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20 September
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
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18 September
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
Widening gyre: "Did you hear the one about the falconer?" Falcon: "Nope." Related
17 September
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.
“Every night I close my eyes And there is something that I visualize I hear a voice, say, ‘I love you’ I picture all things that we're gonna do And I wonder who he'll be Wonder if he'll be good to me Wonder, gosh oh gee Wonder if he'll love me forever” Related
Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
Where did I hear this before that joining the EU is a hostile act. Quoting @Polymarket JUST IN: President Trump warns the EU allowing Canada to join as an associate member could be considered a “hostile act” toward the U.S. Europe Related
15 September
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
I'm curious to read other stories from people who've scaled new businesses in Europe. (And if your experience has been positive, that's also useful to hear.) Feel free to email me: patrick@stripe.com. Quoting @patrickc Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a 90-page investment contract read to him (mandatory under German law; § 13 BeurkG) by a… Europe Related
13 September
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
I think that AI is helping us in ways that will only become clear in several years, as it is helping clarify knowledge, science and philosophy. In other words, I believe that it may usher in a new intellectual golden age, but not necessarily directly (by what “it” finds). Rather, it may force a reshaping of the current social hierarchies. Many people who have reigned over academia for decades are finding themselves on the defensive. Meanwhile, other models are slowly being valorized. If I am correct, we are in for quite a fight. It will get vicious. What I find interesting with OpenAI breakin… OpenAI Related
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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12 September
Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
The marketing speak may be the same, but you get the sense that Ternus knows these products backwards and forwards – he simply must given his previous role literally helping to engineer them. Somehow, that knowledge translates into the presentation. spyglass.org
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11 September
Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
Still processing from yesterday's event (one of the most meaningful days of my life)— more to come—but a few quick things for now: 1. Thank you to everyone who came. You are what made it special. 2. There's so much need for IRL community. I've rarely felt this kind of pull for anything I've done. Wow. 3. All of the talks will be posted to my YT channel in the coming weeks. Get excited. 4. An unbelievable thank-you to the @Stripe team for helping me put this event on. It takes something special to create an event with 1,000+ PMs that has such great vibes. If you think they're great at payments… Related
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
The gold standard in the statistical analysis of scientific data is a p-value of 0.05. Never mind what it means. It is the threshold people use to say the result did not occur by chance. There is a wide consensus. Nearly all experts treat it as the bar to statistical significance. I am quite certain that most do not know what it means or where the number comes from. Never mind that. In principle, it means that if you redo the experiment, the result should hold. At least, that's what most people hope when they hear that a result is 'statistically significant'. It often will not. If the origina… Quoting @robinhanson !!: "A finding with a p-value of 0.05 has an expected replication probability ranging from 0.10 to 0.25 across fields." Related
10 September
American historian of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust; author of Bloodlands, On Tyranny and On Freedom, and writer of the newsletter 'Thinking about...'.
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
want to hear an interesting strategy story between meta and apple? 10 years ago i was at meta, and worked on a lot of product features that had to ship to iOS, and they all had to go through a painful apple review where anything could get cut apple back then developed a clear strategy where they used “privacy” as the angle to gain user trust and win against competition a clear example was the “ask app not to track” dialog which controls ads targeting - they made every 3p app go through that scary dialog which heavily implies to the user that they should obviously click “do not track” you migh… Related
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.
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That's why we're expanding Pharmacy First. The idea is simple: Qualified pharmacists can assess patients, dispense medicines and prescribe treatment for a range of common conditions, helping people get care quickly and close to home.
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9 September
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
So one argument for why it makes sense to race toward AGI that you hear is that if the US labs don't, China will. What are the best write ups of what people expect will happen in a world where AGI is 1) aligned / controllable, and 2) China "wins"? AGI China Related
Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.
Did you hear about the UK government report on ecosystem collapse? It was created not only by the environment department but also intelligence agencies like MI5 and MI6. Reporters were invited to see the unveiling of this report in October 2025 - but at the last minute the Prime Minister blocked it! Luckily the Greens forced the release of a 14-page redacted version. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗲 - 𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 �… government Related
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
Been really loving https://t.co/f0OCOuKkjP from @Meta and when I got early access it actually wound up helping me buy a bunch of stuff I would have struggled with otherwise. it has many thoughtful architectural choices around remote browsing ( really interesting UX modality ) and security that I think push the state of the art forward. Related
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
I hear roughly 3 reasons people keep working at AI labs despite believing in ~10% extinction risk: 1) Techno-determinism: Someone will build ASI no matter what, and I can do it better & more safely than China/OpenAI/etc 2) Consequentialism: ASI might kill us, but it also might produce utopia/immortality/superabundance, so it's a +EV bet 3) Self-interest: I am personally having fun & getting rich working on cool tech with friends. I don't think about the macro stuff. Notably, none of this is "I'm hyping up the risk for marketing reasons." People believe what they say, while being capable of a… Quoting @EvanHub Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to. OpenAI China Related
Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
Bots solving all our needs is the next thing in agentic era. I’m waiting to hear for all the fancy bots from corporate companies coming as the next big thing 💨 The best part of this is: Mom&Dad now can have their own bot to solve their daily digital challenges… or at least we are closer than never before. Quoting @Muse Introducing Muse, your personal AI agent from Meta that gets things done across every part of life. Download the Muse app and get started: Related
8 September
Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
Grok @Bot is the hottest new AI product in the world right now. I'm absolutely hooked. It all started a few months ago as a tiny team holed up in a separate part of the office, building from scratch. Four weeks after the first line of code, the whole company was obsessed. Three weeks later, it launched to the world. Less than a month in, millions of Grok Bots are already helping people get work done. Roman Ugarte (@romanugarte_) incubated, launched, and now leads product for Grok Bot. This is the first time he's told the story: 🔸 Why they started fresh instead of building it into Cursor 🔸 T… Related
5 September
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
4 September
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
1 September
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
Yes it is. American policies have dramatically increased interest among Canadian youth in helping to build a stronger Canada, and as a nation we're happy to help everyone build their skills even if they're too young to take up arms. Quoting @PeteHegseth 🇨🇦 (this is real) America Related
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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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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31 August
Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
This is the message local communities have been waiting to hear to get them really excited about data centers. A masterstroke by the president Quoting @techmeme.com Trump says communities that reject data centers will end up "backwards and poor" and that "China could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement" (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink data centers Related
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
One of the biggest copes I hear from solo technical founders: “I don’t need to validate it. I’m building it for myself, so even if nobody else uses it, it’s still a success.” No. If you want to build something for yourself, great. That’s a project. If you want to build a product, you should do the work: talk to customers, validate demand, think about positioning and marketing, and work to build something people will actually pay for. You don’t get to skip all the hard, boring, uncomfortable parts of building a business and then redefine success as “well, I use it.” Build for yourself or build… startups Related
30 August
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
Screenshot diffing, feedback inboxes, PWAs, and of course local-first sync layer with self-hosted backend. Matches up pretty well with my approach on personal apps thus far into the LLM coding age. Curious to hear from others. Quoting @flourish.org I vibe coded three personal apps that I'd wanted for a while. They work on mobile and web, sync offline first between them, and are polished. This write up describes why, how, and what I learnt. www.flourish.org/2026/08/pers... LLMs Related
28 August
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@clayton/117175171619298911 It's OK. This feature is awesome, and one I use heavily. Every social network needs a few mutes here and there. Nobody inherently deserves anyone’s attention. If someone replies in a way that makes me think, "I'd rather not hear from this person again,” I just mute forever. No aggressive block, no report or feedback, no way for them to know. It's not meant to send a message, get revenge, or influence anyone else — just tailor my feed for me. Related
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I'm out of town helping my sister after she recovers from a medical procedure (she's doing well!). I'm out of my routine and pretty well out of my inbox and DEFINITELY out of it after 5 pm. Be mindful about what you ask for from other people, but just do your best. Have a restful weekend. Image credit: National Library of Medicine, on Flickr Commons flickr.com
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25 August
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.
Heartbroken to hear my friend Sir Billy Boston has died. Billy was one of the greatest Rugby League players of all time but also one of the kindest and most down-to-earth people you could ever wish to meet. He always had time for people and gave so much to back to his adopted home, Wigan. I will miss him greatly and am thinking today of Billy’s family, still grieving the recent loss of his beloved wife Joan. A giant of a man in every way. Thank you, Billy, and rest in peace. Related
23 August
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
21 August
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
I think its easy to say "Simulation is a new scaling law" and treat it as marketing hyperbole, but midway along this interview you can hear me go from somewhat shitposting to very very serious. I am 2 years late to this but finally understand why @karpathy and @drfeifei backed @joon_s_pk @msbernst @percyliang et al - Smallville at the time had zero commercial applications, but if you take RSI seriously, from models automating increasingly large parts of ML research and AI engineering, the last* barrier is simulating humans and human feedback, and Simile is obviously the team to do this and al… Quoting @latentspacepod Simulating Humanity: 85% accurate digital twins, behavioral foundation models, social physics, & 8 billion agents https://t.co/ntIccXOr1y @simile_ai CEO @joon_s_pk explains how AI can move from predicting what people will do to simulating how to shape outcomes, why today’s frontier models still mis… Related
16 August
Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.
Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business — "building models of the world to understand these problem areas and to define them better".
12 August
Professor at Stanford working on robot learning and meta-learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence.
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So, you might be surprised to hear that most state-of-the-art foundation models for robotics have no memory or no context. They're just operating on the current sensor observations, the current camera readings, uh, and predicting actions based off of that.
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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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It's like we need to hear the wins. We need to hear what's We need to hear about what's possible. We need to hear what's exciting. But you got to couple it with the costs.
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10 August
Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.
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The absolute bad outcome is that our young generation, their agency and human level motivation of learning and living is taken away by tools. So doom scrolling, passive watching of shorts, all this are not helping agency, human agency.
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2 August
Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.
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what I definitely learned is like most of the time you hear it's really complex. It isn't. Leadership's just weak.
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29 July
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
I'm impressed with Claude Design. I see its disruption starting with smaller teams. As a founder I find myself turning to it more and more for the convenience of one-off design tasks. Sure, it's super slow, and one-shot quality is not quite there, and its image capabilities suck, but using it in between multi-tasking other things, it's helping me move faster. As @HarryStebbings says the "all-in-one" Claude interface has a huge psychological advantage as being the place people are already working. I don't think it's a great tool yet for a designer-designer (the speed / control dials are not ye… Quoting @HarryStebbings Why we switched from Figma to Claude Design “I let the team do whatever is best for them, and this is a trend I've observed amongst almost everybody: Claude Design has done a great job. People really like using it, it's easy to use, and we've had a natural movement towards it. It's also easier to n… Anthropic Related
Founder of Scale AI and, since 2025, Chief AI Officer at Meta, where he leads the company’s superintelligence lab.
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I think we're at this like in amazing moment in the world where the bottleneck is not the progress of the AI models, the bottleneck is diffusing that through the rest of the world and and helping the world adapt to this amazing technology that already exists. Like I think if the models didn't improve at all from today, there would still be like decades and decades of like total upheaval and change in the economy and how the world operates and and everything around us
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28 July
Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner and its Symphony engine.
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It is totally okay for a young engineer to do something they've never done before just the way it's okay for them to do something that nobody has ever done before. But uh but if somebody has done it before in the world, uh our rule is you have to go find one of those people, call them, and ask them your advice. And you don't have to take it. You just have to hear it.
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25 July
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.
In another variant of https://danluu.com/learn-what/, I caught up with a former colleague who worked on automated theorem proving. It turns out he's had an interesting career doing all sorts of interesting stuff using the skills he developed by spending a decade writing/using theorem provers. At one point, he said, "if you use X like a theorem prover, it works really well", which surprised me to hear, but of course this is a highly generalizable skill just like compilers or benchmarking/evals. Related
22 July
Art critic, broadcaster and author; wrote on art for The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph and presents BBC art documentaries. Author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.
14 July
Journalist and author of The Art of Noticing; writes the newsletter The Art of Noticing (TAoN) on attention, creativity and the everyday.
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He's particularly insightful and inspiring on the natural world, so I was excited to hear about his latest book, Unwilded.
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13 July
Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
12 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.
Sad to hear about the death of Lord Tony Christopher. An incredible career in public service, Tony was the oldest serving British parliamentarian and the last Member of Parliament to have served in World War II. My thoughts and condolences are with his family. Related
29 June
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
23 June
Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
10 June
Art critic, broadcaster and author; wrote on art for The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph and presents BBC art documentaries. Author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.
Thrilled to hear that Barnes & Noble have selected Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found as one of their best books of 2026! barnesandnoble.com
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2 June
Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.
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It's false to believe that a company is a democracy. The way I run the company was what I called a democratic dictatorship. And I said, I want everyone everyone's voice to be heard and then I'll be the single vote. And I think that's the way a company should be run. I think there's one CEO, there's one chef. I think a good CEO is going to seek out the intellectual honesty, the truths from everywhere and hear from everybody and then they're going to make the decision and they're not going to make the decision because it's most popular in the company.
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28 May
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
21 May
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
I'm writing an article on the perils of Spec-Driven Development (SDD). My concerns focus on the flawed idea that implementation is the mere execution of a known scope. Discovery suffers. However, I'd really like to hear counterarguments. Are there any SDD success stories that sustained beyond an initial prototype or first release? Related
11 May
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
Hear This Radical Listening could transform our politics and block the rise of the far right. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2026 Most people have made up their minds, and nothing you can say will change the…
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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
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Almost any time I hear that someone has had a damaging experience with meditation, I find that it's because they're violating this rule.
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13 April
Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
6 April
Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.
2 April
Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
19 March
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
Related UI elements should not appear unrelated I know, I know, this sounds controversial. But hear me out. A few years ago a new trend in UI design emerged where related elements would appear more and more detached and unrelated to the things they are meant to point…
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13 March
Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.
25 February
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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Being a great listener when people speak. Deep insights about understanding, connection, helping people express themselves, overcoming assumptions, the ethics of gossip, and more. Specific techniques for the support response, encouraging elaboration, and keeping it balanced. You can’t be ethical without being a good listener. When people say, “I can’t talk right now,” what they really mean is “…
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23 January
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
I've had fun helping BBC Ideas produce this animation, which attempts to explain Bayesian ideas in 4 minutes. I hope you like it - I really like the animators style. bbc.co.uk
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20 January
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.
7 January
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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Teresa Torres is the best in the business at helping teams build products and services that their customers want. Here she shares her techniques for transforming your process into one of continuous discovery and learning.
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: “Your guide to navigating product leadership, the one I never had. Within these pages you’ll hear a diversity of opinions from the industry’s most successful and respected product leaders, insights that will help you lead your team and deliver exceptional products.”
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18 December 2025
Artist and writer based in Oakland, California; author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time, and a longtime teacher of digital art.
I interviewed some writers about… SPORTS!! (bonus: you get to hear about me taking PE Bowling in high school) thebeliever.net
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27 November 2025
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
21 November 2025
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
22 October 2025
Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
10 October 2025
Emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London; wrote Strategy: A History and Command, and writes about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as they happen.
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The West is not doing Ukraine a favour by helping it resist aggression; it is Ukraine doing the West a favour.
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8 October 2025
Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.
Recommends rcmnd.app
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Qobuz unlocks millions of tracks of hi-rez quality music. I promise you can hear the difference, especially with headphones.
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24 August 2025
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
Has anyone tried ethernet over grape vines? You could stream "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" and literally hear it through the grapevine. Just thinkin' out loud. Related
2 August 2025
Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.
16 July 2025
Chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, which he has led since 2005 after turning around Bank One.
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There are no winks there are no nods there are no side deals there's almost no one paid on a particular thing because if you're paid on a particular thing you can do the wrong thing and meanwhile not helping the company you know manage its risk or something like that.
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5 June 2025
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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I think the element of podcasting or audio books that is about information gathering, that part might be removed, or that might be more efficiently and in a compelling way done by AI. But then it’ll be just nice to hear humans struggle with the information, contend with the information, try to internalize it
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5 May 2025
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
Astrophysicist at Barnard College; wrote Black Hole Blues and How the Universe Got Its Spots, and directs sciences at Pioneer Works.
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So the idea is that they’re closer to something that you would want to map as a sound, than it’s something as a picture.
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26 April 2025
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
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22 March 2025
Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.
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Okay, my general view is it comes down to something that's pretty simple, which is that if you're doing something in which is very predictable, AI is really nice. When you're doing something that is just not predictable, AI is not very nice to use. If you're using anything that's more cutting edge, AI will not be using it, or AI won't be very good at doing stuff with it.
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17 March 2025
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
Does unsafe undermine Rust's guarantees? When people first hear about unsafe in Rust, they often have questions. A very normal thing to ask is, “wait a minute, doesn’t this defeat the purpose?” And while it’s a perfectly reasonable question, the answer is both…
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Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.
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Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill and Karen Pirie novels; former journalist and broadcaster.
9 December 2024
Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill and Karen Pirie novels; former journalist and broadcaster.
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Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
7 October 2024
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
25 May 2024
Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.
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And from what I understand, the research actually shows that they just produce what people want to hear, not necessarily the information that is being looked for.
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23 May 2024
Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.
21 May 2024
Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.
Hi Everyone. This Twitter account has been dormant, except when it got hacked last year, for the last eighteen months. I've been sharing my thoughts on tech, startups, VC, music, life, etc onchain at Farcaster. If you still want to hear from me on that stuff, come follow me there startups Related
22 April 2024
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
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But there’s an instrumentalist view here, you have to first decide what your goals are and then science can help you achieve those goals. If your goals are horrible, science has no problem helping you achieve them, science is happy to help out.
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18 March 2024
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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But a lot of people have tried to just make a better search engine than Google and it is a hard technical problem, it is a hard branding problem, it is a hard ecosystem problem. I don’t think the world needs another copy of Google.
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23 November 2023
American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
3 Hard Truths You Need to Hear Welcome to the realm of uncomfortable truths, where I, Mark Manson, will make you question everything you've ever believed in. Buckle up, buttercup. Let's dive into the rabbit hole of reality. https://youtu.be/ueDus1n3t…
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17 November 2023
Political scientist at the University of Chicago and the leading exponent of offensive realism; wrote The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.
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And of course, what they were negotiating about was NATO expansion into Ukraine, which was the principal cause of the war. People in the West don't want to hear that argument because if it is true, which it is, then the West is principally responsible for this bloodbath that's now taking place.
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29 September 2023
Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.
23 August 2023
Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".
14 July 2023
Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".
The Cloud Is Not Optional When you hear that one of the vendors responsible for keeping government organizations safe had a security breach, you can easily decide that this is unacceptable. When you hear that it is hard to know who is affected a…
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Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.
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So almost if Codex or copilot are helping you, that actually probably means that your framework or library is bad and there’s too much boilerplate in it.
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1 September 2022
Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.
@msanromanv I loved your article on changing your engineering mindset over at @buffer. 👌 That resonated very well with me and what we’re in the thick of at @STIM_Sweden. Thanks also for helping me find Ship/Show/Ask – *exactly* what I’ve been looking for! Related
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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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This is a great book for understanding how the creative process works. It left me with a lot of ideas I could apply to my day to day to be more creative. After living in the world of startups and business in real life and most of the books I read, it was great to hear how the different world of dance performance can be learned from.
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If you need to beef up your understanding of the philosophy of how to be customer driven and really understand who you're building for, this is a great book. Alan does a great job of digging into the jobs to be done concept and helping you understand what it means. The main flaw of the book is it does little to tell you *how* to do it.
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The interests of a Venture Capitalist are different than those of the entrepreneurs building a company they've invested in. Jeff does an awesome job of helping explain how you can get misaligned in your goals versus your investors. Fortunately, he also covers how to avoid it.
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6 October 2020
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
Some amazing leaders have joined @SlackHQ! Welcome, Fuzzy Khosrowshahi, Product Eng VP; @Rukmini_Reddy, Platform Eng VP; and Sean Catlett, CSO. To hear more about the future of Slack that we’re building together, join us for Frontiers 2020, tomorrow: slack.com
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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
15 March 2020
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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