Reading Archive

EngineAI's T800 punches, kicks, and jumps — and it's for sale today, no moonshot pricing required. Worth a look if you're tracking where enterprise robotics and AI hardware are actually headed.

Nate's quick Substack note pointing to a setup guide for building your own "personal software" — two routes, four files, every account you need. Good rabbit hole if you've been meaning to vibe-code something for yourself.

Seven AI side businesses that each hit $10K+/month, broken down by the pattern behind them instead of the founder story. The takeaway isn't "copy the business" — it's "copy the constraint."

Kinsey Carlson pushes back on treating attention as a resource to hoard, arguing — via Simone Weil and sociologist Hartmut Rosa — that real attention is generosity, something the algorithm can't fake no matter how much engagement it manufactures. Worth a read before your next round of content planning.

Nike just locked in 19 more football players — 11 top high schoolers plus 8 college standouts — deepening the most stacked NIL roster in the sport. Less a sports story, more a case study in brand power: Nike buying mindshare with the next generation before anyone else gets the chance.

Substack's new interview series asks working writers how they actually use AI, no hand-waving. Taylor Lorenz opens it by admitting she's lost a quarter of her income to readers using AI instead of her newsletter, then walks through her own AI-assisted workflow anyway. Honest look at where AI is displacing paid work versus just assisting it.

A cheat sheet of keyword triggers — type TRUTHMODE, REDTEAM, FIRSTPRINCIPLES, and more — that instantly shift ChatGPT's tone and angle. Bookmarking a few of these for client work.

A tight 3-prompt chain to surface a business idea from skills you already have, stress-test it, then force AI to pick one winner instead of a list of maybes. About 10 minutes, no fluff.

Contrarian take: as open models go free and massive, memory — not compute — becomes the bottleneck, and Apple's unified-memory Macs are quietly better positioned than NVIDIA's GPUs to run them at home. Bold, well-argued, worth the debate.

The real gap between a slick agent demo and something that survives production: harness design, context management, guardrails, evals. Solid checklist if you're building agentic workflows for clients.

A ready-made 6-prompt chain for turning ChatGPT into a review manager — audit, respond, recover angry customers, even spy on competitors. Practical if you want to automate reputation work for the shops.

A quick Substack note pointing to a 15-minute breakdown of vibe-coding and Claude Managed Agents, straight from a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Worth bookmarking for the weekend.

Stocks rarely move alone — they move with their sector. Using semiconductors (SMH down 3.9% this week) as the case study, a simple reminder to read sector flow before judging any single stock.

When anyone can build software, PMs have to shift from rationing engineering to governing which prototypes deserve production. Nate lays out a four-state ladder that makes that call cleaner. Relevant if you're a PM figuring out your role in an AI-first world.

Anthropic's latest flagship model drops with better benchmarks, effort control in claude.ai, dynamic workflows in Claude Code, and fast mode now 3x cheaper. If you're building with AI, this matters.

When anyone can build software, PMs have to shift from rationing engineering to governing which prototypes deserve production. Nate lays out a four-state ladder that makes that call cleaner. Relevant if you're a PM figuring out your role in an AI-first world.

A sharp look at what happens to skilled work — not just routine jobs — as agentic AI keeps climbing the benchmark ladder. Worth reading if you're thinking about where your career fits in all of this.

A quick Substack note from Nate B. Jones worth catching. Short but it stuck with me this week.