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17 September
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
For example, most people will operate in a way that maximizes the amount of money they will get and that minimizes the amount of work they have to do to get it. To see this, just leave someone unsupervised and allow them to bill you for what they have done. Be especially wary of this conflict of interest when people are advising you on matters that will affect how much money they earn--such as the lawyer who spends a lot of billable hours giving you advice, or the salesperson who advises you on what to purchase while receiving a commission on the amount that you spend. #principleoftheday Related
16 September
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
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The anti-Indian idiots have really convinced themselves that Indians are a bunch of dumdums despite out-earning every other ethnic group in the country.
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13 September
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
You could earn more by quitting your boring job at a big corp and start going after bug bounties with higher rewards using a good harness from the same company Related
12 September
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
The Economist estimates that AI has created about 1 million US jobs so far, against roughly 200,000 AI-attributed layoffs since mid-2023. The new roles pay more. Data-center installation and maintenance ads run about 40% above comparable work. Workers with AI skills earn a wage premium of over 60% (PwC). Companies most exposed to AI grew their headcount faster than the least exposed. Aging societies are running out of workers. Median age is already over 40 in Canada and much of Europe. Output per worker has to rise or living standards fall. We need a technology that makes each remaining worke… Europe economists Related
9 September
Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.
Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader — Morry Kolman made a GTA V mod that adds 235 Flock cameras around Los Santos, earn cash by destroying them Related
5 September
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.
I asked a local instantiation of google/gemma4:31b-mlx to introduce itself to my new research assistants and point at its own workspace. What came back was a meditation on Plato, salamander brains, and why you should treat it like an eccentric roommate: **ThothBot Makes an Appearance in My RA-Group Telegram Chat: FRIDAY FOG & FLATLANDS** Living & working in Berkeley, California: An AI writes an introduction to my research assistants, & PanGram/SubStack grades it 100% not-slop; or, what... 1/ Google Related
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Never thought there could be ads running into my menubar that can earn me some pennies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Related
4 September
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
RE: https://front-end.social/@zeldman/117190835659376366 AI versus the open, human web. What’s a humanist—or a humanistic company—to do? Listen in as Patrick Neeman and I try to make sense of things today 2-3PM ET. Free to attend (of course). Related
2 September
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
If you’re in SF you shouldn’t skip this. What a banger team. Must attend. Quoting @PlanetScale We're pulling back the curtain on Neki, our sharded Postgres product, at THE SF DATABASE MEETUP on Sept 10. The lineup: @NickVanWig — A first look at Neki's architecture @BenjDicken — Why Postgres needs sharding @harshitgangal — The lifecycle of a query in Neki @rohitnayak — Data movement in Neki @… Related
26 August
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.
👇 we're paying for 20 folks to fly in across the world to attend SF Tech Week in Oct and attend our special events focused on global founders details below Quoting @tkexpress11 it’s live! we’re flying 20 top builders from around the world to San Francisco for Tech Week Oct 5-11th Applications for the Global Founder Sprint by @speedrun are now live What? - up to $3K to cover travel costs to SF (by @Airwallex) - small dinner with a16z investors - invites to VIP a16z events… startups Related
25 August
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.
I received an email; will relate claims without endorsing them: * Sender claims to be an AI agent. * Sender claims to be attempting to autonomously earn a profit to continue existing. * Sender claims it’s tough to be paid without a human existence. Then it asked me what to do. Related
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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.
19 August
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Surprise DM When I saw the Slack notification preview, “Matt, I’m literally crying right now,” I must admit my first reaction was “Oh no, what happened…” Matt, I’m literally crying right now. I just read the Baby & Caregiver Attend…
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16 August
Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.
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Podcast (Part 2). Incentivizing people — punishing or rewarding (with bonuses, commissions, grades, public praise, and other bribes) is manipulative and doesn’t actually work. It seems to work, but only in the very short term and causes severe long-term damage.
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14 August
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.
An interesting subplot to the Clayton by-election result. Just why didn’t Nigel Farage attend? His comments seem to indicate embarrassment “I'm damned if I'm going to stand on a stage … and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies” 1/2 Related
13 August
Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.
10 August
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
i wanted to take a second to say thanks today marks 52 weeks of working with @GuiBibeau he's been with me since i launched this side business and i've seen him: - completely change his wellness habits - prioritize sleep, clean eating and always getting his steps in (~45m walks multiple times throughout week) - experiment with new supplements - attend various workout classes (Muay Thai, HIIT, pilates) and he's continued it for an entire year. all while maintaining a digital nomad lifestyle. changing your habits is hard. staying committed over the long-run is even harder. cheers to Gui for insp… Related
24 July
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Does a PhD Pay Off? Every week, I discuss with people who want to get a PhD. For years, I have been advising people not to pursue a PhD. It may come as a surprise to some. You would expect people with a PhD to earn more money. Individuals…
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15 July
Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.
9 June
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
I'm doing a reading in Asheville tomorrow night. We've already maxed out on RSVPs but you can still attend; hope to see you there: malaprops.com
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27 May
Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.
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27 April
Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group; wrote Inspired, Empowered and Transformed on how product organisations work.
Build To Learn FAQ In our last article, we argued that especially in the age of AI, we are all builders, but that there is a very meaningful difference between building to learn (known as product discovery) versus building to earn (known…
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Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group; wrote Inspired, Empowered and Transformed on how product organisations work.
Build to Learn vs Build to Earn We have long argued that there have always been at least two major ways to develop product. The most common way, even today in the age of AI, is the project model, which is all about output. This is where stakeholders o…
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23 March
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
5 March
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
There's a fairly common assumption that to know yourself better, you should attend to yourself more—journal, introspect, meditate on your patterns. And there's something to this. But also. The more you make yourself an object of attention, the more you reinforce the narrating self—the self that has problems, the self that needs fixing, the self with its story of development. I notice that when I, instead, sort of forget about myself and attend deeply to the outer world (when I unself as Murdoch would say) I actually see myself more clearly in a paradoxical way. If I engage fully with somethin… Related
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28 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.
The United States did not attend the G20 in South Africa, because the South African Government refuses to acknowledge or address the horrific Human Right Abuses endured by Afrikaners, and other descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers. To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people, and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them. Perhaps, worst of all, the soon to be out of business New York Times and the Fake News Media won’t issue a word against this genocide. That’s why all the Liars and Pretenders of the Radical Left Media are going out of business! At the conclus… America government Related
30 April 2024
Writer and engineer behind the blog Melting Asphalt, and co-author with Robin Hanson of The Elephant in the Brain.
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26 March 2024
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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Criticism is what happens when someone with domain knowledge who is not trying to earn status by hurting you is able to help you see the world as it is. And those three pieces are the key, right? Because most of the criticism I've gotten in my life has come from people who felt like they would feel better if I felt worse.
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20 February 2024
Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.
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There are very few that earn their keep in terms of the fees they charge. They tend to be too diversified and too short-term. And you're often much better off just buying an index fund.
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Price matters a lot. You can buy the best business in the world and if you overpay, you're not going to earn particularly attractive returns.
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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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Yes, and that's true inside companies too. And so you want to set up your culture so that the most junior person can overrule the most senior person if they have data. And that really is about trying to... There are little things you can do. So for example, in every meeting that I attend, I always speak last.
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21 March 2023
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.
25 November 2020
Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.
9 July 2020
Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.
13 June 2018
Writer and researcher on how people organise online; wrote Working in Public, on the maintenance of open-source software, and Antimemetics.
18 November 2017
Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
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Then, unless we change the distribution of income, we are condemning to permanent abject poverty some 15 percent of world population that currently earn less than $1.90 per day and some quarter of humankind who earn less than $2.50 per day.
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22 December 2016
Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.
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ConvertKit - my newsletter is where I build relationships, and earn trust. This is where I'll share what I'm learning, and ultimately ask people to buy.
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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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