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davekiss.com

Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper

In a world where ideas are cheap and software is cheaper, what truly matters now?

shreyasdoshi.substack.com

10 ideas for 2026

Thinking is the foundation of everything we do and, for most of us that foundation has many cracks.

alearningaday.blog

Fall in love with your new reality

Sometimes our role in life isn’t to judge something—it is to figure out how to fall in love with it.

uxdesign.cc

A product manager’s 48 reflections on 2025

The year when AI stopped feeling like just a tool and started to feel more like a mirror.

thealgorithmicbridge.com

The shape of artificial intelligence

They say the shape of things only becomes legible at a distance.

linear.app

Design is more than code

Design as a search, not a pipeline. How tools carry opinions, and how those opinions shape what feels “reasonable” to attempt.

anildash.com

They have to be able to talk about us without us

Is it simply impossible to effectively tell a story at scale if you don’t have massive resources?

taylor.town

How to win titular metagames

Good titles permit readers to quickly estimate the relative value of articles, essays, videos, etc. Everybody wins when titles are accurate.

grahamduncan.blog

What’s going on here, with this human?

Recommendations about candidate selection based on thousands of assessments and a somewhat obsessive interest in the topic.

sh-reya.com

On the consumption of AI-generated content at scale

“I might be going insane because half of what I read now sounds like ChatGPT.”

notboring.co

Hardware is a fruit

One of the tensions at the heart of capitalism: trying to do the “right thing” is disadvantageous.

pjonori.blog

Public design systems are worth it

It’s incredibly valuable to make a design system available to all–no matter what the bean-counters say.

aeon.co

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too.

tensorlabbet.com

It’s hard to feel the AGI

A reality check from leading researchers.

scopeofwork.net

On factory tours

How factory tours connect people to how things are made, despite rising barriers.

brookings.edu

We should all be Luddites

Rehabilitating the idea of Luddites as people concerned with the control and impact of technology.

doc.cc

Critique

On elevating craft through critical thinking.

travers.fyi

Durable consumables

How accelerating tech progress compresses the economic lives of objects, and what we lose when fewer things are built to last.

hidde.blog

Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?

When people stop visiting websites directly, they're filtering content through an opaque system.

baldurbjarnason.com

The dichotomy of print versus the web

Two very different technologies whose relationship is complicated at best.