Reader Journey
Technologists
This path is for readers who want to understand how I think about software, AI, product behavior, interfaces, and the systems that quietly shape work and attention.
Engineers, product people, and readers who care about how technology actually changes behavior.
Flagship
A few durable places to start
These are the pages and posts most likely to orient you before the archive gets wider.
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Technology
Software, AI, interfaces, incentives, and the practical side of how tools shape behavior.
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You Can Only Improve What You Measure
A practical essay about why progress gets real only when it becomes visible and trackable.
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Book Notes and Reading Trail
A cleaner way into the reading layer of the site: book notes, retained ideas, and what stayed with me long enough to matter.
Start Here
The best first reads for this path
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(DAY 1199) The Moat Is the Personalization Engine
Wharton-backed research on AI tutors reinforces a key idea for Edzy: the real moat is not the chatbot, but the engine that decides what each student should practice next.
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(DAY 1195) Is Recorded Learning Really Dead?
Recorded learning is not dead, but AI is clearly changing how people learn and raising the bar for what static content needs to do.
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(DAY 1190) Information Gain as a Content Metric
Information gain is one of the strongest ways to judge content because real value comes from new facts, sharper insights, and better debates.
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(DAY 1183) The Rise of Sliced and Diced Niche Content
Content is getting sliced into narrower niches, and even categories like school teaching are now becoming serious creator markets with massive aggregate engagement.
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(DAY 1182) Google I/O and the Power of Distribution
Google I/O is a reminder that Google is not just a technology innovator, but also a distribution powerhouse with many products serving more than a billion users.
Keep Going
More worth reading next
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(DAY 1169) Staying Optimistic Is a Superpower
In a moment where the playbook is changing fast, staying positive without becoming delusional is a real advantage.
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(DAY 1167) A Useful Catch-Up With Tyton Partners
Caught up with Tyton Partners, whose work in US edtech continues to be relevant as we think more deeply about student-facing AI use cases.
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(DAY 1165) Edzy Is Now Live on iOS
After multiple rounds with Apple App Store Connect and a few custom iOS changes, Edzy is finally live on the iOS App Store.
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(DAY 1159) Apple's App Store Is Built for Control
Publishing on iOS is possible, but the App Store process is far more stringent, more opinionated, and more controlled than most founders expect.
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(DAY 1154) The Age of Personal Software: When Code Becomes Abundant and Slop Follows
Everyone can code now. Software is approaching zero marginal cost and will become as abundant as content. That abundance will bring a wave of software slop—but it will also unlock an era of deeply personal, precisely built software.
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(DAY 1152) The Illusion of Learning: Why Students Are Watching Without Watching
A serial entrepreneur building in EdTech shared something that should alarm educators: passive watching on YouTube has become the dominant form of pretend learning among students. The illusion of studying is now the default behavior.
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(DAY 1146) Everyone's Just Waiting for Rate Limits to Refresh
AI coding agents have changed the rhythm of engineering teams. Developers now pace their day around rate limits. It is a strange new behavior, and it is almost certainly coming to every other function inside a startup.