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A snapshot of what I'm curious about these days.
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Learning
AI feels like the biggest shift I'll experience in my career, so I'm trying to understand it past the demos and the hype. Less "how do I prompt better." More "how does this change the economics of software, work, and small business over the next decade."
I don't have answers yet. I'm collecting better questions.
Reading
Bouncing between blogs and books this month.
Paul Graham's essays, for writing about building things that matter, not just startups.
Simon Willison, for practical, in-public experimentation with AI and software.
Ethan Mollick, for how AI actually changes everyday work rather than replacing it.
Ben Thompson's Stratechery, for the business-strategy lens on why tech companies win or lose.
Gwern's long-form essays, for what careful internet research looks like, though not because I agree with all of it.
- The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman
- Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
- Code by Charles Petzold
- The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
Trying to build fundamentals instead of chasing every new release.
Thinking about
A few trends I'm watching, because I think they'll matter over the next few years:
- AI becoming infrastructure, not just a product
- Small teams building what used to take dozens of people
- Software getting cheaper to build while distribution gets more valuable
- Knowledge work shifting from finding information to asking good questions
I'm curious which of these hold up.