book clubs

time to read all your bookmarks 📕

creativity + high agency is often unbeatable sfalexandria.com/posts/rileys-i…

“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.” — John Steinbeck

Syed's year-end reviews/reflections make my shortlist every year. Above all, you get the sense of authenticity that you don't usually see on X. Highly recommend the short read syedbalkhi.com/my-2025-year-i…

I turned the Acquired Podcast podcast into a 300-page DIY physical book, thanks to Claude 1. Feed transcript to Claude 2. Get Claude to convert transcript to a business biography chapter, preserving story arc & key quotes, and output as formatted word doc 3. Arrange word doc.

10/10 masterclass in power dynamics

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once you realize no one wants to learn. you will see you have a significant advantage in the market.

extremely well written article on clawdbot. the same learning principles can be applied to any AI tool

real negotiation breakdown with an AI: 1. called out the game early (disarms manipulation) 2. let them make the first offer ($111) 3. didn't counter - asked "how am i supposed to do that?" 4. let silence do the work 5. walked at $30 result: $111 to $30 + recruiting pitch s/o

It’s still just as hard to make a startup, despite vibe-coding and AI coding generally. AI changes 𝘩𝘰𝘸 you write code, but hasn't changed anything else; you still need (a) to find people (b) who actually want to pay for this. If this is shocking news, YNGMI.

one-shot...i mean headshot*

"Everything is changing so fast in AI right now, but if I was going to skate to where the puck is going, it'd be a world where agents, like self-driving cars, don't need special accommodations, like LIDAR or MCPs, to interact with the environment." world.hey.com/david/clankers…

I love a billy that keeps receipts

fun side quests like this seem like the right way to do life. might not have worked out but cool nonetheless

"For reasons I have never understood, people like to hear that the world is going to hell." - Deirdre McCloskey, relevant today.

Really just feel like there is unlimited opportunity everywhere right now Just have to run full speed at something with enough violence for a long enough period of time

A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering. You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored. Homer does something far stranger.

i love accomplishment