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Big ideas from builders.
Nov 17, 2024
The End of Productivity Why creativity is the new currency of success Sari Azout
Dec 9, 2024
How to Build a Truly Useful AI Product Generative AI breaks the old startup playbook Chris Pedregal
May 29, 2025
Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next While AI devours information-based roles, OpenAI, Alphabet, and Apple are investing in wisdom work—and you can, too Joe Hudson
Nov 24, 2024
The Real Value of AI Isn’t General Intelligence The market for artificial general intelligence is small. Founders should bet on specialized solutions instead. Phin Barnes
Jul 1, 2025
How I Stopped Worrying About AI and Learned to Value My Humanity I found three reality gaps between what we fear about AI and what actually happens when you use it. They completely shifted my thinking. Sari Azout
Jul 10, 2025
In the AI Age, Making Things Difficult Is Deliberate There's a difference between obstacles and the struggle that makes you better. Here's how to tell. Willem Van Lancker
Jan 5, 2025
The New Science of Growth Marketing The quantitative revolution took over finance. Now, thanks to AI, it’s coming for growth. Josh Payne
Apr 7, 2025
The Race Is On to Redesign Everything for AI Agents There are billion-dollar markets to be seized—if you can learn to see like an agent. Tina He
Jul 11, 2025
Sailing Against the Current of Frictionless AI Willem Van Lancker has always learned the hard way. He thinks that’s exactly how it should be. Rhea Purohit
Oct 28, 2024
Why You Should Disrupt Categories, Not Create Them You can stand out without starting from scratch—especially in the age of AI James Evans
Jan 12, 2026
The Boring Businesses That Will Dominate the AI Era They’re not the companies with the best models—they’re the ones that own what AI has to flow through. Tina He
Apr 8, 2025
This Master of AI Agents Is Most at Home in the Analog Tina He spends her days building at the cutting edge of AI—and usually surrounded by books. Michael Reilly
Jul 14, 2025
Why Aggregators Ate the Internet The hidden architectural choice that makes big platforms bigger—and how we could change the rules for AI Alex Komoroske
Dec 8, 2025
Two Ways to Win in the Post-software Era If you're funding or starting an AI company in 2025, Rich Sutton's 'bitter lesson' should terrify and guide you .png) Sumeet Singh
Apr 28, 2025
AI Isn’t Only a Tool—It’s a Whole New Storytelling Medium Three principles for worldbuilding in the AI era Eliot Peper
May 8, 2026
The Culture of AI Engineering A framework for getting humans, agents, and everything in between to build the same vision .jpg) Noah Brier
Mar 5, 2026
Creative Work Is About to Look a Lot More Like Programming Flora's Weber Wong on why creative professionals need to stop thinking in artifacts and start thinking in systems Weber Wong
Apr 29, 2025
Where a Sci-fi Novelist Surfs for Story Ideas The surfboards, split keyboard, and improv guidebook fueling Eliot Peper’s AI worldbuilding
Mar 10, 2026
How Main Street Companies Are Using AI We run a funeral home and a medspa platform—not exactly Y Combinator darlings. Here's what we've learned about implementing AI in the real world. Sam Gerstenzang
Oct 14, 2025
A Founder’s Guide to Finding a Great Name The framework behind iconic company names—and an AI tool to help you find a successful one Willem Van Lancker
Dec 12, 2025
How This Venture Capitalist Sees Into the Post-software Future Inside Sumeet Singh’s three-step process for turning raw information into a view on what’s coming Rhea Purohit
Mar 5, 2026
An AI Founder’s Guide to Taste—Online and Off Flora’s Weber Wong raised $42 million for his creative AI startup. He also spent 10 weeks waiting for the right couch. Bethany Biron
Apr 3, 2026