Digest 5 min read

Daily Digest - 2026-05-24

AI’s expanding demand strengthens platform moats while raising the cost of weak judgment: developer lock-in favors incumbents, agentic code risks burying craftsmanship, and parallel mental models offer a steadier way to navigate uncertainty.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Tim Hwang

Tim Hwang is a researcher and lawyer examining technology policy and the economics of science. His work questions digital advertising’s foundations while exploring programmatic ads, AI governance, internet culture, and how scientific research gets funded.
Profile 12 min read

Lessons from Eric Seufert

Eric Seufert, a quantitative marketer and founder of Mobile Dev Memo and Heracles Capital, studies profitable digital products under scarce data. His frameworks emphasize measurement, creative testing, mobile acquisition, and the rise of Content Fortresses.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Virginia Tufte

Virginia Tufte, USC professor emerita and author of Grammar as Style and Artful Sentences, treated syntax as a toolkit rather than rigid rules. Her method shows how sentence structure controls rhythm, momentum, meaning, and the feel of prose.
Digest 6 min read

Daily Digest - 2026-05-23

As intelligence becomes cheap and broadly available, durable advantage moves elsewhere: rigorous evaluation, ecosystems customers cannot outgrow, proprietary data structures, and deliberate constraints that turn consensus output into something distinctive and useful.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Jim Donovan

Jim Donovan, Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman of Global Client Coverage and a University of Virginia adjunct law professor, teaches the daily realities of high-stakes finance. His blunt rules focus on earning client trust and executing advisory work.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Jacques Bertin

Jacques Bertin, a French cartographer, codified how size, color, and position turn data into visual meaning. His Semiology of Graphics and reorderable matrix make perception and manual sorting central to discovering patterns hidden in datasets.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Tae Kim

Tae Kim is a technology journalist and author focused on semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and corporate strategy. From hedge fund analysis to Key Context and his Nvidia book, his path examines the hardware infrastructure powering modern computing.

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