Recommendations

AI ✨

• Dwarkesh interviewed Richard Sutton and later he digested on this fantastic interview. 2025-09-26
• AI is a Floor Raiser, not a Ceiling Raiser by Elroy Team. 2025-07-29
• Asymmetry of verification and verifier’s law by Jason Wei. 2025-07-15
• Reflections on OpenAI by Calvin. 2025-07-15
• Talk: Software 3.0 by Andrej Karpathy. 2025-06-17
• How we built our multi-agent research system by Anthropic. 2025-06-13
• AI Horseless Carriages by Pete Koomen. 2025-05-29
• Why We Think by Lilian Weng. 2025-05-01
• The Second Half by Shunyu Yao. 2025-04-10
• The Model is the Product by Alexander Doria. 2025-04
• The Era of Experience by David Silver, Richard S. Sutton. 2024-11-20
• Machines of Loving Grace by Dario Amodei. 2024-05-05
• The Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton. 2019-03-13

Design 🎨

• Uncreative and proud by Tom Albrighton. 2011-01-17
• The boring designer by Cap Watkins. 2015-03-05

Books 📚

• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
• Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander
• Designing Visual Interfaces by Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano
• 设计中的设计 by 原研哉
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
• Getting Real by Basecamp
• Just Enough Research by Erika Hall
• The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
• UX Magic by Daniel Rosenberg

Talks 🎤

• Invent on principles by Bret Victor
• 柳冠中谈设计：中国的设计徘徊不前，是因为设计师脑子里有道墙
• When we build by Wilson Miner
• Using design to make ideas new by Milton Glaser

People

I have been inspired by many people over time. On design, product, entreprenuership, and life.

Derek Sivers      Jason Fried      DHH      Bret Victor