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Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.

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  The US war on Iran ended up delivering Osama bin Laden's original strategic goal of ending American military presence in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula

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  Osama bin Laden's one concrete strategic goal was to end the American military presence in the Gulf and on the Arabian Peninsula. A generation later, Donald Trump's war on Iran has apparently delivered it for him

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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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  Providing people with stable, home-like housing makes real progress toward ending homelessness, while cutting that spending drives homelessness back up

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  Finland made great progress towards eliminating homelessness by giving people houses which they could feel was home. Alas, right-wing government has cut some of the spending and is driving homelessness back up.

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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  Choosing Pulley to encourage competition with Carta still results in ending up with Carta.

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  Pick Pulley to encourage competition to Carta. End up with Carta anyways.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  The United States needs general disengagement from the Middle East, including ending military adventures, dialing back support for allies including Israel, and rejecting Middle Eastern issues in domestic politics.

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  What the United States needs, now more than ever, is general disengagement from the Middle East — an end to military adventures, a dialing back of support for Middle Eastern “allies” (including Israel), and a forceful rejection of Middle Eastern issues in American domestic politics.

  Get the Middle East out of my politics!noahpinion.blog

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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  One-to-one tutoring has always been the best way to teach anybody anything; the only reason schooling was never built that way is that it was not affordable.

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  Individualized tutoring is the best model. A one-on-one model is the best model. A mentorship model, an apprentice mentor, that is the best model. It's not cost-effective.

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Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.

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  A government's debt dynamics are a household's or a company's, except that it can print money and tax -- and those two powers are what change the ending.

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  The debt dynamics work the same for a central government as they do for a person or a company, except that a central government has a central bank that can print money (which devalues it) and it can take money away from people via taxes.

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

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  A robot going down a wrong path is not producing training data; the efficient move is for a human to intervene and show the recovery.

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  and trying to fold two boxes together isn't useful data that will teach the model how to get better at the task. And so that would be kind of wasting a lot of time on the robot attempting to go down the wrong path for solving the problem. And so instead of spending a lot of time trying to do that task, what we'll do is we'll actually have a human intervene and show the robot what to do and how to recover from that situation.

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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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  The Little Schemer by Friedman and Felleisen. This book won't teach you Scheme. Rather, it teaches something more valuable: it teaches how to think recursively.

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Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.

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  Language classes are worth something for the company and the correction, but listening and reading are what actually teach the language.

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  Sure, language classes can provide social benefits and feedback. But the real means of learning a language is consistent, ample amounts of listening and reading.

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Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.

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  A shift toward faster media formats changes how people read rather than ending reading altogether

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  Faster formats don't automatically destroy reading. They change it.

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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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  You can teach somebody to be a really good AI developer in a few months, but you cannot teach them a computer science degree in three — so hire for the fundamentals.

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  We can we can teach we can teach somebody, I think, to be a really good AI developer in a few months. You can build enough intuition where you are, you know, accelerated off the ground and you can go like keep growing there. It's really hard to teach someone a CS undergrad program in in 3 months.

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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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Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.

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  Ending a temporary immigration status overnight, after people have built lives in reliance on it, does real harm to them and to their communities.

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  To shout “temporary” and pull the plug essentially overnight after immigrants have relied on the government’s representations that they should put their efforts and future into establishing a life in the United States wreaks unfair havoc on the lives of immigrants as well as the welfare of their communities.

  SCOTUS Whitewashes Otherwise Racist Decisionblog.simplejustice.us

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

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  A human life has no overall narrative arc, so nothing is lost by refusing to see it as a story that needs an ending.

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  But there’s no overall narrative arc—it’s just been one thing after another.

  Immortality Sounds Pretty Good, Actuallysmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net

Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.

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  A compiler that also serves an IDE has to be lazy and deferred throughout — a different way of building compilers from the one the textbooks teach.

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  And so everything is lazy and deferred and functional and reusable inside the compiler. And it's a very different way of writing compilers than than what the textbooks will traditionally teach you.

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Programmer and essayist who has worked at Amazon, Google, Grab and Sourcegraph. Best known for the long-form essays collected as Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants.

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  Bigger is smarter, always: bringing your special domain knowledge to the model is the wrong side of the bitter lesson.

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  The bitter lesson is don't try to be smarter than the AI, okay? You think that you've got special knowledge. The humans bring special domain knowledge to this problem and we're going to teach it something to AI and it will be smarter. What we found was bigger is smarter. Always.

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Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.

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  RL environments exist to make a model generalise, not to teach it each skill one at a time — exactly as pre-training does.

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  the goal is not to teach the model every possible skill within RL just as we don't do that within pre-training, right? Within pre-training, we're not trying to expose the model to, you know, every every possible you know, way that words could be put together, right? You know, we're it's it's rather that the model trains on a lot of things and then and then it reaches generalization across pre-training, right?

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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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  Software developer salaries reached stupidly high levels because of a scarcity of people who could build things, and that scarcity is ending.

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  there was a lack of intelligence, if you s- if you see it like that, of people building things, and that's why salaries of software developers reached stupidly high amounts and then will go away. There will still be a lot of demand for people that understand how to build things.

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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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  Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

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  Product managers must learn to give and receive feedback with candor and kindness, and without withholding. This book, also from the Harvard Negotiation Project, will teach you how.

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  Creativity, Inc

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  , you’ll enjoy Catmull’s book about putting 10x into practice. He draws from the success – and failures – of Pixar to teach us how to lead creative teams.

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American author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and The Undoing Project, and host of the podcast Against the Rules.

From one piece 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Good reporting is being the world's best student: gather everything before making judgments, and make people want to teach you.

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  You are gathering before you make judgments. You're open to learning things. You're trying to be the world's best student. You want people to want to teach you.

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  The job of a writer is to get the reader into a state of mind where they will follow you anywhere, including into subjects they never knew they wanted.

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  you grab the listener like I try to grab a reader and get them to the state of mind where they'll let you take them anywhere uh and teach them about stuff that they don't even know they want to learn about.

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  The most underused thing AI does is teach you: people reach for it to write their code and forget it can take them through a curriculum in an hour.

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  So yes, the tools are great. We can use cursor. It helps us. It autocompletes. It writes a bunch of things. But the acceleration of learning I think is another maybe underutilized tool in all of our arsenals

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Professor at Berkeley working on robot learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence, and argues that robots will learn from data rather than be programmed.

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  Once a robot is good enough, you can teach it with words instead of with demonstrations, and language becomes a training signal for motor skill.

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  Like now, like basically learning is not for these systems is not just learning from raw actions. It's also learning from words eventually be learning from observing what people do from the kind of natural feedback that you receive when you're doing a job together with somebody else.

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Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.

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  Fifty years on, monoclonal antibodies still cannot be manufactured cheaply enough to use them for obvious jobs like preventing malaria in children.

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  Yet the production methods still can’t make them below $10 per gram, so they’re still not cheap enough for some “obvious” applications like preventing kids getting malaria in a rainy season.

  AI will not suddenly lead to an Alzheimer's cureblog.jacobtrefethen.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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  How to Feed the World

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  How to Feed the World had a lot to teach me—and I’m sure it will teach you a lot, too.

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Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.

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  Ending USAID is a humanitarian disaster that still does not doom growth in poor countries, because the flows were always far too small to drive it.

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  The potential end of USAID is an unfolding public health and humanitarian disaster, but it does not permanently doom the task of growth—in large part because these aid flows were far too small to begin with.

  A World Without Aid?global-developments.org

Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.

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  Three-Inch Teeth

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  For what it is worth, this is the only one of his 25 odd novels Joe Pickett novels that left me disappointed in the ending. See what you think.

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Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.

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  Using supervised fine-tuning to teach a language model new knowledge risks increasing its hallucination rate.

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  These empirical results from Gekhman et al. (2024) point out the risk of using supervised fine-tuning for updating LLMs' knowledge.

  Extrinsic Hallucinations in LLMslilianweng.github.io

Language mentor and polyglot; teaches people to design their own learning method rather than follow a course.

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  The thing worth teaching is not a language but how to learn languages, because that skill repeats for every language after it.

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  I don't teach people languages, I teach them how they can learn languages by themselves.

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  Nobody can be taught a language by anyone else; a teacher can help, but the learning is the learner's to do.

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  I'm convinced that it's not possible to teach anyone a language. A good teacher can help you on this journey – but they cannot give the language to you on a silver platter.

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Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.

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  The Copenhagen interpretation taught to physics students is a God-awful mess; many-worlds is beautiful because it needs fewer ingredients and one equation.

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  If you think about how we teach quantum mechanics to our students, the Copenhagen interpretation, it’s a God-awful mess. No one’s going to accuse that of being very beautiful. I’m a fan of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, and that is very beautiful in the sense that fewer ingredients, just one equation, and it could cover everything in the world.

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

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  The openness that matters is putting increasingly powerful tools into people's hands for free as a public good, not open-sourcing the weights.

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  We want to put increasingly powerful tools in the hands of people for free and get them to use them. I think that kind of open is really important to our mission. I think if you give people great tools and teach them to use them or don’t even teach them, they’ll figure it out, and let them go build an incredible future for each other with that, that’s a big deal.

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President of Argentina since December 2023; economist and self-described libertarian.

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  Free-enterprise capitalism is not the cause of poverty but the only tool there is for ending hunger and poverty anywhere on earth.

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  La conclusión es obvia: lejos de ser la causa de nuestros problemas, el capitalismo de libre empresa, como sistema económico, es la única herramienta que tenemos para terminar con el hambre, la pobreza y la indigencia, a lo largo y a lo ancho de todo el planeta.

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American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.

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  The Greek Way

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  Edith Hamilton’s The Greek Way is a wonderful discussion of what made the Greeks so special, what they can teach us and how they thought about life.

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General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.

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  Chip War

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  Great history of the semiconductor industry, starting in Silicon Valley and ending in Asia.

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Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.

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  The mediocre is the only thing worth avoiding: the best and the worst both teach you something, the middle teaches nothing.

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  What you want to avoid, I think, is mediocre writing, which neither thrills nor instructs.

  Read terrible books, tooaustinkleon.com

Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  Coda

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  Comic book mind candy fantasy. Superficially, this is a cynical, post-apocalyptic subversion of the Matter of Middle Earth. In fact, the hard-bitten surface merely conceals a core which actually believes in epic fantasy, both in the content and in the classical form (a trilogy ending in a eucatastrophe).

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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.

  I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a copexperimental-history.com

Founder of Pinboard; writes Idle Words — talks and essays on the web, aviation, politics and travel.

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  The International Space Station exists mainly to teach its builders how to build another space station.

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  The ISS crew spend most of their time fixing the machinery that keeps them alive, and when they have a free moment for science, they tend to study the effect of space on themselves.

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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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  Of Mice and Men

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  Steinbeck deploys a standard third person omniscient narrative style that avoids all the flash of the modernists, and then postmodernists, that soon after took over the literary scene. But in his hands, it's enough. I still think about the ending.

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