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Reading List – 07/19/2026

  • Post author:Bryan
  • Post published:July 19, 2026
  • Post category:reading-list

This week: the White House engineering Intel’s comeback, memory chipmakers cashing in on the AI boom, and why Apple’s privacy crusade might be quietly handing more power to Google and…

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Reading List – 07/12/2026

  • Post author:Bryan
  • Post published:July 12, 2026
  • Post category:reading-list

This week: OpenAI’s new Mac app buries chat behind confusing “work” branding, Benedict Evans asks whether AI labs keep their pricing power or become commodity infrastructure, and TP-Link tries to…

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Reading List – 07/05/2026

  • Post author:Bryan
  • Post published:July 5, 2026
  • Post category:Uncategorized

This week: the FDA finally approves a modern sunscreen filter, why bigger homebuilders never get meaningfully meaningful economies of scale, and a workable regulatory fixes for frontier AI model mess…

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Reading List – 06/21/2026

  • Post author:Bryan
  • Post published:June 21, 2026
  • Post category:reading-list

This week: debunking the AI water panic, why data center opposition is really about fear of job loss, and how a free side project from 2004 became the backbone of…

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Reading List – 06/14/2026

  • Post author:Bryan
  • Post published:June 14, 2026
  • Post category:reading-list

This week: why younger generations skip the savings lecture, why China can’t This week: why younger generations skip the savings lecture, why China can’t build a jet engine, and what…

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Reading List – 06/07/2026

  • Post author:Bryan
  • Post published:June 7, 2026
  • Post category:reading-list

This week: reading the Maduro capture as strategic rather than political, why the “collaborator” frame for LLMs leads to skill atrophy, and Dean W. Ball’s method for building differentiated points…

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Reading List – 05/31/2026

  • Post author:Bryan
  • Post published:May 31, 2026
  • Post category:reading-list

This week: product management as AI conversation, why coding agents must lower maintenance costs or the speed gains won’t stick, and an overstated (but directionally right) case that pure software…

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Reading List – 05/24/2026

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  • Post published:May 24, 2026
  • Post category:reading-list

This week: how Joanna Stern uses AI to handle the data work while keeping the thinking her own, why students outsourcing essays is trouble that shows up later, and how…

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Reading List – 05/17/2026

  • Post author:Bryan
  • Post published:May 17, 2026
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This week: how ASML built a monopoly no rival can replicate, why your AI architecture matters more than your model, and what Mira Murati’s testimony reveals about Sam Altman’s brief…

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Reading List – 05/10/2026

  • Post author:Bryan
  • Post published:May 10, 2026
  • Post category:reading-list

This week: why vice markets can’t be free markets, how software is changing to support agent-to-agent interactions, and why using AI to skip the thinking is a trade you’ll regret.…

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