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.
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.
Walden Yan co founded Cognition AI, the company behind the autonomous coding agent Devin. A former competitive programming champion, he helped shift AI coding from simple text completion to asynchronous background execution.
How to design persistent AI agents using five core building blocks that maintain continuity without burning tokens continuously. Anthropic details how to build persistent AI agents that sleep between jobs and only wake up for webhooks, scheduled timers, or user input.