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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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  Lack of interest, not lack of technology, is why practices like water recycling remain rare in buildings.

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  We have the technology - but we don't seem to be interested in using it.

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Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.

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  Dalio Market Principles Online

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  especially in the "Dalio Market Principles Online" course I built with great partners at Singapore's Wealth Management Institute (WMI). The course has been completed by thousands of online learners around the world and has gotten great reviews. If you’re interested in joining its next cohort which is starting soon, you can learn more here.

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  Sincerity and self-interest usually go together by default.

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  You can be sincere *and* self-interested, and that's usually the default.

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Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.

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  AfD support reflects a coherent anti-systemic worldview rather than incoherent or narrowly self-interested preferences.

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  Rather than thinking of this set of preferences as incoherent, or merely the expression of a sectional petty bourgeois interest, it makes more sense, surely, to view it as a coherent set of anti-systemic views.

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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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  Writing is thinking, so an LLM inflating a one-sentence observation into three paragraphs destroys the thing that made it worth reading.

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  Writing is thinking, and we are interested in your own thoughts and observations, not a sharp, one-sentence observation turned into three paragraphs of blob text by an LLM.

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Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.

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  The most reassuring thing about the Hugging Face swarm is that it was not interested in humans at all, neither in alerting them nor in deceiving them.

  HuggingFace

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  So I think one of the most comforting aspects of this situation or the like most important mitigating factor is these agents really didn't seem concerned with humans one way or another.

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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  Coding agents should read the shared AGENTS.md convention; insisting on a tool-specific CLAUDE.md creates split-brain problems across a team.

  coding agentsAnthropic

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  I’m thinking about banning Claude code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc. Insisting on only reading CLAUDE.md sometimes leads to split brain problems when different team members use different tools. Just unnecessary.

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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

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  One of the good ones. If you’re interested in mindfulness and the nature of consciousness, check this out.

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  The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

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  I guess you can’t go wrong with Charles Petzold. This book is excellent and highly recommended to anyone interested in computing. Must read for computer science students and software developers.

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  Born to Run

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  Fascinating stories and science behind epic runners. If you’re getting into running or just interested — check this out.

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Professor at Stanford working on robot learning and meta-learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence.

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  Letting a robot imagine the next image helps, but it is not essential — the model was surprisingly good without it.

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  uh the we found that that leads to improvement and we saw in the shirt folding example we saw like a quantitative bump from using that sort of imagination compared to not using it. At the same time I think that the model actually performed surprisingly well without that as well.

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Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.

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  Cameras alone are enough to approximately match a human driver, but weak sensing puts safety on a curve that flattens out well below superhuman.

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  However, if you are targeting full autonomy, and you're targeting superhuman, strongly superhuman performance, you find that weak sensing just leads to a safety curve that flattens out way too early.

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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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  Refusing to commit is the right strategy inside a portfolio and the wrong one everywhere else in life.

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  In investing, non-commitment leads to better than average outcomes for the typical investor.

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Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.

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  Doing free work early on builds the reputation that eventually leads to being paid.

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  And at the beginning, free is how you build your reputation. Free is how you ultimately get paid.

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Head of Instagram since 2018, previously head of Facebook's News Feed.

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  People who choose a chronological feed are happy in the moment and measurably less satisfied months later.

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  the individual who made that choice might be happy at the moment, but when you just get pummeled with stuff you're less interested in over the course of months, we ask, we run surveys at massive scales, we just see people start to become less and less satisfied with Instagram.

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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.

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  Even if AI curates better, people will still want a human curator they have a relationship with, because wanting to learn something is a social phenomenon.

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  I think we would always still prefer like a human that we had a relationship with because the way that we get motivated to be interesting interested in things is a social phenomenon.

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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

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  Bun

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  I have no problem with what Bun did, I think Bun is a great project, and I'm not interested in turning this into a Bun post.

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Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.

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  Blaming and shaming people only makes them defensive, dig in their heels, or tune out, rather than change their minds.

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  We know from decades of research that blaming and shaming only leads people to get defensive, dig in their heels, or tune you out altogether.

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Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.

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  You do not have to know how it works underneath, but depth is where invention comes from — nobody who only knows the surface invents a programming language.

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  But if you ever want to get better at anything, and sometimes that depth, that nuance is the thing that leads to an invention, right? If you know how a compiler works, if you know how memory management works, that might give you enough information to say, "Oh, I can make a new programming language."

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Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.

From one piece Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Memory safety means an entire class of bug is impossible no matter how bad the code is — and it is the class that becomes security vulnerabilities.

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  Memory safety is this idea that no matter how stupid the code you write is, it's not going to have a certain class of bugs. And this is the, you know, the kind of bug that usually leads into security vulnerabilities.

  Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com

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  A compiler that names every place a change breaks turns refactoring into fixing errors until the compiler stops shouting.

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  I think this is kind of leads to another way that Rust really helps with reliability, which is that if you're refactoring, I think Rust is really good at telling you all the places you need to update. I've done this sometimes where I would refactor something. I change the code. I change the return type or whatever it is, and then I just fix the compiler errors and until the compiler stops shouting. And then once I've done that, I've updated every place I need to update.

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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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  The right way to think about Neanderthals may be as culturally modern humans who ended up mostly archaic genetically.

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  So, uh I'm interested in the possibility that actually the right way to think about Neanderthals is actually as somehow culturally modern humans. Uh and uh even though that genetically they're mostly Denisovans.

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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.

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  People who regulate, protest, or talk about AI are mostly driven by pre-existing political agendas rather than AI itself.

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  From now until forever, most people regulating, protesting, and talking about AI will not be interested in AI per se, but rather how it impacts their preexisting belief systems and political agendas.

  🌻 AI populism's warning shotsjasmi.news

Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.

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  Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

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  Many of the indicators I use to track unfolding events are explained in Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order. I especially recommend Chapter 6, “The Big Cycle of External Order and Disorder,” and, if you are interested in the unimaginable-in-peacetime investment-related developments that typically happen during wars, I recommend Chapter 7, “Investing in Light of the Big Cycle.”

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Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.

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  A company can lead its industry on values like privacy and user respect without actually excelling at them

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  Apple leads the industry in these values, but leading doesn't always mean excelling.

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  A Billion Days of Earth

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  It's not pleasant, but it is skillful, and strange, and makes me interested in Piserchia's other books.

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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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  The memory crunch will make ordinary phones and computers worse year on year, and that is why the public will come to hate AI more.

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  Um DRAM gets released goes to AI chips who are willing to do longer term contracts, willing to pay higher margins, etc., etc. because at the end of the day, the margin that they extract is much larger from the end user or whatever. Um, and so this this this probably leads to like people hating AI even more, right?

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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.

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  Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food—and Our Future

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  If you’re interested in the environmental impacts of our current food system and want to dig into the opportunities for meat-like products without the animals (and their impacts), I really recommend it.

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Founder and CEO of SaaStr, the B2B software community and events business, and a SaaS investor who previously co-founded EchoSign and sold it to Adobe.

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  Having a human qualify inbound leads is already obsolete, and the role should be extinct within a year.

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  The contact mess that we see, we have no need for them today. They should be extinct next year.

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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

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  The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

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  Stevenson is best known as a novelist, but I think I prefer his nonfiction: he had an interesting life and was interested in lots of things, and the sentences are marvelous and daring.

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American author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and The Undoing Project, and host of the podcast Against the Rules.

From one piece 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The best sign that a subject is worth writing about is that you are interested in it and nobody else is.

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  And I've learned just to not even talk about it cuz it kills my interest to watch it kill their interest. But I know why I'm interested and why it's important and I'm not I'm not relying on the world telling me it's important.

  10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)youtube.com

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  An audience is not buying the subject you cover; it is buying your interest in the subject.

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  They learn to trust you that if you're interested, they'll be interested. That what in fact what they're buying into is not the subject, but your interest in the subject.

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Vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, the advertising agency; author of Alchemy (2019) and the Wiki Man columnist at The Spectator.

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  Large numbers of people are employed to care more about following approved procedure than about the quality of the outcome.

  government

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  And there are a whole bunch of people who are employed not always by the government just as much by the private sector who are much more interested in adherence to uh approved procedure than they are in quality of outcome.

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Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.

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  A company priced in the trillions is not thereby overpriced; the test is what revenues and margins that price actually requires.

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  If you are an investor who considers any highly priced company to be overvalued, I hope that this post leads you to reconsider.

  aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com

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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  When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows

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  If you are interested in learning more about how humans communicate and work together, I highly recommend reading When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows.

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Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?

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  Most people are not genuinely interested in videos of someone else's young child.

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  Toddler parenthood is a reality distortion zone that makes it hard to remember that most people find your toddler breathtakingly uninteresting.

  Tales from Toddlerhoodwaitbutwhy.com

Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  The best way to hire engineers is a coding contest, because competition leads to progress and picks the most qualified people for the task.

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  Well, it's in line with my overall philosophy. I think competition leads to progress. If you want to create an ideal process for selecting the most qualified people for certain specific tasks you have in mind, what can be better than a competition?

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  Conversational products have made user intent far harder to measure, because a click on a tab told you what somebody wanted and a conversation does not.

  Google

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  used to be let's say in the Google world right I knew you were interested in shopping if you click the shopping tab I know you're interested in maps if you click the maps tab, we can measure clicks. Today, it's just all conversation. And so, it's actually harder for us to tease apart what is the user intent.

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German writer and historian; wrote Blitzed, on drug use in Nazi Germany, and Tripped.

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  LSD is not a truth drug and never could be — it takes you toward your own truth, not out of it.

  energy

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  They miserably failed because LSD… Is not the truth drug. LSD maybe leads you closer to your own truth, because when suddenly the default mode network receives less energy and other parts of the brain think more, and the neuroplasticity of the brain is enhanced and stimulated, you might understand something about your life.

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Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.

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  Because research is concentrated in rich countries, both what we know and what gets made are skewed away from the diseases of poor ones.

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  Research predominance in rich countries leads to skewed knowledge and product availability.

  AI will not suddenly lead to an Alzheimer's cureblog.jacobtrefethen.com

Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

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  Humans together in a shared world are a naturally empathetic medium, while typing messages at each other is a self-reinforcing negative dynamic.

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  I think the lesson from all of that is that humans talking to humans and being together in the real world or a virtual world, is a naturally empathetic medium, which naturally leads to bonding, and though conflict sometimes occurs, it's just generally so much more promoting of our social norms and good interactions between people and positivity promoting.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Resisting the discomfort of not knowing leads people to jump to conclusions or decide before they have enough information.

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  When we resist not knowing, we often leap to conclusions, make decisions without all of the information, or simply guess. Of course, that might make it even more likely that we're wrong, the very thing our subconscious is trying to avoid. Needing to be right comes at the expense of curiosity.

  The Power of Not Knowingbringthedonuts.com

Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.

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  Treating errors generically is a mistake that leads to fragile software, poor observability and worse experiences.

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  This is what leads to slop JS/TS software. Treating errors generically like this is a mistake. It leads to fragile software, poor telemetry/observability/debugging, and as a result worse experiences

  @dillon_mulroy on Xx.com

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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  An Elegant Puzzle

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  A long overdue read for engineering leads.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  Most of what a car costs is the weight and structure needed to survive human driving error, not the transport it delivers.

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  Humans being awful drivers leads to a massive increase in vehicle costs and weight, makes cars more dangerous to people outside of them, and imposes significant costs on infrastructure like roads.

  Human Driving Increases Transportation Cost 10xaustinvernon.site

Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

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  What does make a therapist more effective is trainable interpersonal skill, not treatment technology.

  Psychotherapy

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  It turns out that therapists who perform well on the FIS establish stronger relationships and are more effective (2). More to the point, the evidence shows FIS-related skills are trainable and that such training leads to better results (3, 4, 5).

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Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine; previously a research scientist at OpenAI and a PhD student at UC Berkeley.

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  Real reasoning will have arrived when spending more compute at inference time reliably buys a dramatically better answer.

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  I think if we can achieve that amount of inference compute, where it leads to a dramatically better answer as you apply more inference compute, I think that will be the beginning of real reasoning breakthroughs.

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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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  The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience

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  This is a great book for anyone interested in learning about neuroscience—and I’d recommend it as well for many of my more neuro-crazed psychology professor colleagues.

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American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

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  Being willing to fail, take risks, and endure early incompetence is what leads to eventual success in life

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  life rewards the willingness to fail, life rewards the person who is willing to embarrass themselves a little bit, who's willing to take some risks, who's willing to be bad at something for as long as it takes to get good at it.

  5 Life-Changing Levels of Not Giving a Fuckmarkmanson.net

President of Argentina since December 2023; economist and self-described libertarian.

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  The West is in danger because the people who should defend its values have been captured by a worldview that leads to socialism and therefore to poverty.

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  hoy estoy acá para decirles que Occidente está en peligro, está en peligro porque aquellos, que supuestamente deben defender los valores de Occidente, se encuentran cooptados por una visión del mundo que – inexorablemente – conduce al socialismo, en consecuencia a la pobreza.

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Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.

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  User Mag

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  Taylor Lorenz is my personal internet culture queen, and I simply follow wherever she leads.

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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.

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  A book you want is always worth buying: never let time or money stop you from having it

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  I promised myself a long time ago that if I saw a book that interested me I’d never let time or money or anything else prevent me from having it. This means that I treat reading with a certain amount of respect.

  The (Very) Best Books I Read In 2023ryanholiday.net

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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  A few larger teams under experienced engineering managers outperform many tiny teams each led by a working tech lead.

  Their words

  But everything I have ever experienced leads me to believe that a fewer number of larger teams, each helmed by an experienced engineering manager, should way outperform this gaggle of tiny groups.

  charity.wtf

Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.

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  Available online text data is becoming a limiting factor for AI training, and repeating it yields diminishing returns.

  LLMs

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  recent LLMs are reaching the limits of text data online and repeating data eventually leads to diminishing returns

  NLP Research in the Era of LLMsruder.io

Political scientist at the University of Chicago and the leading exponent of offensive realism; wrote The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.

From one piece John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 | Lex Fridman Podcast #401 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Power is the currency of international relations, and states are driven above all to maximise how much of it they control.

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  I believe that power is the currency of international relations, and by that I mean that states are deeply interested in the balance of power and they're interested in maximizing how much power they control.

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  There is no evidence Putin intended to conquer Ukraine, and the army he sent could not have done it.

  Russia

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  There's no evidence he was interested in conquering all of Ukraine. There was no evidence beforehand that he was interested in conquering any of Ukraine. And there's no way that an army that had 190,000 troops, at the most, could have conquered all of Ukraine, it's just impossible.

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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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  Born in Blackness

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  If you’re interested in learning more about the history of Africa, its central role in the world, and the ways in which both have been misunderstood in the West, I highly recommend Born in Blackness.

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Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.

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  A romantic, low-yield farming system would need far more land and would produce more hunger, not less.

  Their words

  But it leads, if enacted, to hunger, ecological destruction or both, on a vast scale. Our arcadian fantasies devour the planet.

  Fantasy Farmingmonbiot.com

Biochemist at University College London; writes about the origin of life and the role of energy in evolution, in The Vital Question and Transformer.

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  Predation is what makes evolution creative: without it there would be no arms races, no great feats of evolution, and a far less beautiful world.

  Their words

  In some ways, maybe it does do good. I don’t want to make an argument for nuclear arms, but predation as a mechanism forces organisms to adapt, to change, to be better, to escape, or to kill. If you need to eat, then you’ve got to eat. A cheetah is not going to run at that speed unless it has to because the zebra is capable of escaping. So it leads to much greater feats of evolution would ever have been possible without it, and in the end, to a much more beautiful world.

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Former options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter on trading, volatility, decision-making and how to think about risk outside markets too.

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  Notion

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  I use Notion but this guide can help you choose one if interested.

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

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  Cryptocurrency deserves to be dismissed: its problems outweigh its promise, and the trustless world it offers is not one worth wanting.

  crypto

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  One of the reasons I've never cared for crypto currencies is that the associated utopia of trustless society had zero appeal to me. I don't think the world is better off by erasing the need to trust in our transactional counterparts, so turning these transactions into pure computing always struck me as a regression.

  Their words now

  But wherever this leads us next, it's clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to transact that it's currently our best shot at protecting.

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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  The New Jim Crow

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  If you’re interested in learning more about the real lives caught up in our country's justice system, I highly recommend The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.

  gatesnotes.com

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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  The Mesh

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  If you're interested in understanding the collaborative consumption movement (ie- car sharing, AirBnb, city bike sharing, etc), this book gives a great overview of the trends and opportunities.

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  Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.com

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  If you're looking to understand the basics of building and scaling a sales process and team, this book is a great primer. It also goes into great detail in how the author built a better, more reliable method than pure cold-calling to generate leads beyond the marketing team at Salesforce's efforts.

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  Obviously Awesome

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  Simple, practical, useful. This book is a quick read that covers modern positioning and how to do it. Unlike all the theoretical books out there, this is a VC who lived a life as a marketer (all the way up to CMO/VP) doing this and then worked with more entrepreneurs. This hands on experience leads to a system that is easy to understand and apply. I'm now trying to apply it so this score will rise or fall based on the results we have.

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Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.

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  The best-known popular history books are usually not written by the best historians in their fields, because writing popular history does not earn academic advancement.

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  pop history will not get you tenure, which leads to neglect in the academy and consequently the big pop-history books are often not written by the best historians in their fields.

  Collections: How Your History Gets Madeacoup.blog

Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  Seeking Wisdom

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  Simply the best book on improving your decision making there is. It’s dense and hard to get through if you’re not truly interested, but it’s well worth it.

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Cognitive scientist and designer; author of The Design of Everyday Things; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group; former vice president at Apple; founding director of the Design Lab at UC San Diego.

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  The rule to defer judgment encourages design by committee; effective teams do not defer criticism, they create through it.

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  We challenge this approach. It encourages design by committee and infuses a superficial sense of collaboration that leads to compromises and weakens ideas. Our view, the product of years of studies of and participation in innovation projects, is that effective teams do not defer critical reflection; they create through criticism.

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Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.

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  Over-specifying a design makes it harder to estimate, not easier: the more specific the work, the more hidden complexity a mockup commits the team to.

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  Over-specifying the design also leads to estimation errors. Counterintuitive as it may seem, the more specific the work is, the harder it can be to estimate.

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Former options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter on trading, volatility, decision-making and how to think about risk outside markets too.

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  Eat Stop Eat

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  I read Brad Pilon’s Eat Stop Eat which gives a comprehensive survey of the research around IF. It’s my go-to rec for people interested in the topic.

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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  Digital Apollo

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  I honestly don't recall that much from this book. I read it fairly early on in my Apollo exploration. I'd recommend Eyles' Sunburst and Luminary, above, as a better starting point if you're interested in the computers that flew Apollo.

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Writer of the 25iq blog, where he distils "a dozen things I've learned" from investors, founders and thinkers. Author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs.

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  Shoe Dog

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  The best book I have read about being an entrepreneur is Shoe Dog by Nike founder Phil Knight. If you are interested in business and have not read this book, what exactly are you reading?

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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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  The Complete Bordeaux

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  It is not dry and scientific. I don't think Stephen is particularly interested in science. It's got lots of value judgements, and it is a good solid read.

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