Hey there! In the latest blog post, I’ve gathered some fascinating reads that explore macro trends in AI, the art of being an “Expert Generalist,” and practical tips for better context management. Dive into neuroplasticity, tackle user research hurdles, and follow my AI app build journey. Plus, look out for exciting book releases and quirky MacOS icons. It’s a curated selection to spark your curiosity!
- Presentations: Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. New in May 2025, ‘AI eats the world’.
- Expert Generalists: Being an Expert Generalist should be treated as a first-class skill, one that can be assessed and taught.
- How to Fix Your Context: 6 tactics for fixing your context and shipping better agents. As Karpathy says, building LLM-powered apps means learning to ‘pack the context windows just right’—smartly deploying tools, managing information, and maintaining context hygiene.
- 12 Ways to Rewire Your Brain: Beyond the Surface: A journey into the deeper dimensions of neuroplasticity
- Why Organizations Don’t Do User Research and How to Change That: Organizations avoid user research due to excuses like time, cost, and fear of negative feedback, leading to poor product decisions and wasted resources.
- Building My First AI Product: 6 Lessons from My 90-Day Deep Dive: From broken ankle to breakthrough: Building my first AI app in 90 days with lessons on architecture, testing, and improvement.
- How to Make Things Slower So They Go Faster: Synchronized demand is the moment a large cohort of clients acts almost together. In a service with capacity $\mu$ requests per second and background load $\lambda_0$, the usable headroom is $H = \mu – \lambda_0 > 0$. When $M$ clients align—after a cache expiry, at a cron boundary, or
- Fall is books’ biggest season. Expect some long-awaited returns: The upcoming literary season features long-awaited works from big names like Thomas Pynchon, Angela Flournoy and Kiran Desai.
- The Relativity of Wrong:
- The Relativity of Wrong:
- An Illustrated Guide to OAuth: OAuth was first introduced in 2007.
- MacOS 26 Tahoe’s Dead Canary Utility App Icons: These are the not the work of carpenters who care about the backs of the cabinets they’re building. These icons are so bad, they look like the work of untrained “How hard can it be?” dilettante carpenters who only last a few days on the job before sawing off one of their own fingers.
- The Paradox of Routines: The Curiosity Chronicle has quickly become one of the most popular newsletters for growth-minded individuals in the world. Each week, subscribers receive a deep dive that covers topics ranging from growth and decision-making to business, finance, startups, and technology. In addition, subscribers receive The Friday Five, a weekly newsletter with five ideas curated to spark curiosity headed into the weekend.
- Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule: