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Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.

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  Photographs do not represent the world the way human perception actually experiences it.

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  The problem with his old images, and with photography, was that that is not at all what the world looks like to us.

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

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  More personal and professional computing will come from agents orchestrating work in cloud sandboxes, and those sandboxes will be Linux.

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  More and more of our personal and professional computing experiences will come from agents that orchestrate work in the cloud, using sandboxes. Those sandboxes will be Linux.

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

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  Linux

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  The case for *total* Linux victory (desktop, mobile, server, iot, robots, embedded…): 1) Most agent-programmable People will want fully personalized computing experiences.

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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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  Money spent in your twenties buys more experience than the same money spent in your sixties, because novelty wears off.

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  The habituation to novel experiences makes spending money earlier in life more valuable than later in life.

  Why $100 in Your 20s is Worth $500 in Your 60sofdollarsanddata.com

Founder and editor of ToolGuyd, a tool review site covering power tools, hand tools, workshop equipment and EDC gear. He writes under his first name on the site.

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  PB Swiss hex keys

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  I have had great experiences with PB Swiss Tools over the years, especially their hex keys.

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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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  AI is an important technology but is not yet a platform, because nothing has been opened up for other apps, experiences and developers to be built on.

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  there there's a one question we got to back up and really explore which is is AI a new platform and I would argue that it is not yet a new platform. It is an important technology.

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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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  Even the most advanced AI cannot be followed blindly in investing, where value added is zero-sum and what is widely known is therefore worth little.

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  I know through my experiences that even the most advanced artificial intelligences don’t have adequate enough insights to allow one to blindly follow them and that unique human understanding and insights are still invaluable, and that that is especially true in investing where value-added is a zero-sum game (so that, when it comes to adding value, what is widely known is of little value.)

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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  Damaging experiences from meditation usually happen because practitioners chase results instead of following the method.

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  Almost any time I hear that someone has had a damaging experience with meditation, I find that it's because they're violating this rule.

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Marriage and family therapist working from attachment theory and emotionally focused therapy. Author of Secure Love and the person behind The Secure Relationship.

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  Underneath the anger of anxious attachment is unresolved grief about not having been responded to.

  Attachment theory

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  Underneath anger is sadness over all your cumulative experiences in life of not being responded to, past and present. The sadness around powerlessness. Unresolved grief.

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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 that prioritizes building great products with great user experiences above all else will naturally see profit, market share, and broader impact follow

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  Focus on making great computers with great user experiences above all else, and you can trust that every other major goal will follow: profit, market share, expansion, impact, and benefit to the world.

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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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  People are optimistic about their own lives and pessimistic about the world, because they judge their life on everything and the world on the last few headlines.

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  When someone is asked to reflect on their own life, they draw on a wide range of experiences. When people are asked about “the world”, they recall a very small number of recent events (the availability bias).

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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  People should periodically expose themselves to completely unfamiliar experiences

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  I believe we should sometimes expose ourselves to completely different experiences.

  Books I Read in 2025arslan.io

Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.

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  Clinical diagnosis can have a therapeutic effect independent of any other intervention.

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  Their experiences highlight a striking, neglected and unchristened medical phenomenon: The therapeutic effect of a clinical diagnosis, independent of any other intervention, where clinical diagnosis refers to situating the person's experiences into a clinical category by a clinician or the patient.

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

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  UX does not die when the interface disappears; it becomes the design of policies, protocols and orchestration of what AI does on the user's behalf.

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  So no, UX doesn’t die; it metamorphoses. We’ll still craft humane experiences, but increasingly through policies, protocols, and orchestrations rather than panels and palettes.

  No More User Interface?jakobnielsenphd.substack.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

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Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.

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  A society that lets its government dictate what experiences a person may have inside their own consciousness cannot call itself free.

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  We cannot say that we are free if we allow our government to dictate to us what experiences we may or may not have in our inner consciousness, while doing no harm to others.

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Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.

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  A good life rests on things that demand skill and effort from you, not on goods that arrive requiring none.

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  A good life is supported by a diverse array of focal things and practices, which tend to reward us with deeper, more meaningful experiences; a gratifying measure of bodily skill and competence; and possibly even a stronger fabric of relationships.

  The Stuff of (a Well-Lived) Lifetheconvivialsociety.substack.com

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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  The human mind functions as an association-forming machine, linking past experiences to present beliefs.

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  Exposure therapy works because the human mind is an association machine.

  How to Conquer Your Biggest Fearmarkmanson.net

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions

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  Cultural psychology, studying emotions through the lens of culture. Your emotions are created by your culture. You should not be too sure that you share the emotional experiences of individuals from other cultures. Culture and emotion make each other up. Great insights!

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Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.

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  The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science

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  the poetic physicist Alan Lightman sets out to illuminate how these atomic constellations can be capable of such exultant spiritual experiences

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Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.

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  In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

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  I learned a great deal from this book about Google, which put some of my own experiences with Google products in context.

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Research psychologist, instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making; developed the recognition-primed decision model, the PreMortem method and the ShadowBox training method, and wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't.

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  Emotions are how a person draws on accumulated patterns, so people who lose access to them make worse decisions rather than more rational ones.

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  But their lives became miserable. It would take them 45 minutes to decide what restaurant to go through. They got divorced. They lost their jobs because they could not use their emotions because our emotions are a way of drawing on on the patterns we've built and on our experiences.

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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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  Watching a film for the first time is exciting because part of the brain immerses itself in the plot as if experiencing it firsthand.

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  Many films are the most fun the first time because a part of our brains loses itself in the plot and actually experiences what the characters are experiencing, to an extent.

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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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  The Three-Body Problem

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  It’s one of the best fiction experiences I’ve ever had in my life. A stunning achievement. And a must-read for anyone who is even remotely into sci-fi or nerdy space science stuff.

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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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  Own the Room: Business Presentations that Persuade, Engage, and Get Results

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  If you want one book to teach you everything you need to know about giving great presentations, this is the book. A film director, a psychologist, and an actor share their combined experiences to help improve your content, the design, your movements, and just about every other detail of being a great speaker. It was a slow start, but by the end, I had dog-eared dozens of pages and marked up many more which I was able to directly apply to a major talk I was working on.

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Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.

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  Xgimi H1 projector

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  and a Xgimi H1 LED projector. Much bigger image than any TV would give you, perfect for immersive experiences.

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