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Daniel Lemire

Faster Than You Think: Essays on Thinking Better and Building Faster

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For nearly two decades, computer scientist Daniel Lemire has written about how good work actually gets done—how to choose problems worth solving, how to learn hard material, and why the future is more malleable than pessimism allows. Faster Than You Think gathers forty-three of those essays into a single book built on one temperament: respect evidence, distrust slogans, and keep building. Part I takes up intellectual productivity : why creative people run out of energy long before they run out of hours, why the best students find questions rather than answers, and why we often see something work before we understand why. Part II makes the case for techno-optimism as a conclusion rather than a wish, examining scientific institutions, artificial intelligence, and the models of innovation we take for granted. A closing section turns the same lens on software itself: whether performance still matters when hardware is fast, why chasing hotspots is not enough, and what habits separate durable systems from fragile ones. Written by a performance engineer whose algorithms run inside databases, browsers, and production systems worldwide, these essays require no specialized background, only curiosity about how clear thinking compounds over a career.

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Daniel Lemire is a computer science professor at the Université du Québec (TELUQ). He is among the 2% most cited scientists in the world (Stanford University/Elsevier rankings, 2024). He has also been a research officer at the National Research Council of Canada and an entrepreneur. He has written over 80 peer-reviewed publications, including more than 55 journal articles. He has held competitive research grants for the last 20 years. He is editor of the Software: Practice and Experience journal, established in 1971. He serves on the program committees of leading computer science conferences (e.g., ACM CIKM, WWW, ACM WSDM, ACM SIGIR, ACM RecSys). His software is used by major corporations like Apple, Google and Facebook. He received the University of Quebec’s 2020 Award of Excellence for Achievement in Research (all fields) for his work on the acceleration of JSON parsing. He programs in C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Swift and Go. He works primarily in an open-source setting. Daniel Lemire is among the 1000 most followed programmers in the world on GitHub; GitHub has over 100 million developers.