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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.

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  A sufficiently large random reversible circuit is plausibly a secure cryptographic permutation, while a large random irreversible circuit collapses to only a few possible outputs.

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  A big-enough random reversible circuit is plausibly a secure cryptographic permutation, a big-enough random irreversible circuit degenerates into having only a few possible outputs.

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  As of 2026, local mixing has not yet sufficiently eliminated correlations between original circuit values and their obfuscated counterparts.

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  But, so far, mixing has not proved to be good enough. There ended up being too many correlations between values in \(C\) and values in the obfuscation that remained.

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Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.

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  China's cultural and intellectual output to the world is far smaller than its economic weight.

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  It surely does not “produce” one quarter of world culture or intellectual activity (if the latter is defined as influential books, of fiction and non-fiction, politics, history; films, plastic arts, music, theater etc.)

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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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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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  Great storytelling skill comes from immersion in the liberal arts, not from corporate media training.

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  Steve Jobs was an incredible storyteller because he was immersed in the liberal arts, not because he went to corporate media training.

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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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  The same law that made chips cheaper made the factories that produce them enormously more expensive.

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  These enormous costs are ultimately due to the same factor that has steadily driven down the cost of semiconductors: Moore’s Law, the observation that the number of components on an integrated circuit tends to double every two years.

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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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  Arabs

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  3000 years of factual Arab history, and personal insights from this Oxford Brit who lived in Yemen for 37 years, translates classical Arabic, and clearly cares a lot. Huge and thorough but really wonderful for those with the interest. I loved his writing style and poetic asides. Read my notes here for a taste. What a great book.

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Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company he started as Facebook in 2004.

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  Computers, TVs and phones are badly designed for people because they keep us sitting still, and the human experience is a physical one.

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  But they're fundamentally like you're sitting, you're still. I mean, people are just not meant to be that way. I mean, I think you and I have this shared passion for sports and martial arts and doing stuff like that. We're just moving around. It's so much of what makes us people is like, you move around. You're not just like a brain and a tank. It's where the human experience is a physical one.

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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.

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