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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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  AI has lowered the barrier enough that non-technical people with strong ideas, taste, and cultural awareness can build successful businesses.

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  especially with AI now I'd say anyone can try, and non-technical people with the best ideas, creativity/taste and understanding of whatever cultural zeitgeist we're in can win

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Neurologist at Oxford; studies apathy, motivation and attention after brain injury, and edits the journal Brain.

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  Every action a person takes is the output of a reward-against-effort calculation the brain runs, and most of that calculation happens below awareness.

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  We were talking about reward versus effort. And essentially that's a very important way I think that we make a decision. Much of that could be subconscious.

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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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  Systems thinking is the most useful skill of the coming decade, because everything below the system level will be done agentically anyway.

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  one of the most important things is systems understanding. Systems awareness, system design, system organization. Um, but systems thinking. And the reason for that is because most of the low-level things that that has to be done are going to be done agentically anyways.

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Head of Instagram since 2018, previously head of Facebook's News Feed.

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  Grit, fast learning and self-awareness are enough to get good at anything eventually, and whenever somebody is not working out, one of the three is missing.

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  Because if you're those three things, if you got fire in your belly, you learn quickly, and you're self-aware, you can kind of get good at anything eventually.

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Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. His 2010 meta-analysis established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment; he has argued ever since that "evidence-based therapy" is used as a marketing term.

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  Telling a patient "your feelings are valid" is not therapy: it is the mirror image of "get a grip", and it makes the therapist a judge of feelings instead of a companion in them.

  Psychotherapy

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  The phrase "your feelings are valid" does not invite curiosity or deeper self-understanding, which is the point of psychotherapy. It is the mirror image of "stop whining and get a grip." One sounds warm and one sounds harsh, but neither deepens self-awareness.

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American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

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  Ask gamers what kind of player they are and they describe the player they wish they were, so a designer has to watch what people do rather than believe what they say.

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  We all, to some degree, lack the self-awareness of how we tick. So we’re all different types of gamers, but if you ask me to describe the type of gamer I am, I might actually be giving more of a picture of the type of gamer I wish I was or the type of gamer I want you to think I am versus the type of gamer I actually am.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

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  This book dramatically changed me as a leader and as a person. It will help you develop self-awareness and connect deeply with your sense of purpose as a leader. If I could recommend one book to help you develop the human skills behind the

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Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.

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  Breakneck

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  Breakneck by Dan Wang takes you on a fascinating journey through China's engineering state, juxtaposing it against America's lawyerly society in an effort to reveal what each country should learn from the other. I've been a keen reader of Dan's personal blog for many years and am delighted to report that this book, his first, features everything I love most about his writing: his unbounded curiosity, thoughtful analysis, compelling storytelling, self-awareness, offbeat sense of humor, and insights born of lived experience.

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Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.

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  Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

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  I've gifted this at least 50 times, so I'll keep gifting it.

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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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  The Rebel's Clinic

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  Shatz brings this Plutarch-like exemplary life to the reader with adroitness and skillful attention to detail as well as awareness of Fanon’s uniqueness, both in terms of personality, and places: centers of the new world that he was trying to create.

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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 Big Short

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  the Big Short is a dramatization of a gang of outsiders (and insiders who are presented as outsiders for narrative convenience, a theme Lewis will return to frequently, not always with self-awareness) who correctly predict the mechanism and course of the global financial crisis.

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