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Complexity Has to Live Somewhere
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Product-Driven AI Research
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The Pocket Guide of Essential YC Advice
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Three Rules for Making a Company Truly Great
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100 rules for NASA project management
Canonical Everything
How to run a season-based project
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NASA technology readiness levels (TRL)
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Taiichi Ohno's Principles for Waste
Tasks - what they are, and how to break them down
The 4 cores of clarity
The difference between Simple, Complicated and Complex tasks
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A Visual Guide to Quantization
Algorithms we develop software by
BrianDouglas.ie - Sensible SQLite defaults
Critical batch size in ML training
Developer Philosophy
Making Deep Learning go Brrrr From First Principles
Multi-armed bandits 20 lines of code that will beat AB testing every time
Programming languages for startups
Rules of Machine Learning from Google for Developers
Simple, effective load balancing
Technical strategy needs to be moored to business strategy
The Twelve-Factor App
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering at Stedi
Your best self
103 bits of advice from Kevin Kelly
35 Simple Health Tips Experts Swear By
40 questions to ask yourself every year
6 life lessons from Marcus Aurelius
Happiness
How to learn
The Well-Lived Life
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bookmarks
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ably.com - How we built an AI-first culture at Ably
ably.com - Realtime steering interrupt, barge-in, redirect, and guide the AI
ably.com - What we learned from leaders building agentic AI at scale
ably.com - Why orchestrators become a bottleneck in multi-agent AI
AI as Normal Technology
AI Product Manager Playbook
AINews Softbank, NVIDIA and US Govt take 2 percent, 5 percent and 10 percent of Intel, will develop Intel x86 RTX SOCs for consumer & datacenters
albartlett.org - English transcript of Arithmetic, Population and Energy - a talk by Al Bartlett on the impossibility of exponential growth on a finite planet
andyljones.com - Horses
another.rodeo - Feedback doesn't scale
anthropic.com - Building Effective AI Agents
anthropic.com - Introducing Anthropic Interviewer
anthropic.com - Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
appliedaiformops.com - Atlas Building an Autonomous Agent That Remembers
appliedaiformops.com - What Building A Persistent AI Agent Taught Me About LLM Behavior
arxiv.org -
asmartbear.com - Creating space
bearblog.dev - How prompt caching works - Paged Attention and Automatic Prefix Caching plus practical tips
bearblog.dev - My Experience With Claude Code After 2 Weeks of Adventures
bearblog.dev - Shape Rotation 101 An Intro to Einsum and Jax Transformers
beehiiv.com - Vibe prototyping isn't solving problems. It's creating new ones.
benedict.dev - Closing the Software Loop
benkuhn.net - How I've run major projects
benkuhn.net - No one can teach you to have conviction
blackboxofpm.com - 7 Heuristics for being a Product Director
blackboxofpm.com - Deadlines
blackboxofpm.com - Product Management Mental Models for Everyone
blackboxofpm.com - Ruthless Prioritization
blackboxofpm.com - The Black Box of Product Management
blackboxofpm.com - The First Principles of Product Management
bramjetten.dev - The One-Person Framework in practice
cate.blog - Getting More Strategic
cendyne.dev - A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team
chrbutler.com - What AI is Really For - Christopher Butler
creatoreconomy.so - So What's Going to Happen to Product Management Anyway
damninteresting.com - Dead Reckoning
danluu.com - What to learn
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
darioamodei.com - Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
derekthompson.org - How to Sound Like an Expert in Any AI Bubble Debate
discovery.org - Metcalf’s Law and Legacy
donellameadows.org - Leverage Points Places to Intervene in a System
dwarkesh.com - Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
eleganthack.com - UX Is Your Moat (And You’re Ignoring It)
epoch.ai - Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R&D
excel.holdings - Systems of Action and the Dominos Pizza Tracker Product Model
fleetwood.dev - You could have designed state of the art Positional Encoding
fredkozlowski.com - Running a Business Means Contact With Reality
github.com - addyosmanigemini-cli-tips Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks
github.io - A Dive into LLM Quantization
github.io - How to Calculate LLM Model Parameter Size - Dense Model
github.io - How to Calculate LLM Model Parameter Size - MoE Model
github.io - Performance Hints
github.io - The Differences between Deep Research, Deep Research, and Deep Research
github.io - The Next 1000x Cost Saving of LLM
github.io - Transformers Laid Out
github.io - Understand Autograd - A Bottom-up Tutorial
github.io - Understanding LLM System with 3-layer Abstraction
glama.ai - Implementing Distributed Tracing and Token Analytics in MCP Agents using OTel
grahamyooll.com - Try to Take My Position The Best Promotion Advice I Ever Got - AGY
hamel.dev - A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products – Hamel’s Blog - Hamel Husain
hbr.org - Increasing Returns and the New World of Business
hbr.org - The Making of a Corporate Athlete
higashi.blog - AI should only run as fast as we can catch up · Higashi.blog
horace.io - Making Deep Learning go Brrrr From First Principles
How to organize a software architecture proposal document
How To Write a Working Backwards Doc tig.log
huggingface.co - One Year Since the “DeepSeek Moment”
huggingface.co - Tensor Parallelism (TP) in Transformers 5 Minutes to Understand
huggingface.co - The Smol Training Playbook The Secrets to Building World-Class LLMs - a Hugging Face Space by HuggingFaceTB
humanlayer.dev - Writing a good CLAUDE
iankduncan.com - The CRDT Dictionary A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types - Ian Duncan
interconnected.org - Context plumbing
interconnects.ai - 2025 Open Models Year in Review
jonready.com - Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready
justinmath.com - Advice on Upskilling
justoffbyone.com - The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work
kindel.com - Leading by Fitness Functions tig.log
kindel.com - The Secret to Giving Feedback Without Triggering Defensiveness tig.log
langchain.dev - How to think about agent frameworks
langchain.dev - MCP Flash in the Pan or Future Standard
languagemodels.co - The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
lenovo.com - Lenovo LLM Sizing Guide
lesswrong.com - On the Rationality of Deterring ASI — LessWrong
maartengrootendorst.com - A Visual Guide to LLM Agents
maartengrootendorst.com - A Visual Guide to Mixture of Experts (MoE)
maartengrootendorst.com - A Visual Guide to Quantization
martinalderson.com - Has the cost of building software just dropped 90 percent
mckaywrigley.com - My Thoughts on Claude Opus 4.5
Memes
minimaxir.com - Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation
minimaxir.com - The Best Way to Use Text Embeddings Portably is With Parquet and Polars
mironov.com - What We Need in a VP of Product Management
mironov.com - What’s A Vice President of Product Management
mmc.vc - Agentic Enablers The invisible hands shaping the agent economy
mmc.vc - Agentic Enablers Treating AI’s amnesia and other disorders
mmc.vc - Agentic Enablers Working through AI’s insecurity and identity crisis
mmc.vc - State of Agentic AI Founder’s edition
muledesign.com - Brainstorm Questions Not Ideas
nateliason.com - De-Atomization is the Secret to Happiness
nickyoder.com - Beyond Orthogonality How Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12,000 Dimensions
Nine-Things-I-Learned-in-Ninety-Years
normaltech.ai - AGI is not a milestone
notesfromthecircus.com - Why I’m Betting Against the AGI Hype
OAuth's Role in MCP Security
OCTO Idea Hubs
openai.com - What makes a great ChatGPT app
openrouter.ai - State of AI
oxide.computer - 576 - Using LLMs at Oxide RFD Oxide
philschmid.de - Why (Senior) Engineers Struggle to Build AI Agents
platformonomics.com - How will Oracle pay for its hyperscaler dreams
posthog.com - 50 things we’ve learned about building successful products
posthog.com - 8 learnings from 1 year of agents – PostHog AI - PostHog
posthog.com - Why we killed our AI product assistant
Product Market Fit Collapse from AI
promp.td - It’s Always the Process, Stupid!
proofofconcept.pub - How Product Discovery changes with AI
quantamagazine.org - When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field An Oral History
quarter--mile.com - Startup Equity 101 — Quarter Mile
randsinrepose.com - Become the Consequence
randsinrepose.com - The Loop
redblobgames.com - Let’s write a search engine, part 1 of 2
rufflewind.com - Reverse-mode automatic differentiation a tutorial - Rufflewind's Scratchpad
saastr.com - Our 20+ AI Agents and Their Moats Real But Weak
saastr.com - The Best AI Startups Do the Training For You. It’s On You to Make the Agent Awesome — Not Your Customers.
Sam Schillace's Sunday Letters
seangoedecke.com - How I ship projects at big tech companies
simonwillison.net - A quote from Will Larson
sshh.io - How Cursor (AI IDE) Works
StartupCTOHandbook
staysaasy.com - How to Be a Senior Leader
staysaasy.com - The Precise Language Of Good Management
staysaasy.com - The Two Jobs of a CPO
Stop Answering the Wrong Question Unlock Your True Work Happiness tig.log
stratechery.com - Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI
stratechery.com - TSMC Risk
Strategy is not the same as planning - Vaughn Tan
substack.com - 21 Lessons from 14 Years at Google
substack.com - 3 Years of ChatGPT
substack.com - A Lean Approach to AI Case to Withstand Existing Gaps in AI Adoption Strategies
substack.com - Clouded Judgement 1.23.26 - The Year of Multi-Modal
substack.com - How I Bankrupted Two Companies
substack.com - How to craft a political message
substack.com - On (Not) Feeling the AGI
substack.com - Revisiting Clarity of Thought
substack.com - Revisiting Minsky’s Society of Mind in 2025
substack.com - SaaS, widely misunderstood ($CSU.TO, $TOI.V, $ADBE, $UBER, $CRM)
surfingcomplexity.blog - Because coordination is expensive
svpg.com - The VP Product Role
swinburne.edu.au - How to unshrink clothes
taranis.ie - LLMs are a failure. A new AI winter is coming.
The 5Ps Achieving Focus in Any Endeavor tig.log
The Middle Innings of AI
The psychology of leakers
thecreativeindependent.com - Multi-disciplinary artist Jack Rusher on the need to sustain your creative drive in the face of technological change – The Creative Independent
thestartupmanifesto.com - THE Startup Manifesto
theverge.com - Is language the same as intelligence The AI industry desperately needs it to be
timkellogg.me - The Levels of Agentic Coding
timkellogg.me - Viable Systems How To Build a Fully Autonomous Agent
transformer-circuits.pub - On the Biology of a Large Language Model
Transformers the Google scientists who pioneered an AI revolution
transistor.fm - Transcript 12 Director of Microsoft Research talks AI for Science - Chris Bishop
turingpost.com - 🎙️Inside a Chinese AI Lab How MiniMax Builds Open Models
vaughntan.org - Good strategy understands affect, not just cognition - Vaughn Tan
vercel.com - Eval-driven development Build better AI faster
vintagedata.org - A Realistic AI Timeline Vintage Data
vintagedata.org - Actual LLM agents are coming Vintage Data
vintagedata.org - Synthetic Pretraining Vintage Data
vintagedata.org - Synthetic Pretraining Vintage Data 1
vintagedata.org - The Model is the Product Vintage Data
vintagedata.org - Training as we know it will end Vintage Data
vintagedata.org - What's the deal with mid-training Vintage Data
Why Should Anyone Be Led by You
wquist.com - What TAM should actually tell you
wreflection.com - AI's Dial-Up Era
wreflection.com - Wrapping My Head Around AI Wrappers
writingsbyraykurzweil.com - the Law of Accelerating Returns. « the Kurzweil Library
yakkomajuri.com - So you wanna build a local RAG
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