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18 September
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
There are moments where I wonder if I’ll run out of jokes. And then I see posts like this. Quoting @SecScottBessent Great to welcome @jakepaul to the Treasury Department today. Jake’s path from content creator to entrepreneur and professional boxer is a distinctly American story. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Related
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
16 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.
Despite being widely regarded as one of the best venture investors of all time, Michael Moritz says he's never once felt like he was good at something: "I've never felt I'm really good at something. That's not false modesty on my part. Everybody is plagued by doubts and competitiveness. And it's a failing on my part. I have a very difficult time celebrating good things and celebrating success. I think I've always felt everything is unfinished and could be improved. None of it's ever been perfect. Sometimes when I paint and compare a painting to what I might have been able to paint 10 years ag… 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
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
Seven million views is a difficult number to comprehend. So I think about it differently: millions of moments when a founder was wrestling with a hard decision, trying to grow their company, or wondering whether to keep going, and trusted me enough to listen. That means far more to me than the number itself. Related
15 September
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
Watched a bit of @poteto + team on the Grok Bot stream today. Surprised by how normal the work is, but faster. So many micro judgements and steps that weren't automated. You could pause at many moments and be like "wait why that?" and it would lead to an interesting discussion. Related
13 September
Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.
Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.
As a friend called with protective wishes, I looked outside to see an owl in our tree, peacefully unbothered by a brave resident squirrel. Sitting below them, my fears dissolved. What do you make of animal encounters? Does animal medicine come to help us through tough moments? Related
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
Midwit here! If the OpenAI Navier Stokes proof had been dropped online by an introverted mathematician who no one previously heard of, you'd all be celebrating the enormous breakthrough and analyzing it rather than writing tales about the demise of maths. OpenAI Related
11 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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All of these are things that power users IMMEDIATELY notice and get annoyed. But there's no good way to report them, and the eng teams clearly are flying blind, patting themselves on the back how everything is up velocity-wise... but product quality got degraded! And they don't even know
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10 September
Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.
8 September
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
One of the most amazing moments for me in OpenAI history was watching this happen over the past week: Quoting @OpenAI We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics. The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra. The problem concerns whether the descri… OpenAI Related
4 September
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
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1 September
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
if you feel "too busy" to exercise, instead try finding active moments you can do throughout the day: - walk after lunch - take stairs instead of elevator - choose a parking spot farther away - give your kids an extra piggyback ride - listen to your all-hands call on a walk remind yourself you're doing it to have more energy to be more focused to be more present with your family to live a more enjoyable life whatever it may be energy Related
26 August
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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I love this quote. I think it's Lenin. There are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen. And we have seen decades of progress happen in the last nine months.
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20 August
Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.
We squander too much of our free time feeling guilty that we’re not working. In 1 of every 7 moments of fun and relaxation, people feel bad that they're not being “productive”—robbing themselves of joy and rejuvenation. Leisure is not a bug. It’s a feature of a good life. Related
19 August
Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.
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I think for a very long time we had this this almost nebulous way of thinking about page load times. And the team felt like it was finally time to come up with a more nuanced perspective around how we reason about performance.
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12 August
Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.
In order for a friendship to be maintained, one person needs to reach out to another person to hang. If neither does that, then the friendship gradually dissolves. Related
3 August
Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.
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That the best AI moments will look like nothing happened. It's just the task got done safely and smoothly.
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31 July
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
New Article: Discouraged? Here’s How to Stay Motivated https://t.co/KVn1bTXzco We all reach moments where continuing feels harder than quitting. I've found those moments become much easier when I have a plan I genuinely believe in. This article is about how to build one. Related
29 July
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Jose-Miguel x Ryo Fukui I was only able to catch the tail end, but Jose-Miguel Yamal, alongside Thomas Helton and Sam Knight, did an awesome tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ryo Fukui’s Scenery at Echoes in Houston. Jose-Miguel is t…
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28 July
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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the great startups tend to cluster when the ecosystem shifts and incumbents lose a lot of their advantage.
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26 June
Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.
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.
8 May
Geneticist at Harvard; reads ancient DNA to work out how populations moved and mixed, and wrote Who We Are and How We Got Here.
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And really from a statistical point of view, what happens at these times of migration is there's just huge fluctuations in frequencies, and these are extremely uninformative times for looking and detecting natural selection.
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21 April
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
7 February
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
I was on The Talk Show with @gruber, and took a (micro) beating for celebrating AI. It didn't make a dent in my enthusiasm. It's here, we're going to use it, no matter what. Let's use it well. I wish I'd threaded them, but start here if interested: mastodon.social
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28 January
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
21 January
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
5 October 2025
Head of growth at Chess.com, previously growth and monetization lead at Grammarly and Duolingo and a product manager at Google.
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So as opposed to going against I guess human intuition and trying to get them to share stuff that they otherwise wouldn't on the margins want to share like lean into it more actually like grab the moments where users are already organically screenshotting and make those much much much better and you can kind of 5x or 10x and and drive a lot of growth that way too.
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25 March 2025
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
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This was obviously highly automated and designed to immediately export the list before the victim could take preventative measures.
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25 May 2024
Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.
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is this idea that we form these internal models at particular points of high prediction error or points of, I believe also points of uncertainty, points of surprise or motivationally significant periods. And those points are when it’s maximally optimal to encode an episodic memory.
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7 January 2024
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
9 December 2023
Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the origins of modern growth.
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1 September 2023
Designer, architect and scientist, who led the Mediated Matter group at MIT and founded OXMAN, a company that builds products in collaboration with living organisms.
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These incredible life forms are communicating using a different language than ours. We use language models, they use molecular models. At the moment where we can parse, we can decode these molecular moments is when we can start having a conversation with plants.
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2 August 2023
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Everything is negotiable. Challenge authority. You have the power in any situation. This is how to realize it and use it. A must-read classic from 1980 from a master negotiator. My notes here aren’t enough because the little book is filled with so many memorable stories — examples of great day-to-day moments of negotiation that will stick in your head for when you need them. (I especially loved…
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21 November 2022
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
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Bono’s new book, Surrender, is packed with funny, poignant moments like this.
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1 March 2021
American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
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Brilliant for stretches but also kind of weird and rambly for stretches as well. A very uneven book, but the great moments make the others worth it
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1 June 2020
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
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If you like clever proofs, this is the book for you. It's filled with some of the most elegant arguments in math, taken from combinatorics, geometry, graph theory, analysis, set theory, and more. I can't think of any other books with a higher density of "aha" moments.
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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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The very first historian to inspire me was John Keegan, who I studied under at Sandhurst, because he wrote The Face of Battle, which was one of the key moments in the turning points of military history.
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14 December 2017
Author of The Talent Code, The Little Book of Talent and The Culture Code, writing on how skills and group cultures are built.
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You should check out Chip and Dan Heath's new book, which is essential reading for anybody who cares about culture and leadership.
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19 August 2016
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
Multibowl is a two-player challenge of skill and knowledge, across exciting moments in over 300 historical games across dozens of hardware platforms. It’s the first videogame collage, maybe. I made it with the excellent AP Thomso…
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