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Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.

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  The Japanese concept of wabi-sabi occupies the same conceptual space that beauty does in Ancient Greek thought.

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  Interestingly, in Japanese culture, wabi-sabi represents the same conceptual space as "beauty" does in Ancient Greek thinking.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  The purpose of immigration is to benefit the people who already live in the receiving country.

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  A third principle that liberals should embrace is that the purpose of immigration is to benefit the people who already live in the country that is receiving the immigrants. Immigration to America must be for the benefit of Americans.

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Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  The Japanese sensitivity to impermanence known as mono no aware still shapes how present-day Japan appreciates cherry blossoms.

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  This concept is still alive in present-day Japan, where cherry blossoms are viewed with the bittersweet knowledge that their beauty lasts only for a short while.

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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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  Prolonging the war in Ukraine courts a nuclear escalation whose risk is being treated as though it were zero.

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  Not only is the idea of an endless war immoral, but it plays with an immense risk of nuclear escalation.

  On European hypocrisy and warmongeringbranko2f7.substack.com

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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  Day trading and technical analysis are proven not to work.

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  But he's only lost money because he chose to study day trading and technical analysis Both are proven to be bullshit by endless amounts of studies

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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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  Introduction to Algorithms

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  Spent endless hours digging through The Book. It’s very well written and organized and was a tremendous help in my CS studies.

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Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass, known for 'epistemic spot checks' of non-fiction claims.

From one piece Why can’t we have nice things? Like, specifically? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  When a bureaucracy never issues a formal refusal, there is no decision to argue against, only endless shadowboxing.

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  If the city said no we could have an argument about procedures and decisions, but as it stands its all shadowboxing.

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  In California, lack of money is not what stops public beautification projects from getting built.

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  The client was hoping for an instruction manual on buying beauty, but at least in California, money isn't the bottleneck.

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Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.

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  The recipe for great work is very exacting taste plus the ability to gratify it; it is easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty.

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  Could this phrase or sentence or paragraph or section be improved, even a little? That is, can I make myself (on this very localized turf) make myself dislike it less?

  On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com

Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.

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  The Rumpelstiltskin effect claims only that the act of being diagnosed can itself help, not that a diagnosis is a net good for the patient.

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  The Rumpelstiltskin effect is not a claim that receiving a diagnosis is a net benefit or a net positive. It is a claim that the mere act of receiving a diagnosis can be beneficial.

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Geneticist at Harvard; reads ancient DNA to work out how populations moved and mixed, and wrote Who We Are and How We Got Here.

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  A society that intensely values intelligence is unprecedented in human history; the Bible, Homer and other ancient texts value strength, courage and beauty instead.

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  First of all, I think we are speaking from the point of view of a society which intensely values this particular trait, you know, ability to score well on IQ tests or things like them or to go to school for a long time or whatever it is. And I think this is unprecedented in human history that we live in a time like this.

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Cannon

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  The result is something that's beautiful, sharp, critical and lingering. Long after I closed the cover, I found myself mulling over the delicate ways that Lai raised the contradictions, sorrows and beauty of queer love, racial identity, camaraderie, self-control, and self-indulgence. Lai's characters have no answers, only questions that can never be fully resolved. Instead, these questions are the defining puzzles, defeats and triumphs of their lives.

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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.

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  Beyond Beauty: A Portrait of John Singer Sargent

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  There is also Devon Cox, Beyond Beauty: A Portrait of John Singer Sargent

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Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, which he started in 2011 while studying product design at Stanford.

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  Getting phone notifications on your face is not a valuable proposition, so heads-up display glasses will not become a widespread behaviour.

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  I don't think receiving phone notifications on your face is like, you know, a a valuable, you know, proposition for most folks.

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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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  Every tool is better as a CLI than as an MCP server: models are good at Unix commands, a CLI composes with jq, and MCP output clutters the context.

  MCP

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  I think the main beauty is, is that models are really good at calling Unix commands. So if you just add another CLI, that's just another Unix command in the end. And MCP is… That has to be added in training. That's not a very natural thing for the model. It requires a very specific syntax. And the biggest thing, it's not composable.

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

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  Dropbox

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  Yes, I use Dropbox and GitHub to hold all the data that I care about, but the beauty of these systems is that they work with local copies of that data

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off

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  Raymond Biesinger's new book 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off is a masterclass in how creative workers can transform the endless, low-grade seething about the endless ripoffs of the industry into something productive and even profound

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Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  Government is people with goals, so it grows by nature; there must be very strict limits on how far it can expand its power at the expense of citizens.

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  That's how you end up in an endless loop of ever-increasing taxes, ever-increasing regulation, which ultimately suffocates free market, free enterprise, and free speech. So, you do want to have very, very strict limitations on the extent the government can increase its powers at the expense of citizens.

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Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.

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  Wise

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  I use Wise for sending & receiving money internationally. They have really low rates compared to the rest of the market.

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Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind; worked on interpretability at Anthropic under Chris Olah before that, and teaches the field to newcomers.

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  The person receiving advice usually knows more about their own situation than the person giving it does.

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  No matter how much I know about a domain, the other person will always know far more about their own situation, context, beliefs, skills, preferences, etc than I do.

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Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.

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  The binding constraint on building anything in America is permitting and litigation, not money.

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  Endless lawsuits, cost-exploding contracting requirements, decades to get permits, and more bedevil any attempt to invest here.

  Tariffs, saving, and investmentgrumpy-economist.com

Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  Conscious Accomplishment: How to Use Personal Achievement for Spiritual Growth

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  A guide for ambitious people who feel called to inner work, showing how to use goals, career, and achievement as fuel for consciousness growth instead of a source of endless striving.

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Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.

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  AOC ultrawide monitor

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  This beauty has so much screen real estate it feels like I've got two monitors in one. Which is great, because I'm not a fan of dual monitors.

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Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.

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  Criticism is only useful from someone with domain knowledge who is not trying to gain status by hurting the person receiving it.

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  Criticism is what happens when someone with domain knowledge who is not trying to earn status by hurting you is able to help you see the world as it is. And those three pieces are the key, right? Because most of the criticism I've gotten in my life has come from people who felt like they would feel better if I felt worse.

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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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  Do not judge a product's beauty by its aesthetics; judge it by how it made you feel.

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  Do not judge a product’s beauty by its aesthetics; judge it by how it made you feel.

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Designer, architect and scientist, who led the Mediated Matter group at MIT and founded OXMAN, a company that builds products in collaboration with living organisms.

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  Beauty is agency: a thing is beautiful because it has agency, not because of how it looks.

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  To me, beauty is agency. To me, something that has agency, it is beautiful.

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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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  Days of Endless Adventure

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  Comic-book mind-candy, of a particularly fluffy sort that does a good job of capturing the feel of a mostly-light-hearted long-running campaign.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  Pandemic relief checks function mainly as retroactive social insurance rather than stimulus, because people receiving them during a pandemic save or pay down debt instead of spending.

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  If you get a check during a pandemic, you’re not going to go out and spend it at restaurants and bars, because…well, there’s a pandemic. Instead, you’re more likely to stick it in the bank, pay down debt, or pay the back rent that you owe.

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  I had some theory and some evidence on my side for this prediction, and yet I ended up being very wrong about what would happen to consumption.