Resources
Articles I keep coming back to. Updated over time.
Operating
- Long Thoughts
Their essay index. I start here.
- Seven Shipping Principles
How they get software out the door.
- Guide to Making Decisions
A simple way to decide and move.
- Why We Choose Profit
Stay independent by staying profitable.
- What Influenced Us
The books and ideas behind how they work.
- Guide to Internal Communication
Write it down. Don’t make people wait.
- Group Chat: The Best Way to Totally Stress Out Your Team
Chat is a bad default for real work.
Craft & culture
- Colossus — Inside Cursor
How Cursor actually works as a company. Brie Wolfson.
Ownership
- Mitchell Hashimoto — whiteboard defense
If I shipped it, I should be able to explain it.
Agents
- DHH — Rails World 2026 opening keynote
On letting agents write the code and rethinking how we build software.
- poteto — pstack
How to get agents to verify their own work so you can trust them with more.
- Lingxi — Grok Bot for Engineering (X article)
How Lingxi runs engineering bots. I treat this as a playbook.
Career
- The guide to getting a job with cold outreach
How to ask without being a pest. Ben Lang.
- Ways to actually be helpful to others
Be useful first. That’s the whole move.
- What to do if you don’t love your job
Stay useful while you figure out the next thing.