It also explains why every former engineering manager I know is on fire right now, building from a privileged starting point.

The chaos of the idea maze... "The thing you're building might be in there. You won't know until more marble falls away"

For any adult, especially anyone with a creative or entrepreneurial disposition, I want you to genuinely imagine sitting through an entire typical school day. Go put yourself in a seventh grade classroom. Follow the schedule. Change classes when the bell rings. Ask permission to

“The unpredictability of the content of future knowledge is a necessary condition for the unlimited growth of that knowledge” David Deutsch

Small teams

Finally added a "Bookshelf" page on my website

What every vertical SaaS founder should be reflecting on in 2026: "The same thing that makes exploration customers bad customers – slowness, unwillingness to adopt technology – makes them very attractive competitors, if your tech actually works as well as you say it does"

Our kids are going to grow up in a world where B.C. refers to “Before Claude”

Suhail It was all distillation until here anyways, just different sources

It feels too late and too early at the same time

Incredible that this was written in 1958

I love this and wish more people would share theirs. I split my books into 3 tiers

"When you’re reading a book and you’re confused, that con fusion is similar to the pain you get in the gym when you’re working out. But you’re building mental muscles instead of physical muscles. Learn how to learn and read the books" (Naval)

We can talk all day about how these models are going to produce so much good and produce value. And I think they will. But the reality is many of my buddies are unemployed, can't seem to find jobs, and continue to send 1,000 resumes a week on LinkedIn. This is even worse for new

this is winning

the most underrated hire right now is a great product person. when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone

My biggest takeaways from Qasar Younis: 1. The real AI revolution over the next 5 to 10 years will happen in the physical world, not in software. While everyone obsesses over ChatGPT, Claude and coding agents, the real impact will come from autonomous vehicles, mining robots, and

"AI today is where the web was in 1996 and 1997, so there are lots of ideas and acronyms floating around that won’t work" Benedict Evans