## Tech Strategy and Business Blogs - **[Stratechery](https://stratechery.com/)**: Ben Thompson's influential blog analyzes tech industry business strategies, economic models, and AI's disruptive impacts on platforms and markets. - **[A Smart Bear Longform](https://longform.asmartbear.com/)**: Jason Cohen's longform articles draw from building unicorns to explore startup essentials like achieving product/market fit, avoiding common failures, and scaling businesses. ## Software Engineering and Product Development Blogs - **[The Pragmatic Engineer](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/)**: Gergely Orosz's top Substack on software engineering, Big Tech internals, and product development, including AI's role in dev tools and scaling teams. - **[Nan Yu](https://thenanyu.com/)**: As Head of Product at Linear, Nan Yu shares writings on tech product thinking, including AI adoption as a UX challenge and strategies for building effective B2B tools. - **[Ben Kuhn](https://www.benkuhn.net/)**: Ben Kuhn's personal essays cover tech career advice, productivity hacks, and AI-related topics like machine learning metrics and interface design. - _Fun fact: this guy lived upstairs for a while_ - **[Simon Willison’s Weblog](https://simonwillison.net/)**: Simon Willison blogs about open-source web technologies, AI coding tools, LLM developments, and practical insights into AI-assisted programming and security. ## AI Research and Ethics Blogs - **[Andrej Karpathy](https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/)**: Former AI leader at OpenAI and Tesla, Andrej Karpathy's blog demystifies neural networks and LLMs with code tutorials and insights into efficient AI model training for products. - **[Interconnects](https://www.interconnects.ai/)**: Nathan Lambert's newsletter unpacks AI alignment, open-source models, and ecosystem trends, with research-driven takes on scaling laws and ethical AI deployment. - **[Chip Huyen's Blog](https://huyenchip.com/)**: Stanford lecturer Chip Huyen writes on production ML systems, MLOps, and building robust AI products that handle real-world data challenges. - **[Eugene Yan](https://eugeneyan.com/)**: Eugene Yan's essays focus on applied ML in recommenders and personalization, offering practical product insights for scaling AI in e-commerce and content platforms. - **[Ahead of AI](https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/)**: Sebastian Raschka's newsletter curates deep dives on LLM fine-tuning with code examples, helping developers create performant AI features. - **[Lil'Log](https://lilianweng.github.io/)**: OpenAI's Lilian Weng blogs on AI safety, alignment, and practical RL, providing accessible posts on prompt engineering and agentic systems for intuitive products. - **[Rising Tide](https://risingtide.substack.com/)**: Helen Toner's publication blends AI policy, geopolitics, and security, providing context for product leaders on global AI governance and compliance. ## Emerging and Future Thinking Blogs - **[Loeber on Substack](https://loeber.substack.com/)**: John Loeber's newsletter delves into interactions between people, markets, and technology, with thoughtful essays on AI risks, insurance models for AI, and the societal implications of LLMs. - **[signull vs. noise](https://signull.substack.com/)**: This Substack examines shifts in tech and AI landscapes, offering pattern-matching insights on thinking with AI, startup dynamics, and cultural evolutions like the death of expertise. - **[near.blog](https://near.blog/)**: An artist and researcher at an AGI lab shares perspectives on AI's transformative potential, alongside trends in longevity, bioengineering, VR/AR, and meta-rationality. - **[Latent Space](https://www.latent.space/)**: Swyx's newsletter and podcast chronicle AI engineering trends, LLM tooling, and interviews with builders on productizing advanced models. ## Culture and Ideas Blogs - **[Simon Sarris](https://simonsarris.com/)**: Simon Sarris's site hosts a newsletter, creative projects like gardens and recipes, digitized art, and stories that blend exploratory themes with intersections in tech, writing, and AI. - **[Cultural Capital](https://jmarriott.substack.com/)**: James Marriott's newsletter explores ideas, literature, and the arts, often critiquing cultural shifts driven by technology, such as the rise of post-literacy and digital distractions. ## Rationality and LessWrong Resources *Rationalism, as embodied in the LessWrong community, is a movement dedicated to enhancing human reasoning and decision-making through evidence-based techniques and cognitive bias awareness; it's especially relevant for tech thinking today as AI's exponential growth necessitates rational frameworks to address alignment, ethics, and existential risks.* - **[Welcome to LessWrong](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bJ2haLkcGeLtTWaD5/welcome-to-lesswrong)**: This introductory page welcomes newcomers to LessWrong, a community focused on refining rational thinking, overcoming cognitive biases, and discussing high-impact topics like AI safety. - **[LessWrong Codex](https://www.lesswrong.com/codex)**: The Codex curates LessWrong's most essential posts on rationality, epistemology, decision theory, AI alignment, and intellectual tools for better reasoning.