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Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager

Why read thisStrong product management means accountable ownership of outcomes, not coordination, excuse-making, informal opinions, or unmanaged feature pressure.

Training note · Summary available

Choose what to buildProduct strategy
a16z.com via Sachin Rekhi’s PM canon June 2012
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Beyond vibe checks: A PM’s complete guide to evals

Why read thisEvals define what “good” means for variable AI outputs and isolate whether system changes help or damage behavior.

Practical guide · Subscription required · Some background helpful · Summary available

Use AI at workEvaluation & verification
Lenny's Newsletter via Editor’s archive · Raindrop April 2025
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Leaders, beware of creating restructuring wreckage. Tips to minimize the fallout

Why read thisPetty separates strategy-driven restructuring from political box-moving and the operational wreckage leaders often ignore afterward.

Management essay · Summary available

Lead teamsOrganisational design
Art Petty — Management Excellence August 2026
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Many ways to win

Why read thisCompetitive advantage is a repertoire of survival mechanisms, not one ideal trait, with biology and business showing overlapping patterns.

Reference list · About 6 min · publisher estimate · Summary available

Think strategicallyCompetitive advantage
stephango.com via Editor’s selections November 2023
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TBM 274: How Capable Leaders Navigate Uncertainty and Ambiguity

Why read thisComplex leadership depends on observable capabilities shaped by the environment, not vague traits someone simply possesses.

Capability guide · Some background helpful · Summary available

Lead teamsEngineering leadership
The Beautiful Mess — John Cutler via Editor’s selections February 2024
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High Agency in 30 Minutes

Why read thisHigh agency means treating reality as shapeable through clear thinking, action before certainty, and resistance to refusal.

Long-form essay · Summary available

Make better decisionsAgency & leverage
highagency.com via Editor’s archive · Raindrop April 2026
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Underrated reasons to be thankful

Why read thisGratitude can reach background conditions like cooperation, inherited knowledge, love, consciousness, and understanding, while keeping some claims speculative or corrected.

Reflective list · Summary available

Broaden my perspectivePhilosophy & meaning
dynomight.net via Editor’s archive · Raindrop January 2026
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I like 'em thick

Why read thisThickness names why some works keep yielding under attention while thinner ones collapse when inspected.

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Think more creativelyCreativity & expression
Experimental History August 2026
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Lost confidence

Why read thisConfidence scores can distort startup product priorities by treating uncertainty like probability and penalizing ambitious work.

Some background helpful · Summary available

Choose what to buildPrioritisation & roadmaps
Jason Cohen — Long Form June 2026
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And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep

Why read thisWei argues that feed quality follows from graph architecture: social graphs create different failures than interest graphs.

Summary available

Think strategicallyProduct strategy
Eugene Wei — Remains of the Day October 2021
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Impact, agency, and taste

Why read thisKuhn separates high-leverage technical work into agency that drives outcomes and taste that chooses bets worth pursuing.

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Execute effectivelyAgency & leverage
Ben Kuhn April 2025
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Seeing Like a State

Why read thisSimplified metrics make organizations manageable, then become dangerous when leaders forget the model excludes local, practical knowledge.

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Think strategicallySystems thinking
Mike Fisher August 2026
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Why Tactical Decision Games Work

Why read thisTDGs accelerate adaptive expertise by forcing repeated frame construction under realistic decision pressure.

Learn effectivelyLearning & expertise
Commoncog (Cedric Chin) August 2026
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Make no assumptions.

Why read thisAI-assisted work can stack flawed reasoning layers unless leaders inspect premises and keep play separate from production.

Use AI at workAI-assisted engineering
Will Larson — Irrational Exuberance July 2026
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There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy

Why read thisPeople may be increasingly alone without feeling proportionately lonely, because social regulation may miss deprivation under modern conditions.

Summary available

Build better relationshipsRelationships & connection
Experimental History September 2026
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What's the best programming language for coding agents?

Why read thisAgent-friendly programming-language claims look weaker once larger evaluations expose harness bugs, task framing, cheating, and idiosyncratic failures.

Some background helpful · Summary available

Use AI at workAI-assisted engineering
Dan Luu August 2026
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A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World

Why read thisBarrett and Miller treat categorization as predictive, body-wide compression shaped by energy needs, not stored labels.

Mind & cognition
quantamagazine.org via Quanta Magazine August 2026
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AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy

Why read thisAI enthusiasts and skeptics may both be reacting to real threats, with gains and downstream costs visible to different groups.

Some background helpful · Summary available

Use AI at workAI-assisted engineering
Charity Majors June 2026
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AI, tools and transformation

Why read thisAI changes enterprise software thresholds, but transformation still depends on finding, institutionalizing, and governing workflows.

Think strategicallyBusiness models & distribution
Benedict Evans September 2026
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Amazon.com - Shareholder Letter, 1997

Why read thisLong-term market leadership is treated as central to shareholder value, even over short-term profitability.

Build a businessProduct strategy
media.corporate-ir.net via Sachin Rekhi’s PM canon
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Arabic has four words for sadness. Philosophy explains why

Why read thisArabic terms for distress locate suffering in time, body, spirit, memory, regret and theology, not generic sadness alone.

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Live more deliberatelyEmotions & wellbeing
Psyche August 2026
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Hardening Container Images

Why read thisContainer hardening means reducing exploitable surface, post-compromise execution, unnoticed drift, and unverifiable builds, not merely shrinking an image.

Technical reading · Summary available

Build safer systemsSecurity & privacy
grepular.com via Lobsters September 2026
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Hatchet

Why read thisPostgres reliability depends on designing around indexes, locks, planner estimates, connection costs, dead tuples, and migration blocking.

Some background helpful · Summary available

Build better softwareDistributed systems & data
hatchet.run
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How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer

Why read thisStaff-level problem finding starts with repeated organizational friction, then tests whether patterns reveal a real root problem.

Some background helpful · Summary available

Choose what to buildProduct discovery
lalitm.com via Lalit Maganti July 2026
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How to name things

Why read thisNames are compressed explanations of system meaning, and choosing them can expose hidden ambiguities in data models and behavior.

Some background helpful · Summary available

Build better softwareSoftware quality
kolemannix.com
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How we meet the future

Why read thisGeneralising may be unavoidable; the danger lies in coarse, false, or costly stereotypes that still shape individual treatment.

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Make better decisionsJudgment & uncertainty
Aeon August 2026
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LLM Security Basics: The Full Threat Model

Why read thisLLM security stems from blurred instruction/data boundaries, with agent risk peaking at private data, untrusted input and outbound tools.

Build safer systemsSecurity & privacy
ByteByteGo August 2026
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Red-Teaming Your Strategy

Why read thisRed-teaming must be procedural because confidence under pressure makes teams abandon verification exactly when it matters.

About 8 min · text estimate

Make better decisionsJudgment & uncertainty
Mike Fisher via Editor’s archive · Raindrop April 2026
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Same People

Why read thisOrganizations often mistake context-shaped performance for individual essence, even when people remain accountable for effort, behavior, and judgment.

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Lead teamsOrganisational design
Mike Fisher September 2026
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TBM 436: Tension-Based Prioritization (A Non-Framework)

Why read thisPrioritization rituals can hide the real blockage; recurring tensions reveal gaps in commitment, limits, capability, ownership, politics, or permission.

About 9 min · text estimate · Summary available

Choose what to buildPrioritisation & roadmaps
The Beautiful Mess — John Cutler August 2026
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Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting...

Why read thisPersonalization can converge culture toward averages because prediction systems reward modes and starve variance.

Think strategicallySystems thinking
laurenleek.substack.com via kottke.org August 2026
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Terminal lucidity: when dying dementia patients regain awareness

Why read thisTerminal lucidity strains both neuroscience’s damage model and grief-shaped testimony, without letting either side settle the question.

Some background helpful · Summary available

Make better decisionsMind & cognition
Psyche September 2026
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The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland

Why read thisOrdinary perception, for Horowitz, is selective attention shaped by biology, habit, expectation, interest, and learned distinctions.

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Learn effectivelyMind & cognition
themarginalian.org via The Marginalian August 2026
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The Decline of Deviance 2

Why read thisDeclining deviance may reflect prosperity, tolerance and commercialization, not just internet-driven cultural stagnation.

Broaden my perspectiveDesign & culture
Experimental History July 2026
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The Subtraction Instinct

Why read thisSubtraction often fails to occur to people, then organizations reward visible additions while making removal look like absence.

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Lead teamsSystems thinking
Mike Fisher August 2026
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Who will taste the cherries?

Why read thisComputism’s deepest loss may be a world built to distrust embodied human subjectivity as a source of knowledge.

Summary available

Philosophy & meaning
Aeon September 2026
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You Cannot Mandate an AI Transformation

Why read thisAI transformation starts with personal relief and tested workflows, then changes what organizations reward.

Use AI at workAI agents & workflows
Julie Zhuo — The Looking Glass September 2026
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Your Agent Isn't Dumb. Your Tools Are.

Why read thisAgent failures blamed on prompts may actually come from vague tool contracts that force guessing before execution.

Some background helpful · Summary available

Use AI at workAI agents & workflows
thetshaped.dev
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88 Prompts for Long Term Thinking

Why read thisLong-term thinking is not a master plan; renewable questions preserve future possibilities better than fixed predictions under compounding change.

About 6 min · text estimate · Summary available

Think strategicallyLong-term thinking
Kevin Kelly August 2026
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A New Way of Thinking About Cancer, Life, the Power of Genes, and DNA, from Philip Ball, Author of How Life Works

Why read thisPhilip Ball treats life as distributed negotiation among genes, cells, tissues, and environments, where flexibility enables complexity and harmful alternate states.

Some background helpful · Summary available

Live more deliberatelyScience & discovery
Nautilus via nautil.us
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