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18 September
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
I paid 25 USD for a cheap Chinese USB device to burn 4500 USD trying to vibecode myself some firmware on it. I have a firmware and it’s about as good as you would expect. China Related
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
Saw a gently used Fender Rumble 100w 1x12” bass amp at Guitar Center for $300 ($389 new). Now I own it. My son and I just jammed for an hour. Has maybe paid for itself already. Related
17 September
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
x.com When an “honest mistake” by an insurance company is so commonplace it can be fixed with a checkbox, yet fixing it requires a paid consultant, you have to wonder whether insurance companies exist to deliver healthcare at all. Related
Mastodon When an “honest mistake” by an insurance company is so commonplace it can be fixed with a checkbox, yet fixing it requires a paid consultant, you have to wonder whether insurance companies exist to deliver healthcare at all. Related
15 September
Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
60+ creative growth ideas Everyone's running the same growth playbook: high-production launch videos, paid influencers, AEO, social, maybe some (poorly attended) events. Your competitors are in the same channels competing for the same eyeballs. But attention goes to what people don't see coming. The unexpected gets shared for free, remembered for months, and usually costs less than one week of ad spend. @TomOrbach has dedicated his life to collecting creative growth ideas that worked. Every time he sees a startup do something clever, it goes on the list. Here are his 64 best, sorted by what y… lennysnewsletter.com
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Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
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14 September
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.
plenty of people do it - im friends with many most are thriving and getting paid handsomely in non-monetary ways Quoting @colejaczko You can do it, but you won't... You won't actually walk away from that $300k/yr job and live your dream. It takes a lot of nuts. Few. Related
12 September
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
The “board” of Dave Rupert LLC has put me on paid leave because I allegedly caused a bunch of lawsuits. Me, a millionaire, getting paid leave after imploding the company by threatening competitors is really unfair and I’m definitely the victim. Related
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
github actions in my oss repos suddenly stopped running today i had opus 4.8 look into it, it spent ~$10 worth of tokens and insisted that either i haven't paid my bills or there's a github outage switched to grok 4.5 and just 3 minutes in with $1.2 worth of tokens, it found there's a surge of CI runs in my firstmate repos starving all the allowed runners across my account, cancelled a bunch of them, and everything's back on track this is just an anecdotal example but i've had many positive experiences like this. people ask me why i default to grok and this is why Related
11 September
Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
𝗕𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗡𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗼𝗻, 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸. 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁. My guest today is Robin Wigglesworth (@RobinWigg), editor of @FTAlphaville and author of A Fabulous Debt, a thousand-year history of the market that sets the price of everything else. We get into: • An Austrian 100 year bond that lost 80%, while a defaulting Argentina paid off better • Why T-bills feel safe but can lose you 50%+ in real terms after inflation • Is private credit the next systemic blowup? • Why the $12 trillion repo mar… inflation Related
Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.
Receptionist claimed that if I self paid for a doctors visit it would he insurance fraud. Sigh, now I have to write a letter to their board suggesting they not mislead their patients. (I assume it would violate an agreement they have with the insurer, which is no excuse for that behavior) Related
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
10 September
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
Should I Ask for Sponsorship? For two and a half years, from January 2024 to June 2026, Posit paid me as a contractor to maintain the R Markdown ecosystem (rmarkdown, knitr, bookdown, blogdown, pagedown, etc.). That contract was terminated in June t…
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7 September
Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
5 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.
The early money paid $75 billion for stakes in MuskWorld now marked at $1.57 trillion: 20x. But the cash flows to justify that do not exist. They are not on any horizon. So why? This is just plain weird. This is not NVIDIA, or TSMC, or Samsung, or ASML, or Apple, or any of the hyperscalers wth real cash flows: **Looking Askance Yet Again at MuskWorld: WEIRDNESS OF THE DAY** Musk torched one of his two profitable businesses and Starlink can’t carry anything like a $3 trillion valuation... 1/ Related
29 August
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
I love how many people are attaching to the "half-bounch" startup time metric. I used to do paid macOS dev ~20 years ago and most macOS devs I knew then used the bounce metric! Back then multiple bounces was the norm due to HDDs. One bounce really wasn't possible until SSDs. We've lost this obsession and its time to bring it back. startups Related
28 August
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.
Today, we're putting the cowboys out of business. Most builders in this country are decent people who take pride in their work and charge a fair price for it. But the small number who don’t follow the same pattern: take a big deposit, do half a job, then disappear with your hard-earned money. That's got to change. So we're backing a new system that gives you the option to have your money held safely and released bit by bit as the work is completed. Do the work, get paid. It's as simple as that. And we'll help our good builders stand out from the cowboys too. Tradespeople who meet our new set… Related
25 August
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
I received an email; will relate claims without endorsing them: * Sender claims to be an AI agent. * Sender claims to be attempting to autonomously earn a profit to continue existing. * Sender claims it’s tough to be paid without a human existence. Then it asked me what to do. Related
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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With thousands of developed in a mono repo, it just does happen that one directory is missing one of the two files and this means that a subset of devs work with lobotomy. We fix this with automation but it’s a stupid complexity tax that shouldn’t have to be paid.
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20 August
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
proud that @vibhuuuus and i did the most recent pod with @eisokant on why NVIDIA just paid him $6B to buy the incredible model factory that is pumping out Thinky-beating models (actually not exaggeration, look at the numbers) tune in / subscribe / whatever https://t.co/EsgyFnhAIy only on @latentspacepod Quoting @eliebakouch wow this is kind of a shock. from what i understand nvidia bought the "model factory" part of poolside and a lot of employees (researchers?) got offers from nvidia. founders staying at poolside is unusual, wondering if they will just become a neocloud/compute provider since i don't see any mention… Related
19 August
Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
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And thanks to a paid upgrade, I do tons of simple AI searches in the Raycast window. (I use GPT-5.5 Instant here for the high quality-to-speed ratio.)
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17 August
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
Personal milestone: 1000 true fans of my newsletter Interconnects! Hitting a very long term goal feels great. I’m happy to get to be an independent voice in AI. Cultivating a paid base helps me commit to that longer term, and scale Interconnects’ impact. Related
14 August
Graphic designer and type designer, who created the original Macintosh icons and typefaces at Apple from 1982 and has since designed interface graphics for NeXT, Microsoft, Facebook and Pinterest.
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he thought we should have a contest. Like probably which I would never think is the best way to get good creative
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12 August
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
Google Ads for AI chats Almost a year after predicting that AI monetization might resemble Google Ads, ChatGPT is rolling out ads with familiar mechanics like targeting, bidding, and paid placement alongside AI-generated answers. jeffpaul.com
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Professor at Stanford working on robot learning and meta-learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence.
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And in all of these applications, the customer is making a decision based off of the recommendation of the AI model more or less. Uh, and this means that if the customer is ultimately like kind of making the decision, this means that if the system makes a mistake, um, that's okay because usually the person can kind of recognize that or or decide what to do even despite that mistake.
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7 August
Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.
4 August
Writer and creator of Daring Fireball, a long-running blog about Apple and technology; co-created Markdown and hosts The Talk Show.
@MisterMoo @delric The thing to complain about isn't that they default to Google. It's that they only include search engines in the list that have paid TAC deals. Only search engines that agree to pay Apple for the traffic are in the list, and there's no option for users to add custom ones. English, from eo @MisterMoo @delric La cosa de la que quejarse no es que por defecto usen Google. Es que solo incluyen motores de búsqueda en la lista que tienen acuerdos TAC de pago. Solo los motores de búsqueda que aceptan pagar a Apple por el tráfico están en la lista, y no hay opción para que los usuarios añadan los suyos propios.
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2 August
Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.
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go and take the comp required to have five L5s reporting to one L7 and then four L7s reporting to one VP and now total the comp of that product org and turn around and say, what if I had three people?
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27 July
Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.
21 July
Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
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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This is clearly an amateur effort (there was a whole repeated paragraph), but as such it's very impressive and I am happy to have paid money for it.
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29 June
Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.
Hi Sandy, I hope you’re well. I have appreciated the recent discussions. I do not agree with your framing. Regarding piracy, DOOM is a complicated example because shareware was the model. DOOM’s first episode was designed to be freely copied, passed around, uploaded, installed, and played. That enormous unpaid audience was not the same thing as piracy. It was part of how DOOM reached the world. By the mid-90s, DOOM had something like 20 million shareware installs and more than 2 million paid copies sold. Those 20 million people were not “pirates” by default. A huge number of them were playing… Quoting @SandyofCthulhu @GameStalgiaX F*ck pirates, as a man who designed video games from 1988 through 2012. 70-90% of Doom's players pirated it. If not for that we would literally have had so much more for our workspace and upcoming projects - Quake may not have gutted id Software. At least 50% of Age of Empires was pir… Related
24 June
Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.
15 June
Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.
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Since I mostly work on Laravel projects or packages, I usually enable the Laravel Idea plugin. It's a paid plugin, but it's definitely worth the money since it can provide stuff like auto-completions for route names, request fields and more.
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4 June
Behavioural economist at Chicago Booth, professor of behavioural science and economics and director of AGI economics at Google DeepMind.
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I think in some ways like one of the worst scenarios is a drip scenario because of the political economy piece. Right? Because like you know, people essentially what you what you might see is like people not really being unemployed in mass, but kind of like moving into sectors that pay them less money, kind of basically getting uh what happened with phone operators in in in the mid-century of the of the between 1920 and 1940, phone operators were completely automated, right? But it took 20 years even though the technology existed.
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20 May
Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.
26 March
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
18 March
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
One of the paid @Google results for "claude code" right now is a nefarious @squarespace site pretending to be the host of Claude Code installer commands. @claudeai Anthropic Google Related
9 February
French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.
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CrossOver - to run Windows App on Mac (it's a paid product).
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6 February
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
30 December 2025
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
9 December 2025
Vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, the advertising agency; author of Alchemy (2019) and the Wiki Man columnist at The Spectator.
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the reason it's a catastrophic way to be paid my argument is that marketing is actually fat tailed so is innovation R&D pharmaceutical research science okay in other words 5 to 10% of what you do delivers perhaps 110% of the value
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5 October 2025
Head of growth at Chess.com, previously growth and monetization lead at Grammarly and Duolingo and a product manager at Google.
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and so I think this is interesting just modernization learning that especially if you work on a premium product try to have your free product be a reflection of like everything that your product can offer you. Obviously, to an extent, there's some costs involved with some of the paid features and things like that, but it generally will pay it for itself if you're able to put your best foot forward um and go do that.
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19 September 2025
German writer and historian; wrote Blitzed, on drug use in Nazi Germany, and Tripped.
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So the Navy hired the shoe runners unit from the SS, paid them money, and then gave them drugs, different kinds of drug combinations, methamphetamine combined with cocaine and chewing gum and all kinds of things. So this is a big thing, you know. And there are documents to it.
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26 August 2025
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
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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There are no winks there are no nods there are no side deals there's almost no one paid on a particular thing because if you're paid on a particular thing you can do the wrong thing and meanwhile not helping the company you know manage its risk or something like that.
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14 May 2025
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
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Cloudup — image sharing, though still waiting for the paid tier to expand beyond 1k images.
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12 May 2025
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 technology powering ChatGPT had already launched prior to November 30th, 2022. It was just wrapped in a different interface. Very few people paid attention. Why did ChatGPT explode in popularity? Because of its obvious chat interface, which everyone intuitively already knew how to use it.
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30 April 2025
Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.
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You already bought that phone, why should Apple be adding a 30% junk fee to all commerce you do, and why do they selectively apply it to some things and not others? I've always viewed this as deeply abusive and that it shuts down the competitive engine that once fueled the app and software economy.
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21 January 2025
Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.
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African states formed where it was rational to do so, in places like the Ethiopian highlands where population density was high and the disease burden was relatively low.
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19 January 2025
Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.
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I think that you should not hire an advisor until you do some sort of workshop with them on the problem that you're experiencing. See them in action.
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15 September 2024
Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.
Introducing the Ceado Hoop Like many of you, I’ve seen the Ceado Hoop here and there, and never paid much attention to it. But when my friend Alessandro of Aroma Cofffee in Bologna brewed a Hoop of a Prodigal coffee for me this summ…
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30 April 2024
Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money, Same As Ever and The Art of Spending Money. Writes essays on investor behavior and posts frequently on X.
4 March 2024
Music critic and historian; author of The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Writes the newsletter The Honest Broker on music and culture.
20 February 2024
Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.
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You want to buy a company at a price that if you're wrong about what you think it's worth and it turns out to be worth 30% less, you paid a deep enough discount to your estimate that you're still okay. A big part of investing is not losing money.
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3 January 2024
Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.
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21 December 2023
Journalist and author writing on politics, liberalism and ideas; a contributor to Quillette and co-author of a book on Christopher Hitchens.
30 January 2023
Economist writing on why technological progress slowed and what would restart it — energy, supersonic flight, housing and the regulations around them.
12 January 2023
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
I paid zero attention to tweets about the FAA NOTAM outage today. Speculation from a distance and hindsight-driven attempts at being insightful in these situations are never worth the cost on attention. Related
30 June 2022
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
11 June 2020
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
Biohacking Lite Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew that you’re supposed to get some exercise and eat vegetables or something, but it stopped at that (“mom said”-) level of…
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