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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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  When a team sees what needs to happen but does not want to be the bad guy, someone making the call saves enormous amounts of meetings and change management.

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  They see what needs to happen but don’t want to be the bad guy. I’m happy to just make the call if I agree with the premise. Saves enormous amounts of meetings and change management etc.

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  OpenFreeMaps

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  Mapbox -> Vibecoded my own free replacement with OpenFreeMaps (saves ~$500/mo)

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  Redis

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  My own vibe coded image resizing API with NodeJS's Sharp + Redis (saves ~$1,500/mo)

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  NudeNET

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  My own $0/mo vibe coded NSFW detection service with Python's NudeNET (saves ~$2,500/mo)

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  Featurebase

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  Customer support -> @featurebasehq + AI support bot (saves $5,000/mo)

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  Telegram

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  IFTTT -> Telegram bot (saves ~$100/mo)

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Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.

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  Vaginal estrogen is a safe, effective and badly underused therapy for postmenopausal women, and it probably saves lives.

  Psychotherapy

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  For postmenopausal women—and women with premature estrogen deprivation for other reasons—vaginal estrogen is a safe and highly effective therapy to alleviate the genitourinary syndrome of menopause, prevent recurrent UTIs, and likely to save lives.

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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.

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  Truly self-sovereign AI agents, running on compute no human owner can switch off, are inevitable rather than merely possible.

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  To be clear, I am not saying the arrival of self-sovereign AI is a good thing. Indeed, I believe there is a chance that the deliberate acts I referenced above will one day be considered crimes, or at least grave sins. Instead, I am saying it is an inevitable thing.

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Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport.

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  Once mining is automated end to end, a mining company is nothing but the owner of some real estate.

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  Will mining get automated? And if it does, not just the movement of the materials, but every part of mining. Then what is a mining company? It just owns real estate.

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  There is no human in the loop: you own the loop, and what comes out of it is your work rather than the model's.

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  Another another thing we point out is just there is no human in the loop. You own the loop. The loop is yours. The loop is mine. It would not exist if it was not for me. So I am the owner, right?

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Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.

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  Making a highly paid team wait a week to buy a tool at half price destroys far more value than it saves.

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  then you also remember that you've hired some very highly paid and talented employees. And are you saying they can't get the tools that they need? That you're spending $100,000 a week. If you wait a week to get a power supply half off, you have certainly dwarfed any possible benefit from getting it.

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Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

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  Having an AI agent write tests costs tokens in the short run and saves them in the long run, because the classic failure is that the code does not work.

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  It costs tokens in the short run, but it can save them in the long run because one of the classic genie mistakes is stuff doesn't work.

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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

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  Getting feedback on a flaw early saves far more effort than discovering it after building much more on top of it.

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  I would rather learn a chapter is broken now, from you, than after I've built ninety more on top of it.

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Economist at Oxford's Global Priorities Institute; works on what advanced AI would do to growth, saving and the long-run economy.

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  Whoever fails to satiate in capital rationally saves more, and therefore ends up holding most of the wealth in the long run.

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  Then the person who doesn't satiate in capital is going to have if they're being rational they're going to have a higher savings rate.

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Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.

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  When the agent runs inside the user’s own surface the user pays for the tokens, not the vendor — which is what saves SaaS margins.

  SaaS

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  When I run the agent on that website, I'm using my tokens. I'm not using the the vendor's tokens. I'm not using the app's tokens.

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Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.

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  A privately owned self-driving car is a hard sell, because the owner inherits the cleaning, calibration and liability a fleet operator normally carries.

  self-driving cars

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  I wish Tensor the best, but I think this is going to be a hard sell.

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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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  When no technique works and the AI starts suggesting things, chasing those suggestions down usually wastes more time than it saves.

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  Um and then they can kind of suggest random things and it it but it it it um often I find that trying to chase them down and make them work and find they don't work, it wastes more time than it saves.

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Working with coding agents is exhausting rather than deskilling, and that exhaustion — not the technology — is what limits how many projects one engineer can run at once.

  coding agents

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  I think that might be what saves us. I think the fact that no, you can't have one engineer and have him do a thousand projects because after three hours of that he's going to literally pass out in a corner.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  Industrial robots are not the fix for American manufacturing, and betting on automation misreads why production sits elsewhere.

  America

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  The robot arm base case saves some hourly labor at the expense of adding more skilled labor, and can easily be negative if it needs reprogramming more than a few times per year.

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Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.

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  Dyson vacuum

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  Dyson vacuum. The laser light thing makes me happy. I never vacuumed before I got this, which meant my apartment was constantly in dire straits since I am the proud owner of two extremely fluffy dogs. I love it.

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Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers. Publishes essays and an annual presentation on where the industry is going.

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  Cars are becoming Android with no iPhone, which makes Tesla just another handset maker rather than the premium platform owner.

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  The interesting Tesla point is people always looked at it and said, "It's the iPhone of cars." No, it's not. What's happening is that cars are becoming Android with no iPhone. And then Tesla is just selling and is is in that metaphor Tesla is just another android phone maker

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Economist specialising in China's economy, international macroeconomics and global trade, and author of The New China Playbook.

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  The American trade deficit is a macroeconomic fact, not a trade one: the US saves less than it invests, so no tariff can close it.

  ChinaAmerica

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  The trade deficits have widened since Trump, right? They haven’t closed the imbalance with China and with the rest of the world because ultimately the US saves less than it invests. And that’s a macrophenomenon. It’s not a trade phenomenon

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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 risk of humanity destroying itself WITHOUT AI is the number nobody weighs, and AI is at least as likely to be what saves us.

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  the other thing I think people don’t often talk about is probability of doom without AI. So there’s all these other ways that humans can destroy themselves and it’s very possible, at least I believe so, that AI will help us become smarter, kinder to each other, more efficient.

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Fellow at the Manhattan Institute writing on crime, drugs and policing; writes The Causal Fallacy.

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  The war on drugs is not the main cause of American mass incarceration, because drug offenders were never a large share of the prison population.

  America

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  Drug offenders never accounted for a particularly large fraction of the U.S. prison population, peaking at about 22 percent of state prisoners in 1990.

  What Was The War on Drugs? Part Vthecausalfallacy.substack.com

Roboticist; co-founded iRobot and Rethink Robotics, directed the MIT AI Lab, and publishes a scorecard grading his own dated predictions about AI, robots and self-driving.

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  Cars people own will double as driverless taxis when the owner is not using them, in ten major US cities, some time from the mid-2020s.

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  Such "taxi" services where the cars are also used with drivers at other times and with extended geography, in 10 major US cities NET 2025

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  This is unlikely to happen in the first half of this century.

Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.

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  Once model weights leave their owner's control the loss is irreversible, which is why securing them is the precondition for governing AI at all.

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  If you can’t control where AI weights go (i.e., prevent leaking or theft), you can’t govern the technology.

  Time's Up for AI Policymilesbrundage.substack.com

Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.

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  A large, respected owner on the board is what buys a CEO the time to make decisions that only pay off years later.

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  That large owner on the board can help buy the time necessary for management to behave in a longer term way. And that's, I think, good for all the shareholders.

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First Amendment lawyer and former federal prosecutor; writes The Popehat Report and explains what the law actually says when people shout about free speech.

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  Refusing to advertise on a platform is protected expression, not an attack on the platform owner's free speech.

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  Elon Musk’s sullen yawp amounts to a claim that he has a right for companies to sponsor his speech, no matter what he says. That’s nonsense, both legally and philosophically.

  My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com

Alignment researcher at Anthropic; co-led OpenAI's superalignment team until 2024, and writes Musings on the Alignment Problem.

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  Once model weights leave their owner's control the loss is irreversible, which is why securing them is the precondition for governing AI at all.

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  Moreover, model exfiltration is likely impossible to reverse.

  Self-exfiltration is a key dangerous capabilityaligned.substack.com

Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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  Delegation and oversight should be matched to how experienced and autonomous a person is at that specific task, not applied uniformly.

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  Manage projects according to the owner's level of task-relevant maturity.

  Some mistakes I made as a new managerbenkuhn.net

Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

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  Making a living from your own open source means running it as a business and acquiring business skills, not waiting to be funded.

  open source

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  And yes, you are building a business. You need to start thinking of your project as a business and of yourself as a business owner.

  A few ways to make money in FOSSdrewdevault.com

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 Startup Owner's Manual

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  This is Steve Blank's textbook to starting a company. It's the Four Steps to the Epiphany, expanded and much more readable. If you want to deep dive into the Lean methodology, this is the book to read.

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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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  ZOLEO Satellite Communicator

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  Here's a new one that's worth consideration: the ZOLEO Satellite Communicator ($200, 5.3 oz), which debuted in January. It's well priced, constructed, and engineered; and it offers a significantly improved messaging experience for both the owner and their contacts.

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