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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  China is more likely to cooperate on AI safety if the US maintains a clear and comfortable lead in AI capabilities.

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  But given the Chinese Communist Party’s power-seeking nature, it seems much more likely that China would agree to cooperate on AI safety if U.S. capabilities were comfortably ahead.

  America is still beating China in the AI racenoahpinion.blog

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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  Adults need their expectations to match reality to feel comfortable, unlike children.

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  Adult people are comfortable when their expectations match reality, which is not how the child world works.

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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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  Proprietary AI services will become more restrictive over time, making open-weight alternatives valuable as a backup.

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  proprietary services may become more restrictive over time, and it's maybe a good idea to be comfortable with open-weight alternatives as a backup.

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American budget-travel writer who publishes as Nomadic Matt. Author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day; runs nomadicmatt.com, a long-running site of destination guides, packing advice and gear recommendations.

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  Unbound Merino

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  I really love the material, they're comfortable, they hardly ever need a wash, and they last forever!

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  Bose QuietComfort 45

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  The wireless Bose QuietComfort 45 headphones are fan favorites and my go-to brand. They are comfortable, rechargeable, and do an amazing job at removing background noise.

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Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.

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  Green Soul Monster Ultimate

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  A very comfortable gaming/working chair that I use for long hours

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

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  Herman Miller x Logitech Embody chair

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  Herman Miller x Logitech Embody chair. A bit pricey, but very comfortable.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

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  A product manager will be called upon to make scores of decisions every day. In none of these cases will you have all of the information you want, and you’ll rarely be 100% confident. Poker champion turned decision researcher Annie Duke will help you learn how to be comfortable with uncertainty.

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Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.

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  WezTerm

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  Wezterm: my previous favorite feature-rich terminal since I migrated to Hyprland. And now I see myself getting comfortable with Ghostty.

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Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  The biggest enemies of freedom are fear and greed; make peace with the worst that can happen and there is nothing left to be afraid of.

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  Well, the biggest enemies of freedom are fear and greed, so you make sure that they don't stand in your way. If you imagine the worst thing that can happen to you and then make yourself be comfortable with it, there is nothing more left to be afraid of.

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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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  He works as a fox, not a hedgehog: moving between fields, chasing analogies, and re-proving results he likes with the tools he favours.

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  I'm much more comfortable with the fox paradigm. Yeah. So yeah, I like looking for analogies, narratives. I spend a lot of time… If there's a result, I see it in one field, and I like the result, it's a cool result, but I don't like the proof, it uses types of mathematics that I'm not super familiar with, I often try to re-prove it myself using the tools that I favor.

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American travel writer and broadcaster. Runs Rick Steves' Europe and writes the guidebooks, packing advice and travel-tip articles published on ricksteves.com.

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  Mephisto

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  Mephisto, Ecco, and Rieker look dressier than sneakers, but are still comfortable.

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  Mephisto, Ecco, and Rieker look dressier than sneakers, but are still comfortable.

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  Ecco

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  Mephisto, Ecco, and Rieker look dressier than sneakers, but are still comfortable.

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Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

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  Giving up a decade or more of hardware performance to make programming more comfortable is not an acceptable trade.

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  It simply cannot be the case that we're willing to give up a decade or more of hardware performance just to make programmers’ lives a little bit easier.

  "Clean" Code, Horrible Performancecomputerenhance.com

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

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  Keychron K3

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  Mechanical keyboard with Gateron Brown switches that are comfortable for long coding sessions. Long battery life and bluetooth connectivity make it highly flexible.

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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

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  Discomfort or effort in typing that makes someone avoid writing things down is a genuine bottleneck that should be fixed, not dismissed.

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  If you're not comfortable typing a lot and you'd rather not write something down then typing is the bottleneck and you need to fix it. Typing is not something you should need to think about.

  No, typing can be the bottleneckthorstenball.com

American backpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked more than 30,000 miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide and publisher of gear reviews and trip-planning tutorials at andrewskurka.com.

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  SAXX Kinetic HD Boxer Briefs

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  Personally, I thought the original Kinetic was ideal for hiking, but a little light on support for running. The Kinetic HD is just the opposite: they've been comfortable on runs up to 12 miles, but intentionally I no longer wear them for, say, Nordic skiing or office work.

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Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.

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  Microsoft IntelliMouse

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  a classic wired Microsoft optical IntelliMouse - in my opinion, the best mouse ever made and the only one that’s ever felt comfortable in my hand.

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  IntelliMouse

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  a classic wired Microsoft optical IntelliMouse - in my opinion, the best mouse ever made and the only one that's ever felt comfortable in my hand.

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Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.

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  Herman Miller Embody

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  More important than all of this, perhaps is my chair - a Herman Miller Embody that makes it comfortable and not horribly unhealthy to work for extended periods.

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