software. Also runs a small organic farm.

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  Nissan Leaf

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  I drive electric cars: a Think from 2002 (still with original batteries), and a newer Nissan Leaf. Both are fantastic cars.

  usesthis.com

Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.

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  The Silk Road: A New History

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  The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen. I'm going to western China this summer for a math conference, and then we'll go to Dunhuang, an old city on the Silk Road with hundreds of caves full of paintings.

  usesthis.com

British writer of biography and intellectual history; author of How to Live: A Life of Montaigne, At the Existentialist Cafe and Humanly Possible.

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  The Existentialist Reader

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  So this is just a fantastic compilation of existentialist arrows that you might want to follow into different thinkers.

  fivebooks.com

Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.

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  Founders, designers and developers need to develop their taste the way a sushi chef develops a palate, and appreciating culture is how.

  startups

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  Like sushi chefs, we as founders, designers or developers, need to develop our tastes, in order to build things people can be impressed about.

  Jiro’s Dreamkarrisaarinen.com

Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.

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  Apogee Duet 2

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  I'm typically listening to KRK Rokit G2 monitors sourced from the fantastic Apogee Duet 2 DAC.

  usesthis.com

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  Ubuntu Mono Font

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  I edit code in Sublime Text 2 with the fantastic Ubuntu Mono Font in Tomorrow Night colors.

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Founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and co-author of the books Traction and Super Thinking.

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  PuTTY

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  I'm in PuTTY all the time. I like to develop remotely.

  usesthis.com

Interactive narrative designer and critic; author of interactive fiction including Galatea and Counterfeit Monkey, and a long-time contributor to the Inform development system.

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  Inform

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  Inform is the interactive fiction development system I've been helping to develop for the last few years. I use it on a near-daily basis both for my own work and to develop example material and do troubleshooting for other interactive fiction authors.

  usesthis.com

Programmer; co-founded GitHub and was its CEO, and created the Mustache templating language and Resque.

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  Skitch

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  Same thing with Skitch. Fantastic app that changed the way I work with other people.

  usesthis.com