Can we have Friday off? Alas, probably not, because the human competitive game is relative not absolute. “If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I should be able to produce the same amount […]
We’ve made honesty too expensive for the people closest to us. “When someone tells me something hard, I’ve trained myself to say “thank you” before I say anything else.” Brent Beshore argues that defensiveness quietly teaches people to stop being […]
The Al knowledge work stack. “The title of software engineer is going to start to go away not because engineers aren’t needed but because what was traditionally three roles (engineering, product, design) are going to become a single role.” Taylor […]
CS Lewis on the value of reading old books “It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” ~ learn more
Talking to 35 strangers at the gym. “The solution was to approach the person as quickly as possible so that I didn’t have time to think about running away.” A lonely guy runs a one month experiment: talk to one […]
If you can’t get a job today, it’s your fault. An aggressive title to an article that otherwise makes a good point. “the most valuable thing a 22 year old can do in 2026 is create something.” The argument: the […]
What really won the trillion-dollar tariff Supreme Court case. “After enlisting the help of four unlikely coaches — and one secret weapon he hasn’t told anyone about until now — he walked into the courtroom ready for anything.” Neal Kumar […]
Outsource thinking, not understanding. “You can outsource your thinking, but you can’t outsource your understanding.” Karpathy’s update on “vibe coding” is that the real skill is developing taste for directing messy, agent-like LLM systems without fooling yourself about what you […]
A team appeared out of nowhere. “All of a sudden, in the slides there were a new team.” Aleix Morgadas on what happens when leadership adds a CX team based on an old operating model, then wonders why the dashboard […]
All writers will end up AI-maxxing. “AI is so beneficial to writers and content creators that people will have no choice but to use it.” Hanania argues the real line is not human vs AI, it’s whether you verify claims […]