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19 September
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
x.com So excited to be back speaking in this fantastic lecture theatre at the Royal Institution. But this is a lot of books to sign after the talk. My hand is going to be sore. Related
Bluesky So excited to be back speaking in this fantastic lecture theatre at the Royal Institution. But this is a lot of books to sign after the talk. My hand is going to be sore. Related
Bluesky Just arrived at the Royal Institution for my talk on “You don’t know what you’re missing”. Just made it inside before it really started to rain heavily. Wish me luck. Related
18 September
Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.
A series of bad decisions Sometimes we make poor choices. And, unrelated to that, sometimes bad luck happens. The real problem kicks in after that. One bad decision after another. Choices that compound the problem instead of solving it. Digging…
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16 September
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
x.com Just a few days until my talk at the Royal Institution on Saturday evening. Just a reminder that you can still get yourself a ticket here. Come and find out what you've been missing.... rigb.org
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Bluesky Just a few days until my talk at the Royal Institution on Saturday evening. Just a reminder that you can still get yourself a ticket here. Come and find out what you've been missing.... Related
14 September
Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.
I'm fascinated by the laurel forests of La Gomera, one the Canary Islands. They're full of different species of trees with shiny, waxy leaves. Mosses and lichens grow on the branches, and the ground is covered with a green mantle of dripping ferns and liverworts thriving in the permanent damp. The place has a mysterious, prehistoric air. The lower altitudes of this island are deserts, but the upper parts catch fog, known locally as "horizontal rain" (lluvia horizontal). Near-constant northeasterly trade winds carry moist Atlantic air that condenses into a persistent low cloud layer. This "sea… Related
13 September
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July 2026 and leader of the Labour Party. MP for Makerfield since a by-election in June 2026; Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 before that.
Wish me luck! If you can spare a few quid, here’s the link to donate to Changing Lives homelessness charity: Related
12 September
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
x.com I'm talking at the Royal Institution a week today. There are still some tickets left. Come and find out what you're missing. rigb.org
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Bluesky I'm talking at the Royal Institution a week today. There are still some tickets left. Come and find out what you're missing. Related
9 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.
Politicians, and people, are often deeply irrational. But it is often easier not to talk about it. In fact, it is considered impolite to talk about it. Case in point. In August 1914, British Columbia premier Sir Richard McBride spent $1.15 million of provincial money on two American submarines. That was about twice the yearly budget of the Royal Canadian Navy. Canadian provinces have no military. The man had no business buying weapons, let alone submarines. Let alone incredibly expensive submarines. A German attack on the West Coast was never likely. Germany did have cruisers in the Pacific f… Quoting @TristinHopper I regularly visit the grave of the B.C. premier who panicked at the outset of the First World War and used taxpayer money to buy a pair of random South American submarines. America Related
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.
8 September
Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.
"Good Timber", a poem I keep going back to: the trees that fight for light in rough weather become the strong timber; the ones with easy sun and rain stay scrubby. People and teams seem to go the same way. Comfort is nice. It just doesn't build much. Related
7 September
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.
3 September
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
x.com I'm going to be talking at the Royal Institution on Saturday September 19th. "Explore how our understanding of reality is shaped by missing information, just as much as what is there." Don't forget to get your tickets and to come and say hello: rigb.org
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Bluesky I'm going to be talking at the Royal Institution on Saturday September 19th. "Explore how our understanding of reality is shaped by missing information, just as much as what is there." Don't forget to get your tickets and to come and say hello: Related
2 September
Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
Dear Helene, you have your job cut for you. :) Hope you know how to monitor the increasingly smart agents. Best of luck. Quoting @helene_rey First day at the @BIS_org in Basel. Very pleased to begin my role as Economic Adviser and Head of the Monetary and Economic Department. It has been great to meet new colleagues and hear about the interesting projects already underway. I look forward to the work ahead. Related
29 August
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
"today your day is going to be full of wins and luck will follow you" been telling myself this yesterday and today - 2 new signups for wellness coaching - finally found solution for treating weeds - found buyer for desk i'm selling - neighbor offered to help fix car (saving +$2k) it works Quoting @thebeautyofsaas reminder on how to get lucky >wake up >before doing anything, walk up to the bathroom (first thing in the morning) >look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself that your day is going to be full of wins and that luck will follow you >witness things you have never seen before Related
28 August
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
quick friday task for you stop scrolling and tell yourself this "today your day is going to be full of wins and luck will follow you" then see how the day unfolds Quoting @thebeautyofsaas reminder on how to get lucky >wake up >before doing anything, walk up to the bathroom (first thing in the morning) >look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself that your day is going to be full of wins and that luck will follow you >witness things you have never seen before Related
4 August
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Migrating to the latest @nextjs. Wish me luck 🤞 Quoting @nextjs Next.js 16.3 is now available! • Up to 90% less memory in dev • Faster builds, type checking, and rendering • Better tooling for AI agents • Custom error boundaries • Instant Navigations for SPA-like responsiveness https://t.co/lNAQqpAKT1 Here's what's new ↓ Related
1 July
Labour politician. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 2024 to June 2026, and MP for Holborn and St Pancras from 2015 until standing down in 2026. Director of Public Prosecutions before entering Parliament.
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30 June
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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I loved this, but partly this was the pleasant shock of recognition: much of the action revolves around the National Science Foundation and, physically, its old headquarters in Arlington, which Robinson captures extremely well (even the atmosphere of review panels).
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30 April
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 fantasy: sequel to The Ninth Rain (in my backlog; suffice to say: good), and continuing the high standard of that book.
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24 March
Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.
Winning is rare for active investors (retail or institutional), and even with the few who win consistently, separating luck from skill is tough to do, and there are broad differences in market views and investing approaches. Related
Winning as an active investor is rare, and even with the few who win consistently, separating luck from skill is tough to do, and there are broad differences in market views and investing approaches. 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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Christensen explores one of his approaches to combating the Innovator’s Dilemma:
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26 November 2025
Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
What’s Luck Got to Do with It? An interview with Bill Miller In 2007, I sat down for a long interview with Bill Miller, then the manager of Legg Mason Value Trust. Here’s the unedited Q&A. [money.com, July 18, 2007] The streak is over, but Bill Mille…
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12 November 2025
Chairman and chief executive of Microsoft since 2014; joined the company in 1992 and ran its cloud business before that.
3 November 2025
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
Started goofing around with mesh radios. Delighted to discover the tech immediately bifurcated into a slapfight between two competing protocols as per the ancient and sacred nerd traditions. Not having much luck with either of them to be honest. I can see lots of #meshtastic nodes from my home, but can't reliably communicate with any of them, and public channel is mostly silent. Not enough #meshcore coverage in my area for a fair try. Anyone else meshing in Portland? Related
5 August 2025
China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.
23 July 2025
Writes Useful Fictions on agency and how to get better at things; a former appellate lawyer and the top-ranked woman in professional poker in 2017.
16 July 2025
Chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, which he has led since 2005 after turning around Bank One.
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And and the thing about financial services, leverage kills you. Aggressive accounting can kill you, which a lot of companies do do.
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7 June 2025
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
31 March 2025
Medieval historian at the LSE; writes Going Medieval and The Middle Ages: A Graphic History, and spends a lot of it correcting what people think the period was like.
6 February 2025
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
2 December 2024
Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill and Karen Pirie novels; former journalist and broadcaster.
Royal Literary Fund applications for hardship grants for professional writers rose almost five-fold to 400% in the first financial quarter of 2024. RLF makes grants to authors who have traditionally published at least two books who are experiencing “reduced income” or “a change in circumstances”. Related
12 September 2024
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
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Now I have an answer for this query: El Dorado. The funny thing is that "rain smell" isn't what we set out to do, or even the main point of this perfume.
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26 November 2023
Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
I am starting a new journey where I play with LLMs while refusing to touch Python. Wish me luck, let’s see how far I can get lol LLMs Related
29 June 2023
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.
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While not for most people, I find DeMarco's argument compelling for those that want to take more risk trying their luck in the financial fastlane.
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9 August 2022
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.
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Now, some decisions may have been good decisions that didn't work through no fault of the employee. And some may have been bad decisions that worked because the employee got lucky. So, you can't just look at the outcome, but you have to look at what What was the person thinking about when they made the decision?
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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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Sales isn't easy to learn, especially when you have beginners luck and then hit a wall. This book, from the Sandler Sales Method, gives a good overview of the approach, and why it can be easier to sell when you first start, than once you get into it.
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25 September 2020
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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