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From the bookshelf
Books I keep coming back to.
9/1048 Laws of Power Summary
Robert Greene
9/10Why We Sleep Summary
Matthew Walker
9/10Influence
Robert Cialdini
10/10Mastery by Robert Greene
Robert Greene
10/10Outlive Summary
Peter Attia
9/10James Clear's Atomic Habits
James Clear
9/10Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel
9/10The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
From the blog
Essays worth your time.
- 01
Sauna Is Getting Harder to Ignore
The strongest sauna evidence points to frequent Finnish-style sauna use, but humidity, core temperature, timing, and fertility caveats all change the practical dose.
- 02
AI-native pods are the startup advantage inside companies
Brian Armstrong's Coinbase memo points to a bigger shift in org design: small AI-native pods that move with startup speed inside larger companies.
- 03
People Are Vibe-Coding Their Own Productivity Games
AI coding tools are making personalized productivity software cheap enough to build for one person's brain. That may extend the long tail of niche software.
- 04
Digital Gravity: How Small Founders Build Inescapable Brands with AI
Digital gravity is how small founders create enough useful surface area that buyers, mentions, links, and inbound leads start orbiting them.
- 05
The SaaS Directory Submission Guide That Doesn't Charge You $300
Directory submissions aren't dead — they're just easy to do badly. Here's the short list of directories that actually matter, what to prepare, and why most founders do this wrong.
- 06
Memory & Task Systems: Giving Your AI Agent a Brain
Context windows are finite and sessions don't persist. Here's the three-tier memory system I built to make my AI agent actually learn over time.
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