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Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.

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  Sellers and real estate agents are financially incentivized to avoid learning about or disclosing climate risk

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  sellers and agents are incentivized not to know about climate risk or communicate it. Everyone involved only needs the property to look safe long enough to pass it along

  The open houses at the edge of disasterheated.world

American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.

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  Improvement becomes visible only once you stop watching for signs of it.

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  But you know, sometimes, improvement is only legible when you stop looking for it.

  i quit reading and almost diedblgtylr.substack.com

Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.

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  A machine can complete the task and completely miss the job -- coding makes this easy to see precisely because its tasks are so legible and verifiable.

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  a cybernetic machine can nail the task and completely miss the job. coding makes this very very easy to see because the tasks are so legible (and verifiable!): write the function, migrate the API, fix the tests.

  the task isn't the jobsunilpai.dev

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

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  The best evidence of exceptional ability is winning at a legible competitive game, and without one it is hard to know whether you are exceptional at all.

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  I think you have to have that type of competitive feedback. It is tough to know if you're exceptional um without having some legible competitive game.

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Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.

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  Maxing out your token usage is optimising one node of the factory for utilisation instead of the end-to-end goal of shipping value that is stable and lasts.

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  And so it's like I mean getting into Eli Goldrat and the goal is like optimizing for utilization and efficiency of one node in your factory rather than the end to end goal of like how do we ship value and things that people like that are stable and like will last a long time. But that's my idea of token harder

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  AI will let citizens make their governments legible and accountable, reversing the historical direction in which only states could read society.

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  Something I've been thinking about - I am bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments.

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Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.

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  Trying to make complex systems fully legible carries real downsides.

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  There are underlying lessons here on humility and the downsides of trying to make complex systems legible.

  Daniel Ellsberg, Kissinger and knowledgesriramk.com

Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.

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  Zen

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  Zen: I'm also a fan of Brave, but Zen is a great browser because it's open-source and firefox-based, but with all the customization and utilization I need.

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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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  Publicly traded companies are incentivised to behave like psychopaths, because they are optimised for short-term transactions rather than long-term relationships.

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  PLC's or um uh or or companies on the NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange are incentivized to behave like psychopaths because they're optimized around short-term transactional value, not long-term relationship building.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Past a point it is cheaper to overbuild solar than to add batteries, because a battery kept for the rare bad day is barely used.

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  A battery that’s discharging every day gets great utilization, but one that’s only there in case the sun doesn’t come up for two days in a row, barely gets used.

  Solar and batteries for generic use casescaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.

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  Companies are willing to pay for their critical open source dependencies; what is missing is a legible way for projects to sell it to them.

  open source

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  I started with a rather non-consensus hypothesis: companies want to pay for their critical open source dependencies, but most projects are not selling them a legible way to do so.

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Writes about the biotech industry, drug development and forecasting — “I write to learn, mostly about biotech.”

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  How long a trial takes decides which diseases get drugs at all, because capital flows to the indications whose endpoints can be measured quickly.

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  Because patents have fixed term lengths, with small extensions to compensate for the year or so when the drug is under regulatory review, drug developers are incentivized to go after conditions where clinical trials can be completed quickly, all else being equal.

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