Brandon Kent Wang

Iltchev (Category Ventures) does the best (somewhat) technical analysis of the “new acquisition”.

Eoghan McCabe (Intercom CEO) launches the Fin Million Dollar Guarantee.

The short-form essay of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's new book “Abundance”.

A fascinating and loving dive into Gorton, a typeface ubiquitous and little understood.

A clear summary from Bret Taylor's Sierra on the strengths of outcome-based pricing within AI. See also Intercom's Fin.

Via Matt Levine. A challenge to trick an AI worked with a win for the humans. The English language, as it turns out, is a confusing one.

Max Levchin (Affirm)'s bullet points on high-performance culture.

An argument for the application layer.

“Imagine you want to start a business in AI. What layer of the stack do you target? Do you want to compete on infra? Good luck beating NVIDIA and the hyperscalers. Do you want to compete on the model? Good luck beating OpenAI and Mark Zuckerberg. Do you want to compete on apps? Good luck beating corporate IT and global systems integrators. Oh. Wait. That actually sounds pretty doable!”

With the return of the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius, the .io domain name — a tech favorite — will likely cease to exist. The fall of domain names is a fascinating story intertwined with history, Communism, and more.

“Which leads me to one final word of advice: Never lose your shared bit. In the absence of regular physical time together doing activities (which is really time spent acquiring primary material for future bits, isn’t it?), a successful [long distance friendship] requires an acute understanding of the location-agnostic binding glue that keeps two people interested and enthusiastic about staying in each other’s lives that isn’t just catching up over drinks until we all die.”

Jobs was the quirk; Cook is the predictability: John Gruber's great take on where Apple goes from here.

This is a popular PG essay making the rounds, defining and contrasting a “founder” way of operating a larger business to the delegated-management model that conventional wisdom thinks is best.