Library · A living collection
What’s shaping my thinking.
Books I return to, conversations that changed a question, people whose work I follow, and tools I use to build. Every entry includes the reason it is here.
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Read
Ideas worth returning to - 02
Listen
Conversations that change the question - 03
Watch
People doing the work - 04
Follow
Operators close to what comes next - 05
Use
Tools that survive real work
In circulation
A few things I keep close.
A small selection of things I recommend, revisit, or use often enough to explain why.
Co-Intelligence
Ethan Mollick
The book I recommend first when someone asks how to work with AI without turning the conversation into a technical lecture.
One Useful Thing
Ethan Mollick
Grounded experiments and observations from someone who uses the tools daily. The back catalog is unusually useful.
How I AI
Claire Vo
Real people walking through real AI workflows. I care much more about the work on screen than another round of predictions.
Skill Issue
Andrej Karpathy on No Priors
A useful conversation about code agents, parallel work, AutoResearch, and what changes when experimentation gets much cheaper.
Corbin Brown
Builder and educator
He teaches by building, including the awkward middle where the first attempt does not work. That is the useful part.
Start here
If you only do three things.
The short path I share when someone wants to understand AI without getting lost in an endless resource list.
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Read
Co-Intelligence
Ethan Mollick’s practical introduction to working with AI. Short enough to finish and useful enough to change how you work the next day.
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02
Watch
Corbin Brown
Watch someone build a real app instead of hearing another abstract explanation of what AI might do.
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03
Try
Claude
Have a real conversation or describe an app idea and see what comes back. The fastest way to understand the tools is to use them.
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The index
Follow your curiosity.
Reading
08Co-Intelligence
Ethan Mollick
The book I recommend first when someone asks how to work with AI without turning the conversation into a technical lecture.
Start hereOne Useful Thing
Ethan Mollick
Grounded experiments and observations from someone who uses the tools daily. The back catalog is unusually useful.
Start hereEvery
Dan Shipper and team
Long-form writing about AI, products, and how the way we work is changing, with enough detail to be useful.
IntermediateCompound Engineering: The Definitive Guide
Dan Shipper and Kieran Klaassen
A working model for turning completed projects into instructions, tools, and checks that improve the next run.
TechnicalFrom Hierarchy to Intelligence
Block and Sequoia Capital
A concrete operating model for giving small teams clear ownership while shared systems carry context across the company.
IntermediateHow to Scale a Magical Experience
Reid Hoffman on Brian Chesky’s 11-star framework
The 11-star exercise pushes a product past the first feasible answer, then works back to the version worth shipping.
IntermediateInterpretable Context Methodology
Jake Van Clief and David McDermott
A file-based approach to agent workflows where folders define stages, markdown carries context, and each output stays open to human review.
TechnicalBehind the Craft
Peter Yang
Peter tests AI tools through product work, detailed tutorials, and interviews with people shipping the systems.
IntermediateListening
02How I AI
Claire Vo
Real people walking through real AI workflows. I care much more about the work on screen than another round of predictions.
Start hereSkill Issue
Andrej Karpathy on No Priors
A useful conversation about code agents, parallel work, AutoResearch, and what changes when experimentation gets much cheaper.
TechnicalWatching
05Let’s build GPT from scratch
Andrej Karpathy
A full coding session that builds a small GPT and exposes each step between tokens, attention, training, and generation.
TechnicalHow large language models work
3Blue1Brown
The visual explanation I send when someone wants intuition for what an LLM is doing without starting from the math.
TechnicalTransformers, the tech behind LLMs
3Blue1Brown
A visual walk through tokens, embeddings, attention, and the calculations inside a transformer.
TechnicalPeter Yang
Product thinking and AI
A useful overlap of product judgment and hands-on AI tutorials.
IntermediateCorbin Brown
Builder and educator
He teaches by building, including the awkward middle where the first attempt does not work. That is the useful part.
Start hereFollowing
11Andrej Karpathy
AI research and education
The clearest technical intuition I have found for models, agents, and the changing shape of software work.
IntermediateEthan Mollick
AI, work, and education
Frequent, concrete experiments about how AI changes teaching, research, and everyday knowledge work.
Start hereDan Shipper
AI products and company building
Working notes from building AI products and changing how a company operates around them.
IntermediateClaire Vo
How I AI
Operators show their real workflows, including where AI helps, where it breaks, and what still needs judgment.
IntermediatePeter Yang
Product thinking and AI
He tests specific AI tools and workflows through product decisions, tutorials, and interviews.
IntermediateJake Van Clief
Interpretable Context Methodology
His ICM work treats folders, markdown, and reviewable files as the control surface for agent workflows.
TechnicalCorbin Brown
Builder and educator
His build videos keep the failed attempts and fixes that polished demos usually remove.
Start here3Blue1Brown
Grant Sanderson · Visual mathematics
Visual explanations that make the mechanics of neural networks and transformers easier to inspect.
TechnicalErnesto Software
Consumer app operator
Concrete lessons from building, monetizing, and distributing consumer apps instead of founder theater.
IntermediateBoris Cherny
AI developer tools
Useful signal on Claude Code, developer tools, and the constraints behind agentic software work.
TechnicalDotta
Agent and orchestration systems
Experiments in agents, orchestration, and composable systems that are close to the problems I am building around.
TechnicalUsing
12Claude
Anthropic
A daily thinking and building tool, especially when a project needs a lot of context held together.
Start hereCodex
OpenAI
I use coding agents for scoped implementation work, parallel exploration, testing, and the operational details that make software ship.
IntermediateNotion
Working memory and control plane
Where product context, decisions, research, and operating systems stay connected instead of disappearing across documents.
IntermediateSupabase
Backend platform
A practical foundation for shipping authenticated products with Postgres, storage, and real-time behavior without unnecessary ceremony.
IntermediateCloudflare
Edge infrastructure and deployment
I use Pages, Workers, D1, and Wrangler to deploy sites and run product infrastructure at the edge.
IntermediateDoppler
Secrets management
I use Doppler to keep environment secrets out of repositories and deliver the right configuration to each runtime.
IntermediateGitHub Actions
Continuous integration and release automation
Build, test, metadata, screenshot, and release workflows run through versioned automation beside the code.
TechnicalSentry
Application monitoring
I use release-aware errors and traces to connect a production failure to the build and code path that caused it.
IntermediatePostHog
Product analytics
I use product events and funnels to inspect how a shipped flow behaves after it reaches users.
IntermediateRevenueCat
Subscription infrastructure
I use RevenueCat for subscription state, purchase restoration, entitlements, and store-side release work across mobile apps.
Intermediate60fps.design
Mobile and web motion reference
I use the shipped interaction examples to study timing, transitions, and motion that explains a state change.
IntermediateDesign Spells
Interaction reference library
A reference library for hover states, transitions, feedback, and small interface details.
Intermediate