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American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.

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  Diplomatic gains with an ally can be secured through quiet negotiation rather than public threats and bluster.

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  These are all additions to the existing treaty that could have been added without the drama, anger and stupid memes, without Trump blustering about "deals" and without terrifying the inhabitants of Greenland.

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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  Most harnesses need some pruning on compaction for cost reasons, which Jev might help with.

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  most harnesses need some pruning on compaction anyways for cost reasons which Jev might help with

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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  Jev

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  I would not dismiss the idea of using Jev for compaction at all. First of all because most harnesses need some pruning on compaction anyways for cost reasons which Jev might help with. I can see this being quite interesting.

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Founder and editor of ToolGuyd, a tool review site covering power tools, hand tools, workshop equipment and EDC gear. He writes under his first name on the site.

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  Lowe's expanded workwear aisles reflect a lasting shift, unlike its seasonal promotional displays.

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  I expect to see the promo displays rotated out for holiday season tool deals, but the workwear aisles are less likely to change.

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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  Choosing Pulley to encourage competition with Carta still results in ending up with Carta.

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  Pick Pulley to encourage competition to Carta. End up with Carta anyways.

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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  Trade deals with the EU are good for Canada, but anything beyond that anchors it to a bloc whose economic ambitions are little higher than being an open-air museum.

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  Making trade deals with EU is good for Canada. Anything beyond that is just anchoring ourselves to a block who’s economic ambitions aren’t much higher than being an “open air museum”.

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Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.

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  Astra

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  Astra is a remarkable piece of technology. Earlier agents often tried to dampen my ambitions—they’d push me to do “pilots” or “proofs of concept.” Then agents started meeting my ambitions. Astra is the first agent that routinely raises my ambitions. I encourage you to try it!

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Entrepreneurs benefit from setting ambitious goals, even though most people do not need grand ambitions at all.

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  And I will say I've actually changed my mind on that a little bit. I spent quite a lot of time speaking the other book that there are a lot of people who don't actually need those ambitions. And I also-- That's also true. We don't want 8 billion Elons running around the world. Would be rather crazy, I think. But I've come to realize that for entrepreneurs, it's healthy to have suitable chunky goals.

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Neurologist at Oxford; studies apathy, motivation and attention after brain injury, and edits the journal Brain.

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  Being told to be realistic about your ambitions is how ambitions fail; the boundaries people accept about what they can do are the ones that stop them.

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  If I had thought in those ways, it probably wouldn't have happened. I just didn't think that we should have these boundaries to what you can do.

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  Systems thinking is the most useful skill of the coming decade, because everything below the system level will be done agentically anyway.

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  one of the most important things is systems understanding. Systems awareness, system design, system organization. Um, but systems thinking. And the reason for that is because most of the low-level things that that has to be done are going to be done agentically anyways.

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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  The mind's planning and goal-setting function is only a small fraction of a person's overall intelligence.

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  The planning part of your mind, the one that generates ambitions and hypothetical situations, is a small part of your overall intelligence.

  Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com

Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.

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  China and Russia have maritime ambitions without understanding what a maritime paradigm actually requires, and neither one has the prerequisites.

  ChinaRussia

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  So, China and Russia certainly have maritime ambitions, but I'm not clear they actually understand what goes into a full maritime paradigm.

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Chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, which he has led since 2005 after turning around Bank One.

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  Nobody should be paid on a particular deal, because a person paid on a particular thing will do the wrong thing.

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  There are no winks there are no nods there are no side deals there's almost no one paid on a particular thing because if you're paid on a particular thing you can do the wrong thing and meanwhile not helping the company you know manage its risk or something like that.

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Co-founder and CTO of Linear; previously an engineer at Uber.

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  To compete with limited resources, scope down who you are building for as much as possible and solve the problems of specific people.

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  To be able to do this with limited resources, you must scope down your audience (and thus your ambitions) as much as possible to make competing easier, and aim to solve the problems of specific people.

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Journalist and author writing on politics, liberalism and ideas; a contributor to Quillette and co-author of a book on Christopher Hitchens.

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  Making humanity's long-term potential the overriding priority licenses imposing real costs on people who are alive today.

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  The problem with these grand ambitions—saving humanity from extinction and enabling our species to reach its full potential millions of years from now—is that they ostensibly justify any cost in the present.

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Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and VC

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  If you're considering raising institutional funding for your startup, then this is a key book to read to understand the fundamentals of the legal documents and terms. It came recommended by a number of fellow entrepreneurs and it didn't disappoint. I haven't raised money yet myself so I may change this score up or down significantly once I have that first hand experience.

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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.

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  The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI

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  It's increasingly coming to the fore and Marcus deals with it in a really interesting way. He takes us through lots of different areas where AI is being used to mimic creativity, which some people would argue is the essence of being human. It's interesting to see how close to being human AI is getting.

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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  Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo

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  I don't actually remember this one in much detail. However, as I mentioned above, Mission Control was the beating heart of Apollo and one of the most fascinating and critical components of the program, so I recommend it anyways.

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