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20 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.
overwhelmed by the response to this, I knew it was common but didn’t realise how badly people needed to see it acknowledged. fwiw, I learnt this most deeply on the react team; I joined what I thought was my dream job, and immediately failed in this fashion, leaving in a year. 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. JavaScript Related
17 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.
16 September
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
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Google has a new paper called "Dream-RSI". It's an interesting paper! It's not RSI in the sense of improving the model itself.
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15 September
Self-taught home cook and food writer who has run the Smitten Kitchen recipe site since 2006; author of four cookbooks.
A dream of a late summer, not-too-heavy chowder with fresh corn and beans, finished with salty cheese, chili powder, and a squeeze of lime juice. Baked tortilla chips on the side for all the crunch. Related
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.
Equity investors sell the dream; bond investors price the funeral. Here’s what they’re charging those undertaking the now debt-financed DataCenter Rush: **Debt & DataCenters: CHART OF THE DAY** FaceBook bankrupt in one scenario in fifteen in five years? SpaceX & Oracle one in six? That appears to be what those willing to lend to FaceBook right now are thinking... https://braddelong.substack.com/p/hyperscaler-debt-default-risk > 2026-09-15 data centers Related
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
14 September
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
Many people — even those who think about politics all the time — think about politics ultimately as a way to express one’s beliefs, not as a route to enacting policies that improve the world. Related
13 September
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
you know what? it’s awesome that people are vigorously debating the credentials of assessors in the frontier AI industry. It’s awesome we are debating what independence really means. Some of it is in bad faith but who cares. This would have been my dream come true a year ago. Related
Canadian cartoonist and writer: Dinosaur Comics, Marvel's The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and the choose-your-own-path books To Be or Not To Be and Romeo and/or Juliet.
Just woke up from a dream where I ordered a rum and coke at a bar and they asked what kind of ice I wanted, then showed me a menu with 60 different kinds of ice. Most were different shapes but some had flavours. I chose mint and my drink became mintier over time. Anyway good morning Related
12 September
Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.
mf be like "it came to me in a dream" and its actually just 10 000 agent swarms writing markdown files on a sandbox and some python code Related
10 September
Programmer and writer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, and author of the Coding Horror blog, which he has written since 2004.
"I have declared what you are doing impossible from my dream fantasy bunker of a perfect world!" That's great pal, thanks, appreciate the feedback. Related
9 September
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
The funny thing is, my dream phone at this point is an updated iPhone SE, because that means (a) small and (b) touchid rather than faceid. And the foldyphone satisfies both those criteria! (Small when folded, which is how I’d carry it.) Can’t swing first-gen prices, though. My SE3 will totter on another year. Related
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.
Animal Spirits: Everywhere Millionaires The bull market in wealth The next financial crisis A buying opportunity in bonds? AI is crowding out bonds & construction spending The American Dream is still alive Is college still worth the cost? America Related
8 September
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
6 September
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.
Love, money and fame don’t change you, they amplify who you already are. The generous get more generous. The insecure get more insecure. The undisciplined fly off the rails. Whatever your dream is, know it won’t fix your life for you. It will only multiply what’s already there. Related
5 September
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Inter is having impact beyond my wildest dreams. When I started working on Inter ten years ago, I didn’t even expect it to survive the prototyping stage. Now it’s used by governments (including Switzerland, which is ironic in a way) and non-profit organizations around the world, bringing good typography to the people. It warms my heart to see so many young designers being able to express themselves in “Swiss style” without the need to break any laws. When I was a kid and an aspiring graphic designer, I could barely afford food and definitely did not have the money to buy font licenses. I wish… Quoting @SaberNaeemi Inter font is so popular these days on @googlefonts. Designed by @rsms, did you know at the beginning it was launched under the name "Interface" before being renamed to "Inter UI" and eventually shortened to just "Inter"? Related
31 August
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
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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29 August
Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.
27 August
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
After working closely with publishers (including @penguindrandom & @BloomsburyPub) and a dream team of leading authors, we're launching a Google-wide program bringing trusted sources (starting with books) to @Gemini_Notebook and more: Expert Intelligence. Google Related
21 August
Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.
I split problems into two groups: muddy puddles and leaky ceilings. Some problems are like muddy puddles. The way to clear a muddy puddle is to leave it alone. The more you mess with it, the muddier it becomes. Many of the problems I dream up when I'm overthinking or worrying or ruminating fall into this category. Is life really falling apart or am I just in a sour mood? Is this as hard as I'm making it or do I just need to go work out? Drink some water. Go for a walk. Get some sleep. Go do something else and give the puddle time to turn clear. Other problems are like a leaky ceiling. Ignore… Related
18 August
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.
16 August
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?
Autonomous driving is amazing but the true dream will be when the car drops me off right where I’m going and goes off to deal with parking on its own, and then comes back and picks me up when I’m ready to leave self-driving cars Related
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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Ah, high school memories! Seems like this series was an important part of my childhood.
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11 August
Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science, and consults for organisations including the CDC.
10 August
Music critic and historian; author of The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Writes the newsletter The Honest Broker on music and culture.
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It sounds like a celestial flute choir inviting you into a dream landscape.
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1 August
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Built a Playbit app that implements Stable Audio 3 completely from scratch in C and WebGPU compute shader. Fun little toy; a spin-off from my Dream Together tooling! Related
31 July
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Dream Together is a little side project I've been dabbling with over the past few weeks. It's been a really fun journey learning about local ML and breath of fresh air to think about something different. The project started with me tinkering with local image diffusion models on my macbook. It was interesting enough for a crude website where a handful of contributors could enter a thought every hour, which my macbook would pick up and generate a photo from. Then I dove into audio, learning about all kinds of folk instruments and ML approaches to both generation and aesthetic judgement. Eventua… Related
29 July
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
27 July
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
20 July
Physician and neuroscientist at the University of Washington; researches brain health, metabolism and athletic performance.
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If you want to get better at that skill, you have to work even further beyond your current capacities which which will move you out of flow, right?
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15 July
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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The whole purpose of childhood is to mess up, to skin your knees, to run up against the limits of reality and feel reality push back.
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1 July
Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
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which is why when I see manifestos today I'm just like too soon. Not a bad idea. Would love to have one just too soon. It took 15 years for the technical change of object-oriented programming to come before we could say here are the consequences of it. Here's how in a simple way we can express how to effectively use this technology that we've been using day in and day out for 15 years. The genie comes along. People are like, "Well, what's the new manifesto? It's just not manifesto time yet.
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28 June
Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.
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sounds like a dream, and is overall an excellent keyboard that I have used a lot to play Diablo II: Resurrected.
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The Moonlander is my dream keyboard. It has everything the Ergodox EZ offers, and it remains ultra-stable while tilted on the Platform. I really hope this will be my last keyboard.
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15 June
Music critic of The New Yorker since 1996 and author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This and Wagnerism.
2 June
American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.
26 May
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
24 May
Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.
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Wise people don't suppress emotion-they find constructive ways to express it.
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22 April
Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
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Maybe as AI writes more and more code of our code, it's less about like the details of how you express logic in a particular programming language and much more about those kinds of high-level trade-offs.
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12 March
American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.
25 February
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).
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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Being a great listener when people speak. Deep insights about understanding, connection, helping people express themselves, overcoming assumptions, the ethics of gossip, and more. Specific techniques for the support response, encouraging elaboration, and keeping it balanced. You can’t be ethical without being a good listener. When people say, “I can’t talk right now,” what they really mean is “…
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17 February
American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.
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Like any addictive consumer product that routinely exposes users to graphic sex, extreme violence, and anonymous sexual predators, social media in its current form causes a variety of harms to people of all ages. But we allow adults (often defined as age 18) to make decisions that are bad for them.
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28 December 2025
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
Mastodon Turkey stock and turkey chilli day. Living the Christmas dream. 😂 Related
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28 November 2025
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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The Dutchess Oven: What can I say? She sits on a shelf (or stove!) like a piece of candy-colored art, and cleans like a dream. What more could you want in a dutch oven?
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27 November 2025
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
New Podcast Release: Shermin Kruse In this episode of Lives Well Lived, Kasia de Lazari-Radek and I speak with Shermin Kruse, author of Stoic Empathy and the semi-autobiographical novel Butterfly Stitching, about the moment in her childhood that shaped h…
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25 November 2025
Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc., and previously co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI.
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I don't think there is a human analog to pre-training.
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22 September 2025
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
I guess the right thinks that this is a normal, appropriate amount of affection for a widow to express to the US President at her husband's funeral. Looks weird as hell to me. Related
18 September 2025
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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And I I just ended up like realizing everything I don't like is someone else's dream job. And that's like incredibly liberating.
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9 July 2025
Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.
So excited to finally release our first robot today: Reachy Mini A dream come true: cute and low priced, hackable yet easy to use, powered by open-source and the infinite community. Read more and order now at huggingface.co
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14 June 2025
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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The dream is you just feed it all this data, and this is here is a new patent that we didn't see before, but it actually, even the current state of the art even struggles to discover old laws of physics from the data.
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5 June 2025
Chief executive of Alphabet and Google; joined Google in 2004 and led Chrome and Android before taking over in 2015.
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Today, we are constraining the models, the models can't quite express themselves in terms of the UI to people. But if you think about it, we've kind of boxed them in that way, but given these models can code, they should be able to write the best interfaces to express their ideas over time.
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25 May 2025
Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.
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18 May 2025
Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.
15 May 2025
Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.
22 March 2025
Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.
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It's just that Zig, C, C++, all those languages that were being tested, they're all LLVM backends, right? That's the one that actually turns the thing into the executable part. And if there's a variation in speed, it just means in one language you didn't quite express what you are supposed to correctly.
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12 February 2025
Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.
29 December 2024
Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.
27 September 2024
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
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I think federation is the long-term solution to these problems. Eventually, I dream we will be able to seamlessly interact with people across platforms.
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31 August 2024
American science-fiction writer, author of the collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation, and an essayist on artificial intelligence for The New Yorker.
19 August 2024
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 Dream Machine -- probably the best overall book about the early days of computing and the internet.
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Computer Lib -- one of the greatest books about the possibilities of computers ever written.
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12 March 2024
Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
6 February 2024
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
2 January 2024
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.
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Each age of our lives is less deadly than it was for previous generations.
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14 December 2023
Founder of Amazon in 1994 and of the space company Blue Origin in 2000.
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That's an inventor's greatest dream, is that their inventions are so successful that they are one day taken for granted. Nobody thinks of Amazon as an invention anymore. Nobody thinks of customer reviews as an invention.
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10 June 2023
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
1 June 2023
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.
10 April 2023
Software engineer who worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google, and writes about the web, emoji and Elm at meowni.ca.
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21 November 2022
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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Paul Strathern’s terrific book Mendeleyev’s Dream traces that journey all the way back to ancient Greece, when people first started questioning why the world is the way it is.
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28 January 2020
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
9 August 2018
Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.
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Partly because of another book that nearly made it onto my list: Domain-Specific Languages by Martin Fowler. It talks about the idea of writing a small language inside another language, to express ideas in a specific domain
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22 February 2018
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
5 April 2017
Physician and author on addiction, stress and childhood development. Wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, and developed the Compassionate Inquiry approach taught to therapists.
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Childhood trauma is the template for addiction-any addiction. All addictions are attempts to escape the deep pain of the hurt child, attempts temporarily soothing but ultimately futile.
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9 July 2015
Mathemusician and video maker known for the Doodling in Math Class series; directed the eleVR virtual reality research group at the Communications Design Group.
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Other office essentials: Giant googly eyes. Breville Barista Express.
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24 February 2015
Cryptographer; created Signal and the Signal Protocol, and writes occasionally about cryptography, web3 and sailing.
On changing their mind
In the 1990s, I was excited about the future, and I dreamed of a world where everyone would install GPG. Now I’m still excited about the future, but I dream of a world where I can uninstall it.
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20 December 2014
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
12 May 2014
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
23 October 2012
Co-creator of the Go programming language, of UTF-8 and of the Plan 9 operating system; formerly of Bell Labs.
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my two-year-old 11" MacBook Air is the only piece of computing hardware to make me happy since I can’t remember when. For what it does, as opposed to what my dream setup would be, it’s fast and light and smooth and comfortable.
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17 April 2012
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
11 April 2012
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
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