Resources.

Books

The ones I keep going back to.

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant · Eric Jorgenson

  A clear-eyed take on wealth, judgement, and how to spend your time. Short chapters, re-read often.

• Shape Up · Ryan Singer

  How small teams ship real work without drowning in process. The best operations book that doesn’t call itself one.

• The Mom Test · Rob Fitzpatrick

  How to talk to users without lying to yourself. Short, honest, useful the same week you read it.

• Making It All Work · David Allen

  The underrated follow-up to GTD. Less method, more how to hold the work in your head without going under.

• Antifragile · Nassim Taleb

  Changes how you think about risk, small bets, and what gets stronger under stress. Worth the chew.

Essays worth re-reading

Long-form pieces that shaped how I think.

• How to Do Great Work · Paul Graham

  The clearest essay I’ve read on picking a thing and going deep.

• The Tail End · Tim Urban

  A short piece that quietly rearranges your priorities.

• Specific Knowledge · Naval Ravikant

  Why some skills compound and others don’t. Underrated career filter.

• Do Things That Don’t Scale · Paul Graham

  The permission slip to start small, manual, and ugly.

People worth following

Short list. High signal.

• Naval Ravikant

  Wealth, judgement, and clear thinking in very few words.

• Nat Eliason

  Writes honestly about building, AI, and how to live around the work.

• Dan Shipper

  Practical AI applied to real writing and thinking work. Every is worth the subscription.

• Simon Willison

  The most useful running log of what’s actually changing in AI week to week.

• Patrick Collison

  Founder-level thinking on progress, ambition, and what it takes to do meaningful work.

Newsletters I read

• Every

  Writing on AI, business, and software that assumes you’ve been paying attention.

• Stratechery · Ben Thompson

  Tech, strategy, and the shape of the industry. The reference point.

• Lenny’s Newsletter

  Product and growth from people who’ve actually done it.

• Not Boring · Packy McCormick

  Long, ambitious writing on companies and technology. Makes you think bigger.

Frameworks I keep returning to

Not rules. Just patterns that hold up.

• The single most important problem

  Ask what the most important problem is. Work on that. Repeat. Sam Altman puts it plainly.

• Specific knowledge

  Lean toward work that only you can do. Everything else compounds slower.

• Barbell strategy

  Most of your time on the safe, steady work. A small, deliberate slice on asymmetric bets.

• Write the memo first

  Bezos-style six-pagers. If you can’t write the thing down clearly, you don’t understand it yet.