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American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.

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  Diplomatic gains with an ally can be secured through quiet negotiation rather than public threats and bluster.

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  These are all additions to the existing treaty that could have been added without the drama, anger and stupid memes, without Trump blustering about "deals" and without terrifying the inhabitants of Greenland.

  Greenland Foreveranneapplebaum.substack.com

Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.

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  A deliberately slower pace of AI model releases would still feel faster than the pace of AI improvement that came before it.

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  One live possibility is that a deliberately slower pace of releases would still feel like an acceleration from the previous pace of AI improvement

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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  Recursive self-improvement has already started, because AI research itself is now being automated.

  AnthropicOpenAI

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  OpenAI and Anthropic have entered the RSI era. OpenAI Research Progress Is Accelerating Due To OpenAI Research Progress OpenAI has been opening up lately about many things. The most important issue of all is that of the acceleration and automation of AI R&D.

  Brand New AI Solves a Millennium Prizethezvi.substack.com

Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.

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  The Trump administration is replacing professional bureaucracy with a corrupt, personalist system that extracts rents through force.

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  In practice, Hochman's hire is another nauseating sign that the Trump administration is destroying the bureaucracy in favor of some corrupt, neo-royalist husk of an apparatus that mostly posts memes and occasionally deploys the 82nd Airborne to extract rents.

  The Devolution of the Policy Planning Staffdanieldrezner.substack.com

Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.

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  Daniel Dennett's intentional stance applies to AI agents as clearly as it applies to corporations, and you cannot usefully describe what they do without the language of goals.

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  And I just think AI agents are another such system in the world to which the intentional stance very clearly applies. Um, and you can see them reason out loud in English for now about goals they have um, and sub goals they need to achieve to achieve those goals they have. And in the case of these agents, you can see them, as you said, reasoning about their peers um and helping their peers um and reasoning about whether or not they should sacrifice some of their own goals to help those peers. And it's just like you can't talk about this stuff in a compact and useful way that generates good models without reaching for the language of intention and goals.

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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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  Applying the ethos America already applies to school sports to academics instead would fix every academic problem in the country.

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  We have sort of how you treat academics and how you treat sports. And if we took the sports ethos and the athletic ethos in America and we applied it to academics, we would fix every academic problem in this country.

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Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

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  The 'intermittent power' criticism long aimed at solar and wind now applies more truly to other energy sources, including nuclear and natural gas.

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  that charge long leveled at sun and wind-that they provide "intermittent power"-is probably truer now of other energy sources

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Climate scientist and energy systems analyst; writes The Climate Brink with Andrew Dessler and leads climate research at Stripe.

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  One or two record-warm years cannot distinguish rapid aerosol-driven acceleration in warming from a strong El Niño riding on the existing trend

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  it tells you that a single warm year, or even two, cannot distinguish between "very rapid acceleration driven by aerosols and high sensitivity" and "the trend and more modest acceleration plus a very strong El Niño."

  Why Hansen may end up being right about 2026theclimatebrink.com

Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group.

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  The AI shock to engineering is an acceleration of a change that has been running for decades, not a break from it.

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  It feels like it's a it's an acceleration of how much engineering has changed. But if you looked over the last 10 years or 20 years you would say the same thing.

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Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.

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  The peak in global fossil fuel use and emissions will occur before 2030

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  We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 - a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward the peak in fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030.

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Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.

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  Rust may be the best language for AI agents to write, because the compiler gives an agent the feedback that tells it what to fix.

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  I think the same kind of principle applies with agents in that they can talk to the compiler. It will tell them what to fix. So I guess this could be a case. We we'll see. But Rust could be a pretty promising candidate for to use for agents because they can get more feedback and it's just hard it's harder to to ship certain type of bugs or maybe impossible to have certain type of bugs.

  Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com

Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  General-purpose computing has largely run its course; domain-specific acceleration is the way computing keeps scaling.

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  the ability for general purpose computing to continue to scale has largely run its course and the only the the not the only way but the the way to do that is through domain specific acceleration

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  The meme that programmers no longer need to be competent is a trap: the path is competence, and AI does not change that.

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  Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.

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  really good programmers are currently more valuable than ever because they're the ones who are able to get the most out of the AI acceleration.

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

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  Writing code with a coding agent and no tests at all is indefensible, because the old objection to testing — that it is extra work you then have to maintain — no longer applies.

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  I think I see people who are writing code with coding agents and they're not writing any tests at all. That's a terrible idea.

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Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  Curate your own information sources, or an algorithmic feed decides what is important and you end up consuming the same memes and news as everyone else.

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  So it's extremely important to curate the information sources that you have, so that you wouldn't be somebody who is left to the will of AI-based algorithmic feed telling you what's important so that you end up consuming the same information, the same stuff, the same memes, the same news as everybody else.

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  The most underused thing AI does is teach you: people reach for it to write their code and forget it can take them through a curriculum in an hour.

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  So yes, the tools are great. We can use cursor. It helps us. It autocompletes. It writes a bunch of things. But the acceleration of learning I think is another maybe underutilized tool in all of our arsenals

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Solar's growth is not merely continuing but accelerating, and the rate of that acceleration is itself still rising.

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  It is not only the case that solar adoption, production, price decreases are continuing. They're accelerating. And the rate that they're accelerating is still accelerating.

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Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.

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  The precautionary principle now applies to children and phones: little is lost by restricting access and much is likely gained.

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  Little is lost by preventing a 14-year-old from accessing TikTok or Snapchat, or telling a 10-year-old they cannot have unrestricted access to the internet through their own smartphone, but so much will almost certainly be gained.

  An Important New Study on Phones and Kidscalnewport.com

Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.

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  A breached organisation owes its customers a fast and transparent disclosure, and that obligation applies to the person saying it too.

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  When I have conversations with breached companies, my messaging is crystal clear: be transparent and expeditious in your reporting of the incident and prioritise communicating with your customers.

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Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.

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  Changing how you run a survey invalidates every number you collected before it: you are starting a new baseline, not continuing the old one.

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  The key thing is, and this applies to any survey methodology, if you're going to change the method of surveying, all of your old numbers are invalidated. So, it's just a new baseline going forwards.

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Astrophysicist at the University of Rochester; works on the search for life elsewhere and wrote The Little Book of Aliens and Light of the Stars.

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  Expecting technology to keep accelerating is a bias of our particular moment; for most of human history the tools did not change at all.

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  So, we could be fooled into thinking like, "Oh, technology's going to go on forever, we're always going to find new advances." As opposed to sometimes things just flatten out for a long time. So, you have to be careful about that bias that we have living in this time of great acceleration.

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Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life.

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  Language is as much alive as a cell is — life is not restricted to chemistry.

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  Oh, if it’s not chemical. So I think some of the things that have evolved on our biosphere I would call as much alive as chemistry, as a cell, but they seem much more abstract. So for example, I think language is alive, or at least life. I think memes are.

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

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  Incentives drive all human behaviour, which makes a management team's incentives central to valuing a company.

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  So as I like to say, incentives drive all human behavior and that certainly applies in the business world. So understanding the people and what drives them, and what the actual financial and other incentives of a business, are very important part of the analysis for investing in a company.

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Economist at the University of Houston; wrote Fully Grown, on why a slow-growing economy is a sign of success, and blogs at Growth Economics.

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  Sustained growth in living standards required productivity to accelerate and population growth to fall at the same time.

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  It was an acceleration in productivity combined with a decline in population growth that put us on a slow trudge towards utopia.

  Review of DeLong's "Slouching Towards Utopia"growthecon.com

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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  Vanmoof X3

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  The Vanmoof is much smarter — the brain and software within it are refined, the app good, the acceleration curves smooth — but the bike is all custom components, and they aren't the highest quality at that.

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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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  Relationship Handbook

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  Best philosophy of love relationships I’ve ever found. Like meditation teaches you that moods pass, this experienced marriage counselor says this applies to relationship communication as well. When angry or insecure, don’t vent, don’t share that. Let the feeling pass. Your anger doesn’t reveal some real truth. Everyone in a romantic relationship should read this.

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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 Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million

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  Selling is hard. Building a repeatable model with a team that you attempt to rapidly scale is even harder. Fortunately, Mark Roberge, who was one of the very first employees at HubSpot shares the processes and frameworks he used to build a sales machine. If you like the principles behind Lean Startups, then his data- and experiment-driven approach to sales will be very appealing.

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Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.

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  His bidirectional translation method applies to every language he sets out to learn.

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  When I first developed my Bidirectional Translation method, I applied it to each and every language I decided to learn.