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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.

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  Voters are increasingly drawn to fearless, populist 'fighter' candidates over establishment figures.

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  Abdul's victory is a blow to the Democratic establishment in a crucial swing state-and a lesson in the kinds of fearless, populist, "fighter" candidates that today's voters increasingly want to support.

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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.

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  People gravitate toward arrogant leaders in uncertain times because they mistake swagger for strength and skill.

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  People are more drawn to arrogant leaders in an uncertain world, because they mistake swagger for strength and skill.

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American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.

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  Social media in its current form harms people of all ages; the line is drawn at childhood only because adults are allowed to choose things that are bad for them.

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  Like any addictive consumer product that routinely exposes users to graphic sex, extreme violence, and anonymous sexual predators, social media in its current form causes a variety of harms to people of all ages. But we allow adults (often defined as age 18) to make decisions that are bad for them.

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Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.

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  Muybridge

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  I think this book is a contemporary masterpiece? A cartoonist at the top of his game, a perfect meeting of subject and medium, and beautiful book design by Drawn and Quarterly.

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Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.

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  Playground

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  Playground by Richard Powers is a strange and wonderful novel set (mostly) on a remote atoll in French Polynesia that follows the tangled lives of an environmental advocate, a sculptor, a tech entrepreneur, and a brilliant bookworm trying to escape the grinding poverty of Chicago's South Side. The richly drawn characters drive the story, but what I love most about the book is that it's a love letter to the ocean with prose that comes closer than anything else I've read to capturing what it feels like to, for example, dive a thriving coral reef.

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Assyriologist and curator at the British Museum; reads cuneiform, and wrote The Ark Before Noah and The First Ghosts.

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  The text of the Hebrew Bible was drawn up in Babylonian exile, to stop the Judean refugees dissolving into Babylonia.

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  And the authorities who were there prevented this by drawing up a kind of charter of their history, explaining things from the beginning of time up until now, how it happened and what happened, and it was all intentional. So that is, in my opinion, the driving force behind the Hebrew text.

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President of the European Commission since 2019; previously Germany's defence minister.

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  A new world order based on raw power is being drawn right now, and Europe has to fight for its place in it.

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  Battlelines for a new world order based on power are being drawn right now. So, yes, Europe must fight. For its place in a world in which many major powers are either ambivalent or openly hostile to Europe.

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  The Weight

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  The Weight is Mellia Mendes's award-winning webcomic, now collected in a massive, beautifully made graphic novel from Drawn & Quarterly. It will tear your heart out, it will send you to a dreamy world of pastoral utopianism, then it will tear your heart out.

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Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.

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  Midjourney

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  Midjourney for logo, icon and illustration design

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Urban planner, co-author with Charles Marohn of Escaping the Housing Trap, and policy director at the Parking Reform Network. Wrote for Strong Towns from 2015, mostly about how housing markets actually set prices.

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  Rents rise when vacancy is low and stabilise when vacancy is high, which makes the vacancy rate the housing metric that actually predicts prices.

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  Empirical data drawn from many different regions clearly shows that, on a metropolitan scale, rents tend to rise when vacancy rates are low and stabilize when vacancy rates are high.

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Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.

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  The Algorithm Design Manual

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  To me, this book is an illustration of the power of names. Today, in the era of Google, if you know the name of something, you can find out about it with a simple search. But if you don't know of what you're looking for, it suddenly becomes much harder to find it. Having in the back of your head the names of common algorithms that help you solve problems is really powerful.

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Designer, illustrator and writer; author of The Shape of Design and of widely read essays on design and the web.

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  Directness is best: a great photo, a memorable illustration or a pitch-perfect sentence does most of the work, and fancy implementation has never moved the needle for clients.

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  Directness is best in my experience, so a great photo, memorable illustration, or pitch-perfect sentence does most of the work. Beyond that, fancy implementation has never moved the needle much for my clients.

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Cook and food writer specialising in Chinese cuisine; the first Westerner to train at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, and author of Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper and Invitation to a Banquet.

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  China to Chinatown

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  He has drawn together all kinds of different sources that would be a lot of work to find on your own.

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Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.

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  Sakura technical pens

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  Some of my talk slides are drawn using Sakura technical pens and Whitelines grid notebooks.

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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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  The Myth of the Strong Leader

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  But to read Archie Brown’s fascinating book, The Myth of the Strong Leader, is to see an illustration that leaders like Suárez, who served as prime minister of Spain from 1976 to 1981, possess leadership styles and capacities that are incredibly effective, and depressingly rare.

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