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17 September
Singaporean writer and author of FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD; blogs at visakanv.com about ambition, writing and thinking in public.
I could do 5-10 minutes of standup about how I’m not into feet but I kinda envy feet guys sometimes. such clarity of wanting these guys have. and it doesn’t seem very mimetic. many alleged desires are quite contagious, but feet don’t seem to be. and have you seen their wiki?? Related
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
In all seriousness, @jococruise.bsky.social is a truly excellent way for nerds (or anyone else!) to dip a toe into the cruise thing. The the community that's developed over 15 years of the cruise is welcoming and friendly. There are always things to do, officially programmed and otherwise. It's fun! Quoting @superobscure.com Is JoCo a good Nerd’s First Cruise? Or is it better-suited for Advanced Cruising Nerds? Related
15 September
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.
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
hey @MarkJCarney make sure these guys get a few billi Quoting @MarkJCarney The first-ever Canada Investment Summit kicks off today in Toronto. Some of the largest investors in the world are here for a reason: they see our strength, they share our ambition, and they want to build big with us. Related
14 September
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
Serre's 100th birthday conference starts tomorrow: https://serre100.sciencesconf.org/?lang=fr . I was on the organizing committee, but unfortunately am not able to participate in the event. Related
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
Welcoming Steren, creator of Google Cloud Run, to Vercel. He will lead the Fluid family of compute products (Functions, Containers, Sandbox, Builds). Serverless was the last chapter of the cloud, and Steren helped define the paradigm at Google. Agents are the next frontier, and they require new compute primitives designed for them. Excited for Steren to lead this transition once again. Quoting @steren Today is my first day at Vercel the cloud Google Related
Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.
Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.
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Honored to be speaking at the 2026 Innovations in Psychotherapy Conference (Nov 10–13 in Anaheim & Online)! Join us for evidence-based education & practical strategies to enhance your practice. Use code SPEAK26 to save $50:
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13 September
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
Even better guys, get a @LLMDevPass and let Astra plan and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM-5.3 Flash execute. You could do a lot through custom agents by having one senior agent handing over and delegating tasks to other sub agents, all of this is built-in @Empryo_ai Quoting @addyosmani Get more out of your Fable usage by using Opus for subagents. Great tip! Related
10 September
British historian, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford; author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed.
9 September
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Hi guys, I’m going to start a company. It will be important. But it will also suck. It will be valuable. But will leave death and destruction in its wake. It will be transformational. But it will destroy society as we know it. So bottom line, please buy my company’s product. You can count on us! Thank you. Related
Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.
The Bill Gates-Steve Jobs rivalry. "These two guys, they would, they would take a crap on each other at any chance they could." They were polar opposites. The core of the debate was open vs closed systems. "If you were sitting around in 1995 ... You would have thought that the open system makes more sense. Bill Gates and Microsoft are the future. But if you're sitting around in 2026 and looking at all this, it looks more like the closed ecosystem, the Apple ecosystem, is actually the success." Quoting @shaneparrish Steve Jobs almost disappeared from history. After being ousted from Apple, he spent 12 years struggling. He: • Alienated the people closest to him • Blew up deals that could have saved his company • Refused to compromise • Drove away his co-founders and investors • Burned through hundreds of millio… Related
5 September
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.
Network School Kazakhstan is now officially open, with a packed crowd for the ribbon cutting, and government officials welcoming us. Kazakhstan is a high-tech country that recently ranked #1 in the International Physics Olympiads. It’s full of confident, smart, young people. And it’s now recruiting global talent from around the world. So: if you want to build a techno-optimist community in a techno-optimist country, join us at https://t.co/bOBW6x8JVs. Quoting @SuperteamKZ Network School has officially launched in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 On September 2, Superteam Kazakhstan co-hosted the official launch of @ns Kazakhstan at https://t.co/0i1oGJtuLS alongside the Ministry of AI and Digital Development and @AstanaHub. government Related
4 September
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
As soon as I posted this post I started getting scam calls about card activation and stuff. Also, got an email impersonating one card itself @OneCardHelp you guys must be very careful Quoting @zathvarun @GetOneCardIN @OneCardHelp your app has been logging me out as soon as I complete the onboarding flow. Related
30 August
Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.
Rewatching Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind and my wife assures me it's Frodo and not spider man, but either way this guys sucks Related
25 August
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
23 August
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
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The people who want to censor (code, speech, money) are the bad guys.
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22 August
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
On my way home from my 1st @laravellivedk in Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 It’s such an awesome conference - would recommend going next year if you can! Related
21 August
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
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Frontier Labs are incented to be fearful as it provides a moral justification for staying closed.
Chinese Labs take the consistent position of doing what’s good for all and being open.
So the little guys find themselves in the uncomfortable position of rooting for the Chinese…
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18 August
US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.
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if you create a or allow for the creation of a patchwork of regulations, meaning there's one set of regulations for AI in California, another one in Maryland, another one in Texas. You know, the big tech guys, they can deal with that.
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14 August
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
NecronomiCon now labels itself as “The International Conference and Festival of Weird Fiction, Art, and Academia”, no longer a Lovecraft con specifically. And that is fair; the next panel I’m going to is “weird Appalachiana.” But Lovecraft sure does seem to be still the anchor and common thread. Related
11 August
British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
guys, @anydesk is awesome. running my macmini m1 as codex remote. Related
3 August
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
31 July
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
29 July
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
17 July
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
26 June
AI researcher at OpenAI; built the poker systems Libratus and Pluribus and the Diplomacy agent Cicero, and works on reasoning models.
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And so you kind of end up in this this bad equilibrium where everybody kind of knows that it's a bad equilibrium, but like nobody wants to break out. And I I felt like, okay, well, if I just hopefully come out and say like, look guys, let's all recognize that we're in a bad equilibrium and let's move to this different equilibrium where we're we're plotting things with an X-axis
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21 June
Genomics researcher and investor; writes The Century of Biology on where biotechnology is actually going.
17 June
Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.
Ahead of the first FOMC press conference today for new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh: We made predictions in our podcast on May 18. What did Gary Gensler and I get right, and what is going to play out differently in light of oil prices, the stock market, AI? powerandconsequences.com
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16 June
Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.
government
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The Inquisition, the Vatican, it controls everything, which is completely untrue and is propagandistic. The Inquisition is overseen by a whole bunch of isolated guys who are in isolated towns and it takes weeks or months to even communicate with the Vatican and they're making their own decisions.
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14 June
Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.
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And I believe the best product CEOs are in the minutia of the details. you know, all the stories about Steve Jobs. I was so impressed when I heard that he insisted on picking out the carpeting in the conference rooms, you know, and and I tried to have that same mentality of micromanaging the really small pixel level details that matter.
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3 June
Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.
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So I'm looking at this like guys the fundamentals of this isn't like everything is going to change because of MCP. What the hell? A whole conference guys? This is just API design.
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2 June
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Logic for Programmers extra credits So I said there wasn’t a proper newsletter this week, since I’m in Budapest prepping for a conference. But I still got a thing for y’all. There’s a lot of interesting topics I wanted to cover for Logic for Programmers,…
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28 May
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
27 May
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
Waste Tokens, Save Time Welcome. You’re listening to the Naval Podcast, your authoritative source for new knowledge. We’re trying something new today. I have three frontier founders with us—three good-looking guys, actually, and a fourth good-…
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20 May
Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.
15 May
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
10 May
Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, who advises companies on corporate governance and mission protection.
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It doesn't guarantee that you're the good guys. Okay? Just writing it down doesn't do that much. But it does solve one very specific problem, which is if someone one day sues you saying you breached your fiduciary duty to investors, you could say, "Nope, investors agreed that this is our purpose to do this thing.
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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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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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20 April
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.
10 March
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
23 February
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
7 November 2025
Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.
I am looking forward to speaking at this @GUAmericas conference on Monday, November 10. Registration is available here (including for the livestream): Related
28 September 2025
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.
23 September 2025
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
15 July 2025
Semiconductor analyst; writes Fabricated Knowledge on the chip industry and the companies in it.
8 June 2025
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
29 May 2025
Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.
London's robot conference is going crazy over it! Today we're unveiling our 1st robot Hugging Face 🤝 Pollen Robotics A low-cost $250 open-source robot designed as an open-source platform for fun human computer interactions powered by HF Spaces, models and community. => discord.com
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24 May 2025
Historian of the Second World War; wrote Normandy '44 and Brothers in Arms, and co-hosts the We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast.
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But ultimately, there’s a certain point in the Second World War where the outcome is absolutely inevitable because the guys that lose can’t compete with the numbers that the guys are going to win.
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15 April 2025
Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.
Thank you! See you guys in Singapore next week 🥳 Quoting @iclr_conf Test of Time Winner Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization Diederik P. Kingma, Jimmy Ba Adam revolutionized neural network training, enabling significantly faster convergence and more stable training across a wide variety of architectures and tasks. Related
12 March 2025
Co-founder of Ximian and Xamarin; CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021; now an independent investor and funder of open technical projects, including the Vesuvius Challenge to read the Herculaneum Papyri.
@eightsleep you guys need a hotel edition that can be controlled with a dial on top (and/or easily temporarily paired with a smart phone). I'd select hotels on this basis if this existed. Related
Exciting PlasticList update: We were honored to work with @bobaguys to identify and eliminate the sources of BPA contamination, and their teas are now BPA-free! They have fully transitioned to BPA-free receipt paper, which PlasticList confirmed to be BPA-free through independent lab testing. They have also switched to brown sugar in BPA-free packaging. We have been impressed with their commitment to get to the bottom of the issue and move fast to remove BPA from their supply chain. If you want healthy and delicious tea, I highly recommend Boba Guys! Quoting @natfriedman Advice for Food Companies Since we launched PlasticList, we’ve been heartened to have quite a few food companies reach out and ask for help interpreting their results and tracking down and eliminating their contamination. I’ve had calls with a bunch of these. I am happy to report that no food compa… Related
7 February 2025
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.
4 December 2024
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
16 October 2024
Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.
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The places to look are places that were hospitable and welcoming to human beings during the ice age. That, of course, includes the coastlines that are now underwater. Of course, it includes the Sahara Desert. Of course, it includes the Amazon rainforest as well.
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30 September 2024
Archaeologist of the Maya and the ancient Americas; directs the Maya Exploration Center and presents the ArchaeoEd podcast.
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I think you have some guys that have their finger on the pulse there. We need to start thinking about how we’re going to survive this, not that we’re going to make it go away.
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24 May 2024
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.
9 March 2024
Astrophysicist and coffee researcher; author of The Physics of Filter Coffee and The Physics of Espresso, and writer of the Coffee ad Astra blog on brewing science and equipment.
American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
15 October 2023
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.
6 March 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'm grateful for so many things about the closing keynote that @jasonkoppe and I gave at the @LFISoftware conference. All fields looking to make progress need exemplars, and when it comes to learning effectively from incidents, this is such an exemplar: youtube.com
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6 April 2022
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
22 November 2021
Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.
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David Bodanis, The Art of Fairness – A delightful and moving exploration of nice guys, nasty guys, and what it takes to succeed without being a jerk.
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23 March 2017
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
5 January 2017
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
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