How Linear Turned Craft Into a B2B Growth Strategy
Linear is an opinionated project management platform designed for high-performing software development and product teams. It was built as an opposition to...
How beehiiv Sold the Morning Brew Playbook to Everyone
At 2 am in his parents’ basement, Tyler Denk drafted a message to Morning Brew cofounder Austin Rief saying he could not complete the work he had accepted....
Five Finds: Crystals in the Dark
The Crystal That Could Destroy All Medicine Sharing Veritasium is a bit of a cheat but this video impressed me too much. Ritonavir was one of the early drugs...
The Game of Consequences
Unintended consequences are one of my favorite topics. I only wish politicians around the world felt the same. Most of them barely consider the immediate...
Five Finds: Unintended Consequences
Enjoying the summer? It’s been going great so far. I’m still hunting for good IMAX seats for the Odyssey and watching YouTube in the meantime. Great Moments...
Five Finds: Terminator 2 and Giant Fungus
I’ve been reading a fantastic article on the practical effects and CGI in Terminator 2, suddenly learned about the ancient living organism and marveling at...
On Moral Panics
“There is not the slightest doubt that bicycle riding, if persisted in, leads to weakness of mind, general lunacy, and homicidal mania,” says The New York...
Five Finds: CEO that Rebuilt America's Army
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
B-52 celestial mechanical computer; Andy Weir comes up with a sci-fi story on the spot.
We Need a New Product Hunt
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
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,...
