Strategy, operations, AI, and company-building
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Essays, profiles, and daily reading notes on strategy, operations, AI adoption, business systems, and GTM.
Popular Series
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Recent Profiles
People worth studying.
Lessons from Joshua Baer
Lessons from Joshua Baer Joshua Baer founded Capital Factory to connect Austin's early stage founders with investors, mentors, and defense programs. He...
Lessons from Charlie O’Neill
Lessons from Charlie O’Neill Charlie O’Neill is an AI researcher, Head of Model Training at Baseten, and a John Monash Scholar at Oxford. His work on LLM...
Lessons from Avery Pennarun
Avery Pennarun is the co founder and CEO of Tailscale, an engineer who spent years at Google Fiber, and a prolific open source contributor known for tools...
Research & Deep Dives
Market, company, and research maps.
Deep Dive
Lakehouse Analytics Platforms: Snowflake Databricks ClickHouse and Open Table Formats — Industry Deep Dive
Lakehouse analytics platforms Executive summary The old warehouse versus lakehouse argument is no longer the most useful way to read the market. The...
Research Explainer Prompt Tuning Stops Working When the Workflow Is the ProblemFAPO uses Claude Code to optimize multi-step LLM pipelines by inspecting intermediate failures, trying prompt fixes first, and changing the workflow only when evidence points to a structural bottleneck.
Research Library Browse the full research layerIndustry maps, company deep dives, papers, reports, and technical shifts worth understanding.
Book Notes
A reference layer from books worth revisiting.
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The Rational Male - Preventive Medicine: Book Summary
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Stray Reflections: Book Summary
Daily Digest
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Daily Digest - 2026-06-19
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Daily Digest - 2026-06-18
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