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14 September
Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.
New PR 265 lbs Heel elevated front box squat. +10 lbs from last week. I'm getting proper shoes for these lifts. The slant board was missing so we improvised. I'm training to dunk: > 49 yrs old >6’0” >180 lbs > standing reach: 91” (7’7”) > basketball rim: 120” (10’) > needed vertical: ~35” > NBA ave 34” Here are the thresholds I need to meet: > takeoff velocity 14.5 ft/s > ground force: 585 lbs > time to take off: 0.2 sec > peak power: 14.8 hp (11 kW) Landing is even more intimidating > creates load equal to 6-10x body weight > 1,080 to 1,800 lbs of ground reaction force Injury risk > 3-5x rup… Related
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.
I can't believe people think this is fake If that's your reaction, you are not using AI enough Quoting @ryanvogel astra was setting up OBS, and it saw I didn't respond so it looked through camera to see if i was looking (which i wasn't) it made my mac beep which made me lookup and it flashed the question on screen 💀 Related
Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.
11 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.
Bonus footage that didn't make the episode. Walter Russell Mead (@wrmead) on his dinners with Fidel Castro: "He could be better than average, and he could be the biggest jerk you ever met. A lot of powerful people who are really good at power are both below and above the norm of human reaction." Quoting @patrick_oshag My conversation with Walter Russell Mead (@wrmead). Walter has spent decades studying how America came to dominate the world and whether it can keep doing it in an era of AI, robotics and what he calls personal politics. He's a columnist at the Wall Street Journal and the author of Special Providen… Related
10 September
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
Apple has clearly thought a lot about how to handle the persistent capture and transmission of audio from a watch. The “Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview” linked below shows this. But it may all be for naught: folks first reaction is “it’s always listening to me!” and that’s an instinctive reaction that’s hard to overcome. This is a societal problem not a technical one. apple.com
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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.
1 hour 18 minutes. Flew by. Good showing by Ternus. Quick honest reaction is: better than Cook at these keynotes, but lacks the off-the-cuff nature and energy of Jobs. It's early. But also we NEED to go back to live. iPhone Duo demos would have been awesome live. #AppleEvent energy Related
It will be FASCINATING to see what the reaction is to Audio Intelligence. Apple is saying all the right things, of course. But it's still always listening! On the flip side, it will make the Apple Watch even more of a must-buy for some. #AppleEvent Related
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Gurley from the top rope... As we've stated many times before, I think the appropriate reaction here is to calm down and carry on. Things will be amazing, let's get there together. Quoting @bgurley 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 Wh… Related
8 September
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
Terence Tao just posted this really insightful thread which seems to have been written in reaction to the Navier Stokes announcement. Please give it a read. mathstodon.xyz
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Data shows that 80% of laughter has absolutely nothing to do with humor. It's a signal people use to say "I want to bond with you," not a reaction to something being funny. So if you want to instantly connect with anyone you meet: laugh with them. Here's how the Laughter Paradox works: Related
6 September
Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
1 September
Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.
Education teaches you to analyze. Entrepreneurship teaches you to create. The educated mindset is great at dissecting and criticizing. What did Shakespeare mean here? What were the major forces of this historical period? What is the limiting reagent in this chemical reaction? The entrepreneurial mindset is great at building and improving. Design a better product. Craft a new marketing plan. Stop talking about what's wrong and make something better. The trick is to keep learning, but to never lose your ability to build. Related
Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.
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even in this incident we saw there was a lot of pressure um as a result of this incident to stop doing cyber security evaluations and I really don't think that stopping doing evaluations and like sort of blinding ourselves to the result of evaluations is the right reaction to this problem.
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19 August
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Surprise DM When I saw the Slack notification preview, “Matt, I’m literally crying right now,” I must admit my first reaction was “Oh no, what happened…” Matt, I’m literally crying right now. I just read the Baby & Caregiver Attend…
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Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
You can finally power on a Mac remotely Apple FINALLY lets you turn on your Mac remotely, without having to press the power button. In the media, articles suggest it's a reaction to Mac mini power button complaints. While I agree the M4 mini's power button is…
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Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
1 January
Long-time Debian developer and free-software maintainer (remctl, INN, pam-krb5) who has published book reviews on his personal site since the 1990s.
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The best book I read this year was also the last book I reviewed (and yes, I snuck the review under the wire for that reason): Bethany Jacobs's This Brutal Moon, the conclusion of the Kindom Trilogy that started with These Burning Stars. I thought the first two books of the series were interesting but flawed, but the conclusion blew me away and improved the entire trilogy in retrospect. Like all books I rate 10 out of 10, I'm sure a large part of my reaction is idiosyncratic, but two friends of mine also loved the conclusion so it's not just me.
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26 October 2025
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
29 August 2025
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
1 February 2024
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
7 September 2023
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
7 September 2022
Biochemist at University College London; writes about the origin of life and the role of energy in evolution, in The Vital Question and Transformer.
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So, how did they do that? You may as well say that a miracle happened. I don’t believe in soup. I think what we have in a vent is a continuous conversion, a continuous growth, a continuous reaction, a continuous converting a flow of molecules into more of yourself, you might say, even if it’s a small bit.
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14 August 2019
Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.
1 June 2019
British military historian and former army officer; author of Stalingrad, Berlin: The Downfall 1945, D-Day and The Second World War.
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It is a remarkable work, not just of scholarship and research but, above all, of a fresh angle on the way that the inter-reaction between Nazism and Stalinism actually caused such appalling levels of hatred and murder in this particular area.
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1 May 2019
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
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