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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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  The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

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  I guess you can’t go wrong with Charles Petzold. This book is excellent and highly recommended to anyone interested in computing. Must read for computer science students and software developers.

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  Creativity, Inc

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  I didn’t expect it to be this interesting and insightful. Great book. Recommended to anyone in the creative and managerial industry.

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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

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  AI connectors, approached holistically, are now worth adopting despite their gaps and shortfalls.

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  In the past, I was wary of connectors and recommended against them. But after spending a month going deep on every aspect of how they work, I've completely changed my mind and am now a big believer in them.

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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.

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  Burning Chrome

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  He'd already coined "cyberspace" in a 1982 short story, "Burning Chrome," which was later included in his excellent collection of the same name. (I have recommended people read "New Rose Hotel" from that collection more times than any other short story, I'd wager.)

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Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.

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  A plan that spells out every line of code to change gives you no leverage: it costs as long to read as the pull request, so you end up skimming it and reading the code twice.

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  And the plan doc, what was bad about it is it didn't give you leverage. The plan was every single line of code that was going to change like in diff blocks and like all the new stuff to write. And so like people would review these plans. We recommended this. We told people to read the plans. We read all our plans. And then eventually I found myself like I just kind of skimmed the plans.

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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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  The Mind of South Africa: The Story of the Rise and Fall of Apartheid

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  Definitely recommended, written at the very end of the apartheid era which gives it yet another angle of interest.

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Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.

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  SomnoDent Bruxism Device

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  If you have Bruxism, I strongly encourage you to address it. A dentist on Blueprint recommended the SomnoDent Bruxism Device , and for the first time in my life, my Bruxism has stopped.

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Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.

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  A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti

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  That's the opening of "The Green Fields of the Mind," collected in this slim, wonderful volume. Recommended if you like thinking about America, baseball, and The Odyssey.

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  Love is a Mix Tape

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  Several people recommended this memoir to me after learning about my monthly mixtape project.

  austinkleon.com

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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  Why Immigration Policy is Hard and How to Make it Better

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  Alan Manning, Why Immigration Policy is Hard and How to Make it Better is a thoughtful and balanced look at its topic, recommended.

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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  Caps Lock

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  It's not neutral and very political, but it gave me a different perspective on how design serves people. Highly recommended.

  arslan.io

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  Inherit the Stars

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  The story is very intriguing. Humanity finds a dead body on the moon. The caveat? The body is 50,000 years old. The story starts slow, but then the pace becomes phenomenal. Highly recommended.

  arslan.io

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  How to Take Smart Notes

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  Write notes in your own words, connect them to existing notes, and let ideas emerge from the connections. I wrote a whole blog post about this, so go ahead and read it. Highly recommended.

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Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.

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  The Four Things That Matter Most

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  Someone recommended this book after my brother passed away. I didn’t want to read a bunch of books about grief, but this one struck a chord. I wish I had read it before he died.

  awealthofcommonsense.com

Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  Poison Like No Other

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  Recommended reading: "Poison like no other" (on plastics), "In Defense of Food"

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  In Defense of Food

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  Recommended reading: "Poison like no other" (on plastics), "In Defense of Food"

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Writer of kottke.org, one of the oldest blogs on the web, published since 1998 and supported by its members. He writes about art, technology, science, design and visual culture.

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  Shopkeeping

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  Shopkeeping by Peter Miller. This was recommended from a couple of different vectors — pretty sure one was Robin Sloan. Lots of resonance to my work here and how I think about it (and want to think about it). (A-)

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Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.

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  Video Speed Controller

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  Video Speed Controller ← VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  The Manager’s Path

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  A concise guide for managers, from tech lead, through line managers, managers of managers, all the way to CTO. Very much recommended: I have gone back to re-read parts of it several times.

  blog.pragmaticengineer.com

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  The Staff Engineer's Path

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  A book I recommended after reading it, writing: “If you're a senior engineer wondering what the next level is, a staff-level engineer or a manager of staff engineers, this book is for you."

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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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  What Your Professor Thinks You Already Know About US Politics

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  I forget (again!) how I chanced across it, but it fills a very real need for a lot of the students in my inequality class, and I intend to make it recommended/optional reading in the future. (I'll have to see if the library can buy a digital copy.)

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Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.

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  The Whole Earth Catalog

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  The Whole Earth Catalog -- the library at PARC was first composed simply of the books that the Whole Earth Catalog recommended.

  patrickcollison.com

Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.

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  You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

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  You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (Japan, 1955, CC) 3.5 Chishu Ryu is one of my favorite actors, but he has a fairly small role. Very nice cinematography. Recommended for fans of nostalgia.

  themoneyillusion.com

Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.

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  Apollo 11

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  Strongly recommended for anyone with an interest in space, greatness, or reality.

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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.

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  Becoming a Technical Leader

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  Becoming a Technical Leader by Gerald Weinberg - I've read and recommended Weinberg before and recommend him yet again.

  vickiboykis.com

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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  Neither monetarist money-supply-focused models nor Keynesian macro models have outperformed simple random-walk models at forecasting the macroeconomy.

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  Friedman’s focus on the money supply has not held up, as Samuelson suggested, but the alternative Keynesian macro models recommended by Samuelson in the same interview have not done better and they were not outperforming simple random walk models of predicting the macroeconomic future.

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Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the origins of modern growth.

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  The European Miracle

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  I recommended Eric Jones’ The European Miracle

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