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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.

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  Labor market segments that compete purely on price are the most vulnerable to technological disruption.

  AI and jobs

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  One way to look at this is that there's a part of the labor market that competes purely on price-in this case, basically by being the poorest place rich enough to afford fast Internet-and this category is the most vulnerable to technological disruption.

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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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  Public fear of AI-driven mass job loss is itself a harm to the labor market, separate from whether the job losses actually happen.

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  The people being worried is in and of itself a problem for jobs.

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

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  National congressional polling tends to stay stable between Labor Day and Election Day in midterm election years.

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  midterm races in the modern era tend not to change all that much between Labor Day and Election Day.

  Beware big swings in midterm forecastsnatesilver.net

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.

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  Writing is itself an act of thinking, so automating the writing removes the thinking, not just the labor.

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  The act of writing is an act of thinking, and to automate our paragraphs is to populate our screens with words without filling our minds with the ideas necessary to conceive of them.

  We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internetderekthompson.org

Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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  Open-source AI's future is uncertain because building frontier models is extremely capital-intensive.

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  Open-source AI has a tricky future, as building the best models is extremely capital intensive.

  Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokensinterconnects.ai

Chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and AI control.

From one piece Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A world in which all the labour is perfectly obedient fiduciary AI is dangerous, because society depends on subordinates who sometimes refuse.

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  I think that if you imagine this spectrum, it seems in some ways pretty scary to get to a point where like all of the labor is on the like fiduciary side of the spectrum where like it doesn't whistleblow, it does exactly what you say and whatever like our society is maybe just not robust to that

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  Today's RL environments are better than 2024's because we learned what to build and put AI labour on building it, not because labs hired more human experts.

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  the reason why RL environments today are much better than they were in like you know 2024 is not that much because um we have hired way more human experts to make RL environments and is instead much more because we better know what how RL like what RL environments we even want to make and and like how we should structure them and also we're using huge amounts of AI labor to build RL environments.

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  It is better to be an optimist who works hard than a pessimist who writes about why things will not work, because no amount of such essays moves society forward.

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  i would rather be an optimist and work hard than a pessimist posting about why things won't work. it's much more difficult and the most likely path is failure, but society fails if people don't try. no amount of "it will never work" essays will drive society forward.

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

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  Experiencing stress or fear during labor weakens and slows uterine contractions.

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  So if you experience stress or fear, your contractions will often grow weaker and less coordinated, slowing the labor, sometimes stalling it.

  On child birthhenrikkarlsson.xyz

Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI, and author of Co-Intelligence. Writes One Useful Thing, where the claims are dated and testable because the thing they describe keeps changing under them.

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  Higher-priced AI subscription tiers mainly buy more hours of agent usage rather than a smarter underlying model

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  The more expensive plans are mostly buying you more hours of AI labor, not smarter AI.

  oneusefulthing.org

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  Now is the best time ever to start a small business, thanks to AI making labor essentially free.

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  There has never been a better time to start a small business.

  Labor is Now Free. Make Something.tynan.com

Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.

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  American overregulation and labor-market rigidity make elevators far more common in Europe than in the US.

  AI and jobsEuropeAmerica

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  elevators are the rare part of the economy where Europeans have embraced market dynamism while Americans choose overregulation and labor market rigidity.

  Europe Needs Air Conditioningjoshbarro.com

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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  AI factories and foundries are too capital-intensive for venture money; they need government or sovereign funds behind them.

  government

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  And then in terms of the capital intensive like AI in a factory and also the foundry and then you really need to tap either government funding or some sovereign fund

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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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  Democratic power ultimately rests on ordinary people controlling resources rulers depend on, like labor and tax revenue

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  The governed have something the governors need: labor, tax revenue, military service, consumer spending. This dependency is the source of democratic leverage.

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Economist at Oxford's Global Priorities Institute; works on what advanced AI would do to growth, saving and the long-run economy.

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  Nothing has yet been completely automated: look down the supply chain behind any machine and labour is still adding a great deal of the value.

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  there's a sense in which nothing's yet been completely automated. If you look at the network-adjusted factor shares of a good, which is to say you look down the supply chain and say not just like the final step, but how much of that is done by capital and labor, but what went into the machines that can automate that final step. You'll find that labor's adding a lot of value down the supply chain.

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Behavioural economist at Chicago Booth, professor of behavioural science and economics and director of AGI economics at Google DeepMind.

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  A universal basic income is a dangerous power-sharing arrangement, because it puts everyone's basic needs at the mercy of whoever holds office.

  AI and jobs

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  Like right now we're endowed with labor that can turn into uh that can turn into income. When that is no longer the case and we are now at the mercy of the of the elected official for like basic needs, right? So that to me feels like a power sharing arrangement that's really dangerous.

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Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.

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  If AI permanently drives down demand for labour, long-term income support for a significant fraction of the workforce will likely become necessary.

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  If AI-driven labor displacement ends up being large in magnitude and permanently drives down the demand for labor, it will likely be necessary to go beyond mere incentive programs to long-term income support for a significant fraction of the labor force.

  Policy on the AI Exponential (June 2026)darioamodei.com

Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

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  The essay a student hands in is not the point of education; the thought process that produced it is the entire desired outcome.

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  We don't ask the students to write essays because we love reading their amazing essays. We ask them to write essays because they we want them to go through a thought process, which helps them learn something.

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Scientist and writer on quantum computing, memory systems and metascience; co-wrote the standard quantum computation textbook and wrote Reinventing Discovery.

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  You learn almost nothing from writing you finished in a couple of days; the pieces that took months are the ones you still remember years later.

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  I've written sometimes 10,000 word essays in you know, a couple of days and I've written them in you know, 3 months or 6 months. Uh I I feel like I did I I didn't learn very much from the ones that that that only took a couple of days.

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Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.

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  Commentators who hype early exponential growth typically move on to other topics once the trend levels off into an asymptote.

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  and then as things hit invisible asymptotes those same loud voices who write viral essays have curiously moved on to other things.

  Constance Crozier: Forecasting s-curves is hardswyx.io

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  Not every token is worth the same amount, so AI will be sold by results and by the hour as well as by the token.

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  so so I think we're definitely going to see business models that that recognize that, you know, at some point we're going to see, you know, pay for results or you you know, in some in some form or we may see forms of compensation that are like labor. Um, uh you know, that that kind of work by the hour.

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

From one piece Speed Can Reindustrialize America 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Industrial robots are not the fix for American manufacturing, and betting on automation misreads why production sits elsewhere.

  America

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  The robot arm base case saves some hourly labor at the expense of adding more skilled labor, and can easily be negative if it needs reprogramming more than a few times per year.

  Speed Can Reindustrialize Americaaustinvernon.site

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  China installs more robots than America because it has a surplus of underemployed engineers, not because robots are self-evidently the right answer.

  ChinaAmerica

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  It has a surplus of STEM graduates that are often underemployed, while "Hukou" residency restrictions complicate hiring hourly labor in coastal factories.

  Speed Can Reindustrialize Americaaustinvernon.site

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  For small strategic materials markets like rare earths the right policy is a stockpile, not domestic production.

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  Stockpiles provide insurance while conserving our valuable labor.

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  The scarce input in American manufacturing is high-end technical talent, and industrial policy consumes it rather than creating it.

  America

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  Industrial policy almost inevitably consumes more skilled labor and reduces what we can produce.

  Speed Can Reindustrialize Americaaustinvernon.site

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  An industrial robot does not replace labour, it shifts labour from hourly workers to scarce skilled ones.

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  The key is that robot arms are not labor-replacing, but labor-shifting.

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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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  Manufacturing and mining in space will never be lucrative enough to pay for human settlement of space.

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  Furthermore, I believe it’s very unlikely that space-based manufacturing or mining could be lucrative enough to fund the venture.

  Their words now

  Today, exploding demand for power-intensive AI applications provides enough of an upside to justify producing components in space, providing the economic engine necessary to justify and fund the trillions of dollars necessary to build and sustain space factories.

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  Labour markets will eventually recover from AI, but the speed of the transition makes the short term unusually painful compared with past technologies.

  JavaScript

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  To be clear, speed in itself does not mean labor markets and employment won’t eventually recover, it just implies the short-term transition will be unusually painful compared to past technologies, since humans and labor markets are slow to react and to equilibrate.

  The Adolescence of Technology (January 2026)darioamodei.com

Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.

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  Cheap labour is not the real reason the world's goods are made in China.

  China

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  Yes, the labor is cheaper, but that’s not really why.

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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.

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  The Wage Standard: What's Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It

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  A good overview of his work in labor economics.

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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.

  andrewbatson.com

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  Factory-built construction has not raised productivity: the countries that prefabricate most, Sweden and Japan, have had flat construction productivity for decades.

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  Sweden, for instance, is often praised for its high adoption of prefabricated construction, but since the 1990s Sweden has had roughly flat construction labor productivity, even as it has made more extensive use of prefabrication.

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Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.

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  Tablets will not replace desktop computers for complex, resource-intensive professional work.

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  So while iPadOS has obviously gotten more capable, I don't see it displacing the Mac desktop as the place where the heavy lifting gets done.

  One Size Does Not Fit Allfurbo.org

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  China's advantage in solar manufacturing is neither cheap labour nor a friendlier business environment: the first is gone and the second was never true.

  solarChina

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  so the mainstream view would say, well, China has cheaper labor, which is no longer true, uh, say compared to Mexico, and it's got lower environmental regulations, uh, which is true, and that it is more businessfriendly, which is absolutely crazy.

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  Pillow Book

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  A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

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  Conquest of the Useless

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  A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

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  Pensées

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  A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

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  Carnets

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  A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

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  Brown and Blue Notebooks

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  A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

  escapingflatland.substack.com

Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.

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  Payroll taxes fall mostly on workers rather than employers because labor supply is inelastic.

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  Employer-side payroll taxes superficially raise hiring costs, yet the low elasticity of labor means most of the burden really falls on workers.

  Oren Cass’s Labor Theory of Valuesecondbest.ca

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  America should issue manufacturing visas for knowhow rather than for labour.

  America

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  Grant manufacturing visas, not for labor, but for knowhow.

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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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  The Sovereign Artist: Meditations on Lifestyle Design

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  A collection of short essays and aphorisms on crafting a life of autonomy, creativity, and intentional leisure—challenging hustle culture with elegance and philosophical depth.

  pathlesspath.com

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  A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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  A series of autobiographical essays exploring wandering, uncertainty, memory, desire, and place—embracing the unknown as a gateway to self-transcendence.

  pathlesspath.com

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  In Praise of Idleness

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  A collection of timeless essays from philosopher Bertrand Russell, including his famous 'In Praise of Idleness' which challenges our obsession with work and argues that leisure time, properly used, is essential for a fulfilling life and a better society.

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Software engineer and essayist who writes about programming, formal methods, philosophy and literature at thoughts.wyounas.com.

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  The Best of Tagore

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  Some of his essays are thought-provoking. His reflections on education, nationalism, and other topics are not only stirring but also showcase literary brilliance. The man could write.

  thoughts.wyounas.com

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  Less Than One

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  This book is a collection of essays, and some of them are quite profound. One of his essays on Dostoevsky is particularly insightful; it left such an impression on me that I reflected on it and wrote an essay of my own.

  thoughts.wyounas.com

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  Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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  The most practical book I've found so far on distributed systems.

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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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  Vertical farming swaps a land problem for an energy problem, and the energy cost is what stops it feeding the world.

  energy

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  What stands in the way is energy demand. Growing crops indoors is energy-intensive. So we’re really swapping a land problem for an energy one.

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Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.

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  Lost Garden

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  Essays on creative and analytical approaches to game design.

  worrydream.com

Economist writing on why technological progress slowed and what would restart it — energy, supersonic flight, housing and the regulations around them.

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  A large cargo airship is probably not fundable as a startup, because it stays capital-intensive and risky until late in development.

  startups

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  My suggested approach would be more capital intensive while retaining a lot of risk until fairly late in development. I am not sure it’s fundable.

  Their words now

  Cargo airship margins, therefore, can be much higher than I had realized.

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  Meaning in human life comes mostly from relationships and connection rather than from economic labour.

  Their words

  In any case I think meaning comes mostly from human relationships and connection, not from economic labor.

  Machines of Loving Grace (October 2024)darioamodei.com

From one piece Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  What has kept American shipbuilding uncompetitive is the high cost of its inputs, above all labour and steel.

  America

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  The first is the high cost of inputs, particularly labor and steel.

  Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?construction-physics.com

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  Commercial shipbuilding keeps moving to whichever country has the cheapest labour, and America has never been that country.

  ChinaAmerica

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  Shipbuilding is labor intensive, and we see a repeated pattern of it moving to countries with low-cost labor: from Britain to Japan, then to Korea, then to China.

  Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?construction-physics.com

Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.

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  The fall of communism removed the reason Western capital had to accommodate labour.

  Their words

  With the declining appeal of communism and then its eventual fall, there was much less need to acquiesce to labor’s demands.

  The end of the great order under the Heavenbranko2f7.substack.com

Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

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  New York's subway cost premium is overstaffing, oversized stations and procurement, not high wages.

  Their words

  Well, we’ve divided the New York cost premium into three tranches: labor (mostly overstaffing, not high wages), station and system design, and procurement and soft costs.

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Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.

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  Creativity is a choice: extending empathy to the person being served and announcing something into the future that might not work.

  Their words

  It means that you have to extend yourself with empathy to the person you're seeking to serve, to the person who the work is for. And you have to extend yourself not just through space, but through time into the future, announcing something that might or might not work. You don't know yet. That's what makes it creative. If you exert the emotional labor to do those two things, sometimes you will have a successful creative outcome. That's a choice.

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Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.

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  Source-available licences like the SSPL take volunteer labour while restricting the freedoms that made it worth giving

  Their words

  In short summary, the licenses limit the freedoms of what one can do with the software in order for Redis Labs to be solely enriched, while asking for volunteer labor, and having already

  Redis Renamed to Redictandrewkelley.me

Development economist; argues that letting people move to rich countries does more for the poor than aid, and wrote Let Their People Come.

From one piece Lant Pritchett, economist: ‘Negativity around migration is the last breath of a moribund system’ 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Demography is about to turn the rich world’s problem from finding a job for every person into finding a person for every job.

  Their words

  But once the demographics reverse, the challenge will be to find a person for every job. In the coming years, the impact of demographic changes is going to lead to chronic labor shortages.

  english.elpais.com

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  Migrants filling low-skill jobs in rich countries take nobody’s job, because the native workforce is shrinking faster than those jobs are appearing.

  immigrationAmerica

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  According to my numbers, in the United States there will be a net of 3.24 million new low-skill jobs, but there will also be 4.7 million fewer people in the labor force.

  english.elpais.com

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  Without immigrants Spain’s labour force falls from 22.6 to 15.7 million by 2050, far too few to run its economy.

  immigration

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  In the absence of immigrants, between 2020 and 2050 Spain’s labor force (its active population) will drop from 22.6 to 15.7 million people. You’re not going to fill all the jobs needed in a modern and sophisticated economy like that of Spain’s with 15.7 million people.

  english.elpais.com

Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.

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  AlphaGo and MuZero are far more impressive than large language models, because they play beyond the best humans while the models write middle-school essays.

  LLMs

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  I think things like MuZero and AlphaGo are so much more impressive because these things are playing beyond the highest human level. The language models are writing middle school level essays and people are like, wow, it’s a great essay.

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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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  The Essays of Warren Buffett

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  Packed with decades of wit and wisdom from the world's most famous investor, this collection makes the Oracle of Omaha accessible to everyone.

  ofdollarsanddata.com

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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  Saving time and labour has become an unexamined imperative rather than a judgement made case by case.

  Their words

  The problem is that “saving” time and labor have become default settings and social imperatives.

  Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On Ittheconvivialsociety.substack.com

From one piece Choose People 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Opening legal pathways for people to move to the jobs would solve rich countries’ labour shortage and lift millions out of poverty at the same time.

  Their words

  If we collectively devoted the same levels of investment and inventive power and entrepreneurship to developing more and better legal pathways for people to move across borders to needed jobs, including a variety of modalities for labor mobility, we could solve the growing challenge of labor scarcity.

  Choose Peoplelampforum.org

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  The world economy is flat for capital, goods and ideas, and has a legal cliff at the border for people.

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  This is not because there are not people who would drive trucks for Amazon in the world, and not because “natural” scientific progress has made machines that drive trucks easy and cheap, but because in a global economy which is “flat” for capital, information, and goods, there is a legal “cliff at the border” for labor, as prices don’t reflect scarcity.

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