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Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.

• How popular is Elon Musk?

  Silver Bulletin favorability ratings for the world's richest man.

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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.

• What the Worlds Richest and Most Powerful People Get Wrong With Stephanie Ruhle @SRuhle | Watch the Full Podcast Here

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Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.

• If we held people personally and criminally liable for the "autonomous" actions of the AI systems they create and deploy, I bet the risky behavior would evaporate overnight.

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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.

• What the Worlds Richest and Most Powerful People Get Wrong With Stephanie Ruhle @SRuhle | Watch the Full Video Here

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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

• US Energy Data: a new platform to explore American energy, state-by-state

  Trying to make some of the richest energy data in the world accessible and understandable.

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Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.

• .@RobinWigg on the dark matter of finance: "Repo in the US is like a $12 trillion market that nobody really knows about and understands." "Even monetary economists I know who spend their life on this say that anybody spends too much time looking at short term overnight interest rates goes a little bit mad eventually." "You can't always see it. Most people ignore it, but it actually explains the motion of celestial bodies to a huge degree." Listen: https://t.co/Ui5tjyavjZ Watch:

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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

• Chapter 43.1: Senile Want to see what a CEO offers instead of yes? Then decides you've lost your mind... Eleanor just asked him for eight hours on his quantum computer, overnight, with no record of it. "Eleanor. Is somebody there with you?" "No."

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Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.

• mfw i check what astra has been up to overnight

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Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.

• A perllsp process (written in Rust, I think?) went rogue overnight and consumed about 500 GB of RAM, making my Mac very unhappy. (No time to debug it, so I uninstalled it.)

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American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.

• How to Buy a Tesla and Get FSD For Free

  Full Self Driving on Teslas is so good now that it has fundamentally changed how I think about cars. Before FSD was good I considered Teslas to be perhaps the worst option. The fit and finish isn’t that great compared t…

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Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.

• UX Roundup: Make It Easy | AI Traffic = Best Customers | AI Visibility | Hidden Team Disagreement | AI Attitude Questions | Sunk Costs | Tools Palette

  Make It Easy song | Users referred from AI answers convert 60% better than other traffic | The visibility of sources in AI responses can shift 46x overnight without users noticing | Use AI to uncover the hidden disagree…

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Software engineer and founder of Block Party; previously an engineer at Pinterest and Quora, and a co-founder of the non-profit Project Include and the tech diversity data project Where are the Numbers?

• i appreciate claude telling me “sleep well” after i gave it my final instructions for its overnight tasks

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CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.

• Crazy that the richest Brit is only worth $5 billion That is like the average AI founder these days

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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.

• Well this is damning and explains SO MUCH about why Meta is losing its best engineers; why morale is rock-bottom; and why an engineering culture built up in 20 years was destroyed overnight. Zuck + execs wanted to lay off ~60% of staff. When the business does better than ever.

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Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.

• Studying Fault In Robotaxi Crashes; Teslas Not Getting Hit Enough

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

• But Y

  It's no mystery to me why the Tesla Model Y is the world's best-selling car. As a total package, I could make a fair argument  that it's simply because it is the world's best car.  I'm no stranger to Teslas at…

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

• Gosh this is like a quiet safe haven here. X went completely batshit crazy. Crypto shills attacking me, my account doubling in follower numbers overnight. What a day.

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Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.

• Also at PRGE, I was greatly tempted to buy a CIB Yukawa-edition Dreamcast. For those not familiar, Mr. Yukawa was an actual Senior Managing Director at Sega who became an overnight celebrity in Japan for a series of hilarious self-deprecating commercials about the Dreamcast. When demand temporarily outpaced supply of the consoles, Yukawa was brought out again to make a series of equally funny "apology" commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_nK7j4G6fQ He was so well known, they literally put him on the box for a while. He even got his own game and a number of cameos in others.

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Co-founder of Ximian and Xamarin; CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021; now an independent investor and funder of open technical projects, including the Vesuvius Challenge to read the Herculaneum Papyri.

• Started work at Meta this week. My job is to make amazing AI products that billions of people love to use. It won't happen overnight, but a few days in, I'm feeling confident that great things are ahead.

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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.

• I find it interesting/surprising that Tesla topped the www.iseecars.com/most-dangero... fatalities per mile ranking from 2018-2022. Fatality rate is strongly negatively correlated with price and weight and Teslas are much more expensive and heavier than average.

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