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Taeho Kim · 2026

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A log of what is feeding the thinking. Interesting articles and videos, summarized by AI.

Engineering Leadership · StartupMay 25, 2026

Mission, Vision, Goals, Rules, Values

A practical explanation of the core elements of an organizational system: mission and vision, goals and rules, and shared values. The piece uses the Samsung Tesco Homeplus case to show how clear vision and culture help organizations move through crisis.

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Startup · Engineering LeadershipMay 25, 2026

Haetal Company and Hip Buddhism

The story of Haetal Company, a Buddhist creative collective led by Ju Yeo-jin, and how playful memes, pop-ups, festivals, and imperfect courage turned Buddhism into something young people experience as hip, merciful, and approachable.

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Engineering Leadership · AIMay 25, 2026

The AI Paradox at Work

Dan Shipper argues that AI will automate more work while also creating more human work, more SaaS usage, and new kinds of roles. The key advice is to ride the models by experimenting with each new model as it arrives.

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Startup · AIMay 24, 2026

Inside a No-Employee AI Startup

A day inside Pulsia, an AI startup that claims to build and operate companies with agents and no employees. The story follows founder Ben's philosophy: stay solo before PMF, use AI before hiring, and build with partners rather than a traditional headcount-heavy team.

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Startup · Engineering LeadershipMay 22, 2026

Building a Self-Improving Company

A talk on redesigning companies around recursive AI learning loops rather than bolting AI onto old hierarchies. The main argument is that future companies will be constrained less by headcount and more by tokens, context, and the quality of their AI-readable operating system.

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Engineering Leadership · AIMay 21, 2026

Cloudflare CEO on Replacing Roles With AI

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince explains why a fast-growing company cut more than 20% of staff, arguing that AI changes which roles companies need most. The core idea is that AI will not replace builders or sellers, but it will reshape many measurement and coordination functions.

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AI · Data & Decision-MakingMay 21, 2026

MouseMapper Reveals Whole-Body Change

A Nature study introduces MouseMapper, a deep-learning framework that maps nerves, immune cells, organs, and tissues across the whole body at cellular resolution. The work shows how obesity alters neural structures, immune-cell clustering, and molecular pathways in ways that may translate to humans.

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Engineering Leadership · StartupMay 20, 2026

Finding Product Engineer Jobs

A practical guide to finding product engineer roles: what product engineers are, what kinds of companies fit them, how to read job postings, and how to make an application stand out.

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AI · Engineering LeadershipMay 19, 2026

Project Glasswing and Mythos

Cloudflare tested Anthropic's Mythos Preview, a security-specialized LLM, across its own codebases. The main lesson is that powerful models matter, but large-scale vulnerability discovery requires a structured harness around the model.

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Health · Data & Decision-MakingMay 19, 2026

Evening Exercise and Sleep

A large multinational cohort study shows how the timing and intensity of evening exercise affect sleep and nighttime autonomic activity. The main lesson is that high-strain exercise close to bedtime can delay sleep, shorten sleep duration, and impair recovery.

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Startup · AIMay 18, 2026

Granola's 3-Year Growth Playbook

A breakdown of how Granola grew from zero to a $1.5B company in three years by staying stealth, rejecting meeting bots, targeting influential early users, and leaning into frontier AI models.

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Startup · Engineering LeadershipMay 14, 2026

Should Founders Go to Silicon Valley?

A summary of Paul Graham's talk on why ambitious founders should experience Silicon Valley, how YC compresses that experience, and how Stockholm could become Europe's startup hub.

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HealthMay 13, 2026

Why Cycling Pain Happens and How to Fix It

A full summary of a cycling video arguing that most pain comes from accumulated body damage, excessive training, and poor self-management rather than bike fitting alone.

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AI · Engineering LeadershipMay 12, 2026

A Talk with AI Engineer Sung-sik Kim

A full summary of a conversation with former DeepMind, xAI, and TML engineer Sung-sik Kim about frontier AI labs, AGI, agents, engineering skills, and Korea's AI opportunities.

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Startup · Engineering LeadershipMay 12, 2026

How to Sell the Truth

A full summary of a talk about selling through credibility, authenticity, rational empathy, leadership, motivation, good deals, and focusing on long-term upside.

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HealthMay 12, 2026

Peptides 101

A full introductory guide to popular peptides, including GLP-1s, growth hormone secretagogues, healing peptides, skin and hair peptides, cognitive peptides, mitochondrial peptides, Russian-origin anti-aging peptides, immune peptides, and sourcing considerations.

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Engineering Leadership · AIMay 12, 2026

Probabilistic Engineering and 24/7 Work

A full translation of Tim Davis's argument that AI agents are pushing software work toward probabilistic engineering, agent fleets, new roles, and new training needs.

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Data & Decision-Making · StartupMay 9, 2026

Lyft's Causal Forecasting System

How Lyft uses causal models, experiments, incentive analysis, and optimization to make better marketplace decisions.

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HealthMay 8, 2026

Is High-Carb Fueling Hurting Ultra Running?

A full summary of Chris Bellamy’s discussion on high-carb fueling, gut limits, real-food sports nutrition, flavor fatigue, recovery, and listening to the body in ultrarunning.

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AI · Data & Decision-MakingMay 8, 2026

SensorLM: Giving Wearable Data Language

A full summary of SensorLM, a sensor-language foundation model that connects wearable signals with natural-language recognition, retrieval, generation, and future digital health coaching.

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Startup · HealthMay 7, 2026

Winning Peptide Marketing

A full summary of peptide marketing strategy, covering market demand, human creator videos, slideshow formats, AI-generated UGC, creator operations, and scalable content production.

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Startup · Data & Decision-MakingMay 7, 2026

What Nobody Tells You About Startup Marketing

A full summary of practical startup marketing advice: start from what is already working, go deep before going wide, run clear experiments, use attribution wisely, and hire marketers at the right time.

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Data & Decision-Making · HealthMay 7, 2026

Predicting Insulin Resistance with Wearables

A full summary of a Nature study predicting insulin resistance from wearable signals, demographics, routine blood biomarkers, wearable foundation models, and an LLM-based IR Agent.

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StartupMay 7, 2026

How to Write Cold Emails That Get Replies

A full summary of Tim Ferriss and Michelle Khare’s practical advice on cold emails: credibility, subject lines, tone, links, clear asks, and respectful follow-up.

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HealthMay 7, 2026

David Sinclair's Practical Longevity Advice

A full summary of David Sinclair’s longevity guidance across nutrition, fasting, exercise, temperature exposure, supplements, biomarkers, and future medical interventions.

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Startup · AIMay 6, 2026

Elad Gil on AI Investing

A full summary of Elad Gil and Tim Ferriss discussing AI talent wars, compute bottlenecks, startup exits, investment principles, longevity research, and how to plan amid uncertainty.

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Startup · Data & Decision-MakingMay 5, 2026

What 1,460 Onboarding Flows Reveal

A study of 1,460 onboarding flows shows that length is not the point. Great onboarding gets users to value quickly through outcomes, trust, personalization, timing, and well-placed friction.

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AI · Engineering LeadershipMay 5, 2026

GPT-5.5 Prompting Guide

A practical guide to prompting GPT-5.5: define outcomes, give the model room to choose the path, specify personality and structure, clarify evidence rules, and verify outputs.

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Engineering Leadership · AIMay 4, 2026

Context Is the New Code

Patrick Debois argues that AI coding agents make context as important as code. Teams need a context development lifecycle: generate, evaluate, distribute, observe, and improve.

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HealthMay 2, 2026

Adam Smith on Charm Capital

A summary of Russ Roberts's reading of Adam Smith on conscience, admiration, virtue, and the harder path toward a dignified life.

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Taeho Kim · 2026

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