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✨ Finally built a timeline for https://t.co/HGCLKS5BD6 now I always wanted to make my site a bit more social, because I had profiles and trip overlaps and you could kinda see where other people went, but not something like this So on this new page you can see people near you, where everyone's traveling too, etc. There's the [ For you ] tab and [ Following ], like on X. So you can see people you follow, or just everyone I hope I can improve it more so the site will result in more serendipitous connections, especially now that's it's free Also nice you can see where people will be in the future…
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20 September
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
17 September
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I could do 5-10 minutes of standup about how I’m not into feet but I kinda envy feet guys sometimes. such clarity of wanting these guys have. and it doesn’t seem very mimetic. many alleged desires are quite contagious, but feet don’t seem to be. and have you seen their wiki?? Related
16 September
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.
In lots of 80s/early 90s profiles of quantitative investors, there's a list of the general strategies they used, and a surprisingly common one is "Japanese warrants." In today's Capital Gains, we look at what that meant and why it was such a common trade: Related
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My co-founder Colin is not an engineer but he had Pi build a screen recording software to record himself showing off his exquisite slop skills! Unironically I find it kinda cool that you can do that. Quoting @colindaymond Radius lets you work with and collaborate on artifacts, natively within Pi Related
14 September
CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.
I put my phone on airplane mode to read this, so I wouldn’t be distracted. “Mark” by @colossusjeremy is one of the best profiles I’ve ever read. I hope you enjoy it, and learn as much as I did. Quoting @colossusmag Mark, by @colossusjeremy. This is a story about the head of history's largest nonterritorial empire, who nonetheless remains a prisoner of his rivals. Has he finally found a way out? The profile has been nearly a year in the making. Stern interviewed three dozen people, including Zuckerberg, his MM… Related
11 September
Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.
I did another podcast with @tobi. We ended up kinda just geeking out on AI for hours. The members' cut is out: https://t.co/iMzgh5t4aW ... I am worried this episode might be a little too nerdy for everyone, but the feedback from early listeners seems to be: 'This is the best podcast of the year; I need to listen more than once; and I am so far behind on AI.' The public release is Tuesday, and it's a little less in the weeds, but if you want the nerd edition, get the members' cut. Related
8 September
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Oo, @jacobwe 's "Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era" is out in a few days. Will the Amazon listing stay up after Jeff Bezos reads what Weisberg has written about him...? amzn.to
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7 September
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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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There's an illusion here though that anyone will make it, which I've never portrayed to be true, entrepreneurship is one of the most challenging endeavours, kinda like pro sports
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6 September
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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1 September
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But the problem is these agents are just naturally pretty sloppy and they're naturally pretty spiky in their capability profiles. And so you wouldn't necessarily even if you noticed a weird error that it made, you wouldn't necessarily jump to the conclusion that it was like because of some sort of malign crazy conspiracy.
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30 August
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
I kinda hated S1 of Tires It just didn’t work and wasn’t very good Gave S2 a try and thought it was very funny Just finished S3 and I absolutely loved it Funny, creative & weird The season finale is one of the best TV episodes I’ve watched in a while Bravo Shane Gillis Related
14 August
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I thoroughly enjoyed going deep with @nxthompson on AI and the future of writing and creativity for The Most Interesting Thing in AI podcast. A few highlights: • How Nick and I have used @Gemini_Notebook to write our books • Why AI can lead to more serendipitous discovery in the research process (at least using Notebook’s citation-based approach) • The brilliance of the “explain” button in Notebook’s quiz feature • AI as the anti-social-media, with its gravitational pull towards mainstream consensus (citing @danwilliamsphil) • Why our attachment to the human voice of the writer is not going a… Quoting @nxthompson Few people have put more time into figuring out how creativity works than @stevenbjohnson. How do we link ideas in our mind, and how can we use tools to make that linking easier? He's not only written some of my favorite books of the past few decades; he's also written some of my favorite essays ab… Google Related
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6 August
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5 August
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30 April
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.
23 March
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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And so this loop, this cycle, is gonna go on and on and on. It kinda comes down to basically intelligence is gonna scale by one thing, and that's compute.
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14 March
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
This is what more people need to understand about migrating to AWS. @CloudflareDev’s pricing may not be transparent for Enterprise, but the DX is unmatched. Why piece together 8 things I need to make it “kinda work” when with Cloudflare it’s a couple lines in the config? Quoting @evanyou @JLarky With 3x the effort and worse DX Related
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22 June 2022
Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
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It's incredibly written, deeply complex, confusing as hell, and you'll probably throw it at the wall when it's done. But then you'll kinda go "okay... I'm glad I did that" and maybe start it again.
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17 June 2022
Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind; worked on interpretability at Anthropic under Chris Olah before that, and teaches the field to newcomers.
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in general, I expect 90% of a mentoring chat to be kinda useless, and 10% to be particularly high value.
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neelnanda.io
8 September 2021
Astrophysicist and coffee researcher; author of The Physics of Filter Coffee and The Physics of Espresso, and writer of the Coffee ad Astra blog on brewing science and equipment.
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