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Founder and editor of ToolGuyd, a tool review site covering power tools, hand tools, workshop equipment and EDC gear. He writes under his first name on the site.

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  Lowe's expanded workwear aisles reflect a lasting shift, unlike its seasonal promotional displays.

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  I expect to see the promo displays rotated out for holiday season tool deals, but the workwear aisles are less likely to change.

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Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.

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  Countering the far right requires addressing voters' desire for an outsider identity, not just their economic grievances.

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  To my mind, if progressive policy hopes to engage with such voters at all - and it is open question whether it should - it must address not just the material realities of relative economic disadvantage, but above all the "outsider" credentials of the AfD.

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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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  Motivation, not curriculum or method, is ninety percent of the problem in education and ninety percent of the solution.

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  And that's why we say motivation is 90% of the problem or the solution because you have to be able to motivate the person to engage with these personalized lessons to learn it.

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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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  The translation & dubbing was a huge amount of work (which I deeply care about) with humans & AI collaborating. Thanks to the amazing team at @ElevenLabs for their help.

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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.

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  AI companies' pattern of NDAs, big promises, and pushing environmental costs onto poorer communities resembles dark-money capture of local politics more than a runaway-AI threat.

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  Rather, the way that AI companies engage with communities-forcing NDAs, dangling billion-dollar promises, pushing environmental externalities far away from AI's wealthy user base-resembles a classic story about dark money in politics.

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Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.

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  Beijing drew its own conclusions from the first China shock and set out to engage the world economy from a position of technological leadership.

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  It wasn’t just the West that drew conclusions from China shock 1.0. Beijing learned from China Shock 1.0 too.

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Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.

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  Balance is highly trainable, and something as small as standing on one leg improves it measurably within a month or two.

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  What's interesting with balance is it's very trainable. And so, you know, there's parts of balance that involve visual inner ear, but if you engage in some training, and it can be as simple as standing on one leg or doing yoga or taichi, you can improve your balance considerably within a month or two.

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Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

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  Most people who would be a good audience for an essay will never notice it or bother to engage with it.

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  99% of people who you'd want to read your essay probably don't know you exist, or don't give a fuck, or wouldn't be bothered to engage even if they read it.

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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  A person directing an AI agent rather than writing code themselves has no incentive to actually read the resulting code or engage seriously with reviewer feedback.

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  There is no incentive for the human driving the agent to actually read the code or spend time thinking about what the reviewer says.

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Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.

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  Control over your own data, and over how you view and engage with it, will be non-negotiable

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  Why would we lock ourselves into someone else's proprietary binary? Control over our data, and control over how we view and engage with it, feels like it will be utterly non-negotiable going forward.

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Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  Telegram leaves perhaps 80 percent of its potential revenue on the table by refusing to exploit personal data for advertising.

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  So premium is one source of our revenue. We also have ads, but they're context-based, not targeted. Of course, we leave probably 80% of value on the table because we're not ready to engage in all this practices, exploiting personal data.

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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.

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  The Open Banking fight is not about data but about whether banks may charge for economic activity on payment rails they do not operate.

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  Almost all discussions of it center on “data”, but it’s actually a fight about payments, and whether banks have a right to monopolize and charge for all economic activity their users engage in, irrespective of whether the bank operates the payment method.

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Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind; worked on interpretability at Anthropic under Chris Olah before that, and teaches the field to newcomers.

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  People engage more with an argument when they generate its key steps themselves than when the same argument is imposed on them.

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  It's a lot easier for someone to engage with an argument if they generated the key steps themselves by answering my questions - if imposed by me, it sparks contrarianism and defensiveness

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Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.

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  Microsoft Teams

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  I also use Discord (not bad) to engage with some niche communities and Microsoft Teams (awful) for work.

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  Discord

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  I also use Discord (not bad) to engage with some niche communities and Microsoft Teams (awful) for work.

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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  Founder mode breaks the rule that a CEO engages with the company only through direct reports, and makes skip-level meetings the norm.

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  Whatever founder mode consists of, it's pretty clear that it's going to break the principle that the CEO should engage with the company only via his or her direct reports.

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Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.

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  ScreenFlow

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  For screen recording and editing I use ScreenFlow. I used to use Camtasia which I got for a good price using a promo code. However when I needed to upgrade to the newest version I found out that ScreenFlow is almost half the price and it does everything that I want.

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Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.

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  The counterintuitive right response for Israel in Gaza is the most conspicuous acts of kindness possible, because the attack was designed to provoke the most aggressive response it could.

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  So the counterintuitive thing here, I think that the thing that I think should be done, even though it’s very difficult, is that I would recommend that Israel engage in the most conspicuous acts of kindness possible

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Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.

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  Recommendation algorithms are not sinister; they simply predict engagement, and what humans engage with most is outrage.

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  It just predicts what you are likely to re-Tweet and like, and linger on. That’s what all these algorithms do. It’s what Tik-Tok does, it’s what all these recommendation engines do. And it turns out that the thing that you are most likely to interact with is outrage. And that’s a quirk of the human condition.

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