Essays, conversations, digests.
The age of agents has brought us endless execution. Every idea, every hunch, every experiment is now within immediate reach. For people with endless ideas, this is nirvana. It's also the most fucking sci-fi thing I've ever been privy to. The internet was a revelation, but it all felt understandable. The science, the standards, the methods. But working with agents truly is magic. In the best possible sense of the word. Technology so advanced that it seems scarcely comprehensible. HOW ARE WE MAKI…
DHH · HEY World · David Heinemeier Hansson
The value of trying when AI makes things so easy
The Looking Glass · Substack · Julie Zhuo
Building an ecosystem where no builder starts from zero
phanpeu · Substack · Phan (Anh Dao)
The Z Fellows Newsletter - August 3, 2026
Z Fellows
Paul Graham
Runway, Higgsfield, Waking Up, Brain.fm, Customer.io, Resend, Pangram, Mercury Personal, Supercut, Readwise, and Jam are joining Product Pass today, all included with Annual and Insider memberships
Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has always been an incredible movie, but its value as a cautionary tale has increased exponentially since AI took off. The iconic scene with HAL 9000 refusing to open the pod-bay doors captures the whole alignment question in pulsing-red cinematic poetry. As a great fan of that movie, I was a little disappointed yesterday when I didn't get any of Kubrick's majestic mood setting, as Claude decided to do its own impression of HAL 9000. Instead, I just got r…
The Z Fellows Newsletter - July 27, 2026
Jason and I have been making the same argument for over a quarter of a century now: Small teams can do incredible things when they embrace their constraints . And when they work in software or media or other intellectual realms, they don't need loads of capital to get going, so they can skip the investor rat race, focus on their edge, and find customers to fund the journey. With the rise of AI, this argument has never been more potent. When Jason and I got started, you could only do this if you…
The speed at which a product is developed doesn't inherently make the product better or worse. The number of commits doesn't make the product better or worse. The number of people or agents working on it doesn't make it better or worse. The number of hours you’re pouring into it doesn’t make it better or worse. Working on a weekend, or late into the evening, doesn’t make it better or worse. Talking about these things sounds like it’s talking about the product, but it’s not talking about the pro…
Jason Fried · HEY World · Jason Fried
In 2012, the first Danish wolf in nearly two hundred years was discovered in the northwestern part of the country. Their numbers increased slowly in the years that followed, and by 2020, fewer than ten wolves were still being tracked. But then the population began to rise sharply : around 14 in 2021, 30 in 2022, as many as 80 by the end of 2024, and probably close to a hundred today. At first glance, this is a heartwarming story. The wolf, in the abstract, is a majestic creature. It's great to…
The Z Fellows Newsletter - July 20, 2026
Startup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it changes the decisions you make.
A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen
The decline of Europe is not inevitable, despite how much Americans love to joke/proclaim that the continent is doomed to become an open-air museum. Sure, it's possible that things have to get worse before they get better, but believing that "it's over" is just loser talk. It's never over, but the old world also won't recover by itself. So here's my pithy prescription for how Europe can find its way back to The Good Times. # 1 End mass migration No single issue has cost Europe more than mass im…
A Co-Written Essay with Senra Systems CEO Jordan Black
Not Boring · Substack · Packy McCormick
Justin Jackson
swyx
Jake Vu · Substack · Jake Vu
SatPost by Trung Phan · Substack · Trungphan2
Tony Dinh · Substack · Tony Dinh
Tuấn Huỳnh · Substack · Tuấn Huỳnh
