Technologist, entrepreneur and aspiring alpha geek with a passion for the quantified self, health and fitness.
What I've Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
BTI360 teammate Joel Goldberg recently retired after working in the software industry for over four decades. When he left he shared with our team some of the lessons he learned over his career. With his...
Are We Really Engineers?
This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the kind that made me envious of suburbanites and their 75,000 BTU woks. But now he was the test subject for my new project, to see if it was going to be fruitful or a waste of time.
Hugo Richard
Software Engineer & Designer at Vercel. Working every day to make the world a little better, or at least a few people's lives a little simpler.
How People Work, Live! ... with Jim Ray
Former Tesla AI boss Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic.
Karpathy, who had also been on the founding team of OpenAI, says he will be working on R&D at Anthropic. Previously, he had been working on “new kind of school that is AI native,” and he says he’s still “deeply passionate about education” and plans to go back to it “in time.” [Image: A screenshot of an X post from Andrej Karpathy. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-19-at-8.38.56AM.png?quality=90&strip=all]
Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement?
A former Google engineer and the founder of stealth AI startup Extropic, is behind the Twitter account leading the “effective accelerationism” movement sweeping Silicon Valley.
Taylor Owen
Academic, writer and podcast host working on media, digital technology and public policy.
Ed Stone - Founder, Entrepreneur, Fractional CTO.
I'm Ed Stone, an Engineering leader, Founder, Fractional CTO and full-stack developer, based in Vancouver, BC.
Diego Vicente
Data Scientist. I like music, keyboards and Legos. Proficient in pop culture references and xkcd.
Anatomy of an A+: A Look Inside the Process of One of the World's Most Efficient Studiers - Cal Newport
Scott Young’s Graduation Gift to Study Hacks I have to give credit to Scott Young: it was talking blogs with him back in 2007 that ... Read more
Eric M.
Over eight years at Amazon leading AI engineering teams, now co owner of Women Travel Tribe, splitting the year between Bangkok and Istanbul, living out of one bag since 2012.
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The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites
I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation. Here's the column: On Instagram, there’s an activist named Brian Patrick (@pano.
A forty-year career.
The Silicon Valley narrative centers on entrepreneurial protagonists who are poised one predestined step away from changing the world. A decade ago they were heroes, and more recently they’ve become villains, but either way they are absolutely the protagonists. Working within the industry, I’ve worked with quite a few non-protagonists who experience their time in technology differently: a period of obligatory toil required to pry open the gate to the American Dream.
Phillip M. Alday
I was a struggling mathematician, then a linguist and now a (cognitive) neuroscientist, but will probably always be a hacker. I also moonlight as an applied statistician. These are some of the things I’ve done along the way.