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19 September
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
17 September
Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.
15 September
British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.
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11 September
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.
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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Chris Arnade's blog continues to be one of the very best: https://t.co/tUMFIUq8R7.
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8 September
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
PISA is a long-standing set of tests that are taken by students all over the world. It can be used to compare countries and to see how countries evolve over time. In Canada, we have results per province. In math, Quebec is usually best, and it is still the case for the latest results (2025). Yet the numbers fell. You see a clear drop starting in 2022, and it continues. The drop is worldwide. It is not wealth. Most countries got slightly richer, or had relatively modest decline. Quebec declined economically between 2022 and 2025 by about 1,2% (real dollar GDP). But it seems unlikely to be a go… Related
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Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses The open model ecosystem continues to expand in its breadth The frontier labs continue to be enveloped in mass drama. Related
Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
Your Harness matters, you need to build it or follow something, but you can't leave it to chance. If you are starting with AI Engineering, be sure you learn what is a harness, this is a good video to do understand why it matters. My personal recommend is: try to understand 40% of what is, then try to build it, and continues learning from there. Quoting @ycombinator Harnesses often get dismissed as just scaffolding, just prompt engineering, and not real research. But that couldn't be farther from the truth. The same model weights that score 30% on ARC-AGI score 95% with a better harness. So we gathered a group of researchers and founders working at the frontie… Related
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7 September
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5 September
Writer and programmer; co-founder of the software studio Postlight and author of the Bloomberg Businessweek essay What Is Code?
Bluesky provides a mobile web view that runs great on my four-year-old phone and never pushes me to download an app. That is special and appreciated and I hope it continues. Related
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1 September
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.
Before AI: - hardware is hard - teams > solo founders - technical founders only - PhDs build tech in search of a problem - hot SaaS startups get 100x ARR multiples After AI: - hardware is the only thing AI can't build - solo founders are 100x engineers - anyone can build - PhDs building AI infra name their price - SaaSpocalypse Am I missing anything? SaaS startups Related
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.
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My worry continues to be that their fundamental approach is fatally flawed, and they are not focusing on the right things.
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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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I think you have the real economic effects of AI companies sucking up entire industries now (a lot where indie hackers operate) I do think the SaaSpocalypse is at least partly real
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29 August
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I opened up Apple Maps' search box and its new ads suggested I go to JetBlue Airways, the JetBlue terminal at JFK airport 39 miles away. I opened up Google Maps' search box, and 100% of the screen space is devoted to my presets (Home/Work/etc.) and my Recent searches. Apple continues to embarrass itself with its shitty ad plays. In the meantime, I'll keep using Google Maps, because it's just *better*, and — something I never thought I'd say — it respects me more as the user, with fewer ads. 🤯 Google Related
28 August
Canadian cartoonist and writer: Dinosaur Comics, Marvel's The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and the choose-your-own-path books To Be or Not To Be and Romeo and/or Juliet.
19 August
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21 July
Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
25 June
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9 June
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31 May
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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Mind candy: continuing Robins's series of historical mysteries set in a very-slightly-alternate Regency London. (I re-read the last one, Sleeping Partner, before turning to this.) Robins continues to be great and I hope that many more of these will flow from her pen.
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30 May
Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.
28 April
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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22 April
Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
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Scalability is just like what mechanisms we have for dealing with changes in load. If load increases, how can we add computing capacity to a system, for example, so that the system still continues working?
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31 March
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
1 December 2025
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
Why Most Cryptocurrencies Won’t Accrue Value December 2025 For many years now, I’ve been bullish on bitcoin, and continue to be, but have not extended that view toward any other cryptocurrency. That decision continues to hold up well. Since I first recommended it…
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16 May 2024
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Talent density at Anthropic continues to increase :) Quoting @mikeyk I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined @AnthropicAI as their Chief Product Officer! The team at Anthropic is exceptional, and I felt at home from my first conversations with them. Daniela, Dario, Jared and the team embody the combination of deep talent, high empathy, and pragmatism that I loved… Anthropic Related
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Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
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Professional video editing has never been more accessible than it is today, and Final Cut Pro continues to be my app of choice here.
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28 August 2022
American software engineer working across web, mobile and TV platforms; writes at sean.is.
Just when I thought it was impossible to accumulate even more hate for them, Philadelphia Parking Authority continues to impress. Went to dispute a ticket and noticed the PPA website is scrolljacking 🙄 Related
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