Writers and journalists
What writers recommend, in their own words, each with a link to where they said it.
- 742 thingsCosma Rohilla ShaliziStatistics professor at Carnegie Mellon University who writes the long-running blog Three-Toed Sloth and the Bactra Review of books.A History of Biology, Forty Signs of Rain, The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World, The Doxies Penalty, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy and 736 more
- 111 thingsRakhim DavletkaliyevProgrammer and educator. Keeps a public bookshelf with a short comment on every book.The Particle at the End of the Universe, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime, The Antidote, The End of Eternity and 106 more
- 96 thingsDerek SiversAuthor, programmer, musician. Founder of CD Baby. Publishes rated notes on every book he reads.LG DualUp Monitor, Keychron Q3, Ratpoison, Fight Club, Waste Books and 91 more
- 92 thingsRadek PietruszewskiProgrammer and writer. Keeps a running list of the non-fiction he reads, starring the ones he recommends.The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Better Than Before, Nonviolent Communication, Peak, The Gene and 87 more
- 88 thingsBill GatesCo-founder of Microsoft and the Gates Foundation; publishes book reviews and essays at Gates Notes.Personal History, The Coming Wave, Brave New Words, The Women, Not the End of the World and 83 more
- 60 thingsGergely OroszWriter of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter and books on software engineering careers; previously an engineering manager at Uber, Skype and Skyscanner.The First 90 Days, On Writing Well, A Philosophy of Software Design, Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Tidy First? and 54 more
- 59 thingsNaval RavikantAngel investor and co-founder of AngelList; writes and podcasts at nav.al.Skin in the Game, The Order of Time, Nexus, Snow Crash, Ficciones and 54 more
- 50 thingsBalaji SrinivasanInvestor and writer; former CTO of Coinbase, author of The Network State, and founder of Network School.Foundation, The Lessons of History, Unqualified Reservations, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Selfish Gene and 45 more
- 46 thingsNoah SmithEconomics writer and author of the Noahpinion newsletter; former Bloomberg Opinion columnist.Maria Isabel, Prik Hom, Tiya, Mijoté, Ka Kai and 41 more
- 44 thingsKen NortonExecutive coach for product leaders; previously a product partner at GV and a product manager at Google.Continuous Discovery Habits, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products, High Output Management, Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, Product Leadership and 39 more
- 43 thingsTyler CowenEconomist at George Mason University and co-author of the blog Marginal Revolution.Wireheads: An Unnatural History of Technology in the Brain, From the Front Line, Stalingrad-Treblinka-Berlin 1941-1945, Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire, James Joyce: A Political Life, The Cherokees in War & at Peace 1670-1840 and 38 more
- 35 thingsTom PetersManagement writer; co-author of In Search of Excellence and author of The Excellence Dividend.Enough. True Measures of Money, Business, and Life, Leadership BS, Good Boss, Bad Boss, The No Asshole Rule, Leadership the Hard Way and 30 more
- 33 thingsBrad FeldCo-founder of Foundry Group and Techstars; has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.J. Geiger shades, Dungeon Crawler Carl, How to Rule the World, How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University, The Lean Startup and 27 more
- 33 thingsGwernPseudonymous independent researcher and essayist writing on gwern.net about statistics, psychology, genetics and AI.Blade Runner 2049, Redline, Made in Abyss, Mushishi Zoku Shou, Ringing Bell and 28 more
- 31 thingsDan LuuProgrammer and writer on computer architecture, performance and software reliability; has worked on hardware and software at Centaur Technology, Google and Microsoft, and writes at danluu.com.Algorithms, Probability and Computing, Computation, xv6, Modern Processor Design and 25 more
- 28 thingsRazib KhanGeneticist and writer on human population genetics, history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter, From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, Intelligence: All That Matters and 23 more
- 27 thingsNat EliasonWriter and novelist; publishes book notes and essays at nateliason.com and wrote the novel Husk and Crypto Confidential.Armor, Finite and Infinite Games, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, The Denial of Death, The Fish that Ate the Whale and 17 more
- 24 thingsGibson BiddleProduct leadership coach and writer of the “Ask Gib” newsletter; former VP of Product at Netflix and Chief Product Officer at Chegg.7 Powers, Zero to One, The Innovator's Dilemma, Moneyball, Elon Musk and 19 more
- 24 thingsPaul MillerdWriter and former management consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving conventional career tracks.Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity, Anything You Want: 40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur, The Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife, Unhinged Habits: A Counterintuitive Guide for Humans to Have More by Doing Less, The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life and 19 more
- 24 thingsSimon WillisonCreator of Datasette and co-creator of the Django web framework; writes about LLMs and data tools at simonwillison.net.GPT-6 Luna, Django Migrations, Starlette, The Normalization of Deviance in AI, Mark Steel’s in Town and 19 more
- 23 thingsGuy SpierZurich-based investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor.The Intelligent Investor, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, Poor Charlie's Almanack, Forum: The Secret Advantage of Successful Leaders, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions and 18 more
- 23 thingsShubham SinghIndian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.Mac Mini, 2024, iPhone 17 Pro, Nothing Phone (3), Sony WF-1000XM5, Moondrop Aria 2 and 17 more
- 22 thingsJason KottkeWriter of kottke.org, a personal blog of "fine hypertext products" published since 1998 and supported by its members.Deacon King Kong, One Battle After Another, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Princess Mononoke, A House of Dynamite and 17 more
- 22 thingsZvi MowshowitzWriter of the Don't Worry About the Vase blog, covering AI, rationality and decision-making; former professional Magic: The Gathering player and trader.The Case Against Education, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World, Astral Codex Ten and 17 more
- 21 thingsEliot PeperNovelist and author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus; writes a monthly book-recommendation newsletter.Trust, The Quantum Thief, Playground, Ghostman, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and 16 more
- 21 thingsKalwabed RizkiIndonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.SvelteKit, Neovim, Arch Linux, Mac mini M4, Macbook Air M4 and 16 more
- 21 thingsKevin KellyFounding executive editor of Wired; writes at kk.org and runs its True Films and Cool Tools recommendation projects.Kumare, All In This Tea, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Bill Cunningham New York and 16 more
- 21 thingsLincoln MichelNovelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes Counter Craft on fiction writing and the publishing industry.Moby-Dick, Invisible Cities, Multiple Choice, The Employees, Sula and 16 more
- 20 thingsCasey NewtonTechnology journalist and founder of Platformer, an independent newsletter about AI, social platforms and the people shaping technology; co-host of the Hard Fork podcast.Raycast, User Mag, Search Engine, Capacities, Glaze and 15 more
- 20 thingsMaxence PoutordFrench software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.Minaal Carry-on 2.0, VS Code, 27" screen (QHD), n, Giphy Capture and 15 more
- 20 thingsPacky McCormickWrites Not Boring, a newsletter on technology, business and startup strategy; general partner at Not Boring Capital.early days, a16z, Curt Jaimungal, Core Memory , speedrun and 15 more
- 19 thingsAuren HoffmanCEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter.The Accidental Superpower, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics, Difficult Conversations, The Effective Executive and 14 more
- 19 thingsKevin SimlerWriter and engineer behind the blog Melting Asphalt; co-author with Robin Hanson of The Elephant in the Brain.On Tyranny, Algorithms to Live By, The Beginning of Infinity, Master of the Senate, Big History and 11 more
- 19 thingsKris AbdelmessihFormer options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter about trading, volatility and decision-making.The 5 Love Languages, The Road, Invest Like the Best, The Knowledge Project, The Fountainhead and 14 more
- 19 thingsMark MansonAuthor of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked; writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.Exhalation: Stories, Isaac Newton, The Three-Body Problem, Born a Crime, Barking Up the Wrong Tree and 12 more
- 19 thingsMatt MightComputer science professor and author of The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D.Kensington remote, OmniGraphSketcher, GraphViz, Omnigraffle, Firebug and 13 more
- 19 thingsTom MacWrightSoftware engineer and writer; creator of the Simple Statistics and Placemark mapping tools, longtime blogger at macwright.com.MacBook Air M2, Sony WH1000XM4, Moondrop Quarks, Neovim, Fastmail and 14 more
- 18 thingsAndrew SkurkaBackpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked 30,000+ miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide.La Sportiva Mutant, The Adventurer's Son, Ultimate Direction FKT Poles, From the River to the Sea, Somewear Global Hotspot and 13 more
- 18 thingsAndy BaioWriter and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.MacBook Pro, IntelliMouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse, MacBook Pro (mid-2014, 15-inch), Gutenberg and 13 more
- 18 thingsAustin KleonWriter and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.Story of A Poem, Four Quartets, Muybridge, War and Peace, Anna Karenina and 13 more
- 18 thingsCory DoctorowScience fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic and coined “enshittification”.Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture, Everybody's Perfect, Obstetrix, Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Cannon and 13 more
- 18 thingsJason ZweigWall Street Journal investing columnist and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.Glorious Country, The Father Brown Stories, The Art of Spending Money, The Psychology of Money, A Fabulous Debt and 13 more
- 18 thingsManassarn "Noom" ManoonchaiThai software engineer; writes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.Setapp, Fira Code font, Chezmoi, Homebrew, Zoxide and 10 more
- 18 thingsMarc LittlemoreBritish senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.Visual Studio Code, Zoom, Senheiser HD25, Panda Theme, Fira Code and 13 more
- 18 thingsMari AndrewWriter and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue.Pimsleur, Theragun, The Dutchess, Happy Feet Socks, Wooden Bath Mat and 13 more
- 17 thingsAndrew ChenGeneral partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem; previously led growth teams at Uber.Chip War, The Mirage Factory, Black Wave, Outlive, Solaris and 12 more
- 17 thingsAnne Helen PetersenJournalist and author of Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation; writes the newsletter Culture Study.Strand carry-on weekender, Social Print Studio, The Sidestroke, Orijen dog food, Olive, Again and 11 more
- 17 thingsDavid SparksWriter of MacSparky and author of the MacSparky Field Guides on Apple productivity software; a former lawyer, he co-hosts the Mac Power Users podcast.OmniFocus, Apple Notes, DEVONthink, Claude, Plotter and 12 more
- 17 thingsJason SnellTechnology writer and podcaster; former Macworld editor, writes Six Colors and hosts podcasts on Relay FM and The Incomparable.Ferrite Recording Studio, Uplift V2, Uplift V2 standing desk, Vortex Race 3, Audio-Technica ATR2100x and 12 more
- 17 thingsJohn GruberWriter and creator of Daring Fireball, a long-running blog about Apple and technology; co-created Markdown.BusySync, MacBook Pro, Moleskine, Uni-ball Signo RT, Yojimbo and 12 more
- 17 thingsJohn MaedaDesigner and technologist; author of The Laws of Simplicity; former president of RISD.Resilient Enterprise, The New (AB)normal, The Gray Rhino, Mismatch, Antifragile and 12 more
- 17 thingsJulia EvansProgrammer and writer at jvns.ca; author of the Wizard Zines programming zines.fish shell, Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Go standard library documentation, perf, dstat and 12 more
- 17 thingsScott AlexanderPsychiatrist and blogger, author of Slate Star Codex and its successor Astral Codex Ten.The Secret of Our Success, Seeing Like a State, The Steerswoman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours, Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha and 11 more
- 17 thingsSreetam DasIndian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.Rectangle, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Amphetamine, Alfred and 12 more
- 17 thingsThom HoganAmerican photographer and writer on cameras and photography; publishes long-running equipment reviews, technique guides and buying advice at bythom.com.1Password, Keynote, Numbers, Fujifilm X100VI, Intego Internet Security and 11 more
- 17 thingsTomasz TunguzVenture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures; writes a daily blog on startups, SaaS and data.The Complex World, Math Without Numbers, On Democracy, Breakneck, God Save Texas and 12 more
- 16 thingsAdam DeHavenAmerican senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.Schiit Modi 3, Technics SL-D2 TurnTable, Alpaka Elements Backpack Pro, Owala FreeSip, Schiit SYS and 11 more
- 16 thingsBrett TerpstraMac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.MacBook Air, Blue Snowball, Acorn, ColorSchemer Studio 2, Safari and 11 more
- 16 thingsFatih ArslanSoftware engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin; writes at arslan.io.Sid Meier's Memoir, A Little History of the World, The Notebook, And Then There Were None, Ways of Seeing and 11 more
- 16 thingsFelix SalmonFinancial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters.Thule Paramount, Jarvis standing desk, Withings Activité, Eames Aluminum Group lounge chair, Artemide Tolomeo and 10 more
- 16 thingsHaley NahmanWriter and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture, consumption and modern life.The Door, The Broken Earth Trilogy, Anna Karenina, I Who Have Never Known Men, Chirri & Chirra and 11 more
- 16 thingsJohn ScalziScience fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has blogged at Whatever since 1998.Almost There, Notting Hill, A Fish Called Wanda, This is Spinal Tap, Raiders of the Lost Ark and 11 more
- 16 thingsKieran HealySociologist at Duke University who writes about markets and exchange, and about plain-text tools for social science.Dropbox, 1Password, Freedom, Anti-Social, Keynote and 10 more
- 16 thingsLenny RachitskyWriter of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast on product, growth and career; previously a product lead at Airbnb.Opal, Shure MV7 USB, Canon EOS M50 Mark II, Dream Studio course, Riverside and 11 more
- 16 thingsMichael LoppEngineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.Logitech Performance Mouse MX, Keynote, Johnson & Murphy messenger bag, NetNewsWire, Things and 10 more
- 16 thingsPaul GrahamEssayist and programmer; co-founder of Viaweb and of the startup accelerator Y Combinator.The Selfish Gene, Miquelrius, Professor T, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Hilbert and 11 more
- 16 thingsSeth GodinMarketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops.Koeze, Rishi Dandelion Ginger, Lightburn, Nisus Writer Pro, Ocenaudio and 11 more
- 15 thingsAlex PayneProgrammer and writer; was Twitter's API lead, co-authored Programming Scala and co-founded Simple.Rain Design iLap, ReadyNAS NV+, Backblaze, Shure SE110MPA, Audioengine A5 and 10 more
- 15 thingsCal NewportComputer science professor at Georgetown and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes at calnewport.com.Of Mice and Men, The World-Ending Fire, Relic, The Loop, Cathedral of the Wild and 10 more
- 15 thingsMandy BrownWriter, editor and coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.TextExpander, nvALT 2, Dropbox, Firebug, Things and 9 more
- 15 thingsTeresa TorresProduct discovery coach; wrote Continuous Discovery Habits and writes Product Talk.Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception, Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking, OmniFocus and 10 more
- 14 thingsAlexey GuzeyWriter and researcher; founder of New Science, known for essays on science funding, sleep research and productivity at guzey.com.From Eros to Gaia, The Things They Carried, The Double Helix, Molly, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big and 9 more
- 14 thingsAndrew BatsonChina economy researcher in Beijing who writes about Chinese political economy, history and culture on his personal blog.Red Harvest, Orbital, Crossing to Safety, The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays, The Indian Ideology and 9 more
- 14 thingsCassidy WilliamsSoftware engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter, and works in developer experience.Xteink, CrossPoint Reader, CodePen Radio, Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Overcommitted and 9 more
- 14 thingsFabien SanglardProgrammer and author of the Game Engine Black Book series; writes about game engine internals and retro hardware at fabiensanglard.net.IBM Model M, IBM Model M SSK, ErgodoxEZ, ZSA Moonlander, ASUS ROG Swift PG27UCDM and 9 more
- 14 thingsJessamyn WestLibrarian, technology instructor and writer in Vermont; longtime MetaFilter community manager.Scrivener, Adium, Brother HL-2170W, Taco HTML edit, Koha and 9 more
- 14 thingsMr. Money MustachePen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a long-running blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing.Betterment, Google Fi, Chase Sapphire Preferred, Vanguard, You Need a Budget (YNAB) and 9 more
- 14 thingsTimothy B. LeeTechnology journalist; writes Understanding AIHyperdimensional, Noahpinion, Slow Boring, Derek Thompson's newsletter, Transformer and 9 more
- 14 thingsWill LarsonEngineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's PrimerThinking in Systems: A Primer, Don't Think of An Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate, The Mythical Man-Month, Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters, Finite and Infinite Games and 9 more
- 13 thingsAdam TornhillSwedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology; author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, Thinking Forth, The Nature of Code and 8 more
- 13 thingsAnil DashWriter and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.MacBook Air, Google Authenticator, Dropbox, MacBook Air (11-inch), ThinkUp and 8 more
- 13 thingsChristian OliffBritish front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS and web performance at christianoliff.com.Edge, GitHub Pro, Wise, VS Code, Beyond Compare 4 Professional and 8 more
- 13 thingsDouglas RushkoffMedia theorist and writer; author of Program or Be Programmed and Team Human, and host of the Team Human podcast.REAPER, VLC, Sangean DT 400W, Scrivener, Audio Hijack Pro and 6 more
- 13 thingsEthan MollickProfessor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who studies AI and innovation; writes the One Useful Thing newsletter.Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Veo 3, DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Gemini and 8 more
- 13 thingsJon SeagerSoftware engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab and tooling at jnsgr.uk.Tailscale, YubiKey, Catppuccin, Ghostty, Helix and 8 more
- 13 thingsJonathan CorbetExecutive editor of LWN.net, Linux kernel contributor and lead author of Linux Device Drivers.Logitech diNovo Edge, Intel SSD, Netgear WNDR3700v2, OpenWRT, SpamAssassin and 8 more
- 13 thingsNelson ElhageSoftware engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding systems; previously at Anthropic, Stripe and Ksplice.Sunburst and Luminary, How Apollo flew to the Moon, The Last Man on the Moon, Failure Is Not An Option, A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts and 8 more
- 13 thingsNick MaggiulliWriter of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data and author of Just Keep Buying; COO at Ritholtz Wealth Management.The Intelligent Asset Allocator, The Great Depression: A Diary, The Psychology of Money, Your Money or Your Life, The Intelligent Investor and 8 more
- 13 thingsRob HendersonPsychologist and writer; author of the memoir Troubled and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology and social class.A Story is a Deal: How to use the science of story to motivate and persuade, Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up, Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies, Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers and 8 more
- 13 thingsSean CokerAmerican software engineer working across web, mobile and TV platforms; writes at sean.is.VS Code, Android Studio, Xcode, Scarlett 2i2 4th Gen, Caldigit TS4 Thunderbolt Dock and 8 more
- 13 thingsTim HarfordEconomist, Financial Times columnist (“The Undercover Economist”) and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.The Man From the Future, The Art of More, The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything, The Art of Fairness, Four Thousand Weeks and 8 more
- 12 thingsAdam GrantOrganizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School; author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, and host of the Re:Thinking podcast.Poisonous People, The Balancing Act, Flourish, Mattering, The Story of Stories and 7 more
- 12 thingsAndrei AlexandrescuProgrammer and author of Modern C++ Design and The D Programming Language; a lead contributor to the D language.Sierra Wireless 598, Dell E1705, zsh, Logitech M510, Sennheiser HD 280 Pro and 4 more
- 12 thingsAnil SethProfessor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and author of Being You.The Ego Tunnel, Klara and the Sun: A Novel, Never Let Me Go, Other Minds, The Feeling of Life Itself and 7 more
- 12 thingsAvaWriter of the newsletter bookbear express, on relationships, taste and self-knowledge; based in San Francisco.Oura ring, Dyson vacuum, Comme Si workout socks, NARS soft matte concealer, Nippon Kodo Mori-no-KOH incense and 7 more
- 12 thingsBen CarlsonDirector of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management, author of the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-host of the Animal Spirits podcast.Breakneck, 1929, The Inner Game of Tennis, The Breaks of the Game, Best Movie Year Ever and 7 more
- 12 thingsChad FowlerProgrammer, musician and author of The Passionate Programmer; organised RubyConf and RailsConf and has worked as a CTO.Apple TV, Logic, Yamaha Custom Alto Saxophone, Brian May signature model, Wunderlist and 5 more
- 12 thingsJohn ResigJavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.Thecus N5200BR, BenQ W500, Firefox, Keynote, TextMate and 7 more
- 12 thingsMatt KepnesBudget-travel writer who publishes as Nomadic Matt; author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day.Trtl Pillow, Suavs, Flash 55, Unbound Merino, Celiac Travel Cards and 7 more
- 12 thingsMorgan HouselPartner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money; writes essays on investor behavior.The Quest of the Simple Life, Famous Financial Fiascos, The Great Depression: A Diary, Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit, Endurance and 7 more
- 12 thingsPraveen Kumar PurushothamanLondon-based front-end architect and web developer evangelist; Microsoft MVP, writes at praveen.science.Zoom, Sublime Text 2, Vagrant, Typora, WinSCP and 7 more
- 12 thingsRaph KosterGame designer; wrote A Theory of Fun for Game Design and worked on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies.On Writing, Making Movies Work, Character Development and Storytelling for Games, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, The Art of Fiction and 7 more
- 12 thingsRobin SloanNovelist (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Sourdough, Moonbound) and co-founder of the olive oil company Fat Gold; writes a long-running email newsletter.Thermapen One, Hearts of Space, Silo, Filson Pullman, Kindle Keyboard 3G and 7 more
- 12 thingsTim BrayCanadian software developer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications, formerly of Sun, Google and AWS; writes the long-running blog ongoing.Benchmark DAC1 USB, NEC 2690 display, Some Desperate Glory, The Kaiju Preservation Society, Starter Villain and 7 more
- 12 thingsTim FerrissAuthor of The 4-Hour Workweek and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.Tune Up Fitness – Alpha Ball, Maestri House Rechargeable Milk Frother, TANK® M3 Push Sled, The Way, Elgato Wave 3 and 7 more
- 11 thingsAndrew PlotkinInteractive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.Matias Tactile Pro, Lynx, TextWrangler, iCab, iSSH and 6 more
- 11 thingsChip HuyenEngineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering.Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, Chaos: Making a New Science, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science and 6 more
- 11 thingsClay ShirkyWriter and teacher at NYU; author of Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus, on the social and economic effects of the internet.Kindle Paperwhite, Sublime, Chrome, LG flip phone, BBEdit and 4 more
- 11 thingsdanah boydResearcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.Sidekick, Scrivener, Katamari Damacy, VoodooPad, Adium and 5 more
- 11 thingsDeb PerelmanSelf-taught home cook and food writer behind Smitten Kitchen; author of four cookbooks.Setaro, Trader Joe's coconut milk, Lavazza Crema e Gusto, Heilala vanilla bean paste, Guittard and 6 more
- 11 thingsDoug O'LaughlinSemiconductor analyst; writes Fabricated Knowledge on the chip industry and the companies in it.Yet Another Value Blog, Liberty's Highlights, Nongaap Investing, China Talk, Kyla's Newsletter and 6 more
- 11 thingsEugene YanMember of technical staff at Anthropic; previously led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, RecSys and engineering at eugeneyan.com.MacDown, Warp, Fish, Raycast, MX Ergo and 6 more
- 11 thingsGlenn FleishmanJournalist, editor and typesetter; wrote for TidBITS and the Economist and published The Magazine.BBEdit, MacBook Air, Cornerstone, CSSEdit 2.5, Matias Tactile Pro and 6 more
- 11 thingsJames ClearWriter on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists at jamesclear.com.When Breath Becomes Air, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies and 6 more
- 11 thingsJamie BrandonProgrammer in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming languages and building tools; author of the Imp/Zest language experiments.Espresso Lessons, The Rock Warrior's Way, Microadventures, A City Dreaming, Uncontrolled and 6 more
- 11 thingsJeffrey ZeldmanWeb designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.TextEdit, WordPress, Photoshop, Keynote, TextMate and 6 more
- 11 thingsMaria PopovaWriter and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a long-running reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy.The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise, Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being, The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science, The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality, The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality and 6 more
- 11 thingsMario GabrieleWrites The Generalist, a newsletter on venture capital, technology and company strategy.speedrun, Refactoring, @andrewchen, Lenny’s Newsletter, Uncharted Territories and 6 more
- 11 thingsPaul BloomProfessor of psychology at the University of Toronto and emeritus professor at Yale; author of books on morality, pleasure and empathy, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.The Sense of Style, Clear and Simple as the Truth, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't, The Biggest Bluff, Transformative Experience and 6 more
- 11 thingsRyan HolidayAuthor of The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy; runs the Reading List email and The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas.Pontius Pilate, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, The War of Art, Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature, The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man and 6 more
- 11 thingsSteve YeggeProgrammer and essayist, formerly of Amazon, Google and Grab; author of the Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants essays.The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Design Patterns, The Algorithm Design Manual, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and 6 more
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- 5 thingsJacob FalkovichWriter of the blog Putanumonit, on rationality, dating, probability and book reviews; based in New York.Seven Surrenders, The Mark and the Void, Being You, Galileo's Middle Finger, Too Like the Lightning
- 5 thingsJonathan GagnéAstrophysicist and coffee researcher; author of The Physics of Filter Coffee and The Physics of Espresso, and writer of the Coffee ad Astra blog.Pulsar dripper, Lvl-10 dripper, James Hoffmann's AeroPress videos, Pulsar Mini, AeroPress
- 5 thingsKit YatesMathematical biologist at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death.Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors, Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus, The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data, Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty, The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI
- 5 thingsKwame Anthony AppiahBritish-Ghanaian philosopher and cultural theorist, Professor of Philosophy and Law at NYU and author of The Honor Code and Cosmopolitanism.The Duel and Other Stories, In the Name of Honor, Honor, Moral Capital, The Economy of Esteem
- 5 thingsKyla ScanlonEconomic commentator and author of In This Economy?; writes and posts about how money and markets work.MacroMostly, Statecraft, Fabricated Knowledge, moontower: a stoner dad explains options trading to his kids, Apricitas Economics
- 5 thingsMaggie AppletonDesign engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and language modelsYesteryear, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Working in Public
- 5 thingsMark LynasEnvironmental writer and campaigner; author of Six Degrees, The God Species and Our Final Warning.Last Chance to See, Straw Dogs, The Ages of Gaia, Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Tipping Point
- 5 thingsMartin WolfChief economics commentator at the Financial Times and author of The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty, Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
- 5 thingsMary BeardBritish classicist, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and author of SPQR and Pompeii.The Annals, The Greeks and the Irrational, The Last Days of Pompeii, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
- 5 thingsOliver BurkemanWriter on time and limitation; author of Four Thousand WeeksSmile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World, Awe: The Delights and Dangers of Our Eleventh Emotion, The Wisdom of Insecurity, Born Losers: A History of Failure in America, Letters from a Stoic
- 5 thingsOliver W. KimDevelopment economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.How Asia Works, The Strategy of Economic Development, The Elusive Quest for Growth, Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman, How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World's Last Developmental Frontier
- 5 thingsRay DalioFounder of Bridgewater Associates; author of Principles and How Countries Go Broke, and writes the Principled Perspectives newsletter.Transcendental Meditation, Dalio Market Principles Online, MasterClass Executive program, Dalio Market Principles, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- 5 thingsSimon KuperFinancial Times columnist and author of Football Against the Enemy and, with Stefan Szymanski, Soccernomics.Fever Pitch, Goalkeepers Are Different, All Played Out, Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer, Only A Game?
- 5 thingsSusan CainAuthor of Quiet and Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter on introversion and sensitivity.Fern Hill, The Hedge Cutter, Sacred Therapy: Jewish Spiritual Teachings on Emotional Healing and Inner Wholeness, The Power of Myth, Gone: A Girl, A Violin, a Life Unstrung
- 5 thingsTanner GreerWriter and analyst on Chinese politics, strategy and cultural history; author of the blog The Scholar's Stage and director of the Center for Strategic Translation.Stoner, The Early Chinese Empires: Han and Qin, Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900, Early China: A Social and Cultural History
- 5 thingsTimothy SnyderAmerican historian of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust; author of Bloodlands and On Tyranny.Homage to Catalonia, The Captive Mind, The Church and the Left, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Power of the Powerless
- 5 thingsTom HollandBritish historian, translator and broadcaster; author of Rubicon and Dominion and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast.The Twelve Caesars, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Roman Revolution, The Roman Triumph, Pagans and Christians
- 5 thingsXe IasoTechnical educator, speaker and developer relations engineer in Ottawa; author of the Anubis bot filter and the blog at xeiaso.net.Steam Deck, ZSA Moonlander, suckless tools, MacBook Air (M1)
- 5 thingsYotam OttolenghiChef and food writer; patron of the Ottolenghi group of London restaurants and author of Plenty, Jerusalem and Simple.Stars Desserts, The Pie and Pastry Bible, The River Cottage Meat Book, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, On Food and Cooking
- 4 thingsAnton HowesHistorian of invention; writes Age of InventionThe Works in Progress Newsletter, Construction Physics, What's New Under the Sun, Economic Forces
- 4 thingsDan JacksonFounder and editor of BladeReviews.com, where he has published pocket knife and EDC tool reviews since 2011.Silky Pocketboy, Benchmade Mini Bugout, Gerber Fastball, Victorinox Hunter Pro Alox
- 4 thingsFuchsia DunlopFood writer and cook specialising in Chinese cuisine; author of Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper and Invitation to a Banquet.Classic Food of China, Food in Chinese Culture, The Food of China, China to Chinatown
- 4 thingsKun ChenFormer L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian; now writing and building solo on agentic engineering.Home Manager, Pi (coding agent harness), pi-web-access, Nix
- 4 thingsKyle ChaykaStaff writer at The New Yorker and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less; writes the newsletter Kyle Chayka Industries.Stay True, The Vulnerables, Family Meal, Zojirushi
- 4 thingsM.G. SieglerTechnology writer of Spyglass; previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV and Google Ventures.MacBook Air (2010, 13-inch), MacBook Pro (15-inch, i7), Magic Trackpad
- 4 thingsMartin FowlerSoftware design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.The Mythical Man-Month, Patterns of Distributed Systems, Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation, xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code
- 4 thingsMichael BatnickManaging partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management; writes The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts Animal Spirits.Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, The Intelligent Investor, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
- 4 thingsNat BullardEnergy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition.Investing in U.S. Infrastructure for a Decade of Demand, The existential challenge for American AI dominance: power, LinkedIn post on what SunPower meant, The World Is Giving Up on Climate Change (David Wallace-Wells, NYT opinion)
- 4 thingsNathan LambertMachine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.A Safe Path to Open Weights, Are Open Models Catching Up?, How far behind are open models?, On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models
- 4 thingsPaul FordWriter and programmer; co-founder of the software studio Postlight and author of the Bloomberg Businessweek issue-length essay What Is Code?Google Meet speakermic, Huawei MateBook X Pro, Google Pixel 3, iPad Pro (12.9-inch)
- 4 thingsPaul KrugmanEconomist and Nobel laureate; wrote a New York Times column for 25 years and now publishes on Substack.Foundation Trilogy, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Being There, Jared Bernstein
- 4 thingsPeter FrankopanBritish historian, Professor of Global History at Oxford and author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed.The Cherry Orchard, The Alexiad, De Administrando Imperio, Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
- 4 thingsRusty FosterWriter of Today in Tabs, a daily media-and-internet newsletter he started in 2013; earlier founded Kuro5hin.Defector, Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong, Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town, Witchcraft for Cyborgs
- 4 thingsSasha ChapinWriter and author of All the Wrong Moves; writes a newsletter on meditation, relationships and creativity, and co-runs a perfume line.Sanity and Sainthood, Incarnate, Coney Island Baby, El Dorado
- 4 thingsScott RaoCoffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing; writes at scottrao.com.Ceado Hoop, Decent DE1, Niche Zero, Decent Espresso dimples and freckles shower screens
- 4 thingsStuartFounder and editor of ToolGuyd, a tool review site covering power tools, hand tools and workshop gear.PB Swiss hex keys, W.Steps Prime telescoping ladder, Makita XGT LED worklight
- 4 thingsTaylor LorenzInternet culture journalist; writes the User Mag newsletter, formerly published as Taylor Lorenz's Substack.Geoffrey Fowler's Substack, Blood in the Machine, Gee Thanks, Just Bought It!, The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak
- 4 thingsTed GioiaMusic critic and historian; author of The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History, writes the newsletter The Honest Broker.Jelly Roll at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, The Holy Liftoff, The Brandenberger Family, Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
- 4 thingsTerry RealPsychotherapist, founder of the Relational Life Institute, and author of books on male depression and couples therapy.Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship, The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work, How Can I Get Through to You?: Reconnecting Men and Women, I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
- 4 thingsWilliam GibsonScience fiction novelist who coined the term cyberspace; author of Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition.Twitterrific, Final Draft, Pages, iPad (1st generation)
- 4 thingsZeroAirPseudonymous flashlight and knife reviewer who publishes measured, standardised gear reviews at zeroair.org.Skilhunt H150V4 5000K, Vosteed Porcupine G10 Orange, Wuben E2 Pulse, Reylight Dawn Max
- 3 thingsAlice EvansSocial scientist writing The Great Gender DivergenceThe Poor Rich World, The Argument, Merchants of Virtue
- 3 thingsAnn HandleyWall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the Total Annarchy newsletter.Everybody Writes, Total Annarchy, Content Rules
- 3 thingsArvid KahlSoftware entrepreneur who sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.Claude, ChatGPT, PHPStorm
- 3 thingsBret DevereauxAncient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated PedantryThe Iliad of Homer, Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity, The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States
- 3 thingsBrian PotterStructural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics.High Rise, How Real Estate Developers Think, Form Follows Finance
- 3 thingsCharles DuhiggPulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators.Supercommunicators, The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better
- 3 thingsDan ShipperCo-founder and CEO of Every; writes the Chain of Thought column on working with AI tools and hosts the AI & I podcast.Superhuman, GPT-3, ChatGPT Custom Instructions
- 3 thingsdynomightPseudonymous writer investigating everyday questions by reading the studiesWar and Peace, Crime and Punishment, The Catcher in the Rye
- 3 thingsGabor MatéPhysician and author on addiction, trauma and childhood development; wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal.Heal Squad, Compassionate Inquiry Online Training, Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health
- 3 thingsGeorge SaundersShort-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.Apples, The Illumination of Santiago, The Penguin Anthology of the International Short Story
- 3 thingsHolden KarnofskyCo-founded GiveWell and led Open Philanthropy; writes Cold Takes, on the most important century and how to think about it.octopus plug, LastPass
- 3 thingsJanna LevinAstrophysicist at Barnard College; wrote Black Hole Blues and How the Universe Got Its Spots, and directs sciences at Pioneer Works.Mars trilogy, The Ministry for the Future, New York 2140
- 3 thingsJared SpoolCo-founder of Center Centre and founder of UIE; a user-experience researcher and teacher since 1978.Designing for People, Designing Interactions, User and Task Analysis for Interface Design
- 3 thingsJarrett WalkerPublic transit planning consultant; wrote Human Transit and argues that a network's shape follows from what a city decides it wants.Elements of Access, The Witness, Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
- 3 thingsMichael PollanAuthor and journalist writing on food, plants and consciousness; professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of its Center for the Science of Psychedelics.A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, Michael Pollan Teaches Intentional Eating, Food, Inc. 2
- 3 thingsPeter AttiaPhysician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The DriveThe Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor, I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression, Howard Marks Memos
- 3 thingsRob WalkerJournalist and author of The Art of Noticing; writes the newsletter The Art of Noticing (TAoN) on attention and creativity.The Symphony of Silence: An Exploration of the Sound of Absence, Unwilded, 404 Media
- 3 thingsRohit KrishnanWrites Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business.Stubborn Attachments, The Network State, Why We’re Polarized
- 2 thingsBill McKibbenWriter and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature, founded 350.org and Third Act.Patterns, Climate-Colored Goggles
- 2 thingsDean W. BallWrites 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.Astra, Interconnects AI
- 2 thingsEli DouradoEconomist writing on why technological progress slowedFinite and Infinite Games, Snow Crash
- 2 thingsHillel WayneWriter and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It, Data and Reality
- 2 thingsHoward MarksCo-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management; writes the Oaktree memos on markets and investing.A Short History of Financial Euphoria, Devil Take the Hindmost
- 2 thingsLuke WroblewskiProduct designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google.Reve, Augment Code
- 2 thingsMiles BrundageIndependent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.How Big Things Get Done, Policy Entrepreneurship at the White House: Getting Things Done in Large-Scale Governmental Organizations
- 2 thingsNadia AsparouhovaWriter and researcher on how people organise online; wrote Working in Public, on the maintenance of open-source software, and Antimemetics.Jhourney, Rob Burbea's talks
- 2 thingsNassim Nicholas TalebFormer option trader and risk analyst, now a distinguished professor at NYU; author of the Incerto essay series.A History of God, Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs
- 2 thingsNate SilverStatistician and writer; founder of FiveThirtyEight, now writes the Silver Bulletin newsletter and is the author of On the Edge.Pirate Wires, Abundance
- 2 thingsRobin HansonEconomist at George Mason University; writes Overcoming Bias; author of The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter, Fossil Future
- 2 thingsRory SutherlandVice chairman of Ogilvy UK; writes the Wiki Man column in The Spectator.A New Way to Think, The Car
- 2 thingsSteve KlabnikProgrammer and writer; spent a decade on Rust and co-authored The Rust Programming Language.REWORK, Claude
- 2 thingsThorsten BallEngineer at Amp/Sourcegraph. Author of "Writing an Interpreter in Go".The Tiger, The Martian
- 1 thingAdam ToozeEconomic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.Central Banking and Financialization: A Romanian Account of how Eastern Europe became Subprime
- 1 thingAlon LevyWrites Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.The High Cost of Free Parking
- 1 thingAndy BurnhamPrime 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.Pharmacy First
- 1 thingBenedict EvansIndependent technology analyst and writer of Benedict's Newsletter; previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.The Iliad
- 1 thingCamille FournierEngineering leader and writer; wrote The Manager's Path and Platform EngineeringTurn the Ship Around
- 1 thingDerek ThompsonWriter 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.Battle Cry of Freedom
- 1 thingEmily AtkinClimate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019.Retro
- 1 thingGeorge MonbiotGuardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.Into Eternity
- 1 thingHannah RitchieData scientist and deputy editor of Our World in Data; writes the Sustainability by Numbers newsletter and the book Clearing the Air.Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food—and Our Future
- 1 thingJennifer PahlkaAuthor of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.Orbital
- 1 thingJosé Luis RicónWrites Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology and economicsTalent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
- 1 thingJosh BarroWrites Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
- 1 thingJulie ZhuoCo-founder of Sundial; former VP of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.Leah's ProducTea
- 1 thingKent BeckProgrammer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.The Captain Class
- 1 thingLyman StoneDemographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.Silk
- 1 thingMatthew YglesiasWrites Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics
- 1 thingMichael GrunwaldJournalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.The Fifth Risk
- 1 thingMike YingerThe Tiger
- 1 thingRamez NaamAuthor and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.Dream-RSI
- 1 thingSamuel HammondSenior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.Following the Rules: Practical Reasoning and Deontic Constraint
- 1 thingSandi MetzProgrammer and teacher; wrote Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby and 99 Bottles of OOP.lever door handles
- 1 thingStuart RitchiePsychologist and science writer; wrote Science Fictions on how research goes wrongThe Studies Show