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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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  Building institutions that can incorporate diverse perspectives, adapt flexibly to change, and keep public legitimacy is the central challenge of state capacity today.

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  Creating institutional forms that can incorporate diversity and respond flexibly to a changing environment while maintaining legitimacy in the eyes of citizens is the fundamental project of state capacity that faces us.

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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.

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  A maritime chokepoint crisis permanently redirects long-term pipeline and terminal investment, not just short-term oil prices.

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  Chokepoint risk does more than spike the spot price for a season. It re-prices geography permanently: it redirects the next decade of pipeline and terminal investment and hands a windfall to whoever sits on the alternative route.

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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

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  C++23's std::flat_map is a better choice than std::map for many practical use cases.

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  In many practical cases, the new std::flat_map is a better alternative to the std::map.

  How fast is C++23’s std::flat_map?lemire.me

Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.

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  Teaching that reflects political commitments is a legitimate part of intellectual diversity, not a violation of academic norms

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  There is nothing wrong with promoting perspectives that have political commitments; in fact, intellectual diversity requires this, because some viewpoints include political commitments.

  danieldrezner.substack.com

Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.

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  Critics of a technology only change anything by offering people a better alternative to move towards, rather than an argument to feel bad about.

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  He gave them an affirmative alternative to move toward, and in doing so, empowered both those people and himself to do something better.

  anildash.com

Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.

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  You have to keep enough understanding of how a system works to fix it yourself, because the alternative is hoping and praying the agent can figure it out.

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  I think that we still need to understand enough about how things work so that if something does go wrong, we're actually able to fix it and not just hope and pray that the agent is able to figure things out.

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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.

  rakhim.org

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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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Founder and CEO of Valar Atomics, a nuclear-reactor company founded in 2023.

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  Nuclear safety should be pursued by reducing the consequence of an accident rather than its odds, because something unpredictable always happens.

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  The alternative way that you can reduce risk is actually just reducing consequence, right? And we would argue that that's a much better way to reduce risk. Odds uh are stochastic, right? Even if you do an enormous amount of risk reduction on odds and you do all this engineering, something's still going to happen, right? like just something's going to come out of left field and you can't predict everything.

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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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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Every lab will sell you an agent, so the case for an open-source one is that it runs anywhere, works with any model, and can keep your data on your own device.

  open source

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  Every lab will sell you an agent. Open claw is the alternative. Open source runs everywhere, works with any model. And if you run local models, your data never has to leave your device.

  Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"youtube.com

Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.

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  A founder cannot delegate judgment: the chief executive has to make the decision that makes sense to them, however much momentum the alternative has.

  startups

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  And one of the harder lessons as a startup founder, one of the harder things I think to to really deal with is the fact that you cannot delegate your judgment. As as the CEO, you must always make decisions that make sense to you, no matter how much momentum or inertia alternatives seem to have.

  Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enoughyoutube.com

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.)

  freddiedeboer.substack.com

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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Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.

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  What look like the priorities of old age are the priorities of a short time horizon: tell a young person they have five years and they choose the same way.

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  But her work has shown that when you give people different time perspectives, they make different choices. So if you unfortunately tell someone who's younger that they only have 5 to 10 years left to live, they're going to make choices very much like older adults too.

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Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

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  Letting non-programmers build their own unmaintainable software is still a large step forward, because the alternative was a thousand-page requirements document and an eight-year wait.

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  You look under the underneath though at the code and it was just a horrible unmaintainable mess. But the fact that people could program the programs that they wanted was a a significant step forward as opposed to I'm going to write a thousandpage requirements document and then wait 8 years and not get what I want which was the alternative that we were offering at the at the time.

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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).

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  North Mini Code

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  Alternatively, if you don't want to use Qwen3.6, Cohere's North Mini Code is probably the most interesting, capable alternative at this size class right now.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  Rocking pizza cutter

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  An alternative — which works especially well if you’re making thick-crust pizza — is a rocking pizza cutter

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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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  The alternative to burning tokens is a zero-token architecture: learn the thing, think for yourself, and finish the task.

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  Now, I post things like, "Hey, I'm adopting the zero token architecture." People like, "What's zero token architecture?" as like instead of burning tokens, you learn things and you think for yourself and just complete tasks.

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Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.

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  Replacing a monopolistic platform with a single alternative isn't enough — real resilience requires diversity among competing platforms.

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  We shouldn't replace Github with one site at all; we need the strength and resilience that only comes with diversity

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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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Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.

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  A company should manufacture fresh internal challenges for its best people, because the alternative is that they go and find those challenges at another company.

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  I look at um the talent base and I think it is best for us to create opportunity for people to keep on growing with fresh new challenges within the company because if we don't do that they would leave the company

  Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com

French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.

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  gtop

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  gtop - an alternative to activity monitor.

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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.

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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.

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  Anything marketed as an alternative to a checking account should fall inside Regulation E’s consumer fraud protections.

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  if it walks like a checking account, quacks like a checking account, and is marketed as an alternative to checking accounts, then it is almost certainly within Reg E scope

  One Regulation E, Two Very Different Regimesbitsaboutmoney.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.

  arslan.io

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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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

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  Cahokia Jazz

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  A hard-boiled mystery set in an alternative 1920s America, by turns familiar and strange.

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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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  Happy Feet Socks

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  I've been using yoga toes daily for years, but these socks are a much comfier and cuter alternative for soothing feet, improving alignment, and feeling like a cool gecko as you walk around the house.

  mariandrew.substack.com

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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Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".

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  Charging large companies for a licence sends them back through procurement, so they drift to a worse free alternative rather than pay.

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  Making licenses suddenly commercial for big entities? You are forcing people to go back through the Procurement process. They will shift over time back to a FOSS solution, even if it is less good.

  How FOSS Won and Why It Matterssoftwaremaxims.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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  Waste Books

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  Tweets from 1765-1799 by a 4’9” hunchback physicist, friends with Goethe and Kant, admired by Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, etc. Such wonderful random thoughts, beautiful perspectives on thinking for yourself, observing nature, language, freedom, philosophy, religion, and more. Hundreds of initial insights, especially inspiring because they’re undeveloped.

  sive.rs

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 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.

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  Dominic Cummings Substack

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  I find a dose of these perspectives highly valuable.

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Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.

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  Bad admissions tests survive on herding: no programme wants to be the one asking for a different exam, even a far better one.

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  So a lot of the problem is mere herding: If every other top engineering program is using the GRE, it’s too weird to require a different test even if the alternative test is a far superior selection mechanism.

  What's Really Wrong With Standardized Testsbetonit.ai

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

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  pi-hole

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  For more advanced users who like to tinker, pi-hole is the physical alternative.

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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."

  blog.pragmaticengineer.com

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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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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  Publicly condemning a heterodox idea makes the public more likely to believe it, because trust in experts has collapsed.

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  Actually by condemning those alternative point of view, archaeologists make it much more likely that the general public will accept those alternative point of view, because there is a great distrust of experts in our society today.

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Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.

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  Raycast

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  Raycast - Spotlight, Alfred alternative

  garden.narze.live

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  Zellij

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  zellij - tmux alternative

  garden.narze.live

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  Fish

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  Fish - Alternative command line shell than Zsh, I still use Zsh though.

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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.

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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.

  gwern.net

Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  How to Know a Person

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  It's a must-read for anyone looking to deepen their relationships and broaden their perspectives—and I believe it has the power to make us better friends, colleagues, and citizens.

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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.

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  Most people are fundamentally good, which makes the risk of trusting them worth taking.

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  Most people are good. And while you might get hurt or embarrassed sometimes, the alternative is just way worse.

  markmanson.net

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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  Joining an early-stage startup can now expose someone to cutting-edge AI research work, offering a real alternative to a PhD.

  startups

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  In light of the applied nature of current research problems, there is another path that exposes you to cutting-edge AI work: joining a startup.

  Thoughts on the 2024 AI Job Marketruder.io

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

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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  The Vagabond’s Way

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  Best travel book I’ve ever read! Shook my soul many times. Tiny “daily meditation” format, with lots of quotes from others, but wow what wonderful insights. They make me yearn to travel again. Love love love these ideas and perspectives so much.

  sive.rs

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.

From one piece GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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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.

  tylercowen.com

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  Keynes's bisexuality and strong interest in gay sex were a significant cause of his ability to grasp different and outside perspectives.

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  I view Keynes’s bisexuality and his strong interest in gay sex as a significant cause of what made him interesting and which gave him so strong an ability to grasp different and outside perspectives.

  tylercowen.com

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

  blog.daviskedrosky.com

Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.

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  OrbStack

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  A better alternative to Docker. Used for running and isolating local development services. Makes it easier to set up consistent environments across various projects.

  ripandis.com

Co-founded GiveWell and led Open Philanthropy; writes Cold Takes, on the most important century and how to think about it.

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  Almost everything anyone believes rests on trusting other people, and there is no alternative to that.

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  I think it's completely reasonable to form the vast majority of one's beliefs based on trust like this. I don't really think there's any alternative.

  Minimal-trust investigationscold-takes.com

Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?

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  Hardcore History

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  Currently hooked on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History . 100 people recommended it to me and I kept putting it off and finally listened to the 6-part WWI series and that was that for me.

  waitbutwhy.com

Singaporean writer and author of FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD; blogs at visakanv.com about ambition, writing and thinking in public.

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  Understanding Comics

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  Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud: I believe I first saw this book being recommended highly by Bret Victor aka worrydream. I think I then encountered a few screenshots of it on the Internet that made me really like it. It's very worth reading even if you don't really care all that much about comics.

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Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.

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  How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

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  These were the best books I read in 2020 (including who recommended each). Every one was a pleasure. Enjoy!

  ritholtz.com

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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  Brainsteering

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  Brainstorming sucks. If you don't know that, read this book to understand why. If you know that but don't feel like you have a great alternative, this is a book with a great process I have since used and found it to works great.

  jasonevanish.com

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  Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and VC

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  If you're considering raising institutional funding for your startup, then this is a key book to read to understand the fundamentals of the legal documents and terms. It came recommended by a number of fellow entrepreneurs and it didn't disappoint. I haven't raised money yet myself so I may change this score up or down significantly once I have that first hand experience.

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Creator and editor of BladeReviews.com, a pocket knife and EDC tool review site he founded in 2010 and wrote single-handedly for its first five years.

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  Silky Pocketboy

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  I like the Pocketboy and it's staying in my bike bag for the long haul. Recommended for people who need a small high-performance folding saw to cut through whatever is in your way.

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Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.

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  suckless tools

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  Suckless offers an alternative to this continuous cycle of bloat and meaningless redesign. Suckless tools aim to keep things simple, minimal, usable and hackable by default.

  xeiaso.net

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Eye movement reprocessing went from alternative to establishment, and moving your eyes while talking about a trauma does seem to help you process it.

  EMDRTrauma

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  Eye movement directed reprocessing (alternative when the book was written, now basically establishment) where you move your eyes back and forth while talking about your trauma, and this seems to somehow help you process it better.

  Book Review: The Body Keeps The Scoreslatestarcodex.com

Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.

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  Audio Hijack Pro

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  I use this to record all of my podcast interviews. Fantastic software, highly recommended.

  adamwathan.me

Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

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  The Soul of a New Machine

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  Since reading it over two decades ago, I have recommended The Soul of a Machine at essentially every opportunity, believing that it is a part of computing's literary foundation – that it should be considered our Odyssey.

  bcantrill.dtrace.org

Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Merchants of Doubt

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  Recommended read. If you want to spread FUD and lie to millions of people about issues such as tobacco smoking or global warming, this is a perfect handbook for you. If you don’t, you’ll learn their tactics.

  radex.io

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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  Happy

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  Brilliant and profound yet totally entertaining philosophy book by one of my favorite people. Gives an approachable overview of past philosophies and shows how they apply to your life today better than the harmful pop-self-help-positivity stuff. Amazing perspectives on desires, death, relationships, anger, and how being present doesn’t matter as much as the story you tell yourself afterwards. H…

  sive.rs

Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Better Than Before

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  Podcast. A great book of strategies for cultivating good habits and overcoming bad ones. Highly recommended.

  radex.io

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.

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  Algorithm Design

  Their words

  Same comments as for CLRS -- it's widely recommended as an introductory book even though it doesn't make sense as an introductory book.

  danluu.com

Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass, known for 'epistemic spot checks' of non-fiction claims.

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  It's Always Something

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  And I think she did a really good job portraying that- the ups and downs, what a positive attitude can and can not get you, the costs and benefits of fighting doctors and using alternative treatments. It was a very honest description of both hope and despair without become overwhelming.

  acesounderglass.com

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 Salmon of Doubt

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  That article is also in his collected-essay book, "The Salmon of Doubt." Recommended.

  x.com

British programmer and video maker whose YouTube channel ran weekly educational videos on technology, language and geography from 2014 to 2023.

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  Gmail

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  Firefox with about twenty extensions for browsing, Gmail for email - which I don't like, but I can't find a better alternative to suit my needs.

  usesthis.com

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  Firefox

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  Firefox with about twenty extensions for browsing, Gmail for email - which I don't like, but I can't find a better alternative to suit my needs.

  usesthis.com

Software developer and writer; co-founder of Fog Creek Software and Stack Overflow, and author of the Joel on Software blog since 2000.

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  Rocket Surgery Made Easy

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  The sequel, Rocket Surgery Made Easy, is a terrific, short, concise, fun guide to running simple "hallway" usability tests to improve the usability of your software and websites. Highly recommended.

  joelonsoftware.com

Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  What Is Mathematics?

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  Other highly recommended books: What is Mathematics?

  paulgraham.com