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

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  Coding agents should read the shared AGENTS.md convention; insisting on a tool-specific CLAUDE.md creates split-brain problems across a team.

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  I’m thinking about banning Claude code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc. Insisting on only reading CLAUDE.md sometimes leads to split brain problems when different team members use different tools. Just unnecessary.

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  You cannot really understand the code you write unless you are also the one operating it.

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  That was always a bad idea because it's split brain. Half of you are writing the code and the other half are understanding it. I would argue that you can't really understand the code you write unless you're operating it.

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Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

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  Transit investment should prioritize raising ridership on already well-used lines over creating minimal service where none exists.

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  it's more important to invest in trains that can get more riders than just the railfans; taking a line from 0% to 5% modal split is less important than taking it from 20% to 40%

  Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New Englandpedestrianobservations.com

Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.

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  By Machiavelli's day the Guelph and Ghibelline split had no doctrinal content left in it: it meant only that those people murdered Uncle Tibalt.

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  These are the two factions for which these parties fought originally. 300 years ago, these days what these factions actually mean is those jerks murdered Uncle Tibalt and we will never forgive them.

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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  Typing on a standard, non-split keyboard for extended periods causes hand and wrist pain.

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  Using a keyboard in this position for a long time causes pain

  Review of the MoErgo Go60 Keyboardarslan.io

Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.

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  The Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age framework names historical eras after the inorganic materials that happened to survive, not what those societies actually valued.

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  That now ubiquitous timeline names eras after the inorganic materials that happened to survive in the dirt.

  Back To The Gardenadjacentpossible.substack.com

Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.

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  Users split into two camps on seeing an agent's work, and the split has not faded as trust builds, so an interface has to balance both.

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  I initially assumed this was a temporary divide. New users tend to watch closely and check the system's progress, but as trust builds, that scrutiny fades and monitoring starts to feel like a chore. Yet it still seems like there's two camps (for now).

  Showing the Work of Agents in UIlukew.com

Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.

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  Six hours of exercise a week, split between strength, cardio, flexibility and balance, is the right dose for a healthy adult.

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  Exercise – 6 hours a week is ideal.

  Bryan's Protocolprotocol.bryanjohnson.com

Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.

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  Lily58

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  Lily58: split keyboard, I forced myself to get used to this kind of keyboard model. So far I'm very happy, I just need time to get used to it.

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Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc., and previously co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI.

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  Even with human-like learners, competition will split the AI market into specialised niches rather than hand it to one company.

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  I think what's going to happen is that the way competition like competition loves specialization and you see it in the market, you see it in evolution as well. So you're going to have lots of different niches and you're going to have lots of different companies who are occupying different niches

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Co-founder and chief executive of Figma, the collaborative design platform he started in 2012 and took public in 2025.

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  AI does not remove a job so much as change what it consists of, and knowing exactly where a model's capabilities stop is now part of being a good engineer.

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  take prompting and as an engineer, there's a range of prompting abilities. uh the way you discretize and split up your task matters. And if you assume that uh a model can do more than it can do, then you're going to have a bad time.

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Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.

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  Windows Terminal

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  Modern terminal for Windows with tabs, split panes, and customization.

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Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

From one piece Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Maths is essential schooling: it trains you to split big problems into small ones and to think for yourself, the same skill programming, project management and founding a company need.

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  Yeah. I still think math is essential. It's something that shapes your brain, it teaches you to rely on your logical thinking to split big problems into smaller parts, put them in the right sequence, solve them patiently, trying again if it doesn't work.

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  Overabundance paralyses motivation and willpower, which is why his wealth will be split among more than a hundred heirs and only reach them as adults.

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  Yeah, I think overabundance paralyzes motivation and willpower. It's extremely harmful, particularly for young boys, to grow up in an environment where they can be proud, not of their own achievements, but of their father's achievements or their father's wealth.

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German writer and historian; wrote Blitzed, on drug use in Nazi Germany, and Tripped.

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  The decision to split the German forces away from Moscow was taken by a Hitler who had just been given his first intravenous opioid, and that is probably why Moscow never fell.

  Russia

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  So Hitler receives this Dolantin injection, and he gets up, he goes into the meeting room, he dominates the meeting room, he feels great. He decides, you know, in front of everybody, no one is able to… no one overpowers him in that meeting. He was very good in the room. And the troops are split up. Like Leningrad is now a target. This weakens the general thrust towards Moscow. This is probably why they didn't take Moscow.

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Co-founder and chief executive of Sierra, chairman of the board of OpenAI, and formerly co-chief executive of Salesforce and chief technology officer of Facebook.

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  There will be no single best model but a market of them, the way the database market split into analytics stores and transactional stores.

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  And actually the reason I think it's exciting is if you look at like the database space right now there's not one database. If you want to do largecale data analytics you'll choose one thing. If you want to do a transactional data store you'll do another. I think we're moving to that area of models

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Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.

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  Forgetting names is not a defect of memory: a name is an arbitrary label with nothing to attach it to, and arbitrary material is exactly what brains are worst at.

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  For the most part, it’s like these names are just utterly arbitrary, so you have no thing to latch on to. It’s not really a thing that our brain does very well to learn meaningless, arbitrary stuff. So what you need to do is build connections somehow, visualize a connection, and sometimes it’s obvious or sometimes it’s not.

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Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  The chip industry split into fabless designers and a handful of foundries because fabs got too expensive to own, not because anyone chose that structure.

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  But as fab costs increased, it became more and more burdensome for manufacturers to operate cutting edge manufacturing facilities due to the high costs, and fewer manufacturers had the production volume to spread those costs over.

  How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fabconstruction-physics.com

Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  A data centre should be split into independent power blocks fed directly at 1500 volts DC, rather than run through one central distribution system.

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  The 100-megawatt facility might have ten 10-megawatt blocks served directly by a 1500V DC feeder line without connections to other blocks that would require extra switches and routing.

  How to Make Off Grid Data Centers Affordableaustinvernon.site

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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  Effective altruism demands hard evidence of effectiveness in some of its causes while accepting abstract conjecture in others, and never justifies the split.

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  While there are interesting theoretical arguments for these causes, there’s a disconnect between an almost-neurotic focus on hard evidence of effectiveness in some areas of EA and a willingness to accept extremely abstract and conjectural “evidence” in others.

  How Effective Altruism Lost Its Wayquillette.com

Founder of Amazon in 1994 and of the space company Blue Origin in 2000.

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  Decisions split into reversible two-way doors and irreversible one-way doors, and only the one-way doors deserve slow, deliberate scrutiny.

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  If you make the wrong decision, if it's a two-way door decision, you pick a door, you walk out and you spend a little time there. It turns out to be the wrong decision, you can come back in and pick another door. Some decisions are so consequential and so important and so hard to reverse that they really are one-way door decisions. You go in that door, you're not coming back. And those decisions have to be made very deliberately, very carefully.

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Biochemist at University College London; writes about the origin of life and the role of energy in evolution, in The Vital Question and Transformer.

From one piece Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #318 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Oxygenic photosynthesis was the single greatest pollution event in the whole history of the Earth.

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  So you’re using the power of the sun to split water, take out the hydrogen, stick it onto CO2, and the oxygen is a waste product and you just throw it out, throw it away. So it’s the single greatest planetary pollution event in the whole history of the earth.

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  Life probably arose only once on Earth, and the deep split between bacteria and archaea is the evidence for it.

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  But there’s a very interesting deep split in life between bacteria and what are called archaea, which look just the same as bacteria. And they’re not quite as diverse, but nearly, and they are very different in their biochemistry. And so any explanation for the origin of life has to account, as well, for why they’re so different and yet so similar. And that makes me think that life probably did arise only once.

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Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.

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  Edge Browser

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  Modern browser with split-screen functionality. Helps organize different work contexts more efficiently. Yeah I know, I know. It's a Microsoft product.

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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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  Several Short Sentences About Writing

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  The 2nd-best and most-radical book about great writing. It tells you to focus entirely on the sentence, an approach that was already my favorite, which is why I bought this book. It recommends you boldly eliminate transitions and conjunctions, split compound sentences, don't save your point for the end, and revise by deleting. This is the first book I've seen printed as one sentence per line —…

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Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.

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  ErgodoxEZ

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  Huge splurge, but a really great and quirky ortholinear split ergo mechanical keyboard.

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American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.

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  Kinesis Freestyle Edge

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  I switch between an Apple Magic Keyboard (personal) and a Kinesis Freestyle Edge (work). The Edge is a split keyboard and I am a huge fan!

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Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.

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  Treating history as a march of progress makes whole eras and regions disappear, dismissed for having failed to advance it.

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  In such a history whole eras can be dismissed as unworthy of study for failing to forward progress (The Middle Ages did great stuff, guys!) while other eras can be disproportionately celebrated for advancing it (The Renaissance did a lot of dumb stuff too!).

  On Progress and Historical Changeexurbe.com

Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.

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  Async/await makes asynchronous code easier to write without healing the split it created, and the divide reappears as soon as you write a higher-order function.

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  It is better. I will take async-await over bare callbacks or futures any day of the week. But we're lying to ourselves if we think all of our troubles are gone.

  What Color is Your Function?journal.stuffwithstuff.com