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20 September
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
This is a decent article about staying safe online, but it contains a classic & non-obvious mistake. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/s... How do you stay protected when you click on phishing link? "Put in place two-factor authentication […] which means you have two steps to log into a site." No! Related
18 September
Writer of kottke.org, one of the oldest blogs on the web, published since 1998 and supported by its members. He writes about art, technology, science, design and visual culture.
Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.
Warren Buffett steps down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. “Serving as your Chairman has been the privilege of a lifetime, and I have never taken your trust for granted. Father Time always wins. He has, however, been generous with me. He has given me the opportunity to see Berkshire reach a point where I am more confident than ever about what lies ahead. The company is in excellent hands, and I look forward to remaining a shareholder alongside you.” Related
17 September
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
I was happy to take the stage today at ALL IN for a keynote on Engineering honesty and reliability for safer AI to discuss our research agenda and recent funding 🇨🇦🇩🇪. As frontier models become more capable, we urgently need both societal governance and robust technical guardrails. At @LawZero_, we are actively working on solutions to ensure AI systems remain safely aligned with human interests. Thank you to @LarissaHolzki for a great conversation. Related
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Another week, another haul for Omarchy! Thank you so much to @briancartmell for joining as a Distinguished Patron with $100,000, to @americancloudco for the $25,000, and to all open patrons for DOUBLING their donations to $120,000!! omarchy.org
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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
Wow! These new folding phones are amazing! Thank you Apple for inventing the future! Related
16 September
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
If you need one definition of "experience design" it's this. Experience happens moment by moment. Therefore any experience design is about what happens on a timeline. It's all about linking multiple steps together. Brand design is more spatial. It's all at once across screens. Related
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July 2026 and leader of the Labour Party. MP for Makerfield since a by-election in June 2026; Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 before that.
We are grateful to everyone who has shared a kind message about my dad, particularly the leaders of the other parties. My family and I have been helped though this difficult time by people’s warmth and compassion. It means a great deal to us and we wanted to say thank you. 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
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
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14 September
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
13 September
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
Chapter 47.1: Thursday Want to see what happens when someone famous calls you at 2am with a favor you can't check? Oh, and what it costs to tell a friend you gave her name away... "Then stop answering your phone. I mean that. Thank you for picking up." zeroknowledge.ink
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11 September
Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
Thank you Jamey for speaking to the students today! Fantastic talk on design + building a business from X Quoting @jameygannon had the honor of being the first ever speaker for the first ever Founders School cohort at @Alphaschool NYC! talked a lot about brand design, image gen, and building a personal brand on X thank you to @CameronSorsby for the invite 🙏 Related
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
For the August/September issue of Forbes Australia, I was invited to answer The Last Word, a series of questions that range from the serious to the personal. Thank you to Forbes Australia and Sarah O’Carroll for the feature. #PeterSinger #ForbesAustralia #Philosophy #Ethics #EffectiveAltruism Related
Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
Still processing from yesterday's event (one of the most meaningful days of my life)— more to come—but a few quick things for now: 1. Thank you to everyone who came. You are what made it special. 2. There's so much need for IRL community. I've rarely felt this kind of pull for anything I've done. Wow. 3. All of the talks will be posted to my YT channel in the coming weeks. Get excited. 4. An unbelievable thank-you to the @Stripe team for helping me put this event on. It takes something special to create an event with 1,000+ PMs that has such great vibes. If you think they're great at payments… Related
Programmer, musician and author of The Passionate Programmer; organised RubyConf and RailsConf and has worked as a CTO.
The @bsky.app starter pack thing is such a great example of making an open product/ecosystem feature out of someone else's closed, extractive bullshit. Thank you to whoever designed and implemented it. Related
10 September
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
when claude kept going down, anthropic defended it as "too much demand" now the same demand explosion happens to openai, and they just showed how it's done by taking the steps to protect their customers look back on ant - was it too much demand or too much greed? Quoting @thsottiaux To make sure our current users have an incredible experience and continued access to Astra, we are going to pause subscriptions to our $200 Pro plan. These put the most strain on our systems and we wanted to take the smallest step that allows us to continue giving the broadest access possible. All… Anthropic OpenAI Related
9 September
American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.
Thank you to @fondalee.bsky.social, @harvardbookstore.bsky.social, and everyone who came to celebrate the launch of The Passing of the Dragon with me! It was an unforgettable night. A limited number of signed copies are available at the Harvard Book Store for anyone who couldn’t make it. 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.
Hi guys, I’m going to start a company. It will be important. But it will also suck. It will be valuable. But will leave death and destruction in its wake. It will be transformational. But it will destroy society as we know it. So bottom line, please buy my company’s product. You can count on us! Thank you. 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
Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.
Vancouver’s progressive anti-Ken-Sim municipal parties have coalesced behind Pete Fry as Bill Azaroff gracefully steps aside: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/william-azaroff-vancouver-election-mayoral-announcement-sept-8 I’ve met both gents and either would be a vastly better mayor than Sim. I do prefer Fry though, first of all I’m a Green, second, he’s been on council for years and knows how things work. Ken Sim is toast. #Vancouver #election #election2026 Related
8 September
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July 2026 and leader of the Labour Party. MP for Makerfield since a by-election in June 2026; Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 before that.
In a difficult and dangerous world, a decade on from Brexit, there is a risk that Britain loses the confidence to lead and stand up for its values. I’m not prepared to let that happen. It is more important than ever that Britain stands for something. We have called for years for a two-state solution in the Middle East, but we must recognise that those words are meaningless unless we back them up with action. For too long, we have been hesitant to act, fearful of being accused of being anti-Israel. Today we are announcing carefully judged, targeted steps that are not aimed at the Israeli peopl… Related
British historian, translator and broadcaster; author of Rubicon and Dominion, and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast.
There’s nowhere better than what was once the kingdom of Northumbria to go on a pilgrimage - so thank you, @durhamcathedral (where both Cuthbert & Bede lie buried), for making use of an ancient chapel in such an imaginative & moving way. bbc.co.uk
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7 September
Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
5 September
Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.
Look what arrived on the front steps of my house! The first physical copy of my upcoming book! ::bounce::bounce:: Related
4 September
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
GPT-6 Astra is now available to all Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users in Work/Codex, and is available in the API. We will start rollout to Plus and Business users next. Thank you for the patience. Related
2 September
Canadian cartoonist and writer: Dinosaur Comics, Marvel's The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and the choose-your-own-path books To Be or Not To Be and Romeo and/or Juliet.
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Six and a half years. 150+ designs. 7.500+ stickers on laptops around the world. 💜 We're closing PYOD. Thank you for every order, every photo, every idea. If you go to our site, you can order the free thank-you pack. #stickers Related
1 September
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
I've had to "unlock" my developer Apple ID once every 5 days on average for the past three months, and once per day for the past three days. Each time I do it, I have to perform a delicate dance to navigate what seems to be some kind of request throttling that gives me HTTP 503 responses during the unlock process, making it impossible to complete its several steps. Then my session times out and I have to start over. I've been trying to unlock my ID for about an hour so far this morning… Related
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.
27 August
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.
Short If the world takes the right steps, #AI will be a force for good and leave everyone better off. Related
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
Incredible - thank you for the reminder, @HenriHelvetica! 20 years!! Quoting @HenriHelvetica 🎂 Many of those responsible are quite possibly no longer on this platform, but 20yrs ago TODAY the mythical @jquery launched v1.0. As usual, sharing a thread I posted after a short email exchange I had w/ @jeresig a few yrs back, ICYMI. Related
26 August
Co-founder and CTO of Linear; previously an engineer at Uber.
A humble thank you for the ride so far to all of our customers, employees and investors. Quoting @linear Today we're announcing our second employee tender offer. We passed $100m ARR earlier this year and now have more than 40,000 paying customers. The tender lets our teammates participate in that success at a $2.5B valuation: Related
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
today is the day you stop doomscrolling stay with me - this will take 5mins 1. open the AppStore 2. download "ScreenZen" (free) 3. configure limits (e.g. 4 15-min sessions) 4. start with 1 social media app 5. a few days later, add another 6. repeat until you've added all apps too busy right now? add a calendar event with this tweet and do it this weekend trust me, you'll thank me next month Related
25 August
Zurich-based value investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor. He hosts the VALUEx gathering in Klosters and publishes a podcast and newsletter.
A government confident it's policy should be able to answer basic questions: is Norway opposing settlements—or making Jewish presence itself the test? The Deputy Foreign Minister’s refusal to answer says it all. Thank you @HausdorffMedia, @akravik79 you are an amateur Quoting @HausdorffMedia A concerning conversation with the Deputy Foreign Minister of Norway Andreas Kravik @akravik79, about Norway’s proposed trade ban singling out Jews. He wouldn’t answer the direct question about whether Jewish-run businesses employing local Arabs would be exempt, but he was clear that the intention… government Related
American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.
The wonderful @fondalee.bsky.social will join me at the Brattle Theatre on September 8, 2026, at 6:00 PM to help me celebrate THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES. Thank you to the @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for sponsoring the event. Tickets: eventbrite.com
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July 2026 and leader of the Labour Party. MP for Makerfield since a by-election in June 2026; Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 before that.
Heartbroken to hear my friend Sir Billy Boston has died. Billy was one of the greatest Rugby League players of all time but also one of the kindest and most down-to-earth people you could ever wish to meet. He always had time for people and gave so much to back to his adopted home, Wigan. I will miss him greatly and am thinking today of Billy’s family, still grieving the recent loss of his beloved wife Joan. A giant of a man in every way. Thank you, Billy, and rest in peace. Related
22 August
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
I have one of those 3/4-sized Galaga games in my house (thank you FB marketplace) and I play a game every morning. I'm not that good but it gets my brain going and if I live to be 104 I want to attribute my longevity to playing Galaga every morning. Related
18 August
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
15 August
Zurich-based value investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor. He hosts the VALUEx gathering in Klosters and publishes a podcast and newsletter.
Amanda Knox - what you are doing with your life, despite the injustices foisted upon you is so courageous. Thank you for showing rest of us how it is done. h/t @DavidDeutschOxf @amandaknox open.substack.com
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14 August
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.
This is such a cool list, published by Brex, based on startups' newsletter spending patterns. The Pragmatic Engineer one of the most frequently expensed newsletters, and it was, indeed, massive growth within startups over the last year: Thank you to everyone reading and supporting! startups Related
Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport.
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13 August
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 August
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
OmFest Registration Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in shaping OmFest. We’re still working out some details, but we’ve got a Luma registration page for the event up. Please join on September 29, 2026, Om’s 60th birth anniversa…
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American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
i wanted to take a second to say thanks today marks 52 weeks of working with @GuiBibeau he's been with me since i launched this side business and i've seen him: - completely change his wellness habits - prioritize sleep, clean eating and always getting his steps in (~45m walks multiple times throughout week) - experiment with new supplements - attend various workout classes (Muay Thai, HIIT, pilates) and he's continued it for an entire year. all while maintaining a digital nomad lifestyle. changing your habits is hard. staying committed over the long-run is even harder. cheers to Gui for insp… Related
3 August
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
2 August
Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.
Drove from NY to DC and back a few days ago. Thank you to everyone who helped me learn to drive, especially @kirankling @yourboyJoeHill @kliu128 (!!!) (pictured: me + the white house) Quoting @alexeyguzey took the driving knowledge test, now need to learn how to actually drive a car. if anyone would be willing to spend a few hours somewhere in the bay area teaching me, please let me know! Related
30 July
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
as software engineers most of us are sitting in an office chair all day we spend hours staring at a screen, not moving more then our fingers or wrists sometimes we lock in and it feels like there are only occasional windows to move if so, start simple. take a screen break and do: - a 5-min walk around your house - 25 push-ups - 25 jumping jacks anything to break the chain of not moving trust me, you'll thank me in a year Related
Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.
22 July
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
20 July
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
To whoever added several more steps to the task of releasing a TestFlight build to a group of testers in App Store Connect: 👎 👎 👎 Related
15 July
Labour politician. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 2024 to June 2026, and MP for Holborn and St Pancras from 2015 until standing down in 2026. Director of Public Prosecutions before entering Parliament.
I am proud of everything we have achieved together. To everyone who has supported this Labour government: thank you. government Related
14 July
Labour politician. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 2024 to June 2026, and MP for Holborn and St Pancras from 2015 until standing down in 2026. Director of Public Prosecutions before entering Parliament.
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11 July
Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.
Generated and suppressed demand. Eight years ago, I wrote about my theory of restoring struggling teams, which came down to four steps: A team is falling behind if each week their backlog is longer than the week before. Solve by hiring more. A team is…
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6 July
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
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.
Just Keep Buying has now sold over 500,000 copies worldwide. Never in my wildest dreams did I think this would happen when I started writing it. For those who read, shared, or told a friend to buy it, I can't thank you enough. Related
30 June
Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.
This finally happened. Thank you to all those who helped. worldrecordsindia.com
Quoting @Sanjay__Bakshi Help needed! A friend is about to complete 250 episodes on a single film music composer, creating a detailed archive of stories behind the music. I feel this kind of sustained, single-subject series is rare. Looking to connect with someone from Guinness World Records (India) or an expert who unders… Related
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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Know where the money is coming from. Know where you plug into that. And like if you're just asking those questions, you're actually already like steps ahead of all of the other like fledgling perspective mathematicians.
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24 June
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.
2 June
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.
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I think that a practice like the book of life, what it's done for me and I think it could do for a lot of people is just be strategic about your life. Like be thoughtful about like I like say what would your future self thank you for doing this year. We can be strategic, hold ourselves accountable and and force ourselves to make some tougher decisions.
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29 May
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
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28 May
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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I pulled out my W.Steps Prime telescoping ladder test sample today, and realized that I've grown to really like it.
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27 May
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
24 May
Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
This was a really interesting, wide-ranging conversation. Thank you to @mariekeflament and @Nicolas_Colin for having me! Quoting @mariekeflament New podcast on @CurrenPower: we sat down with @neha for an in-depth conversation on CBDCs, Stablecoins, Privacy, Quantum and Geopolitics outlook. Neha has a unique ability to explain very clearly complex concepts - a must listen! Related
12 April
Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
10 April
Cyborg anthropologist and UX designer; author of Calm Technology and co-founder of the geolocation startup Geoloqi.
It was a great honor to speak at @AXIS_Tokyo and provide a workshop on #CalmTech. Thank you to everyone for a meaningful experience. Quoting @nobi 3月4日に AXIS Gallery @AXIS_Tokyo で行われた Amber Case @caseorganic を招いての #CalmTech イベントレポートが @mui_labo のページに掲載されていました: https://t.co/tLO4IkEkVg 3月末には掲載されていたようですが今頃気がつきました💦 Related
11 March
Environmental writer and campaigner; author of Six Degrees, The God Species, Seeds of Science and Our Final Warning.
Back in the 19thC people used to boil penguins, harpoon whales and club seals to death. Thank goodness the days of exploitation are over. Except they aren't - trawlers took 620k tonnes of krill from the Antarctic last year, competing with whales for food. marklynas.substack.com
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10 March
Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
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Finally, I’d like to thank the authors of Roastguide for the amazing work they’ve done on their app, the attention they pay to their community on Discord
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19 February
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
16 February
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.
Thank you for the warm welcome, @ncbn. It’s exciting to witness Andhra Pradesh’s growth being accelerated through AI, technology, and innovations across health, agriculture & education. Quoting @ncbn Technology must serve humanity. Our Real Time Governance System (RTGS) is transforming lives across Andhra Pradesh - delivering speed in governance & ease of doing business in real time. Grateful for my 1990s meeting with Mr. Bill Gates, which inspired this tech-driven citizen empowerment. Delighte… Related
5 February
Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.
4 February
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
Thank you! ❤️ Quoting @readcurious.xyz Our book of the month for February is "Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir" by @craigmod.com—a superb, closely observed meditation on life, tradition, friendship and loss while hiking the ancient pilgrim trails of Japan's remote Kii peninsula. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur022-cra... Related
1 February
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
Baby Steps I worked on Baby Steps, with Gabe Cuzzillo and Maxi Boch, from late 2019 to 2025. I don't really have enough distance from it to explain what it is or why you should play it. Here's some press if you're curious to know…
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26 December 2025
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.
4 Simple Steps to Change Your Life If you want to change your life—like really, seriously, no bullshit, actually change your life—do this: Step 1: Write down everything you care about. Step 2: Arrange the list from most important to least important. Step…
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29 November 2025
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.
To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP Related
23 November 2025
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
21 November 2025
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
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Gold by Rumi and Haleh Liza Gafori. Poetry, 112 pages. A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking new translations by Haleh Liza Gafori, an American poet of Persian descent. Read 1–2 poems before bed each night and thank me later.
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26 September 2025
Reinforcement-learning researcher; co-wrote the field's standard textbook, wrote The Bitter Lesson, and shared the 2024 Turing Award.
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when you learn to play chess you have the grand the long-term goal is winning the game and yet you you can't you um you want to be able to learn from shorter term things like you know taking the your opponent's pieces um and so you do that by having a value function which predicts the long-term outcome
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29 August 2025
Release engineering manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. Keeps a public log at tylercipriani.com of every book he reads, with a rating and notes.
``` GET /about/ HTTP/1.1" 200 6659 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)" ``` hrm, "block its IP address"? ``` $ sudo awk '/Thinkbot/ {print "IP:",$2}' /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log | sort | uniq | wc -l 60 ``` Hosting things on the internet in 2025 is stupid. Related
21 August 2025
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
We're also announcing today that "Ratcheteer", a fan favorite from Playdate Season 1, is coming soon to your computer as "Ratcheteer DX", complete with COLOR GRAPHICS. Thank you for supporting our weird little games. I hope you have a good day. store.steampowered.com
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13 August 2025
Economist specialising in China's economy, international macroeconomics and global trade, and author of The New China Playbook.
China America
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And remember that DeepSeek happened in times of crisis, urgency, not in times of comfort. A lot of these technological breakthroughs and leapfrogging happens in times of crisis. This is called crisis innovation. And you got to thank the US for that. When the Chinese were comfortably importing chips from the US, the whole industry stalled for 20 years.
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23 July 2025
Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.
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I hope we'll end up with something more collaborative if needed, more like a CERN project where it's research-focused and the best minds in the world come together to carefully complete the final steps and make sure it's responsibly done before deploying it to the world.
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19 July 2025
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.
Welp, somewhat embarrassingly, yesterday this account was briefly compromised and someone posing as me promoted a crypto project supposedly "tokenizing" manim. Thank you to those of you who quickly flagged it as spam and alerted me to the problem. For future reference, it's a safe bet that you'll never see me creating and promoting a meme coin. crypto Related
3 June 2025
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.
It’s always an honor to partner with incredible Nigerian healthcare workers, midwives, researchers, innovators, and changemakers—like @NcpwdOfficial and Wheelchairs for Nigeria's Chief Ayuba Gufwanm, a polio survivor who has spent his life raising awareness, delivering mobility aids, and championing vaccines. People like him make me hopeful that, despite the odds and obstacles, we can #EndPolio for good. Thank you H.E. President @officialABAT for this recognition. Quoting @officialABAT Today, I conferred the Nigerian National Honour of Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) on Mr Bill Gates @BillGates in recognition of his decades-long commitment to improving lives through interventions in global health & polio eradication, education, digital innovation, and agricultural develop… Related
2 June 2025
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.
Thank you for the warm welcome and honor, Prime Minister @AbiyAhmedAli, @PMEthiopia. The @GatesFoundation has partnered with Ethiopia for over two decades—and our commitment to driving progress across the country is as strong as ever. Quoting @AbiyAhmedAli Tonight, we’re celebrating @BillGates and the foundation he established, which has transformed countless lives around the world and in Ethiopia over the past 25 years. Related
26 May 2025
Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind; worked on interpretability at Anthropic under Chris Olah before that, and teaches the field to newcomers.
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It's a lot easier for someone to engage with an argument if they generated the key steps themselves by answering my questions - if imposed by me, it sparks contrarianism and defensiveness
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17 May 2025
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
3 May 2025
Co-founder of Ximian and Xamarin; CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021; now an independent investor and funder of open technical projects, including the Vesuvius Challenge to read the Herculaneum Papyri.
Amazingly, this looks like it might be solved, thanks to a lot of help from some wonderful people on X. 🤞 Thank you! Quoting @natfriedman Anyone have a mexico government connection? A project I’m supporting to LIDAR the jungle there just got rejected by some bureaucrat. Please DM if you can help. Thanks! Related
15 April 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.
Thank you! See you guys in Singapore next week 🥳 Quoting @iclr_conf Test of Time Winner Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization Diederik P. Kingma, Jimmy Ba Adam revolutionized neural network training, enabling significantly faster convergence and more stable training across a wide variety of architectures and tasks. Related
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
Great example of generate -> validate loop + error analysis > "the most effective route to improve outcomes was brute force: retry steps until they passed or reached a limit. We give the validation errors ... to the LLM and built a loop runner" LLMs Related
16 March 2025
Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.
27 February 2025
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
Twitter/X Restored My Twitter/X account was compromised from February 26th to March 3rd, but I confirm that I’ve regained control of it now. Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen. Fortunately, I still had access to Nostr during…
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22 December 2024
Astrophysicist at the University of Rochester; works on the search for life elsewhere and wrote The Little Book of Aliens and Light of the Stars.
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But what we actually found was that none of those are actually hard. The whole idea of hard steps, that there are hard steps, is actually suspect. What's amazing about this model is it shows how important it is to actually work with people who are in the field.
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30 September 2024
Archaeologist of the Maya and the ancient Americas; directs the Maya Exploration Center and presents the ArchaeoEd podcast.
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And as responsible scientists, we’re trying to disprove our theories. We are not supposed to be trying to prove our theories. That’s one more foot out of the science box that archeology often steps.
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17 September 2024
Writes about the biotech industry, drug development and forecasting — “I write to learn, mostly about biotech.”
13 June 2024
Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life.
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And what Lee’s been able to show in the lab with his team is that for organic chemistry, it’s about 15 steps. And then you only see molecules that the only molecules that we observe that are past that threshold are ones that are in life.
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7 May 2024
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.
Thanks to the ICLR Award Committee! And thank you for the kind words, Max! You were the perfect Ph.D. advisor and collaborator, kind and inspiring. I really couldn't have wished for better. Quoting @wellingmax Thank you Yisong and the Award Committee for choosing the VAE for the Test of Time award. I like to congratulate Durk who was my first (brilliant) student when moving back to the Netherlands and who is the main architect of the VAE. It was absolutely fantastic working with him. Related
31 March 2024
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
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My daily todo application is Todoist. I use Notion as a work journal to keep track of the progress of every-day tasks.
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5 February 2024
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
20 November 2023
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.
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I liked Mem’s editing experience within notes because it resembled word processing, without extra steps getting in the way. But I found the app otherwise surprisingly lacking in basic functionality, despite its polished appearance.
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26 October 2023
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
AI alignment
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Society's response, despite promising first steps, is incommensurate with the possibility of rapid, transformative progress that is expected by many experts. AI safety research is lagging. Present governance initiatives lack the mechanisms and institutions to prevent misuse and recklessness, and barely address autonomous systems.
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11 August 2023
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
22 June 2023
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
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.
[Video] Patriarchy Now: Watch the webinar replay Thank you to everyone who has stepped forward to engage in this dynamic topic with me through your emails, questions, and listening in for the live call. We had an excellent discussion today, and I’d like to share the r…
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22 November 2021
Semiconductor analyst; writes Fabricated Knowledge on the chip industry and the companies in it.
28 October 2020
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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This is the book that started the Lean Startup movement. While it is not an easy read, it is packed full of good information and helpful charts and guides.
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Selling to big companies is a different process than selling to an individual. If you're new to sales, this book is a great way to understand the added steps and what to do. I loved how actionable the book was. You can literally open it up and know the tactic to use, the questions to ask, or pitfalls to avoid for each step in the process.
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If you don't know how Facebook became what it is today, this is an interesting account of many of the key steps along the way.
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It's a decent coverage of the concepts of planning how to delight your customers from your product's design to how you support and serve them. However, it felt a bit like a poor man's Thank You Economy, with less novel ideas and some filler.
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This is Steve Blank's textbook to starting a company. It's the Four Steps to the Epiphany, expanded and much more readable. If you want to deep dive into the Lean methodology, this is the book to read.
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