2024 Week 38 - Weekly Notes
Keeping it light this week as we put in offers for houses.
Around the technosphere
- SaaS Churn: The Most Important Product Metric for SaaS
- I have a note called [[Finance for Developers]] based off The Swyx Mixtape | [Weekend Drop] Coding Career Chat - Finance for Developers. Churn is one of the big metrics
- Cognition | A review of OpenAI o1 and how we evaluate coding agents
- Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder - by Dave Karpf
- Piccalilli from Andy Bell - A (more) Modern CSS Reset
- Terence Tao reviews the math in o1 - Mathstodon
the new model could work its way to a correct (and well-written) solution if provided a lot of hints and prodding, but did not generate the key conceptual ideas on its own, and did make some non-trivial mistakes.
- Andrew Chen - The end of the 1 billion active user ad-supported consumer startup
- websim.ai
- Exclusive: Laravel, an open source startup in Arkansas founded by Taylor Otwell, raises $57 million Series A from Accel | Fortune
- DHH - Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
- Postgres Sandbox - This actually got me excited to play with DBs again
- Martin Fowler - Legacy Modernization meets GenAI
- Kent C. Dodds - React 19 Cheat Sheet
- The Angry Dev - Stop Designing Your Web Application for Millions of Users When You Donât Even Have 100
What in the world?
- CNN Business - Americaâs stores are winning the war on shoplifting
- Gillian Anderson Wants Women to Put Pleasure First - The New York Times
- CNN - SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission lands after history-making spacewalk. More like around the universe
- The Walrus - Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era
- The Guardian - Sort out your life! 100 tiny tricks to help with everything from digital overwhelm to lumpy sugar and unpaid bills
- A.J. Jacobs - Ten Strong Suggestions for Surviving the Age of Misinformation
- Brad Woods - How to write - I love the look of this blog
- Gwern - Why To Not Write A Book
- Ars Technica - My dead father is âwritingâ me notes again
- The New York Times - Israel Planted Explosives in Pagers Sold to Hezbollah, Officials Say
- RIA Intel - Most Americans Have No Financial Plan. The Ones Who Do Praise the Benefits
- The Guardian - A new start after 60: it took 70 years to find my inner artist. At 82, Iâm in my studio every day
- Lars Lofgren - Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host
Recommendations
- Book - Working - Robert A. Caro - For those who are fans of âThe Power Brokerâ
- Book - Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition - by Paul Millerd
- Book - Stuart David: Belle & Sebastianâs Formative Year: In The AllâNight CafĂŠ
Obits
Videos
How to navigate getting paid for your side projects with Cassidy Williams
A worthy successor of Worth It
How To Reset A Dysregulated Nervous System (Best Techniques)
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