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19 September
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.
It’s been 2 hours and I can already tell this is going to be my most popular post. See the replies. And I’m getting so many DMs from people who went through the same, I’m glad it’s connecting. 2 quick things - - please consider the solution!! it’s counterintuitive and no one considers it but it’s super effective - I hope managers see this too and use it as a tool to help their reports Quoting @threepointone new post: the senior engineer death spiral https://t.co/xzgU1jVBRh a friend just started a big job and asked for some advice. so I braindumped a monologue about a super common failure mode I see with engineers and posted it here, hope it helps whoever it can. Related
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
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And what we consider a smart model today will be considered very dumb in the future. But a smarter model makes less mistakes, needs fewer turns.
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18 September
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
Delicious meta thought from this morning: The table pounding from the AI-skeptical software engineers, shouting "they can't build proper, scalable, performant programs!", sounds especially thin when you consider that right now nearly everyone is looking for where this is going and no one knows yet. Building something "proper" and "scalable" and "performant" before you have PMF is a tricky thing to pull off (there's exceptions, of course, where PMF comes from being one of the three) and now it seems like most companies are looking for PMF every 3 months. Related
16 September
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
We consider switching to a system where we receive #curl vuln submissions only during a set period of the release cycle. A vuln submission window. Keep it open a few weeks then close it again. Related
14 September
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
Few of us consider ourselves philosophers. “Philosophy” usually conjures images of dense textbooks and academic quibbling with no application to real life. It’s fun for professors, perhaps, but a waste of time for the rest of us. I felt this way for decades. Then, in 2004, I found the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, better known as Seneca the Younger or simply “Seneca.” Born circa 4 BC in present day Spain and raised in Rome, Seneca was simultaneously an esteemed playwright, one of the wealthiest people in Rome, a famous statesman, and an advisor to the emperor. He had to negotiate, persuade,… Related
Self-taught home cook and food writer who has run the Smitten Kitchen recipe site since 2006; author of four cookbooks.
This week's Smitten Kitchen Digest celebrates 20 years of SK with a love letter to the people (you, yes you!) who have made it possible and a list of what I consider the 20 most iconic site recipes to date. Tell me if there are any I missed. Cheers! Related
13 September
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
In Egypt, you can be at a high end restaurant and have street cats come up and say hi. Some consider this a problem but not me. 🥰 Related
9 September
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
8 September
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
The singularity is here. And we’re hiring across all GTM functions to scale the business. Please take a look and consider working at 8090. All job openings can be found here: 8090.ai
Quoting @MaxTynan We're growing our GTM team across commercial verticals, public sector, and partner sales. We started with the hardest customers in the market and now we're taking that everywhere. Join us if you like to work hard, build, and win. Related
Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.
7 September
Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.
2 September
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
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Happier couples tend to give each other the benefit of the doubt. Rather than assuming "My partner doesn't care," they're more likely to consider that the other is tired, distracted, overwhelmed or simply unaware of the impact of their behavior.
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27 August
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
Reported a security issue to aws-security@amazon.com. Got back a canned email encouraging me to consider an AWS Support plan. That is not how this is supposed to work, people. Related
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
There are entire articles written around the problem of why the prevalence of type 1 diabetes has risen - nutrition? toxins? - that don't even consider whether it might be because fewer patients are dying young & continue to be in the numerator. This should be step 1 Related
26 August
Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science, and consults for organisations including the CDC.
17 August
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
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.
14 August
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
10 August
Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.
1 August
Gear reviewer who publishes long-form hi-fi audio and camera equipment reviews, plus video reviews, at stevehuffphoto.com.
28 July
Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data and author of Just Keep Buying and The Wealth Ladder. Chief Operating Officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management.
24 July
Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
29 June
Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.
As the USA approaches its 250th birthday, Gary Gensler and I take a look back at history — and consider what's next. How will AI, this era’s transformative technology, affect society and inequalities? Listen here: Related
27 May
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
26 May
Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
If you're a blogger (or aspiring blogger) interested in "progress", I recommend you consider applying for the roots in progress blog-building initiative. (Deadline June 1) rootsofprogress.org
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24 May
Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
15 May
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
21 January
Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.
16 January
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.
7 January
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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Levy was given unprecedented access to Google, and the result is what I consider to be an accurate depiction of how the company operates. A good overview of how Google product managers work.
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bringthedonuts.com
18 December 2025
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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Consider getting a home delivery service, e.g. I currently like and use Locale
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karpathy.bearblog.dev
16 December 2025
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
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The biggest endorsement I can give this book is that I once considered writing a book like this, but now I consider the job done.
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2 December 2025
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
In case you're unfamiliar, the @prisonmathproj is a nonprofit supporting prisoners learning math. There is a great podcast on Numberphile with its founder, Christopher Havens, describing the background: https://t.co/GrfoD9Cybb It's an organization I'm donating to today, and if you like what they're doing, consider joining. Quoting @prisonmathproj This Giving Tuesday, consider the gift of second chances. What if you could actually gift someone a second chance? With your help, we can #UnlockPotential and change the trajectory of someone's life. A simple $20 donation buys the first geometry set many of our students have ever had. Today, a gene… Related
29 November 2025
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP Related
17 November 2025
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
9 October 2025
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
A confession in prep for my next blog article: 6 months ago I started a program of Testosterone Replacement therapy, after learning about it from my friend Kevin @Camp4 who had just started a company which does it. I thought I'd be at least helpful as test subject for their protocols, but it turned out to be much more: my life has been semi-transformed, in the form of maybe a 50% boost in all areas of life. It's pretty big. So now I am encouraging any friends who are men friends in the 45+ age group to consider learning more about this stuff, and to make sure their next blood test includes a… Quoting @Camp4 There’s a lot of noise and misinformation out there about testosterone. My company, Bolt Health, is hosting a free masterclass on October 14. It's not a sales pitch, it’s just the facts every man needs to know: + The latest research + How to know if you have low T + New treatment options (including… Psychotherapy Related
28 September 2025
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.
12 September 2025
Professor at Berkeley working on robot learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence, and argues that robots will learn from data rather than be programmed.
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So here's what I would say that deep down at a very fundamental level the synthetic experience that you create yourself doesn't allow you to learn more about the world. It allows you to rehearse things. It allows you to consider counterfactuals but somehow information about the world needs to get injected into the system.
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9 July 2025
Medieval historian at the LSE; writes Going Medieval and The Middle Ages: A Graphic History, and spends a lot of it correcting what people think the period was like.
On Crusades, or, how not to identify with losers I think about Crusades a lot because that’s my job. I also think about them a lot because, well, there were a lot of them – which is pretty wild when you consider they didn’t exist as a phenomenon until the high medieva…
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30 May 2025
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
Consider Knitting Let’s say that, like me, you are a person who stares at a computer and writes code for a living. As a straight male who grew up in a time where knitting was very strongly female coded, it for the most part never o…
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2 April 2025
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.
The Power of Not Knowing Embracing uncertainty by confronting our inner stories - “I don’t know.” When were you last willing to say that in front of your team? How does it make you feel to even consider saying that? For most leaders, saying, “I…
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1 April 2025
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.
4 February 2025
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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I recently interviewed Mike Huemer on his new Progressive Myths. To repeat, I consider it “the best book on wokeness.” You know you’re reading a special book by page 3
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betonit.ai
14 October 2024
Economist writing on why technological progress slowed and what would restart it — energy, supersonic flight, housing and the regulations around them.
27 September 2024
Medieval historian at the LSE; writes Going Medieval and The Middle Ages: A Graphic History, and spends a lot of it correcting what people think the period was like.
On side hustles I am adamantly opposed to the conception of grind culture. I swear to god, if you 💯💯💯 me, I will consider it a hate crime, and will report you to my local self-governance group for a reparative harm process. This isn…
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4 July 2024
Artist and writer based in Oakland, California; author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time, and a longtime teacher of digital art.
really happy to see my essay on Rosa Luxemburg’s herbarium in the latest issue of Lux Magazine (in very good company). It was a chance not only to consider her beautiful specimens, but also to read her letters from prison(s), a surprising mix of political fervor with mentions of “the titmouse with whom I am friendly.” You need a subscription to read it online, but imho Lux is something very worth subscribing to. I can’t remember the last time I read a magazine cover to cover 🫨 Related
17 January 2024
Economist at George Mason University. Writes Overcoming Bias on prediction markets, signalling and the far future, and wrote The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.
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26 October 2023
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
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Despite evaluations, we cannot consider coming powerful frontier AI systems "safe unless proven unsafe". With current testing methodologies, issues can easily be missed. Additionally, it is unclear if governments can quickly build the immense expertise needed for reliable technical evaluations of AI capabilities and societal-scale risks. Given this, developers of frontier AI should carry the burden of proof to demonstrate that their plans keep risks within acceptable limits.
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1 October 2023
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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Not only did Mill consider the topic of women, but virtually everything he claimed turned out to be true, and insightful, even though it was highly controversial at the time. It is one of the best and most important and most original books of the nineteenth century.
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tylercowen.com
24 June 2023
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
21 April 2023
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
Some songs remain the same. LLM enthusiasts might consider which challenges are genuinely new, and which have been worked out for a long time already. LLMs Related
4 March 2023
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
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Consider the solar industry, for which the US laid the scientific groundwork, only for Chinese firms to make all the photovoltaic cells.
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15 September 2022
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
6 August 2022
Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.
How do we know anything? Consider the following mathematical idea: A function $f(x)$ is smooth and continuous (i.e., it is differentiable everywhere) At some point $x_1$ the slope of $f$ is negative, $f’(x_1) < 0$ At some other point $x_2 > x_1…
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25 July 2022
Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
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Programming, of course, is forgetting, but we need to at least try to be aware of the costs of the abstractions we choose and consider who it is that ends up being forgotten.
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15 April 2022
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
25 January 2022
Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.
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as you age, you just naturally build up all of this all of this sort of psychic scar tissue and you have all these cautionary lessons in your in your head all the time. And you just you and and therefore as a consequence, right? Your your aperture of what you're willing to explore as you get older just shrinks.
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18 August 2021
Writer on time, productivity and limitation; wrote Four Thousand Weeks and Meditations for Mortals, and the newsletter The Imperfectionist.
30 December 2020
Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.
What does Twitter asymptote to? Consider the following interpretation of Twitter: Twitter is a process that is applied to a human thought vector $x$, a time $t$, and a state vector $c_{t-1}$ which emits a value $tweet$ and a new state vector $c_{t}$.…
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28 October 2020
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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The team at 37 Signals have very strong opinions on how to build a company and much of it is solid advice to consider. This book is particularly great because it's a simple, quick read; they do not waste your time with fluff.
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jasonevanish.com
10 July 2019
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
19 April 2018
General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
The Thing I Love Most About Uber In spite of all the ink that journalists, analysts, and pundits have spilled on Uber over the years, no mainstream article has focused on what I consider to be the most elegant feature of this now ubiquitous, high growt…
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24 January 2018
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
Unsafe Zig is Safer Than Unsafe Rust Consider the following Rust code: struct Foo { a: i32, b: i32, } fn main() { unsafe { let mut array: [u8; 1024] = [1; 1024]; let foo = std::mem::transmute::(&mut array[0]); foo.a += 1; } } This pattern is pretty common…
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