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20 September
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
Dumb rules are dumb rules. But what really annoys me about the German speaking world is that the default behavior is to defend every stupid damn rule. Quoting @emrenakyol I thought Germany and German bureaucracy cannot shock me anymore, but it did. I parked my TESLA (!) on an EV-only parking spot in @Konstanz and plugged it into an EV charger. Came back to this fine. Had to use Grok to even understand what was wrong. Turns out you need to have a special EV licence o… Related
19 September
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
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18 September
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’m actually more surprised she started speaking cantonese and not mandarin Quoting @PiersUncensored EXCLUSIVE: AI actress Tilly Norwood glitches and starts speaking CHINESE during her interview with Piers Morgan and real-life actor Tom Conti... Watch the full interview at 7pm (BST)👇 📺 https://t.co/1nTb79BH8D @piersmorgan | @TillyNorwoodX Related
17 September
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
I was happy to take the stage today at ALL IN for a keynote on Engineering honesty and reliability for safer AI to discuss our research agenda and recent funding 🇨🇦🇩🇪. As frontier models become more capable, we urgently need both societal governance and robust technical guardrails. At @LawZero_, we are actively working on solutions to ensure AI systems remain safely aligned with human interests. Thank you to @LarissaHolzki for a great conversation. Related
Writer of kottke.org, one of the oldest blogs on the web, published since 1998 and supported by its members. He writes about art, technology, science, design and visual culture.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Another week, another haul for Omarchy! Thank you so much to @briancartmell for joining as a Distinguished Patron with $100,000, to @americancloudco for the $25,000, and to all open patrons for DOUBLING their donations to $120,000!! omarchy.org
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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
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16 September
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.
We are grateful to everyone who has shared a kind message about my dad, particularly the leaders of the other parties. My family and I have been helped though this difficult time by people’s warmth and compassion. It means a great deal to us and we wanted to say thank you. Related
14 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.
7yo is increasingly speaking flawless History Channel/YouTube Documentary Narrator when describing his contraptions. Today he was talking about an idea for a hard-to-hit submarine and said "That would make it hard for a torpedo to hit. The timing would have to be... impeccable." Related
Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking online (via Zoom) at a League of Women Voters event on Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 5 PM ET. I’m speaking at CanSecWest 2026 in Vancouver,…
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Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.
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13 September
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 47.1: Thursday Want to see what happens when someone famous calls you at 2am with a favor you can't check? Oh, and what it costs to tell a friend you gave her name away... "Then stop answering your phone. I mean that. Thank you for picking up." zeroknowledge.ink
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12 September
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
It took writing a programming book, speaking at 20+ confs, leading eng at a billion-dollar startup, having some OSS projects people use, getting invited on podcasts, starting a company, hanging out with smart / successful people who seemed to think I knew what I was doing … … before accepting maybe it wasn’t all a fluke Quoting @threepointone you don’t understand, i’m the world’s best imposter, absolutely world class imposter skills, a lifetime of developing them to be so convincing, i’ve somehow accumulated promotions, references, a career, and a body of work purely as supporting evidence for the bit. startups Related
Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
Speaking as head of the Center for Study of Public Choice, the capture story for an AI pause doesn't fit. Reg capture is what you attempt when you're losing. Anthropic is about to have the biggest IPO in history. Winners don't lobby for regulation. Anthropic Related
11 September
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.
Aligning with a party prevents you from ever having this (obviously correct) opinion. Trump's grifting (meme coin, selling early access to tweets, $5k bribes) is gross, unnecessary, and destroys confidence in markets and politicians. The Trump accounts are a fantastic achievement and could change millions upon millions of Americans' lives. Quoting @MebFaber The single worst trade I can think of: Sacrificing your mental independence and emotional health to align with a political party. Zero upside and massive downside. Try subbing out "ideas" for "party" in my favorite @AdamMGrant quote America Related
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
For the August/September issue of Forbes Australia, I was invited to answer The Last Word, a series of questions that range from the serious to the personal. Thank you to Forbes Australia and Sarah O’Carroll for the feature. #PeterSinger #ForbesAustralia #Philosophy #Ethics #EffectiveAltruism Related
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
Programmer, musician and author of The Passionate Programmer; organised RubyConf and RailsConf and has worked as a CTO.
The @bsky.app starter pack thing is such a great example of making an open product/ecosystem feature out of someone else's closed, extractive bullshit. Thank you to whoever designed and implemented it. Related
9 September
American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.
Thank you to @fondalee.bsky.social, @harvardbookstore.bsky.social, and everyone who came to celebrate the launch of The Passing of the Dragon with me! It was an unforgettable night. A limited number of signed copies are available at the Harvard Book Store for anyone who couldn’t make it. Related
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
I definitely appreciate how many authors use their book primarily as a calling card to sell their speaking and consulting. I just don’t want to focus on those ancillary businesses, as I’m viewing my books mostly through the lens of a teacher who wants to affect change in the greatest number of people possible. I do worry about my ability to reach mass numbers of people with carefully crafted sequencing that actually changes beliefs and behavior. Related
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Hi guys, I’m going to start a company. It will be important. But it will also suck. It will be valuable. But will leave death and destruction in its wake. It will be transformational. But it will destroy society as we know it. So bottom line, please buy my company’s product. You can count on us! Thank you. Related
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Though I am a university professor, I am critical of the value of the education we provide. And I am the fellow who published several manuals. Probably thousands of pages over the years. I believe that @bryan_caplan and his case against education (great book) is more right than wrong. Formally speaking, I am often classified as a 'software engineering professor'. Let me cite Parnas, one of the most influential software engineering professors there is: « I observe that most software developers ignore the bulk of our research. Whereas practising engineers find things of value in research public… Related
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
8 September
British historian, translator and broadcaster; author of Rubicon and Dominion, and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast.
There’s nowhere better than what was once the kingdom of Northumbria to go on a pilgrimage - so thank you, @durhamcathedral (where both Cuthbert & Bede lie buried), for making use of an ancient chapel in such an imaginative & moving way. bbc.co.uk
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Co-founder of AQR Capital Management; quantitative investor and writer.
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4 September
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
GPT-6 Astra is now available to all Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users in Work/Codex, and is available in the API. We will start rollout to Plus and Business users next. Thank you for the patience. Related
3 September
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
2 September
Canadian cartoonist and writer: Dinosaur Comics, Marvel's The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and the choose-your-own-path books To Be or Not To Be and Romeo and/or Juliet.
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Six and a half years. 150+ designs. 7.500+ stickers on laptops around the world. 💜 We're closing PYOD. Thank you for every order, every photo, every idea. If you go to our site, you can order the free thank-you pack. #stickers Related
31 August
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
DDD means two things: seeking leverage from the domain model, and speaking the same language. Related
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
30 August
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
I've been maintaining a Rails app for ~10 years. It has very specific business logic for on-site multi-day course registrations. DDD style like I learned at 37signals. For 10 years, I configured each course in the Rails console. It was never worth it to build out the configurator UI. This year, I just talked to AI to do it. And the payoff from the carefully written model is really amazing. The AI was completely speaking the language of the domain and even raising meaningful pricing/structural questions about how the packages are set up this year vs previous years. Sharing this example because… Related
27 August
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
Incredible - thank you for the reminder, @HenriHelvetica! 20 years!! Quoting @HenriHelvetica 🎂 Many of those responsible are quite possibly no longer on this platform, but 20yrs ago TODAY the mythical @jquery launched v1.0. As usual, sharing a thread I posted after a short email exchange I had w/ @jeresig a few yrs back, ICYMI. Related
26 August
Co-founder and CTO of Linear; previously an engineer at Uber.
A humble thank you for the ride so far to all of our customers, employees and investors. Quoting @linear Today we're announcing our second employee tender offer. We passed $100m ARR earlier this year and now have more than 40,000 paying customers. The tender lets our teammates participate in that success at a $2.5B valuation: Related
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
today is the day you stop doomscrolling stay with me - this will take 5mins 1. open the AppStore 2. download "ScreenZen" (free) 3. configure limits (e.g. 4 15-min sessions) 4. start with 1 social media app 5. a few days later, add another 6. repeat until you've added all apps too busy right now? add a calendar event with this tweet and do it this weekend trust me, you'll thank me next month Related
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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And I will say I've actually changed my mind on that a little bit. I spent quite a lot of time speaking the other book that there are a lot of people who don't actually need those ambitions. And I also-- That's also true. We don't want 8 billion Elons running around the world. Would be rather crazy, I think. But I've come to realize that for entrepreneurs, it's healthy to have suitable chunky goals.
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25 August
Zurich-based value investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor. He hosts the VALUEx gathering in Klosters and publishes a podcast and newsletter.
A government confident it's policy should be able to answer basic questions: is Norway opposing settlements—or making Jewish presence itself the test? The Deputy Foreign Minister’s refusal to answer says it all. Thank you @HausdorffMedia, @akravik79 you are an amateur Quoting @HausdorffMedia A concerning conversation with the Deputy Foreign Minister of Norway Andreas Kravik @akravik79, about Norway’s proposed trade ban singling out Jews. He wouldn’t answer the direct question about whether Jewish-run businesses employing local Arabs would be exempt, but he was clear that the intention… government Related
American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.
The wonderful @fondalee.bsky.social will join me at the Brattle Theatre on September 8, 2026, at 6:00 PM to help me celebrate THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES. Thank you to the @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for sponsoring the event. Tickets: eventbrite.com
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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
22 August
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
I have one of those 3/4-sized Galaga games in my house (thank you FB marketplace) and I play a game every morning. I'm not that good but it gets my brain going and if I live to be 104 I want to attribute my longevity to playing Galaga every morning. Related
Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.
I will never know if this administration *wants* to delegitimize the US census, but they sure are doing a fantastic job of it. The amazing Gillian Tett offers a portrait of what's happening: giftarticle.ft.com
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21 August
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Devbox from @namespacelabs is fantastic. I can easily instruct the agent to compile and test Rust code on Linux without any complications. Plus, the Namespace GitHub Actions runner is incredibly fassssst. Running the gh actions for https://t.co/kEGJe02vUE very smooth and fast. Linux Related
20 August
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
19 August
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
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Knip is a fantastic tool
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18 August
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
16 August
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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More like a series of blog posts than a cohesive narration, but still a fantastic book about most common cognitive gotchas.
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Feynman was a Teacher. This book is as fantastic as the man himself.
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One of those cases when a nonfiction book can be 10 times shorter, but you don’t really want it to be, since is’s so fun and interesting. Author’s style is fantastic.
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The book that sparked my interest in discrete math and abstract algebra. Other books by Simon Singh are also fantastic.
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15 August
Zurich-based value investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor. He hosts the VALUEx gathering in Klosters and publishes a podcast and newsletter.
Amanda Knox - what you are doing with your life, despite the injustices foisted upon you is so courageous. Thank you for showing rest of us how it is done. h/t @DavidDeutschOxf @amandaknox open.substack.com
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14 August
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.
This is such a cool list, published by Brex, based on startups' newsletter spending patterns. The Pragmatic Engineer one of the most frequently expensed newsletters, and it was, indeed, massive growth within startups over the last year: Thank you to everyone reading and supporting! startups Related
Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport.
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you know Elon buying Twitter is like the beginning of us being able to speak our minds and for disagreeing to not be illegal. That's a big deal. We should all thank Elon for that.
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12 August
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 they have all the wisdom of their most senior engineers looking at every single diff and that is fantastic. Which means that you don't have to worry about remembering and looking and nitpicking and all the things that we're not good at anyway
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11 August
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
10 August
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
OmFest Registration Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in shaping OmFest. We’re still working out some details, but we’ve got a Luma registration page for the event up. Please join on September 29, 2026, Om’s 60th birth anniversa…
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2 August
Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.
Drove from NY to DC and back a few days ago. Thank you to everyone who helped me learn to drive, especially @kirankling @yourboyJoeHill @kliu128 (!!!) (pictured: me + the white house) Quoting @alexeyguzey took the driving knowledge test, now need to learn how to actually drive a car. if anyone would be willing to spend a few hours somewhere in the bay area teaching me, please let me know! Related
30 July
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
as software engineers most of us are sitting in an office chair all day we spend hours staring at a screen, not moving more then our fingers or wrists sometimes we lock in and it feels like there are only occasional windows to move if so, start simple. take a screen break and do: - a 5-min walk around your house - 25 push-ups - 25 jumping jacks anything to break the chain of not moving trust me, you'll thank me in a year Related
Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.
29 July
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky 1000+ scientists at frontier AI companies are speaking out to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call for an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer way forward. pacingthefrontier.com
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Founder of Scale AI and, since 2025, Chief AI Officer at Meta, where he leads the company’s superintelligence lab.
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And now I actually think with the power of agents um and AI broadly speaking, it's much closer to Goliath versus Goliath. Like I think but maybe the startup is like a Mecca Goliath that is like vastly enhanced by the power of agents and AI and you know, the the large companies are the sort of like more traditional Goliath, so to speak. But I think that startups now like if you properly embrace AI agents and um figure out the way to leverage their strengths in the most like ambitious ways, you can easily outcompete incumbents.
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27 July
Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.
25 July
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
The Daylight computer is fantastic in bright sunshine… The Daylight computer is fantastic in bright sunshine at the beach jeffpaul.com
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15 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.
I am proud of everything we have achieved together. To everyone who has supported this Labour government: thank you. government Related
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
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Privately held businesses in the United States are collectively worth trillions of dollars, and demographically speaking, they have an aging set of owners who are seeking liquidity or diversification as they explore how to pass on what they've built.
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14 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.
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6 July
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data and author of Just Keep Buying and The Wealth Ladder. Chief Operating Officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management.
Just Keep Buying has now sold over 500,000 copies worldwide. Never in my wildest dreams did I think this would happen when I started writing it. For those who read, shared, or told a friend to buy it, I can't thank you enough. Related
30 June
Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.
This finally happened. Thank you to all those who helped. worldrecordsindia.com
Quoting @Sanjay__Bakshi Help needed! A friend is about to complete 250 episodes on a single film music composer, creating a detailed archive of stories behind the music. I feel this kind of sustained, single-subject series is rare. Looking to connect with someone from Guinness World Records (India) or an expert who unders… Related
Social scientist turned small-scale farmer; wrote A Small Farm Future and argues against the case for feeding the world from factories.
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Independent iOS developer and podcaster; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue), and makes the apps Callsheet, MaskerAid and Peek-a-View.
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And speaking of microphone, I'm presently using a Shure Beta 58A.
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24 June
Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.
20 June
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
POLL: ICE has been abused by the Fake News Media at levels never seen before. They are Great Patriots who work hard, and do a fantastic job in a very hostile environment. Much of this hostility is caused by the Dumocrats and the Fake News. The concept I have had for quite some time — A strong feeling that the name of these Patriots, “ICE,” should be changed to, “NICE,” in that it will totally discombobulate Crooked, Dishonest, and Unpatriotic Reporters and Journalists. For them to say, “We went to a NICE Facility today,” as opposed to “ICE” or, “NICE Agents have deported a Violent Drug Dealer… Related
18 June
Chief executive of Intel since 2025, founder of the venture firm Walden International and chief executive of Cadence Design Systems for thirteen years.
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And then frankly speaking, I look back nine of the 10 company I invest halfway they change their business plan because market have changed.
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14 June
Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
9 June
Climate scientist and energy systems analyst; writes The Climate Brink with Andrew Dessler and leads climate research at Stripe.
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But broadly speaking we expect atmospheric CO2 to keep growing until we cut emissions pretty substantially (e.g. to <50% of current levels).
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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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I think that a practice like the book of life, what it's done for me and I think it could do for a lot of people is just be strategic about your life. Like be thoughtful about like I like say what would your future self thank you for doing this year. We can be strategic, hold ourselves accountable and and force ourselves to make some tougher decisions.
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29 May
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
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Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
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Headphones: Sony WH1000XM4. The noise-cancelling is fantastic. These just work
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26 May
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
👋 Will be speaking at React Nexus this year on something I've been really enjoying lately 🤫 Quoting @ReactNexus We’re super excited to announce that @_SreetamDas, @summy_dev, and @tapasadhikary will be speaking at React Nexus 2026! JavaScript Related
24 May
Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
This was a really interesting, wide-ranging conversation. Thank you to @mariekeflament and @Nicolas_Colin for having me! Quoting @mariekeflament New podcast on @CurrenPower: we sat down with @neha for an in-depth conversation on CBDCs, Stablecoins, Privacy, Quantum and Geopolitics outlook. Neha has a unique ability to explain very clearly complex concepts - a must listen! Related
8 May
Geneticist at Harvard; reads ancient DNA to work out how populations moved and mixed, and wrote Who We Are and How We Got Here.
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First of all, I think we are speaking from the point of view of a society which intensely values this particular trait, you know, ability to score well on IQ tests or things like them or to go to school for a long time or whatever it is. And I think this is unprecedented in human history that we live in a time like this.
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10 April
Cyborg anthropologist and UX designer; author of Calm Technology and co-founder of the geolocation startup Geoloqi.
It was a great honor to speak at @AXIS_Tokyo and provide a workshop on #CalmTech. Thank you to everyone for a meaningful experience. Quoting @nobi 3月4日に AXIS Gallery @AXIS_Tokyo で行われた Amber Case @caseorganic を招いての #CalmTech イベントレポートが @mui_labo のページに掲載されていました: https://t.co/tLO4IkEkVg 3月末には掲載されていたようですが今頃気がつきました💦 Related
9 April
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other.
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8 April
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
“Good protocol design requires balancing the tensions of ideology and practicality.” Fantastic read on federation, p2p, and software people actually want to use: pfrazee.com
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15 March
Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.
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Fantastic in-ear monitors, to satisfy my audiophile needs, currently my favorite
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11 March
Environmental writer and campaigner; author of Six Degrees, The God Species, Seeds of Science and Our Final Warning.
Back in the 19thC people used to boil penguins, harpoon whales and club seals to death. Thank goodness the days of exploitation are over. Except they aren't - trawlers took 620k tonnes of krill from the Antarctic last year, competing with whales for food. marklynas.substack.com
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10 March
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
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Prisma - A fantastic ORM for Node.js (I use it with Postgres/SQLite hosted on Fly.io).
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Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
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Finally, I’d like to thank the authors of Roastguide for the amazing work they’ve done on their app, the attention they pay to their community on Discord
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20 February
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
https://t.co/beSDEH3RUX Looking forward to speaking with @jburnmurdoch at this event next Tuesday in London Related
19 February
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
16 February
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.
Thank you for the warm welcome, @ncbn. It’s exciting to witness Andhra Pradesh’s growth being accelerated through AI, technology, and innovations across health, agriculture & education. Quoting @ncbn Technology must serve humanity. Our Real Time Governance System (RTGS) is transforming lives across Andhra Pradesh - delivering speed in governance & ease of doing business in real time. Grateful for my 1990s meeting with Mr. Bill Gates, which inspired this tech-driven citizen empowerment. Delighte… Related
13 February
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Had an amazing two days speaking to thousands of developers on how to navigate the uncertain future. One thing that really struck me though was the number of times people said things like I read your book in high school or I learned this language from your video, and now these folks are senior engineers at big companies I’ve only been doing this for like what, five years? Crazy 👴 Related
4 February
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
Thank you! ❤️ Quoting @readcurious.xyz Our book of the month for February is "Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir" by @craigmod.com—a superb, closely observed meditation on life, tradition, friendship and loss while hiking the ancient pilgrim trails of Japan's remote Kii peninsula. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur022-cra... Related
3 February
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
Speaking at NYU this Thursday, Feb 6, at 4:45, join me if interested in 'Network Science as a Falsifiable Discipline: From Graphs to Testable Laws' law.nyu.edu
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22 January
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
Speaking today at 10am EST/4pm EU about our Nature on String Theory and the Brain and the Lognormal Connectome. ...at the U of Cambridge Making connections- brains and other complex systems lecture, Sign up here to watch here: https://t.co/lxigtmZDjJ Photo by Peter Puklus Related
7 January
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
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I’m going to be speaking about Claude directly, because it’s the tool I use the most, but a lot of this should apply to other platforms as well.
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29 November 2025
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP Related
27 November 2025
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
Network Medicine travels to Stockholm on Dec 5th: Join us in @karolinskainst! Speaking on: From Network Medicine to the Foodome news.ki.se
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26 November 2025
Writer of kottke.org, one of the oldest blogs on the web, published since 1998 and supported by its members. He writes about art, technology, science, design and visual culture.
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Great spy thriller. Gary Oldman is fantastic in this. Cold War? Spies? Britain? I will pretty much watch as many of this type of movie as you can make. (A)
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A House of Dynamite. A very tough watch, but I thought this was fantastic as a tour of some of the different kinds of people who hold the fate of every single person on the planet in their hands every damn day. They’re tired, stressed, distracted, at cross-purposes with themselves, set in their ways, more celebs than leaders, and mediocre. And none of them have ever seen Dr. Strangelove? (A)
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Fantastic Four. It was ok? Aside from a few things, I’m having trouble getting excited about post-Infinity Saga Marvel. There was just a special alchemy about that whole arc that is proving impossible to reproduce. (B)
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21 November 2025
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
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Gold by Rumi and Haleh Liza Gafori. Poetry, 112 pages. A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking new translations by Haleh Liza Gafori, an American poet of Persian descent. Read 1–2 poems before bed each night and thank me later.
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7 November 2025
Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.
I am looking forward to speaking at this @GUAmericas conference on Monday, November 10. Registration is available here (including for the livestream): Related
25 October 2025
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
Getting excited for the conf, just 2.5 weeks away The density of top-notch developers speaking (and attending) is off the charts! Quoting @sync_conf Full lineup and schedule for @sync_conf in SF on Nov 12. Link in the 🧵 below 👇 Featuring 👉 @angeliquemari @NotionHQ 👉 @arushibandi @figma 👉 @swyx @cognition 👉 @leeb @OpenAI 👉 @threepointone @Cloudflare 👉 @frankmcsherry @MaterializeInc 👉 @kylemathews @ElectricSQL 👉 @jamesacowling @convex �… Related
17 October 2025
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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a lot of what looks like learning is actually a lot more maturation of the brain and I think that actually very little reinforcement learning for animals and I think a lot of the reinforcement learning is actually like more like motor tasks. It's not intelligence tasks. So I actually kind of think humans don't actually like really use RL roughly speaking is what I would say.
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8 October 2025
Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.
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My primary code editor. Extensible, fast, and has excellent TypeScript support. The integrated terminal and Git features are fantastic.
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3 September 2025
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.
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It’s fantastic and is going to be a powerful and definitive story of San Francisco from 1990 to the present day.
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2 September 2025
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
For friends in DC, I’ll be speaking tonight at an IFP/FAI event hosted by @AlecStapp and @hamandcheese https://t.co/48qiMEW8mG tomorrow at Politics and Prose Wharf with @DKThomp https://t.co/QjrL5urP3y and on Thursday at JF Books in Dupont Circle Related
29 August 2025
Release engineering manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. Keeps a public log at tylercipriani.com of every book he reads, with a rating and notes.
``` GET /about/ HTTP/1.1" 200 6659 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)" ``` hrm, "block its IP address"? ``` $ sudo awk '/Thinkbot/ {print "IP:",$2}' /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log | sort | uniq | wc -l 60 ``` Hosting things on the internet in 2025 is stupid. Related
21 August 2025
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
We're also announcing today that "Ratcheteer", a fan favorite from Playdate Season 1, is coming soon to your computer as "Ratcheteer DX", complete with COLOR GRAPHICS. Thank you for supporting our weird little games. I hope you have a good day. store.steampowered.com
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Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.
19 August 2025
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
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Dan Wang suggests in his fantastic forthcoming book, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
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13 August 2025
Economist specialising in China's economy, international macroeconomics and global trade, and author of The New China Playbook.
China America
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And remember that DeepSeek happened in times of crisis, urgency, not in times of comfort. A lot of these technological breakthroughs and leapfrogging happens in times of crisis. This is called crisis innovation. And you got to thank the US for that. When the Chinese were comfortably importing chips from the US, the whole industry stalled for 20 years.
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19 July 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.
Welp, somewhat embarrassingly, yesterday this account was briefly compromised and someone posing as me promoted a crypto project supposedly "tokenizing" manim. Thank you to those of you who quickly flagged it as spam and alerted me to the problem. For future reference, it's a safe bet that you'll never see me creating and promoting a meme coin. crypto Related
30 June 2025
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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the rate of return on considering them, why they might work and what you might want to do with them is fantastic, and it’s a joy to read about it.
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22 June 2025
Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.
3 June 2025
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.
It’s always an honor to partner with incredible Nigerian healthcare workers, midwives, researchers, innovators, and changemakers—like @NcpwdOfficial and Wheelchairs for Nigeria's Chief Ayuba Gufwanm, a polio survivor who has spent his life raising awareness, delivering mobility aids, and championing vaccines. People like him make me hopeful that, despite the odds and obstacles, we can #EndPolio for good. Thank you H.E. President @officialABAT for this recognition. Quoting @officialABAT Today, I conferred the Nigerian National Honour of Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) on Mr Bill Gates @BillGates in recognition of his decades-long commitment to improving lives through interventions in global health & polio eradication, education, digital innovation, and agricultural develop… Related
2 June 2025
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.
Thank you for the warm welcome and honor, Prime Minister @AbiyAhmedAli, @PMEthiopia. The @GatesFoundation has partnered with Ethiopia for over two decades—and our commitment to driving progress across the country is as strong as ever. Quoting @AbiyAhmedAli Tonight, we’re celebrating @BillGates and the foundation he established, which has transformed countless lives around the world and in Ethiopia over the past 25 years. Related
17 May 2025
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
3 May 2025
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.
Amazingly, this looks like it might be solved, thanks to a lot of help from some wonderful people on X. 🤞 Thank you! Quoting @natfriedman Anyone have a mexico government connection? A project I’m supporting to LIDAR the jungle there just got rejected by some bureaucrat. Please DM if you can help. Thanks! Related
17 April 2025
Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.
Sound Like a Native & Perfect Your Pronunciation Have you ever dreamed of speaking Polish, French, or Italian with a flawless accent—just like a native? You picture yourself walking through Kraków, Paris, or Rome, effortlessly rolling your R’s and nailing every vowel.…
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15 April 2025
Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.
Thank you! See you guys in Singapore next week 🥳 Quoting @iclr_conf Test of Time Winner Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization Diederik P. Kingma, Jimmy Ba Adam revolutionized neural network training, enabling significantly faster convergence and more stable training across a wide variety of architectures and tasks. Related
21 March 2025
Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.
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Fantastic memoir of figuring it out in your twenties and alternatives to blindly pursuing the default path.
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27 February 2025
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
Twitter/X Restored My Twitter/X account was compromised from February 26th to March 3rd, but I confirm that I’ve regained control of it now. Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen. Fortunately, I still had access to Nostr during…
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23 February 2025
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
20 February 2025
Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the origins of modern growth.
It's hard to believe that it's just been one year! So many really fantastic articles in such a short time. Quoting @oliverwkim My 1-year anniversary post on 🌐Global Developments🌐 is up—if you have any comments / feedback over the previous year of posts, please let me know! One Year of Global Developments Related
3 February 2025
Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.
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DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459
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To some extent, training a model does effectively nothing. They have a model. The thing that Dario is sort of speaking to is the implementation of that model, once trained to then create huge economic growth, huge increases in military capabilities, huge increases in productivity of people, betterment of lives.
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OpenAI has a fantastic margin. When they're doing inference, their gross margins are north of 75%. So that's a four to five X factor right there of the cost difference, is that OpenAI is just making crazy amounts of money because they're the only one with the capability.
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29 January 2025
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.
14 October 2024
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
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I think it’s fantastic when businesses are built on open source, the WordPress ecosystem is at least 10B+ a year; Automattic and WP Engine are less than 5% of that.
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7 October 2024
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
22 June 2024
Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.
7 May 2024
Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.
Thanks to the ICLR Award Committee! And thank you for the kind words, Max! You were the perfect Ph.D. advisor and collaborator, kind and inspiring. I really couldn't have wished for better. Quoting @wellingmax Thank you Yisong and the Award Committee for choosing the VAE for the Test of Time award. I like to congratulate Durk who was my first (brilliant) student when moving back to the Netherlands and who is the main architect of the VAE. It was absolutely fantastic working with him. Related
2 April 2024
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
5 February 2024
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
4 November 2023
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
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Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True: This book is now out in paperback, and you probably don't need me recommending it (it won a Pulitzer), but it is fantastic.
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28 July 2023
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
29 June 2023
Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data and author of Just Keep Buying and The Wealth Ladder. Chief Operating Officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management.
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This fantastic work is a primary source material to one of the darkest times in American economic history.
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1 May 2023
Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.
[Video] Patriarchy Now: Watch the webinar replay Thank you to everyone who has stepped forward to engage in this dynamic topic with me through your emails, questions, and listening in for the live call. We had an excellent discussion today, and I’d like to share the r…
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10 December 2022
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.
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this one is one of the best leadership books I have ever read
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25 August 2022
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.
A fantastic way to spend two years early in your career learning about tech, startups, and a lot more Quoting @usv Heads up that USV will be launching our next Analyst Program hiring process after Labor Day - stay tuned for details and pls spread the word! startups Related
15 June 2022
Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.
11 January 2022
Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.
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After years of people recommending him to me, I finally took the plunge into the literary world of Wendell Berry. Now I can't help but wonder what took me so long. This 2018 collection of Berry's best essays is a fantastic introduction into his genre-defining polemic style, which mixes razor-sharp commentary with a poetry grounded in lived experience, to argue on behalf of land, the environment, and a slower, richer approach to life.
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19 August 2021
Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.
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In traditional classroom settings, the development of skills often gets overlooked in favor of facts. Facts in the form of conjugation tables, word lists, grammar explanations, the names of verb tenses, and so on. All of these things are related to language, but it’s important to realize that knowing these things has nothing to do with speaking and using a language productively.
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15 July 2021
British novelist, author of the His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust trilogies.
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Have you seen the Oxford historical thesaurus? Fantastic. It must be one of the last great books produced as a printed object.
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22 December 2020
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
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CodeTrack is a free .NET Performance Profiler and Execution Analyzer. It works on basically every version of .NET and will give you massive insight into how your code is running! The flamegraph view is fantastic.
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A fantastic learning tool for those who are just getting into LINQ or for those who want a code snippet IDE to execute any C# or VB expression. Free and wonderful.
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Ear Trumpet - Fantastic advanced volume control for Windows! If you have ever wished that volume on Windows could turn their UI up to 11, Ear Trumpet is that app.
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28 October 2020
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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Is there a financially justifiable reason to send a customer an exorbitant gift like a football jersey? Gary makes a very compelling case for such a move and others like it. It's a great exercise in thinking about unconventional marketing opportunities.
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It's a decent coverage of the concepts of planning how to delight your customers from your product's design to how you support and serve them. However, it felt a bit like a poor man's Thank You Economy, with less novel ideas and some filler.
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26 August 2020
Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.
The brain dreams The track The Four Agreements by Matthew Dekay on Anjunadeep 11 – which, by the way, is absolutely fantastic, definitely one of the best albums of 2020, Jody Wisternoff and James Grant are clearly geniuses – has a fasci…
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12 August 2020
Front-end developer and writer on Svelte, Vue, CSS and WordPress; blogs at joshcollinsworth.com.
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my current favorite notes app. Can grow and get as complex as you need it to be, but for simple notes, the markdown and code highlight support is fantastic.
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12 May 2020
Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.
I had an amazing call with @ashmaurya yesterday and today my @Todoist is already full of next-steps. :) Thank you so much for all the insights! Related
26 April 2020
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
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Keeping You Awake is a fantastic app for preventing your mac from going to sleep.
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7 February 2020
Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
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Fantastic, many similar ideas to Stoicism and Virtue Ethics, though with more mystical elements thrown in. Would highly recommend it as a “first taste” of eastern religion.
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20 August 2019
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
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I use this to record all of my podcast interviews. Fantastic software, highly recommended.
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28 May 2019
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.
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David McCullough, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West: Ever since I read The Wright Brothers” (on an earlier summer reading list of ours — and it was fantastic) I have been a fan of the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough writes about. This tale of how the American Northwest Territory was settled looks intriguing.
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22 November 2018
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
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My go-to headphones are wireless Bose QuietComfort 35’s, which are fantastic for when you need to concentrate or you’re just tired of noise from a plane or train.
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30 June 2018
Wine writer and Master of Wine; Financial Times wine columnist, editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine and co-author of The World Atlas of Wine.
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He was chairman of the Wine Society and wrote a fantastic book called The Wines of Bordeaux, which was an increasingly thick Penguin paperback.
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The World Atlas of Wine has unrivalled maps. Hugh did a fantastic job, the real spadework, of getting some top quality maps of the world's classic wine regions and many of the new ones. The original editions had Hugh's matchless prose, trying to encapsulate the spirit of each region in surrounding texts, but the maps are the thing, and some photographs.
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6 June 2018
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
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Nexus is fantastic.
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21 May 2018
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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It does a fantastic job distilling the latest thinking about the origins of the universe.
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3 April 2018
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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Factfulness is a fantastic book, and I hope a lot of people read it.
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23 March 2017
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
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What is a korrent?
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Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said.
The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in
korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who
else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public
statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
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About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they
do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in
this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the
serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to
quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter,
especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked
article and a belief on korrents.com
are left in their original language.
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