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We live weird times. So here's a rendering of Sonny Boy Williamson's classic "Keep Your Hands Off My Pocket" by @jimbasnight. At the drums, yours truly - as I promised at the end of my @CppCon 2023 keynote.
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19 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.
Today’s America: 3 million business owners worth an average of $25 million each, notables in their towns but not individually visible to the nation. And more than half the rise in the top 1% share since 1985 flowed through the pass-through businesses that was a “tax efficiency innovation” feature of the Reagan Revolution. The Reagan Revolution promised faster growth in exchange for lower taxes on the rich. The rich won; the growth never showed up: **Passthrough Tax Loopholes & the Rise... 1/ America 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.
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The Reagan Revolution promised faster growth in exchange for lower taxes on the rich. The rich won; the growth never showed up.
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18 September
Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.
17 September
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.
10 Thursday AM Reads My morning reads: • Here’s Who Trump Should Blame for the Rate Hike He’s Raging About:He promised lower prices and lower interest rates. His policies delivered renewed inflation and a rate hike. (The Bulwark) • Gas Pric…
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15 September
Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.
12 September
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
About a year ago, before it was on anyone's radar, we began exploring the idea of a benchmark for open-ended invention. Since then, we've developed several promising directions that will serve as the foundation for ARC 4 and ARC 5. We're incredibly excited to share what we've been building. We're still on track to release ARC 4 in Q1 next year, as promised. Quoting @arcprize ARC-AGI-4 will be a benchmark for autonomous open-ended innovation. It will continue our commitment to open-source, giving the research community a shared target for progress that benefits all of humanity. Despite rapid model progress, humans still significantly outperform AI at open-ended inventio… benchmarks Related
9 September
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
5 September
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July 2026 and leader of the Labour Party. MP for Makerfield since a by-election in June 2026; Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 before that.
I didn’t become Prime Minister to just make a few tweaks around the edges. I want to change the way this country works. For too long, politics became comfortable with the idea that some things just can't be fixed. People sleeping on our streets. Huge inequalities between different parts of the country. Young people unable to afford a home. Communities watching decisions about their future being taken somewhere else, by someone else. Governments have talked about those things. They've even promised to fix them. But too often, they've reached the same conclusion: it just can't be done. I don't… Related
1 September
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Dave Barry found out he won the Pulitzer about a minute before they announced it. First thing he had to do was tell his son they weren't going to Key West. There's a famous photo of the two of them hugging at the exact moment they said his name. The kid had just been promised a Related
27 August
Programmer, musician and author of The Passionate Programmer; organised RubyConf and RailsConf and has worked as a CTO.
The internet promised us access to all the world’s information. Instead, social media, algorithmic advertising and the attention economy have created a morass of truth, half-truths and lies, making it harder to know both what’s true and what people actually believe. CHOMP is trying to cut through that. Really excited to have backed Kiko and the team. Quoting @chompdotfyi We raised $3.6M to map what the world really thinks. 50K players. 2M+ answers. And we’re just getting started. Hot takes. Hard questions. Juicy reveals. The new Chomp is coming to iOS very soon. Join the waitlist ➡️ Related
2 August
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
Earlier this year, the FTC Chair said "you're going to have a hard time keeping up with the number of cases we're gonna be bringing" on privacy. I guess this is starting? See https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Hims-Complaint-Redacted-E-Filed.pdf. The bulk of the complaint is about standard scammy practices, but there's this section where the FTC is going after them because they promised to keep information private but use tracking pixels from various ad providers, which inherently share information about the user information. Related
14 July
Labour politician. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 2024 to June 2026, and MP for Holborn and St Pancras from 2015 until standing down in 2026. Director of Public Prosecutions before entering Parliament.
I have made it my mission to give a voice to those who were ignored for too long. I promised that my government would deliver the Hillsborough Law. I’m proud that today we’re making good on that promise. government Related
9 July
Labour politician. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 2024 to June 2026, and MP for Holborn and St Pancras from 2015 until standing down in 2026. Director of Public Prosecutions before entering Parliament.
I promised that we would fix our NHS, so it’s fit for the future. Today, more patients are reporting improved experiences with their GP, dentist, and pharmacist since we’ve been in government. Delivering real change to people across the country. government Related
1 July
Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
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So I was promised just understand the computer and then just kidding understand people from a position where I was already 10 years behind.
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29 April
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
15 April
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
The malleable computer Open source promised that users would be free to change whatever code they were running. The reality, however, is that hardly any of them ever did — it was simply too hard. Now, with AI, it suddenly isn't. This is very…
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25 January
Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.
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The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
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I think if you if you tried to find a common thread throughout all this stuff about growth, it comes back to the customer getting value.
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And that is never ever ever the reason. How do I know? Because they already looked at your homepage, read all the stuff, saw what you promised, looked at the pricing page, and decided to buy it.
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30 September 2025
Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.
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No. We designed a system in a way that's impossible. It'll require us to change the system and we won't do that because we made a promise to our users. We would rather shut Telegram down in a certain country than do that.
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9 August 2025
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
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People had grown to expect miracles, but GPT-5 is just the latest incremental advance.
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12 March 2025
Writer and creator of Daring Fireball, a long-running blog about Apple and technology; co-created Markdown and hosts The Talk Show.
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Now that we have the answers, it all looks very obvious, and mostly straightforward.
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I should have been pointing out red flags starting back at WWDC last year, and I am embarrassed and sorry that I didn’t see what should have been very clear to me from the start.
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1 January 2025
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.
12 January 2024
American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.
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