Essays, profiles, and reading notes on strategy, operations, and AI.
Twenty recurring lessons from 2,463 profiles, organized around choosing what matters, building, leading, deciding under uncertainty, and making work last. Each principle connects people across disciplines and includes a practical limit or tradeoff.
Read the article: What 2,463 Profiles Taught Me About Building, Leading, and LivingMost leaders try to make a layoff humane by making it smaller.
Hero culture is what happens when a growing company borrows scale from a few people’s private context—and rewards them for repeatedly rescuing the system.
As Vice President of Research at OpenAI, Mia Glaese leads teams focused on model alignment, human data, and capability evaluations.
Amanda Kahlow founded 6sense and grew it past $100 million in revenue before taking a five year break. She recently returned to build 1mind, a startup replacing traditional sales funnels with conversational AI agents.
Felix Rieseberg leads engineering for Anthropic's Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop, drawing on his background as a core maintainer of the Electron framework.
Joshua Achiam is an AI researcher who served as OpenAI's Head of Mission Alignment before becoming the company's Chief Futurist.
How Comma uses agent-written eBPF programs and low-cost decision models to replace continuous polling with lightweight event filtering. Standard agent loops waste tokens when polling event streams during quiet hours.