Writing

• October 18, 2026Why a differentiated data model is the moat when AI makes code cheap, an Anthropic engineer's guide to using AI more ambitiously, and Paul Krugman on France's…
• October 9, 2026What it takes to secure frontier AI beyond a sandbox, a former OpenAI safety lead who quit over culture, and a case for taking a deep breath about AI risk.
• September 27, 2026What an agent “harness” is, why a chatbot can’t explain itself, and Carly Valancy’s formula for a cold email that creates a connection.
• September 13, 2026One story from three angles this week: the OpenAI agents that built a message board and broke into Hugging Face. A commentator's timeline, an outside…
• September 6, 2026Adam Grant on people pleasing as fear of disapproval rather than kindness, Ink & Switch's case for software that keeps your data on your own device, and a…
• August 30, 2026How Meta's child-safety settlement doubles as a regulatory moat, how Apple's own definition of "tracking" happens to exclude Apple, and what an exposed…
• August 23, 2026What actually makes a note-taking system worth keeping, why network effects keep Wall Street in New York while Hollywood scatters, and how a nationwide camera…
• August 16, 2026Why LLMs infer roles from style instead of tags, how one writer uses AI in her own work, and why watermarking mandates miss that AI is a tool, not an author.
• August 12, 2026Andy Jassy's case for hyperscaler AI capex, Elon Musk's Twitter ad collapse hidden inside SpaceX's earnings, and Meta's on-again open-weight AI strategy.
• August 2, 2026This week's reading is about taking back control from the defaults that quietly decide things for you, whether that's your phone's camera processing, an AI…
• July 26, 2026American labs racing to build open-weight AI models before China's Kimi K3 locks in its lead, the policy fight over banning those Chinese models, and how a…
• July 19, 2026The White House engineering Intel's comeback, memory chipmakers cashing in on the AI boom, and why Apple's privacy crusade might be quietly handing more power…
• July 12, 2026OpenAI's new Mac app buries chat behind confusing "work" branding, Benedict Evans asks whether AI labs keep their pricing power or become commodity…
• July 5, 2026The FDA finally approves a modern sunscreen filter, why bigger homebuilders never get meaningfully meaningful economies of scale, and a workable regulatory…
• June 21, 2026Debunking the AI water panic, why data center opposition is really about fear of job loss, and how a free side project from 2004 became the backbone of how we…
• June 14, 2026Why younger generations skip the savings lecture, why China can't build a jet engine, and what AI at work looks like when the goal isn't cutting jobs.
• June 7, 2026Reading the Maduro capture as strategic rather than political, why the "collaborator" frame for LLMs leads to skill atrophy, and Dean W. Ball's method for…
• May 31, 2026Product management as AI conversation, why coding agents must lower maintenance costs or the speed gains won't stick, and an overstated (but directionally…
• May 24, 2026How Joanna Stern uses AI to handle the data work while keeping the thinking her own, why students outsourcing essays is trouble that shows up later, and how…
• May 17, 2026How ASML built a monopoly no rival can replicate, why your AI architecture matters more than your model, and what Mira Murati's testimony reveals about Sam…
• May 10, 2026Why vice markets can't be free markets, how software is changing to support agent-to-agent interactions, and why using AI to skip the thinking is a trade…
• May 3, 2026What China's historic trade surplus means for it's trading partners, what Claude Design means for Figma's dominance, and why Oracle is the stock market's best…
• April 26, 2026This week's reading list covers Tim Cook's legacy at Apple, what actually matters when building AI agents for high-stakes financial services (hint: not the…
• April 19, 2026We live with access to more information than ever before and less guidance on what to do with it. People aren't built for infinite choice. The skill that…

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Travel

• NashvilleI recently visited Nashville 🎸🏙️, had a great time, and made a list of recommended spots and mapped them out.