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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  Compute platforms are converging toward one unified, globally distributed system limited only by physics.

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  The future is one global and unified compute platform, with only known physics as the limiting factor

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

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  Software is product management, and those are the skills the agentic era rewards — skills that are not evenly distributed among programmers.

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  The reason I say that is there's a lot of programmers who are not very good product managers. Software is product management. What should it do? Who should it do it for? How should it do it? How should it look? What are our priorities? What do we start with first? What does version one include? All of those skills are not easily or equally distributed across all programmers.

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Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.

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  Any one person or small group placed at the top of the hiring funnel will bottleneck the whole organisation, so first-round review should be distributed across the company as a vote.

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  And so we can distribute the voting across a lot of the company for this initial review, which is essential because if you're doing anything cool, by the time you get a couple years into it, that top of funnel is overwhelming. And if you place any in any small group of employees or any one person in the way as a bottle bottleneck on this, they will absolutely bottleneck the whole rest of the organization.

  Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enoughyoutube.com

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

From one piece Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Concentrated power has been bad at every moment of human history, and a society is best off when power is spread as widely as possible.

  startups

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  I think concentration of power has basically been bad in every moment of human history um to varying degrees of course but I have a real spirit and I think this is part of the startup spirit of thinking that the world, the economy, society is the best off when power is very widely distributed

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  Startups matter more the bigger AI turns out to be, because they are what stops the technology's power from pooling in a few companies and models.

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  In fact, if if we are right that AI is going to be such a big change, startups will be much more important to making sure that the power of this technology gets widely distributed throughout the economy and society and is not just concentrated in a few companies or models.

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Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.

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  Coding is solved for the kind of coding he does, and not for everyone: deep systems work, distributed systems and pixel-level UI checking still defeat the model.

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  So coding is solved for the kind of coding that I do. It's not solved for everyone. You know, there's still code bases that are like super deep systems code bases where quad still struggles.

  Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Promptyoutube.com

Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.

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  A very long life would not grow boring, because pleasures spaced far enough apart do not wear out.

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  There are things that we naturally take pleasure in—such as friendship, sex, and Italian food—and while we can become sick of anything if continually exposed to it in large doses, we don’t get tired of these things if they are properly distributed in time.

  Immortality Sounds Pretty Good, Actuallysmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net

Economist at Oxford's Global Priorities Institute; works on what advanced AI would do to growth, saving and the long-run economy.

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  There is far less trade-off than people assume between a safer AI race and widely shared gains: a big lead can be held by a widely owned public company.

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  some people think either uh frontier AI gets commoditized and we all enjoy the benefits, but there might be some risk because like it's the market's really competitive and cutthroat, or um things are safer because there's a big gap between the leader and the laggard, but that means that the leaders get fantastically wealthy. No, like you could just have a relatively big gap, but it's a public company ownership and it's widely distributed.

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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".

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  Centralized planning cannot substitute for distributed coordination among AI agents because it still fails to capture local knowledge.

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  Central planning is not a solution simply because agents are software, and do not fix the problem of local knowledge which lives near the work.

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Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

From one piece Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A distributed system must assume there is no upper bound whatsoever on how long a message can take to cross the network.

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  we just assume that there's no upper bound on how long it might take for a message to go over the network. So, you send a message, it might arrive within 100 microseconds, or it might take 10 years.

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  Clocks are right most of the time, and that is precisely why a distributed system may never rely on them.

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  it's very easy to assume that your clocks are correct and most of the times the clocks are pretty correct but we just can't rely on it because actually they're just not precise enough uh on the whole.

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Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.

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  Nearly every widely distributed technology produces negative second-order effects.

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  There will be negative second-order effects of almost every widely distributed technology.

  What has technology done to us?justinjackson.ca

FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.

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  Eventually Known Consistency is a better theoretical model for distributed systems than plain eventual consistency, even though it's harder to reason about.

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  but I still think the model of Eventually Known Consistency is the better theoretical model even if it is harder for users to reason about.

  20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Jobdaemonology.net

Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  Academic talent is normally distributed, so some students failing is inevitable rather than anybody's fault.

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  Academic talent is normally distributed throughout the population, and so some degree of failure is literally inevitable.

  There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com

Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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  The productivity AI creates should be shared out as a universal basic provision, with rare skills still buying you more than that.

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  Including things like universal basic provision or something like that where a lot of the increased productivity gets shared out and distributed to society and maybe in the form of services and other things where if you want more than that, you still go and get some incredibly rare skills and things like that and make yourself unique. But there's a basic provision that is provided.

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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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  The most practical book I've found so far on distributed systems.

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

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  Code a company published under the GPL can be forked and improved by anyone, including the project it was distributed through.

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  If WP Engine didn’t want this to happen, they should not have published their code under the GPL or distributed it through WordPress.org’s directory.

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Most distributed-systems outages would have been prevented by slightly more comprehensive ordinary testing, not by better tools.

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  In fact, the vast majority of distributed systems outages could have been prevented by slightly-more-comprehensive testing.

  Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?hillelwayne.com

Writer and researcher on how people organise online; wrote Working in Public, on the maintenance of open-source software, and Antimemetics.

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  A single foundation is structurally at odds with a project whose contributors are distributed, and is easier to capture than the project is.

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  Rather, I think that “the foundation”, as a single point of failure, is structurally at odds with the idea of “the project”, which is inherently distributed.

  Governance without foundationsnadia.xyz

Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.

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  emacs

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  For writing code, I use emacs and Google's internal distributed build system (a version of which was open sourced as Bazel) and our version control system

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Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Industries of the Future

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  If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably well-prepared for what’s to come in the next few decades. Still, things will change, and this book offers one perspective at the industries that will flourish, and how wealth will be distributed in the world.

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Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.

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  git-annex

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  I download my mail with offlineimap, as well as blogs converted to mail with rss2email I use distributed version control extensively, and use my git-annex to maintain large quantities of local data and queue up large files to transfer in the rare times when I'm around fast internet.

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  offlineimap

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  I download my mail with offlineimap, as well as blogs converted to mail with rss2email I use distributed version control extensively, and use my git-annex to maintain large quantities of local data and queue up large files to transfer in the rare times when I'm around fast internet.

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