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The essays and book notes most worth reading first — pieces I'd send a friend who'd never been to the site before.

From the bookshelf

Books I keep coming back to.

  1. The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman10/10

    The 4-Hour Body

    Tim Ferriss

  2. The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss: Summary & Notes10/10

    The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss

    Tim Ferriss

  3. Outlive Summary: Beat the 4 Horsemen of Death with Medicine 3.010/10

    Outlive Summary

    Peter Attia

  4. Getting Things Done Summary: The GTD System Explained10/10

    Getting Things Done Summary

    David Allen

  5. Mastery by Robert Greene: Summary & Notes10/10

    Mastery by Robert Greene

    Robert Greene

  6. The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Summary & Notes10/10

    The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  7. Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Summary & Notes10/10

    Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  8. Demian by Hermann Hesse: Summary & Notes10/10

    Demian by Hermann Hesse

    Hermann Hesse

From the blog

Essays worth your time.

  1. 01

    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.

  2. 02

    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.

  3. 03

    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.

  4. 04

    Everyone's Building AI Farms. Here's What They're Missing.

    Compute was never the bottleneck. After months of running AI agents as real work infrastructure, here's what actually matters — and what the Mac Studio crowd is overlooking.

  5. 05

    The Skills That Actually Matter in the Age of AI

    Perishable skills decay. Non-perishable skills compound. Here's the framework I use to figure out which is which — and the 6 skills I'm betting on.

  6. 06

    I Quit My PM Job 6 Months Ago — Here's What Actually Happened

    I left a comfortable PM role to build my own thing. Six months in — what's worked, what's been harder than expected, and why I'd do it again.

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