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19 September
Economist at George Mason University. Writes Overcoming Bias on prediction markets, signalling and the far future, and wrote The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.
Hanging around many conservatives today, I notice they deeply love school. So even though the left has come to dominate schools, the right is quite reluctant to cut the status or importance of school in society. Related
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
Where I stand on RSI: A moderate's view on the recent events and trajectory of AI. I was underestimating how much we are likely to scale inference-time compute in the near future, but have not seen much to convince me that an intelligence explosion is near. interconnects.ai
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Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.
"I don't believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It's the most senseless use of time. When I do go out, from time to time, it's just to convince myself again that I'm not missing a lot." - Dietrich Mateschitz, founder of Red Bull Related
Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
Ratings largely determine spreads. Yet, their construction remains largely a black box. Our paper assesses the relative importance of debt, deficits and country specific effects in the determination of these ratings. The evidence is at odds with a simple model of default: more importance of debt, less importance of forecast deficits, limited role of r-g, surprisingly large role of country effects. We are agnostic. The model may be too simple in some fundamental ways. Or the rating agencies may be using incorrect weights. Or a mix of the two... We hope the paper triggers a useful discussion. Quoting @int_mon_econ Super interesting! "Ratings, Debt, and Deficits: An Exploration" by Olivier J Blanchard, Daniel Leigh, and Prachi Mishra. "We look at the effects of debt and primary fiscal balances on sovereign credit ratings through the lens of a simple model. We find that the ratings differ from the implications… Related
18 September
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
In the exhibit, the families of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, Alice and Rebecca Walker, Bryan Stevenson, Ava DuVernay, Hank Willis Thomas and others remember the importance of Parks’s legacy and the impact of his work. theguardian.com
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Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.
17 September
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Why is the “grill-me” skill so popular, and why does its creator swear by the importance of software fundamentals? We cover this & many more w @mattpocock.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dhc... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3pLP... Apple: podcasts.apple.com
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16 September
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.
15 September
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
Mastodon The Four Tiers of Tab Importance Arc is the greatest web browser ever, and has been tragically moved-on-from by The Browser Company of New York-come-Atlassian.... chriscoyier.net
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Bluesky The Four Tiers of Tab Importance Arc is the greatest web browser ever, and has been tragically moved-on-from by The Browser Company of New York-come-Atlassian. I've been back on it the last month or so though.... chriscoyier.net
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12 September
Writer and programmer; co-founder of the software studio Postlight and author of the Bloomberg Businessweek essay What Is Code?
I feel like I am constantly inventing new ways to convince my kids to do the laundry, eat lunch, or leave the house, endless variations on the same things like some sort of stochastic parent. Related
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
The German startup Magnotherm is pioneering a new type of cooling technology: Instead of compressing a refrigerant gas, as usual, their fridges use metals that heat up in magnetic fields and cool when the field is removed. This can effectively be used to move the heat from one location (eg inside the fridge) to another (outside the fridge). The idea itself is not new, it goes back to the 19th century, but Magnotherm is the first to make the step to commercial use. Earlier this year, they announced that the German supermarket chain REWE will deploy their new fridges in 10 stores. The company s… startups Related
11 September
Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
Open Peeps: A hand-drawn illustration library by Pablo Stanley. Free for commercial and personal use under CCO License. openpeeps.com
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9 September
Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.
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5 September
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.
An elaboration of the previous post mentioning the bounded gaps between primes problem as an illustration of the opportunity cost of converting a fruitful problem such as this solely into a competitive benchmark. [Indeed, as I point out below, this already came close to happening back in 2013.] As with most other problems worth studying in pure mathematics, the particular bound one gets on these gaps is not of much intrinsic importance. Improving Zhang's bound of 70 million, to 246, 188, or 6 would not, in itself, have significant impact on any other mathematical problem, let alone any real-w… benchmarks Related
4 September
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
If you had told me in undergrad I’d love to see ~fully automatic formalization I would have bet against, and if you had told me that the machine doing it would have a running color commentary on the importance, I’d have thought you under the influence. anthropic.com
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31 August
Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.
Don Zagier wrote: “There are two facts about the distribution of prime numbers of which I hope to convince you so overwhelmingly that they will be permanently engraved in your hearts. The first is that they are the most arbitrary and ornery objects studied by mathematicians: they grow like weeds among the natural numbers, seeming to obey no other law than that of chance, and nobody can predict where the next one will sprout. The second fact is even more astonishing, for it states just the opposite: that the prime numbers exhibit stunning regularity, that there are laws governing their behavio… people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de
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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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There is no reason NOT to have every single email you get routed through an agent / LLM / API to be scored and approved or rejected And then the approved emails ordered by importance It's crazy this isn't a feature of Gmail, Fastmail etc AI could permanently fix email!
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30 August
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
everyone should go read @dwarkesh_sp’s post - it does a great job of laying out the timeline and what we know ( and don’t know) I do have two issues with it A) the use of anthropomorphic language. These are not civilizations nor do they have desires just like a CPU thread or a bunch of programs don’t. this doesn’t mean we downplay the importance of this moment for cyber - but using human parallels for what I believe is code is dangerous territory. B) IMO it gets the impact of open source models wrong and is unreasonably dismissive for reasons that are not clear. As @ClementDelangue highlights… open source Related
25 August
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
Quantum Computing Failure Now Obvious Quantum computing was supposed to be the next big thing, and for years the companies building it kept promising commercial payoffs were just around the corner and possible already with small, noisy devices (NISQs). Goog…
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21 August
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
I think its easy to say "Simulation is a new scaling law" and treat it as marketing hyperbole, but midway along this interview you can hear me go from somewhat shitposting to very very serious. I am 2 years late to this but finally understand why @karpathy and @drfeifei backed @joon_s_pk @msbernst @percyliang et al - Smallville at the time had zero commercial applications, but if you take RSI seriously, from models automating increasingly large parts of ML research and AI engineering, the last* barrier is simulating humans and human feedback, and Simile is obviously the team to do this and al… Quoting @latentspacepod Simulating Humanity: 85% accurate digital twins, behavioral foundation models, social physics, & 8 billion agents https://t.co/ntIccXOr1y @simile_ai CEO @joon_s_pk explains how AI can move from predicting what people will do to simulating how to shape outcomes, why today’s frontier models still mis… Related
17 August
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
How many people do you have to convince in a city to get the difference between 20k car break-ins and 5k break-ins? I think it’s probably something like 10-20. Plus politicians/cops/etc but they have much less direct control of the metric than the decisionmakers do. Quoting @JonathanHillis Now that’s the kind of user feedback you like to see for San Francisco’s public safety initiatives Related
Senior space editor at Ars Technica; wrote Liftoff and Reentry on SpaceX, and reports on launch and rocket programmes.
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In financial documents, it’s clear that SpaceX views commercial launch as a rounding error compared to revenues from its own satellites in space.
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13 August
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
10 August
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.
3 August
Economist at George Mason University. Writes Overcoming Bias on prediction markets, signalling and the far future, and wrote The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.
31 July
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
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something we learned from YC uh was that the importance of focusing on very concrete easy to explain customer problems. Like it's it's very easy to to hallucinate or to you know imagine some customer problem that's not actually something viscerally felt by a person who would pay money.
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30 July
Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.
29 July
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/117005289701832778 Bring this image back in time a decade or two and try to convince people it’s real. Related
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky 1000+ scientists at frontier AI companies are speaking out to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call for an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer way forward. pacingthefrontier.com
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x.com Scientists at frontier AI companies are uniquely positioned to assess AI’s capabilities and warn the public about what they see. 1000+ of them are now speaking out across company lines to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call: we need an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer trajectory in AI development. pacingthefrontier.com
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21 July
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.
Spend enough money and you can convince people you're a wine expert, a German heiress, or a NY Times bestselling author. My latest on the price of status: ofdollarsanddata.com
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19 July
Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group.
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In a world of AI with agents operating across multiple systems, wanting source of truth data, the importance of having preferred paved paths that get the most of the benefits and produce some guardrails so we can make sure we're doing good work, common infrastructure, common paved paths, solving problems once with a core set of capabilities becomes more important.
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16 July
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
J’ai discuté de l’importance d’un meilleur encadrement technique et sociétal de l’IA avec Anouch Seydtaghia du journal @letemps.ch à Genève la semaine dernière dans le cadre des sommets de l’ONU et de l’UIT sur la gouvernance de l’IA. Entrevue complète : letemps.ch
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15 July
Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.
30 June
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
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And so I think you are right that lean is maybe overrated on the side of the importance of it being used as a VR environment for any kind of like just progress in math generally. But I I I definitely wouldn't write it out of the story.
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30 May
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
I think "being real with yourself" is the most underrated cognitive skill for the AI age — AI makes it too easy to lie to yourself: to self-congratulate for the illusion of thinking, productivity, etc. But you gotta actually know: Am I being more productive, or just tokenmaxxing? Am I upskilling myself with AI, or letting it do the hard part for me? Does my essay/business/product idea make sense, or did I let an LLM convince me it does? Then you won't need hard rules like “always/never use AI for X.” If you pay attention and avoid self-deception, you'll be able to *feel* when you are doing re… LLMs Related
27 May
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.
23 April
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
It's astonishing how much time in my day I spend typing in two-factor codes, picking the right Google account, and otherwise trying to convince the computer that I am who I say I am. I believe we can do better. Would love to see a talk submission if you're working on this. Quoting @localfirstconf "It's been a kind of a good deal to say like, look, I'll just let Google manage my identity and then I can click the login with Google button everywhere. But it's a little bit of a deal with the devil. " @_adamwiggins_ Google Related
22 April
Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
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there I feel like in academia, I have the freedom to work on things that go against this commercial incentive of companies and say like, "Actually, no, I'm going to do what I think is right for the users."
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7 April
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
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but the thing about AI is that, you know, all of many of these things we were talking about how important they were and how valuable were and trying to persuade people of the importance of them. Yes, even the internet. That may sound surprising, but there were people who would weren't thinking that was important. Um but AI, there's kind of no argument about how important it is. People can't can I mean, you cannot put blinkers on to deny the importance of this thing.
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20 March
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
My blog for OSR about the revised Code of Practice, and the importance of trustworthiness Quoting @StatsRegulation In our latest guest blog, leading British statistician, @d_spiegel explores why trustworthiness, not trust, should be at the heart of statistical communication 👇 Related
19 March
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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projects are flooded with junk contributions at the moment to the point that people are trying to convince GitHub to disable pull requests, which is something GitHub have never done.
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5 March
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.
13 February
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.
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Like we see the end productivity every few months in the form of model launches. Like there's no kidding yourself about this. Like the models make you more productive.
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4 February
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
Now that I've revealed my travel projector in my gear post.... Here's the time I used it on my @JetBlue flight. Maybe the first person to have a screen this big on a commercial flight? Related
7 January
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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This one only gets better with age. Although it’s only mentioned briefly, this is where Andy Grove first introduced OKRs to the world. His practical advice about meetings, especially the importance of 1-on-1s, inspired
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5 January
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
After six years working on commercial products, happy to say I’m returning to the research world. Today I start as a Researcher-in-Residence at @inkandswitch Related
28 December 2025
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
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This amazing book traces the development of genetic engineering, and how Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson turned the science into a commercial product by developing recombinant insulin.
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26 December 2025
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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I'm mixed on this book. It doesn't really offer actionable exercises, and the Self 1 and Self 2 framing didn't fully convince me.
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28 November 2025
Astrophysicist and coffee researcher; author of The Physics of Filter Coffee and The Physics of Espresso, and writer of the Coffee ad Astra blog on brewing science and equipment.
The Importance of Bed Depth In this post, I discuss the impact of bed depths on brewing filter coffee, and how this impacts my favorite brew parameters with the Pulsar and the Pulsar mini, and I offer some reasons why I think bed depths affects fl…
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25 November 2025
Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc., and previously co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI.
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one of the one of the ways in which my thinking has been changing is that I now place more importance on AI being deployed incrementally and in advance.
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16 November 2025
Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".
From one piece
How FOSS Won and Why It Matters
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31 October 2025
Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.
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So you have to be, in your mind, you’re spending large amounts of someone else’s money. You have to try and make it back for them. But at the same time, my argument with myself was, well, if we… The way to make it back is try and make something great. So both pressures are pointing in the same direction.
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19 October 2025
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
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Being right is less than half the battle. You also have to convince others that you're right, and more importantly, convince them to care enough to act on it.
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13 October 2025
Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.
12 October 2025
China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.
First explorations in Indian classical music Two things happened this year to convince me to do some more intentional listening to Indian classical music, which I had long been aware of but had never really “got.” The first was the untimely death of Zakir Hussain,…
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24 September 2025
Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.
3 August 2025
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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A new performance team can likely find enough optimizations to halve infrastructure spend in their first couple of years, even for companies that have been using commercial performance or observability tools.
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19 July 2025
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.
My thoughts on the crucial importance of methodology on self-reported AI performance on mathematics competitions, and my policy on commenting on such reports going forward: mathstodon.xyz
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16 July 2025
Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.
9 May 2025
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
https://t.co/5MvjBuyABJ excellent blog by OSR's Ed Humpherson on the importance of looking at the variability in health metrics rather than just their average - and the tools available for doing this Related
29 April 2025
Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
13 February 2025
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
6 February 2025
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.
14 October 2024
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
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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.
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5 September 2024
Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.
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Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?
2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
25 March 2024
Independent policy analyst on space and national security, formerly of the RAND Corporation, who writes on counterspace weapons and rules for keeping satellites safe.
China America
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Based on public commercial data that tells a lot about the military potential of these dual-use robotic spacecraft, we have shown that China can manufacture and deploy 200 such spacecraft as early as 2026, enough to cripple critical US satellites in geosynchronous, highly elliptical, and other orbits, and thus severely degrading space support to wartime operations.
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5 December 2023
Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
28 November 2023
Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.
15 March 2023
Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.
8 February 2023
Physician and author on addiction, stress and childhood development. Wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, and developed the Compassionate Inquiry approach taught to therapists.
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I spoke with @mariamenounos about the link between emotions and illness, and the importance of focusing on mental health, on her Heal Squad podcast. To listen to the full episode, please follow: https://t.co/XPIKAvi8tH
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11 October 2022
Psychologist and science writer; wrote Science Fictions on how research goes wrong, and writes the newsletter of the same name.
2 March 2022
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.
13 December 2021
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
open source
On changing their mind
I used to think that this was unequivocally a win for open source. That to fight for attention with the commercial alternatives, we had to adopt the commercial playbook. Now I think it’s at the very least a mixed blessing.
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1 December 2021
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
5 August 2021
Product leadership coach and writer of the “Ask Gib” newsletter. Former VP of Product at Netflix and Chief Product Officer at Chegg; speaks and runs workshops on product strategy.
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This book framed my initial thinking on the importance of metrics.
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28 October 2020
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
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If you want to learn the basics of Customer Development in only an hour or two, this is the book to read. This is a book you can give to any member of your startup and have them understand the importance of and how to implement customer development in your company.
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If you ever needed convinced of the importance of why starting with a small experiment is really important this is the book to convince. With interesting stories from Pixar and amongst others, it makes a compelling case.
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4 February 2020
Medicinal chemist; has written In the Pipeline, the drug-discovery blog, since 2002, and the “Things I Won’t Work With” posts about chemicals that try to kill you.
30 June 2018
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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This a journalistic book, a very sound bit of journalism by Suzanne Mustacich. She is based in Bordeaux, but she clearly travelled to China an awful lot and unravelled a most amusing commercial battle that went on in the early years of this decade between the Bordeaux chateau owners and merchants on the one side and Chinese business people on the other.
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23 April 2017
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
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