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Graphic designer and type designer, who created the original Macintosh icons and typefaces at Apple from 1982 and has since designed interface graphics for NeXT, Microsoft, Facebook and Pinterest.

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  An abstract symbol is harder to remember than one whose metaphor reinforces the concept it stands for.

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  it was abstract and sometimes abstract things can be harder to remember and then something that has a metaphor that reinforces the concept.

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  A plain drawing of a pencil stands for writing better than a glossy realistic pen, because the more detail an image carries the more particular the thing it depicts.

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  which is why I think like a simple drawing of a pencil can stand for writing in some ways better than a chrome pen with a reflection, which is real very fancy, but it's a very particular kind of pen that not everybody might write with.

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Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass, known for 'epistemic spot checks' of non-fiction claims.

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  When a bureaucracy never issues a formal refusal, there is no decision to argue against, only endless shadowboxing.

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  If the city said no we could have an argument about procedures and decisions, but as it stands its all shadowboxing.

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Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

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  Remembering Indonesia from My Grandpa

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  What stands out about Hsieh's version is that her roots occupy such a unique spot in history: her grandparents were Chinese born in Indonesia, which means they got caught between the rock of the Cultural Revolution and the hard place of anti-communist backlash.

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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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  NVIDIA can be a three-trillion-dollar-revenue company in the near future, because nothing physical stands in the way.

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  And then the rest of it, to me, is: is it possible for NVIDIA to be a, you know, $3 trillion revenue company in the near future? The answer is, of course, yes. And the reason for that is because it's not limited by any physical limits.

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

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  If every element in an interface is marked as distinct, none of them actually stand out.

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  To stand out, things need to be different. But if everything has an icon, nothing stands out.

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Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.

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  The Complex World

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  This book goes deeper, surveying where complexity science stands today.

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Chief executive of Alphabet and Google; joined Google in 2004 and led Chrome and Android before taking over in 2015.

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  AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on, more profound than fire or electricity, and he still stands by having said so in 2017.

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  Many years ago, I think it might've been 2017 or 2018, I said at the time, AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on. It'll be more profound than fire or electricity. So, I have to back myself. I still think that's the case.

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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

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  Vertical farming swaps a land problem for an energy problem, and the energy cost is what stops it feeding the world.

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  What stands in the way is energy demand. Growing crops indoors is energy-intensive. So we’re really swapping a land problem for an energy one.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  What stands between us and cheap lightweight vehicles is that they are illegal, not that they are hard to build.

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  Cheap, lightweight people movers are currently illegal in many situations, so regulation is a barrier.

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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 Great Sphinx and the megalithic temples beside it date to about 12,500 years ago, thousands of years before dynastic Egypt.

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  We are pretty sure that the Sphinx, at least, does date back to 12 and a half thousand years ago and with it, the megalithic temples, the so-called Valley Temple, which stands just to the east and just to the south of the Sphinx and the Sphinx temple, which stands directly in front of the Sphinx.

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Archaeologist of the Maya and the ancient Americas; directs the Maya Exploration Center and presents the ArchaeoEd podcast.

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  Andean religion was essentially monotheistic: one fanged creator deity stands behind cultures separated by thousands of years.

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  But he is the one creator deity, in my opinion, through all of these cultures. And the people in the Amazon still talk about him there. His name is Viho Masse in some groups, but they say that his emissaries on earth are the jaguars and that he is the creator deity.

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