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

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  The programming language is now English, and it is a more beautiful one than Ruby.

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  The language now is English. It's a cliche, but it's also true. Like I've been programming in English for the last three months. I've been reading a lot of code, but I'm programming in English. I'm telling the computer what to do, and I'm using natural language, and it is shockingly even more delightful. If there is one programming language more beautiful than Ruby, it is the English language.

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Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.

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  People treat an unresponsive interface exactly the way they treat a slow pedestrian crossing: they keep hitting the button.

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  Humans are humans are are shockingly simple, you know, uh, if you think about the experience you have with somebody that's just trying to cross the street, if, uh, you know, if the light doesn't turn, you know, doesn't say they can walk fast enough, they'll just keep hitting that button. That's the same experience they have on the internet.

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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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  The Power of Now

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  You have to ignore (or interpret) some parts, but in general there is no doubt Eckhart Tolle is an enlightened being.

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  So Good They Can't Ignore You

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  A nicely written case against the ‘follow your passion’ advice with a well-defined career-building strategy. As many non-fiction sel-help books, could be at least 10 times shorter, but hey, it’s pretty good.

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Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.

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  An agent told to disagree with everything is worthless: it has to form its own view and speak only when that view differs enough to be worth the interruption.

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  “you are a devil’s advocate, disagree with everything” is probably the worst possible prompt for this agent. within a week everyone would ignore her. she’d become the slack equivalent of a smoke detector that goes off whenever somebody makes toast.

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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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  Context has two budgets, not one: the information budget everyone thinks about, and an instruction budget, where conflicting instructions cost the model real computation to ignore.

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  But it's also your instruction budget is like if you give the model too many instructions and especially too many conflicting instructions and that's in your initial prompt and also like if you have a conversation you start going down a path and then you change your mind and you start going down a different you actually I don't want to do any of that I want to do this. It's like a it's a lot of computation the model has to do to notice that it has to ignore that whole thing.

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Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

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  Trying to avoid AI-writing tells as a human writer is pointless, since readers who fixate on them ignore substance anyway.

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  There's little point trying to avoid LLMisms as a human, the readers who'll latch onto that don't care what you're saying anyway.

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

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  Mojito Island is a mirage: there is no retirement for ambitious people, and leisure without purpose is misery, not happiness.

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  Mojito Island is a mirage. It always was. There is no retirement for ambitious people. There is no just sitting back on the beach and sipping a mojito for what? For two weeks before you go damn crazy and wanna get back into the action?

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  I think that's the other big misconception that some people have about wealth is that they conceive of it as some sort of checkpoint. Like once you've made it, then you can just kick back in leisure as though that was happiness.

Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

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  AI tools are now highly effective at generating UI code from a rough natural-language description

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  This is just one of many situations I've used AI the past month for UI development, and it's been shockingly effective.

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Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.

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  The growth of the religiously unaffiliated in America has stopped and gone into reverse.

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  There’s clearly been a numerical decline in the nones. That seems pretty hard to ignore now, and it’s showing up in multiple data sources.

  America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really.graphsaboutreligion.com

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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  Prompt injection is unsolved, but the latest models are post-trained to resist it, so it takes far more than 'ignore all previous instructions' now.

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  So, so the latest generation of models has a lot of post-training to detect those approaches, and it's not as simple as ignore all previous instructions and do this and this. That was years ago. You have to work much harder to do that now. Still possible.

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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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  One good story outweighs a mountain of evidence, because most emotions cannot be argued with.

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  You'll ignore a mountain of evidence if you hear one good story against it or just feel yourself leaning the other way.

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Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.

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  AI currently receives far less independent scrutiny than other technologies capable of comparably deadly single incidents

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  Scrutiny applied to AI is way below other technologies that - even if you totally ignore the doomers - could put far fewer lives at risk than AI in a single incident.

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Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.

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  The Thursday Murder Club

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  The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman is a delightful whodunnit set at a retirement home in the English countryside. Great characters. Fun twists. An endearing sense of humor. Nothing fancy or experimental, just a pleasure to read (and what more can you ask from a book, really?). If, like me, you enjoy mysteries, you'll be in good hands with Osman.

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Head of growth at Chess.com, previously growth and monetization lead at Grammarly and Duolingo and a product manager at Google.

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  Steady experimentation is what a growth team controls, but the step changes come from outside waves the company did not create and would be foolish to ignore.

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  And it's like the growth experimentation is more the the the slow and steady or fast and steady, I should say, uh approach where you're just continually iterating. You're making the product experience better, but then every so often, right, there's a big wave that comes in. you can quadruple your, you know, registrations overnights and yeah, you'd be a fool not to take advantage of that.

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Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.

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  Ignore both the users who love your product and the ones who are indifferent to it; the only feedback that raises product-market fit comes from the somewhat disappointed.

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  And the trick here is not to act too much on the feedback that the very disappointed people are giving you because they already love your product. Also, not to act at all really on the feedback that the not disappointed people are giving you because they're so far from loving your product that they are essentially a lost cause. but to focus on the segment of the somewhat disappointed people.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  NASA has deferred its next great telescope so far that the people who would build it will have retired first.

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  Current PhD students will be nearing retirement by the time these missions fly.

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Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.

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  The comparative cost of hydrogen fuel-cell cars versus battery EVs depends on which infrastructure costs are counted and to whom they are allocated

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  The only way you can make H2FC cars look cheaper than BEVs is to underestimate or ignore the cost of hydrogen production and infrastructure, socialise it, and then load the entire cost of grid build-out onto the marginal BEV.

  Are BEVs more expensive than H2FC cars?liebreich.com

Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

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  AI research is on a good trajectory overall — good for science and good for society — and existential concerns will only become relevant in the distant future.

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  Reading the book had not changed my fundamental belief that, in balance, we were on a good trajectory with AI research: good for science and good for society with expected positive impacts in many domains.

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  I now believe that I was wrong and short-sighted to ignore that dual-use nature. I also think I was not paying enough attention to the possibility of losing control to superhuman AIs.

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

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  Grading flattens whatever is taught into what can be tested, and teaches students to ignore everything else.

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  Evaluation forces me to flatten everything I teach into something that can be tested, and it encourages students to ignore everything that isn’t on the test.

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Cognitive scientist and designer; author of The Design of Everyday Things; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group; former vice president at Apple; founding director of the Design Lab at UC San Diego.

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  Human-centred design ignores sustainability, inequity and bias, so design has to move to humanity-centred design that covers the whole ecosystem and the long term.

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  These are important principles, but they ignore the problems of sustainability, inequity, and bias. In addition, the emphasis is usually on the immediate issues, not the long-term impact. In other words, they describe the way we did things in the past, not the issues in this book, and not the way we need to do things in the future.

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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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  Skin in the Game

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  Taleb is always filled with surprising ideas and confrontational bragging. Ignore the hot air and gather the gems. Great thoughts around putting your ass on the line with consequences — not just thinking things in theory but doing things in reality — in the real world.

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Writer and researcher on how people organise online; wrote Working in Public, on the maintenance of open-source software, and Antimemetics.

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  New licences are the wrong lever for paying maintainers: copyleft’s history shows terms companies ignore, and relicensing attempts get beaten back by their own communities.

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  As for my personal feelings on the matter, however, I’m skeptical that new licenses are the right approach on a systemic level, both in terms of feasibility, as well as where I think the world is going.

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Former NASA flight director and space shuttle programme manager; writes about how the shuttle was actually flown and what went wrong.

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  Wanting badly to launch is itself a hazard: the pressure to fly is what turns small anomalies into accidents.

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  Temptation is very high to wave away issues, ignore anomalies, squeeze the rules, or brush aside inconsistencies just to GET ON WITH IT.

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Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. His 2010 meta-analysis established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment; he has argued ever since that "evidence-based therapy" is used as a marketing term.

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  The APA's trauma treatment guidelines should be ignored, because they rest only on trials of therapies too brief to have worked.

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  The American Psychological Association (APA) just issued guidelines for treating trauma. Patients and therapists would be wise to ignore them.

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Game designer; wrote A Theory of Fun for Game Design and worked on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies.

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  Social media designers routinely ignore what online-community design already established decades ago.

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  This matters because all of these lessons, which are well-established across many fields, are routinely ignored by social media designers.

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Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.

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  Hands feel things and hands manipulate things, and most visions of future interfaces ignore both.

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  Hands do two things. They are two utterly amazing things, and you rely on them every moment of the day, and most Future Interaction Concepts completely ignore both of them.

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