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Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.

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  Companies that gain control over people's computing facilities have historically used that power to build malicious functionality benefiting themselves into the software they distribute

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  Historically, whenever companies get power over what people's computing facilities can do, they use it against us, building malicious functionalities, designed to benefit them, into the software they invite us to use.

  Urgent: Raise the Wage Actstallman.org

Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.

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  An agent told to disagree with everything is worthless: it has to form its own view and speak only when that view differs enough to be worth the interruption.

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  “you are a devil’s advocate, disagree with everything” is probably the worst possible prompt for this agent. within a week everyone would ignore her. she’d become the slack equivalent of a smoke detector that goes off whenever somebody makes toast.

  every company needs a cassandrasunilpai.dev

Head of Instagram since 2018, previously head of Facebook's News Feed.

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  Grit, fast learning and self-awareness are enough to get good at anything eventually, and whenever somebody is not working out, one of the three is missing.

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  Because if you're those three things, if you got fire in your belly, you learn quickly, and you're self-aware, you can kind of get good at anything eventually.

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Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.

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  Whenever two teaching methods are rigorously compared, strong direct instruction plus practice wins.

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  In short, whenever we have high-quality evidence that rigorously compares two teaching methods, the research invariably favors strong, direct instruction plus practice

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Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  Pursuing efficiency and maximizing productivity too aggressively causes things to go wrong.

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  Efficiency is what TV remote controls are good at, but whenever people try to maximize their productivity in the speediest way, things start to go south.

  Take your timemariandrew.substack.com

Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  In situations that bring people closer to their animal nature, such as illness or childbirth, they tend to behave more instinctively and impolitely.

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  Whenever humans experience situations where we are closer to our animal selves than usual (needing to use the bathroom, having periods, giving birth, raising a baby, being sick), we usually behave as animals do: instinctively, urgently, and impolitely.

  Surprises of Motherhoodmariandrew.substack.com

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.

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  On any given problem an AI tool succeeds maybe one or two percent of the time; the headline results are what running it at scale and picking the winners looks like.

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  Uh but whenever we do a systematic study, um any given problem, an AI tool has a success rate of maybe 1 or 2%. Uh it's just that it's just that they can apply at scale and and you just pick the winners, it looks great.

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Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.

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  Design deliverables are no longer static assets or guidelines but tools: custom software that generates on-brand assets on demand.

  coding agents

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  But with today's AI coding agents, building software is remarkably easy. So instead of handing over static assets and static guidelines, designers can deliver custom software. Tools that let clients create their own on-brand assets whenever they need them.

  Design Tools Are The New Design Deliverableslukew.com

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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  Anything introduced with “I believe” is, by that fact alone, not something everyone can see to be true.

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  Whenever someone says, “I believe …”, then whatever they say next is not true.

  Beliefs are not factssive.rs

Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.

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  See's Bridge Mix

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  See's Bridge Mix. My parents had this at their house when we visited in January and we've been buying them throughout the year whenever we come across a See's. The best box to have around the house.

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Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.

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  Birth rates can move in whatever direction a society chooses, whenever it chooses; there is no ratchet.

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  Surviving fertility rates can go in whatever direction society wants, whenever it wants.

  There Is No Long Decline in Fertilitylymanstone.substack.com

Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.

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  No growth initiative should ever be started from scratch.

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  And number one thing that whenever you have an initiative or whenever you have a metric that you need to go and move, do not start from scratch ever. Do not start from scratch.

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Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.

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  When pre-training data is limited, it is better to train a smaller model for multiple epochs than to train a larger model on unique data once.

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  In sum, whenever we don't have infinite amounts of pre-training data, we should train smaller models for more (up to 4) epochs.

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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  Tailscale

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  All the sockets between my computers are over Tailscale, so whenever I grab the laptop and leave the house, the connections to my VMs and NAS remain stable.

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