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Печальна історія Medium- спалили купу грошей, проспали Substack- а результат лише sub-VC scale business з неясними перспективами. Можливо краще було просто закритися.
Fell in a hole, got out.
Medium’s recap, financial turnaround, and difficult path back to health.
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Rather than having some central architecture or planning committee, decisions are typically made by whichever team plans to do the work.
https://calv.info/openai-reflections
Reflections on OpenAI
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Do the most important thing first thing in the morning
Advice That Actually Worked For Me
My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre.
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Staring into abyss
https://www.benkuhn.net/abyss/
Staring into the abyss as a core life skill
thinking about scary things • examples from Wave • examples from elsewhere • finding a buddy • getting the timing right • a list of abyss questions
www.benkuhn.net
Be like Denmark
Small State Power: Be Like Denmark
In this week’s Europe Dispatch, Minna Ålander writes about how Denmark is showing that even small states can punch far above their weight and lead by example.
phillipspobrien.substack.com
Strategies for learning
https://open.substack.com/pub/andymasley/p/strategies-for-learning
Strategies for learning
Mindset and tools
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"don't say no to several small ideas; say yes to a few big ones"
It’s not prioritization until it hurts
Early in my career, I remember asking the most senior engineer I worked with to join an urgent meeting that week.
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“Avoid creating teams that have a lower priority mission/goals compared to the rest of the org: you just create a team that dies in slow motion.”
Fair but Unequal
Opportunities within companies are all inherently different. Here
staysaasy.com
Context engineering is the new prompt engineering
Context Engineering Guide
Prompt engineering is being rebranded as context engineering
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It’s almost like watching a YouTube livestream of an experienced developer speed running building an application, except that app is exactly what you asked them to build
Phoenix.new is Fly’s entry into the prompt-driven app development space
Here’s a fascinating new entrant into the AI-assisted-programming / coding-agents space by Fly.io, introduced on their blog in Phoenix.new – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix: describe an app in …
simonwillison.net