Links
Papers, talks, and blogs I keep coming back to.
- 9 Sep 2026 #talk — The GPU Economy — Brad Gerstner and Sunny Madra. Software had near-zero incremental cost of distribution. AI does not: more users burn compute.
- 31 Aug 2026 #talk — Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI — Jeff Dean. Look for something where the model succeeds 0% or 1% of the time, not 20%.
- 29 Aug 2026 #post — There's no speed limit — Derek Sivers. Five lessons, two years of theory. The standard pace is for chumps.
- 23 Aug 2026 #post — How to spot a rocketship startup in AI — Janvi Kalra. Hypergrowth is revenue and the slope, not the valuation. If they will not share the number after an offer, walk.
- 19 Aug 2026 #talk — How We Build Effective Agents — Barry Zhang. An agent is a model using tools in a loop. The object is the trajectory.
- 18 Aug 2026 #post — Agents
- 17 Aug 2026 #talk — Why people think agent is a buzzword but it isn't
- 16 Aug 2026 #talk — Building more effective AI agents
- 14 Aug 2026 #podcast — Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)
- 26 Sep 2025 #podcast — Richard Sutton — Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
- 18 Aug 2024 #paper — The Calculus of Service Availability
- 16 Sep 2021 #post — My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
- 31 Aug 2021 #post — Do I Need to Go to University? — Chris Olah. Instead of asking if university is good, ask whether you have something more compelling to do.
- 18 Jun 2021 #talk — Why learn Rust when there are no jobs in it?
- 21 Aug 2019 #talk — What the heck is event loop anyway?
- 3 Sep 2018 #post — 12 factor app
- 1 Apr 2018 #paper — MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
- 1 Apr 2018 #paper — The Google File System