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AI Systems The AI Control Plane

How companies coordinate agents, context, tools, and human judgment.

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How go-to-market systems change when workflows become agentic.

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Profile Jul 08, 2026 7 min read

Lessons from Ido Portal Ido Portal is an Israeli movement teacher and the founder of Movement Culture, a practice that treats the body as a field for learning rather than a...

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Lessons from Gio Valiante Lessons from Gio Valiante Performance psychologist Gio Valiante has coached top PGA Tour golfers and served as head performance coach at Point72 Asset...

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Lessons from Arvind Jain Lessons from Arvind Jain Arvind Jain is the founder and CEO of Glean, a co founder of Rubrik, and a former distinguished engineer at Google, as summarized...

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Deep Dive Lakehouse Analytics Platforms: Snowflake Databricks ClickHouse and Open Table Formats — Industry Deep Dive

Lakehouse analytics platforms Executive summary The old warehouse versus lakehouse argument is no longer the most useful way to read the market. The...

Research Explainer Continuous Scoring Turns Verification Into a New AI Scaling Axis

By shifting from discrete judgments to continuous probabilistic scoring, researchers demonstrate how verification can scale to significantly improve agent performance without additional training.

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Book Notes Jun 19, 2026 11 min read

Tape Sucks: Book Summary

Opening note The book Tape Sucks by Frank Slootman captures the raw and unfiltered realities of scaling a technology startup, specifically chronicling the...

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The Rational Male - Preventive Medicine: Book Summary

Opening note This summary is based on a highlights only reading memory of the text. It draws exclusively from 215 captured highlights and two marked...

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Stray Reflections: Book Summary

Opening note This summary distills the themes and operative principles surfaced in Antoine's captured highlights from Jawad Mian's Stray Reflections . The...

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Daily Digest - 2026-07-07

1. Agentic AI adoption is on fire at @Uber, and it's... — X (formerly Twitter) Why read: How Uber used AI agents to overhaul company workflows beyond...

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1. A global workspace in language models — anthropic.com Why read: Anthropic found Claude developed a silent "J space" for internal reasoning, changing how...

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Daily Digest - 2026-07-05

1. I'm Betting My Company on Proactive Agents — Polylane Why read: Argues against prompt based AI interfaces, calling for systems that find work...

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