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Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.

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  The pull of fundamentals that used to reverse market momentum has weakened, so betting on mean reversion is more dangerous than it was.

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  there is evidence that the reversal effect has weakened over time, leaving investors who bet on mean reversion and a return to fundamentals in the lurch

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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.

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  Bots will soon make up nearly all internet traffic, leaving little human activity online.

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  I think it's not long before 99% of internet traffic is bots.

  We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internetderekthompson.org

Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning.

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  Children develop by struggling and failing on the road to success while a caring adult supports them, and school should be running that loop all day instead of leaving it to after-school sports.

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  The key to developing a child is that they struggle and fail on their road to success supported by a caring adult. And you just want to run that loop.

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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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  Excessively AI-polished proofs can remove natural friction and become easy to read but hard to learn from.

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  An excessively AI-polished proof may sand away both the "artificial" friction (typos, awkward phrasing, disorganization) and the "natural" friction, leaving a text that is easy to read and hard to learn from.

  Mathematics in the age of AIarxiv.org

Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.

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  Having children does not make people better: parental love concentrates concern on a few and leaves less of it for everyone else.

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  Are parents better people? Not really. Parental love directs enormous concern toward a few particular people, leaving less for everyone else.

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Makes NeetCode, the structured practice list and video walkthroughs people use to prepare for coding interviews; a former Google engineer.

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  Leaving a known production bug unfixed is the right call when the business impact is zero — my vibe-coded service crashes and still has fewer outages than LeetCode.

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  It's an interesting trade-off where like engineer like the engineer in me hates that because it's like there's an issue. Like fix it. But the business value makes no difference. Like there there has been practically zero outages. I have less outages than LeetCode and I'm like like a couple people doing it.

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Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.

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  The tech industry today is dominated by scale-driven optimization and growth at the expense of the idealism that once drove it

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  Immense scale, soulless optimization, and an insatiable thirst for growth dominate its behavior and discourse, leaving little room for the spirit and principles embodied by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

  A letter to John Ternusmarco.org

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

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  The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.

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  As publishers see the danger from AI bots expand, they retreat to putting more and more content behind either password protection or payment walls or both, leaving the only publicly-accessible content to be AI-generated slop; open resources like research work, scientific analysis, and fair use of content all suffer as a result of people responding to the bad actors, since legitimate uses of open content are no longer possible.

  Endgame for the Open Webanildash.com

Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.

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  Asking a leaving customer what made them cancel, rather than why they cancelled, gets materially better answers.

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  What you want to do is say what made you cancel? In other words, what about the product or situation or whatever caused the cancellation? Just phrasing it that way, you get much better results.

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Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.

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  Investors in the largest tech companies have voluntarily surrendered their governance rights, leaving founders with unchecked power.

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  investors at many tech companies, including most on the large cap list, have given up their corporate governance rights, often voluntarily (through the acceptance of shares with different voting rights), to founders and top management in these companies

  aswathdamodaran.blogspot.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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  Leaving America

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  Leaving America. This is a 12-part podcast on the logistics, benefits, and challenges of leaving the United States. Oh, no reason. (B+)

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Reinforcement-learning researcher; co-wrote the field's standard textbook, wrote The Bitter Lesson, and shared the 2024 Turing Award.

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  We are leaving the age of replication for an age of design, in which minds are built to a plan rather than copied without being understood.

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  then we're entering the age of design where because our AIs are designed our our our all of our physical objects are designed our buildings are designed our technology is designed and we're we're designing now uh AIs things that can be intelligent themselves and that are themselves capable of design

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  Falling birth rates ended cousin marriage in the Arab world by leaving too few cousins, pushing marriage onto individual choice.

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  But over the past 50 years, there has been a massive decline in fertility. This entails fewer cousins of a suitable age.

  Why are Marriage & Fertility Plummeting in MENA?ggd.world

Labour politician. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 2024 to June 2026, and MP for Holborn and St Pancras from 2015 until standing down in 2026. Director of Public Prosecutions before entering Parliament.

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  On AI the state's job does not stop at safety; leaving everything else to the market is a mistake.

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  We shouldn’t just focus on safety and leave the rest to the market… Government has a responsibility to make it work for working people…

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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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  A Philosophy of Software Design

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  There are few books like this, that discuss software design in a simple and approachable way, while leaving the reader novel and practical concepts to use.

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Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.

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  Leaving an old relationship for a new one is usually shopping for novelty rather than refusing to honour a sunk cost.

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  a new relationship is like fresh powder. It is new and shiny and exciting but it will not be a new relationship for long. And then you're still stuck with an old relationship and the question is will your old relationship a year from now be better than your old relationship that you currently have is? And if the answer is yes then yes sunk costs completely apply. But if the answer is no then what you're really doing is shopping for novelty not ignoring sunk costs.

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  People stay on a platform they have come to dislike because leaving requires everyone they care about to agree to leave at the same time.

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  In theory, you could have all just left for somewhere else; in practice, you were hamstrung by the collective action problem.

  My McLuhan lecture on enshittificationpluralistic.net