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Five Finds: CEO that Rebuilt America's Army
June 15, 2026
I’m still reading Tom Holland’s book on WWII, and there’s so much great stuff in there. From little personal stories to bios of insanely impressive people....
How to Solve AI's Messaging Problem
June 9, 2026
Today, AI is being framed as an entity that takes away things: jobs, chips, energy, water, or even creativity. Right as the major labs are about to go...
Five Finds: Yamaha Makes Everything
June 1, 2026
Coming to you with some great stories. Finally learned why Japanese companies tend to produce vast amounts of unrelated things like pianos and motorcycles....
Strata is a Minimal Native Outliner for MacOS
May 30, 2026
Strata is a new outliner app for MacOS that I’ve built. It’s completely native and only 2.5 MB. You can get it here. I wrote about outliners extensively in...
Five Finds: The Heart and the Languages
May 18, 2026
Writing this from sunny Barcelona after I ate an ungodly amount of food. Naturally, our first item today is a guide on how not to die from a heart disease....
The Age of the Polymath
May 14, 2026
I’ve tried working in so many areas. I used to code and wanted to become a developer. I did a bit of design. I love photography. I did venture investing. The...
Five Finds: Burned Fleet and Lightning
May 11, 2026
Good Monday, everyone! 500 Years Ago, China Destroyed Its World-Dominating Navy In the 1400s, China owned the greatest seagoing fleet in the world, up to...
Five Finds: Vintage AI and Evolution
May 6, 2026
Today, we have an LLM from the 1930s, crazy evolutionary details about the mantis shrimp, and the history of the openai.com domain, among other things....
Readr, Safari-like Reading Mode for Chrome
April 29, 2026
One thing that Safari does well is its Reading Mode. The people who built it are brilliant, and no other browser can truly match the beauty and seamlessness....
Five Finds: Rome's Industry and Horses
April 27, 2026
Why Rome Never Industrialized Rome lacked not machinery but the cultural and economic conditions that let ideas and engineering reinforce each other. I...
Five Finds: B-52 and Hail Mary's Science
April 19, 2026
B-52 celestial mechanical computer; Andy Weir comes up with a sci-fi story on the spot.
We Need a New Product Hunt
April 18, 2026
This is Product Hunt’s main page today. 4 out of 5 places are taken by extremely large companies that need little promotion: Anthropic, Google, Cloudflare...
Five Finds: Color TVs and Homemade Soda
April 13, 2026
NASA Image and Video Library If you need new wallpapers, NASA have great shots from the Artemis 2 mission. Eclipse photos, lunar imagery, mission footage,...
Why I've Built Syndicator
April 8, 2026
Over the last two months, I’ve done all my news reading through Syndicator. It’s an app I built, and I’m releasing it to the public now. Syndicator is a...
Five Finds: iPhones to the Moon
April 6, 2026
How iPhones Found Their Way to Space Artemis's expedition is the first time astronauts have access to recent iPhones they can use as their cameras. We will...
The State of Media 2026
March 26, 2026
In 2026, first-time founders don’t want to get on TechCrunch. They want TBPN. The Decline in Numbers News publications are down on traffic and laying off...
Shiori, A Novel Bookmarking App
March 17, 2026
Bookmarking apps are a cursed category. So many attempts, so many failures. Remember Pocket? Omnivore? All buried under the sands of indifference. And I can...
AI Won’t Kill SaaS But It Might Kill The Messy Middle
March 16, 2026
AI won’t kill the SaaS models. OpenAI itself famously runs on Slack and uses countless off-the-shelf tools. There’s simply no point in rebuilding key apps...
Five Finds: Fighting Dog Cancer with ChatGPT
March 16, 2026
Hope you had a great weekend everyone. And I'm sure you could have seen this dog story but I can't avoid sharing it regardless, it's too inspiring. Paul is...
Five Finds: Jony Ive's Ferrari
February 10, 2026
Hey team! Turns out writing a weekly email is hard. And I have a quality bar. Last week it didn't make it. I vow to never send you a boring email. Meaning...
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