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18 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit I love Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the 1988 movie by Robert Zemeckis. I haven't watched it in quite a few years, and Cypress Frankenfeld just pointed out this sequence from early in the movie: It's a pelican riding a bicyc…
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17 September
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.
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.
This is spot on. We need to stop listening to fantasies - these people have watched too many marvel movies. Quoting @JesseBWatters 🚨 NEW: @Jason Calacanis just DEBUNKED every A.I. DOOMER panicking about A.I. "BIOWEAPONS" 🚨 “You would have to create an incredible THRILLER.” “We were all trained on SCIENCE FICTION to get excited about it… When they see a crisis like this, they want to JUMP on it.” “NERDS, get BACK TO WORK.” 🤣 Related
Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.
14 September
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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i am calling for a pause of strategy consulting capabilities Quoting @AndrewCurran_ Twenty-five Fields Medal winners have published a joint declaration warning about what they see as a severe misalignment between AI companies and the mathematics community. Related
12 September
Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.
If we're being watched by an alien civilization, or in a simulation, they're on the edge of their seats. 4 billion years building to this moment. Quoting @DarioAmodei We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they… Related
Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
Speaking as head of the Center for Study of Public Choice, the capture story for an AI pause doesn't fit. Reg capture is what you attempt when you're losing. Anthropic is about to have the biggest IPO in history. Winners don't lobby for regulation. Anthropic Related
10 September
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.
Let’s pause and reflect on a critical key to success: The people who think differently from you—and who you might ordinarily get annoyed with—are often the ones who complement your weaknesses. Finding people who balance your strengths and offer different perspectives is essential for building a successful partnership or team. I encourage you to take the PrinciplesYou personality assessment for free: https://t.co/BZl5TdeDkh Credit: Sam Parr, Shaan Puri, and My First Million #RayDalio #Teamwork #Perspective #PersonalGrowth Related
8 September
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.
“And I'm getting really sick of having to re-evaluate this stuff every two months... TBH a "pause" might be nice for that reason alone” co-signed Quoting @KentonVarda Had both Fable 5.1 and Astra write a project plan. Then had new instances of Fable and Astra compare plans and choose the better plan. Both chose Fable's plan. The project was to build a benchmark for a workerd feature I'm working on. Both agreed that Astra's plan was over-engineered. It spec'd out… Related
Economist at George Mason University. Writes Overcoming Bias on prediction markets, signalling and the far future, and wrote The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.
AI Pause Regs Look Risky People dislike AI for many reasons, but one extreme fear is that AIs will escape control from those who make, buy, or rent them, and then hurt others.
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4 September
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
3 September
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
Joe Hudson has been my coach since 2018. He also coaches the people actually building AI, at OpenAI and Google So I brought him the fears you sent me and watched him work backwards from each one to the person behind it In this new video, we go through them one at a time OpenAI Google Related
Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.
31 August
Design engineer; formerly at Linear and Vercel; author of Sonner and Vaul; teaches animations.dev.
One of my favorite details of Sonner: By default the toast disappears after 4 seconds unless you hover over it. But what if a toast is triggered and the user switches to a different tab? 4 seconds would pass and the toast would never be seen. That’s why there’s a `useIsDocumentHidden` hook that checks if the document (tab) is hidden, and if so, it will pause the timer. This can be done with the "visibilitychange" event listener on the document. A small detail that improves the experience. Related
30 August
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
I'm a huge fan of Wes Anderson and recently watched "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar", which was an adaptation of Roald Dahl's short stories. I didn't even know it was an adaption, but you get teleported from the beginning of the world of Wes Anderson. Definitely recommended! Related
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
I kinda hated S1 of Tires It just didn’t work and wasn’t very good Gave S2 a try and thought it was very funny Just finished S3 and I absolutely loved it Funny, creative & weird The season finale is one of the best TV episodes I’ve watched in a while Bravo Shane Gillis Related
24 August
British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.
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LAST WATCHED: A filmed version of the Frayn play COPENHAGEN with Stephen Rea, Daniel Craig and Francesca Annis.
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22 August
British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.
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LAST WATCHED: SISU 2: ROAD TO REVENGE (2025) is, sadly, a more conventional film than the original. Still lots of bloody fun, but too similar to the original in its beats to be as enjoyable, trying harder to be “emotional” while losing some of the little textual depth that made the first film surprising.
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20 August
British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.
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LAST WATCHED: I’ve been looking forward to watching IS GOD IS (2026) and it didn’t disappoint.
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31 July
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
24 July
Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
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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But the thing I was careful not to do was to change the lifestyle because I I watched people around me change the lifestyle so you can make a lot of money and still be broke.
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All you had to do was write code and you were safe. And you probably made more money than everybody and you were fine with that. Now you got caught. The only thing you were good at is now been commoditized.
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15 May
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
15 April
Semiconductor analyst; writes Fabricated Knowledge on the chip industry and the companies in it.
19 March
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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I think Opus 4.5 was the first one that earned my trust. Like I'm very confident now that for classes of problems that I've seen it tackle before, it's not going to do anything stupid.
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29 January
Co-founder and CEO of Until, a reversible-cryopreservation company, and previously the founder of the Longevity Fund.
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But right now like there's no way to press pause on their biological time. So like what if you had an ambulance of the future, right? Like what if you could take someone who is on their deathbed and um you know find some way to you know just sort of hibernate them basically until um the sort of critical cure for their disease comes online.
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24 November 2025
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
11 November 2025
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Scaling HNSWs I’m taking a few weeks of pause on my HNSWs developments (now working on some other data structure, news soon). At this point, the new type I added to Redis is stable and complete enough, it’s the perfect moment to reas…
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10 April 2025
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
Well, I guess one of the perks of electing a bunch of Clowns is that you get to live in a Circus! This week our stock market has endured some of the wildest volatility since the Great Depression, all to end up right back where we started. Meanwhile, TRILLIONS of dollars were reallocated in the trading frenzy - hopefully you weren't on the losing side of any of this. Additional untold billions of dollars of wealth and productivity were permanently destroyed as the majority of US businesses have had to pause their hiring and buying decisions until all this political showmanship calms down. Or a… Related
19 January 2025
Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.
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I think that you should not hire an advisor until you do some sort of workshop with them on the problem that you're experiencing. See them in action.
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31 December 2024
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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