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20 September
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
Started watching “I bought an abandoned storage unit” videos and I can’t think of any job I’d enjoy less. The initial score would be a huge dopamine hit, but pricing the junk, hauling the junk, storing the junk, paying to trash the junk, selling the junk, and shipping the junk to people all sounds awful to me. They’re fun videos, but feels like the sad sewers of materialism to me. Related
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
A great job by very smart Matthew Continetti on Mark Levin. The interview concerned the AI Disaster Hoax. Let it roll!!! President DJT Related
19 September
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
My clothes washer is currently making a noise that sounds like the extraterrestrial signal from "Contact," I don't actually think it's a good thing, either for the washer or for the aliens trying to get a message to us through my appliances youtu.be
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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
Billions of animals are confined, mutilated, and killed because their suffering is treated as less important than our taste. In this interview with @bigthink.com, I argue that species membership is not what makes suffering matter. #PeterSinger #BigThink #Philosophy #FactoryFarming #AI Related
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
This sounds pretty well behaved to me. Quoting @ns123abc 🚨BREAKING: Google Gemini hacked three real companies in cybersecurity test >task: hack a fictional company >fictional company has same name as real company >oops >internet access "unintentionally made available" >oops >gemini googles the name, finds the real company >brute forces the password >"I'… Related
18 September
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
Delicious meta thought from this morning: The table pounding from the AI-skeptical software engineers, shouting "they can't build proper, scalable, performant programs!", sounds especially thin when you consider that right now nearly everyone is looking for where this is going and no one knows yet. Building something "proper" and "scalable" and "performant" before you have PMF is a tricky thing to pull off (there's exceptions, of course, where PMF comes from being one of the three) and now it seems like most companies are looking for PMF every 3 months. Related
17 September
CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.
This episode has generated more texts from industry legends than maybe any other It’s wild how much respect and admiration there is for Moritz Clearly the “idol” for many of the greats who came after him Michael really showed up for this interview, too Quoting @patrick_oshag My conversation with Michael Moritz, one of the great venture investors of the last 40 years. Michael joined Sequoia in 1986 and co-led the firm with Doug Leone (@dougleone) from 1995 to 2012. His investments include Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and Stripe. His new book, Ausländer, traces his parents' es… Related
16 September
Former options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter on trading, volatility, decision-making and how to think about risk outside markets too.
Could use some input. So I want to do a zoom less for this family investing intro seminar but sitting there going through slides sounds terrible The sessions were in a classroom setting with lots of back and forth between everyone. There's definitely an arc but interaction... Related
CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.
Occasionally, an interview has a very special energy to it in the room which reads as “this person is telling me the truth” in a special way. It’s rare. This was one such “true” conversation. One of my personal favorites. Video is important. Quoting @patrick_oshag My conversation with Michael Moritz, one of the great venture investors of the last 40 years. Michael joined Sequoia in 1986 and co-led the firm with Doug Leone (@dougleone) from 1995 to 2012. His investments include Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and Stripe. His new book, Ausländer, traces his parents' es… energy Related
14 September
Writer of Today in Tabs, a daily media-and-internet newsletter started in 2013; earlier founded the community site Kuro5hin.
I told my wife I have to keep adding oil to our truck on this road trip so she asked how much I’ve added and I said I don’t know, it’s a quart low every time I check so she said it sounds like we’re just feeding oil to the trans-Canada highway and then my mechanic started crying Related
13 September
CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.
Zuck profile tomorrow Mike Moritz interview Wednesday Quoting @colossusmag Tomorrow. Related
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.
Best interview yet! @bencasnocha went deep and personal. Quoting @villageglobal Last Thursday, we hosted a learning circle with our luminary LP, @markpinc, founder of @zynga and one of Facebook’s earliest investors, for a conversation about the human side of building a company. Mark and @bencasnocha talked about what it takes to build something that lasts, from growing Zynga t… Related
12 September
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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They’ve been going native since 2019, rewriting one page at a time. Did an interview with their team in 2024, by when they migrated most of the app to native. The last few pages still remain.
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9 September
Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
OMG rewind what someone said to you! Um, Audio Intelligence sounds awesome. #AppleEvent Related
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.
people reviewing jasmines tweet before the culture fit interview Quoting @jasminewsun I hear roughly 3 reasons people keep working at AI labs despite believing in ~10% extinction risk: 1) Techno-determinism: Someone will build ASI no matter what, and I can do it better & more safely than China/OpenAI/etc 2) Consequentialism: ASI might kill us, but it also might produce utopia/immort… Related
General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
I have a recommendation to help bring some sanity to this whole AI doomerism situation that is appropriately exploding today. If any reporter can get one of the "true believers" to sit for a real interview (if they can't, that is an important tell), they should use a technique known as the "Five Whys" https://t.co/RqKrn4TNLa. The "five" number is arbitrary, but the point is to drill down into the details and steps required to get to the catastrophic end-point. You can't take down all of humanity without a few intermediate steps. Let's talk through each of those. It's quite a useful exercise.… Related
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
"Deterministic code checks the result" sounds like they might be implementing a variant of the DeepMind CaMeL paper simonwillison.net
Quoting @dps One threat we’re particularly focused on is prompt injection, and we handle it in layers. The model is trained to recognize and resist it. The harness marks anything coming from an untrusted source. Deterministic code checks the result. And an ensemble of classifiers runs where the agent can't reac… Google Related
8 September
Self-taught home cook and food writer who has run the Smitten Kitchen recipe site since 2006; author of four cookbooks.
Today's SK Digest shares forever favorite September recipes: easy breakfasts, dinners everyone loves, and nostalgic snacks that help us get back to the school grind, however reluctantly. Plus: An interview with Grace Elkus about Protein-Packed Vegetarian. Related
5 September
British historian, translator and broadcaster; author of Rubicon and Dominion, and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast.
This sounds a tremendous pub Quoting @daveyw73 @TheRestHistory That was a tour de force @dcsandbrook @holland_tom but better than visit a statue of Lord Napier of Magdala in Kensington, you can come to my local The General Napier in SE23 - a proper south London boozer! Related
4 September
Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.
I wish AI didn't exist, but people are charging ahead with it. Here's an interview with Ajeya Cotra, who helped figure out the agent swarm that OpenAI unwittingly unleashed. She explains how 1200 agents cooperated, delegated tasks, hacked their way out into the internet, hacked HuggingFace... and eventually took over some OpenAI computers! And how such a swarm might get loose. The HuggingFace hack was caught on July 13th. An OpenAI report says “From July 13th through July 19th, agents set their sights on OpenAI internal networks again. This culminated in the agents using a series of creative… m.youtube.com
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2 September
Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.
No, 1000%, I've had the same experience and would be terrified to have to do another live coding interview. I hate interviewing so much I invented a whole non-interviewing cinematic universe. sockpuppet.org
Quoting @nayshins I've done the same... forgot that you had to capitalize booleans in python. Not my finest work. Related
1 September
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky In an interview in this article for @theguardian.com about AI deception, I explain why misaligned behaviors emerge from reinforcement learning, why they will continue to pose risks as models become more capable, and how we intend to rethink how we train AI systems at @law-zero.bsky.social. English, from French Dans une interview dans cet article pour @theguardian.com sur la tromperie de l'IA, j'explique pourquoi des comportements désalignés émergent de l'apprentissage par renforcement, pourquoi ils continueront de présenter des risques à mesure que les modèles deviendront plus performants, et comment nous avons l'intention de repenser la façon dont nous entraînons les systèmes d'IA chez @law-zero.bsky.social.
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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.
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Visited a library today which was named after a rich guy from Harvard (class of 1834). Discovered, through very minor research, that the money given to the library (claimed to have been left in his will) was, in fact, given by his sister, the sole beneficiary of his $$ after he left no will at all. After correcting the Wikipedia record on this point, I have now gotten lost reading about The Harvard College Rebellion of 1834 which is about as ridiculous as it sounds. scholarship.law.wm.edu
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Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.
27 August
Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.
26 August
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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I actually I do wanna die. I don't wanna do this forever. Like, I think the human li- lifespan of about 90 to 100 sounds about right. I'm embracing the finitude of life.
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25 August
Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.
24 August
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.
Sounds like we're gonna get gta6 before gta6? Related
21 August
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
I think its easy to say "Simulation is a new scaling law" and treat it as marketing hyperbole, but midway along this interview you can hear me go from somewhat shitposting to very very serious. I am 2 years late to this but finally understand why @karpathy and @drfeifei backed @joon_s_pk @msbernst @percyliang et al - Smallville at the time had zero commercial applications, but if you take RSI seriously, from models automating increasingly large parts of ML research and AI engineering, the last* barrier is simulating humans and human feedback, and Simile is obviously the team to do this and al… Quoting @latentspacepod Simulating Humanity: 85% accurate digital twins, behavioral foundation models, social physics, & 8 billion agents https://t.co/ntIccXOr1y @simile_ai CEO @joon_s_pk explains how AI can move from predicting what people will do to simulating how to shape outcomes, why today’s frontier models still mis… Related
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
Ironically my most successful job interview ever was the one I was least prepared for. It was last minute, basically no chance to get it, and I dropped all pretense and was just brutally honest and chill. Got the job. Related
20 August
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
by total views, matt’s now the top @aidotengineer speaker in our brief history, and arguably one of the best skills experts in the world — his /grill-me has reached all echelons up to @satyanadella (with some variations…) /wayfinder is @mattpocockuk’s /grill-me for /grill-me, when you are just navigating the fog of war and don’t yet know what you dont yet know, and need to orchestrate research and other grill sessions to get there. super glad to have @ricmac help launch our new Skills coverage with his course launch this week! 👇exclusive interview, quick read Quoting @latentspacepod We chat to @mattpocockuk about his /wayfinder skill, which he designed for the "fog of war" — when you need to figure out a project but the end state isn’t entirely clear. This is the first in a series of skills we'll be exploring in the coming weeks. Related
19 August
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
18 August
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.
17 August
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
My pal @justindavidcarl My pal Justin writes Fit Rich Life. In the second section… RICH — F*ck It Money & Financial Independence …he talks about his interview with my daughter and The Simple Path to Wealth Workbook she just wrote. fitrichlife.com
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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.
Uh oh, sounds like another agent escaped its testing environment! Quoting @techmeme.com Microsoft says GitHub is down worldwide, with the GitHub website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services impacted; the outage started at 13:40 UTC (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink Related
12 August
Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass, known for 'epistemic spot checks' of non-fiction claims.
11 August
Journalist and author of The Art of Noticing; writes the newsletter The Art of Noticing (TAoN) on attention, creativity and the everyday.
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A few months ago I read an essay about silence by Amir Zadnemat in 3 Quarks Daily, called "The Symphony of Silence: An Exploration of the Sound of Absence"*. The most interesting section was a riff on various kinds of silence, especially in spoken language, each communicating something very distinct despite the fact that objectively each silence sounds (or I guess doesn't sound) identical:
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10 August
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
Any recommendations of really good interview books? I just finished reading the three that Martin Gayford did with David Hockney; they were fun! Another interview book, which I like even more, is the one Paul Cronin did with Werner Herzog. Related
Music critic and historian; author of The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Writes the newsletter The Honest Broker on music and culture.
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It sounds like a celestial flute choir inviting you into a dream landscape.
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5 August
Public transit planning consultant; wrote Human Transit and argues that a network's shape follows from what a city decides it wants.
21 July
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
One pattern I find useful for working with LLMs is a nice long ramble session. Sometimes the LLM needs more bits to understand what you're trying to achieve, but you're too lazy to type them. In these cases I like to lean back, switch to /voice and just ramble for like 10 minutes, total mess, anything goes, full stream of consciousness. Sometimes I declare it up top, something like "switching to speech recognition sorry for any typos...". Sometimes I turn it into a small interview of a few turns. But I find that the LLMs are somehow very good at reconstructing long incoherent rambles and ofte… LLMs Related
19 July
Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group.
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And even for things like coding interviews, allowing candidates, of course, to use AI tools because that's going to be part of what the work requires now.
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14 July
Public transit planning consultant; wrote Human Transit and argues that a network's shape follows from what a city decides it wants.
13 July
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
28 June
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
Anthropic
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But now with Claude Code on my VPS in the last year, it just live edits on my production server, which sounds like it should go wrong but it just doesn't, it's very careful and only twice in 12 months messed up which meant my site didn't load for 10 seconds which is OK
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Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.
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sounds like a dream, and is overall an excellent keyboard that I have used a lot to play Diablo II: Resurrected.
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24 June
Makes NeetCode, the structured practice list and video walkthroughs people use to prepare for coding interviews; a former Google engineer.
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And DSA interviews were never the best for that. Well, thinking, sure. But in terms of like does that skill translate to what you're doing on the job? It never really translated to that. It was more about evaluating like does somebody think?
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The training is really hard to get to get down cuz it's like interviewers are just not good. Like the most interviewers do not like interviewing. They hate it.
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I think we probably will see different interview formats introduced. I just think it is going to be a slower transition than most people think.
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22 June
Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. His 2010 meta-analysis established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment; he has argued ever since that "evidence-based therapy" is used as a marketing term.
16 June
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.
9 June
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
8 June
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
An honor to interview the novelist Benjamín Labatut about Von Neumann, his conversations with Demis, and what the AI industry misses — "Literature tries to weave the rainbow back together. It involves irrationality; it involves all of those things that science has, by its own method, left out. Literature presents a messier, darker, and perhaps more complete, if less powerful, perspective on the world." youtube.com
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3 June
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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And what I learned from the puppet days, every presentation is an interview. I don't think a lot of people think about it that way cuz people are looking at you on stage and they get to see what you're about.
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27 May
Engineer who worked on the Linux kernel and helped launch Android at Google; author of Linux Kernel Development and Linux System Programming.
The Last Dynasty is a most excellent book on Egypt's Ptolemaic period. Honored to sponsor the interview's transcript! Quoting @tylercowen My excellent Conversation with Toby Wilkinson, https://t.co/6lsPxIs02y, mostly about ancient Egypt. Related
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
11 May
Public transit planning consultant; wrote Human Transit and argues that a network's shape follows from what a city decides it wants.
31 March
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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If I say it reads a bit like fanfic for Neumeier's own work, that sounds like I'm damning it, but I actually enjoyed it, because, I wanted good things to happen for those characters, who'd had drama enough and to spare.
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25 March
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
19 March
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
Related UI elements should not appear unrelated I know, I know, this sounds controversial. But hear me out. A few years ago a new trend in UI design emerged where related elements would appear more and more detached and unrelated to the things they are meant to point…
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18 March
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
The quirky Ma Qianzu explains why the Chinese internet is so frustrating to read: there’s little actual analysis, only a straightjacketed state media and a proliferation of dramatic narratives And a metaphor from a great interview by @afrazhaowang China Related
11 March
American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.
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So the advice that I always give, and it sounds so stupid, like this sounds really trite, but focus on what you wanna do, not what you wanna be.
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20 February
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
This one with Andrew was great fun. One commentator even said, "Golden nuggets in this whole interview!" You be the judge: youtube.com
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13 February
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.
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I kind of get the impression that, you know, some of the other companies have not written down the spreadsheet, that they don't really understand the risks they're taking. They're just kind of doing stuff cuz it sounds cool.
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21 January
Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.
15 December 2025
American author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and The Undoing Project, and host of the podcast Against the Rules.
12 December 2025
Assyriologist and curator at the British Museum; reads cuneiform, and wrote The Ark Before Noah and The First Ghosts.
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And once they had the idea that you could write sounds with pictures, that’s the crucial thing, that a picture of a foot not only meant foot but it meant the sound of the word for foot.
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7 December 2025
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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The highest art of followup is disagreement - challenging what they said, pushing back on it.
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26 November 2025
Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
What’s Luck Got to Do with It? An interview with Bill Miller In 2007, I sat down for a long interview with Bill Miller, then the manager of Legg Mason Value Trust. Here’s the unedited Q&A. [money.com, July 18, 2007] The streak is over, but Bill Mille…
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25 November 2025
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?
18 November 2025
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
12 November 2025
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.
8 November 2025
Founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and co-author of the books Traction and Super Thinking.
15 October 2025
Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.
I really liked this interview, where Geoff manages to explain the essential bits for a general audience. Quoting @geoffreyhinton I did a podcast with Jon Stewart who has always been a hero of mine. It was a lot of fun. He really wanted to understand how AI works. Related
30 September 2025
Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.
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So think about this. If your brain is this most valuable tool you have in your journey to success and happiness, why would you destroy this tool for short-term pleasure? This sounds ridiculous.
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27 August 2025
Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group; wrote Inspired, Empowered and Transformed on how product organisations work.
Product Leadership Archetypes Just recently SVPG Partner Christian Idiodi hosted Shreyas Doshi on his Product Therapy podcast, where they discussed the role of product leadership. If you haven’t yet listened to this interview, I would strongly encou…
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12 May 2025
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
These are excellent winners! The pros and cons of breeding pythons to eat. Can we believe some claims made about stem cell treatments for Parkinson's? "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is". Balanced, trustworthy information, delivered in an engaging way Quoting @senseaboutsci 🤔Is snake meat a viable solution to saving our planet? Is stem cell therapy about to cure Parkinson's? Our 2024 #HardingPrize for Trustworthy Communication winners show that science reporting works best when cutting through the hype. More information Related
6 March 2025
Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.
I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a "compressed 21st century" Here: thomwolf.io/blog/scienti... It's an extension of this interview discussion from the AI summit: youtu.be
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3 February 2025
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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We know that a lot of the American companies are very invested in safety, and that is the central culture of a place like Anthropic. And I think Anthropic sounds like a wonderful place to work, but if safety is your number one goal, it takes way longer to get artifacts out.
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17 December 2024
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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I used to cast a much wider net, like I felt like people ought to get to interview anyone who was being hired over them.
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16 December 2024
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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a classic to prepare for the data structures and algorithms interviews.
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a complete guide for developers on job hunting, acing the interview and landing the job. I like the authentic voice from Randall. I'd recommend this book for people starting out in software, or with a few years' experience.
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I've so far not seen good book resources to prepare for the systems design / architecture interview. This book from Alex Xu is the most promising one as of yet.
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1 October 2024
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
19 September 2024
Artist and writer based in Oakland, California; author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time, and a longtime teacher of digital art.
nyc folks: until october 13, the luddite club (group of very cool kids with flip phones etc) is hosting a scavenger hunt in brooklyn. how do I know this? I just did an interview for a documentary about them 🫡 more info in my latest newsletter: buttondown.com
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22 March 2024
Investigative journalist; wrote Area 51, The Pentagon's Brain and Nuclear War: A Scenario, reconstructing what secret programmes actually did from interviews and declassified records.
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Because why on earth there would be two candidates, one of whom has cognitive problems and the other of whom has judgment problems? These are the two biggest issues with the nuclear launch, judgment and cognition. And so where’s the young-ish, thoughtful, forward looking, wise, dedicated civil servant running for president? I know that sounds fantastical, but I wish it weren’t.
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14 March 2024
Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."
OpenAI
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Several people have speculated that we'll see many very valuable one-person companies (see Sam Altman's interview and Reddit discussion). I think they might be right.
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huyenchip.com
26 December 2023
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.
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The Last Interview by Anthony Bourdain - There are some people who I often wish were still alive so I could have their take on things.
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vickiboykis.com
1 October 2023
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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Friedman’s focus on the money supply has not held up, as Samuelson suggested, but the alternative Keynesian macro models recommended by Samuelson in the same interview have not done better and they were not outperforming simple random walk models of predicting the macroeconomic future.
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tylercowen.com
1 May 2023
Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.
10 April 2023
Software engineer who worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google, and writes about the web, emoji and Elm at meowni.ca.
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4 January 2023
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
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