dwarkesh.com

The mistake of conflating intelligence and power

Power is more the product of having the authority and trust to get lots of people to collaborate with you, rather than some galaxy brain scheming capability. Trump is not powerful because his brain, considered in isolation, is the most effective optimization engine on Earth. He is powerful because the government which hundreds of millions of people consider legitimate gives him a lot of power.

lennysnewsletter.com

The internal AI tool that’s transforming how Stripe designs products | Owen Williams

Surprisingly, PMs now use Protodash just as much as designers, fundamentally changing how Stripe approaches prototyping, design reviews, and engineering handoffs.

readtrung.com

Tim Cook's Apple

Industrial engineering is essentially the study of people and machines. [It's about] how the two working together can create things that they couldn't create on their own. I've always viewed the supply chain to be a bit of a piece of art when it was done correctly. Because it's a symphony of…1000s of different components and parts coming together to create something.

lennysnewsletter.com

From Figma to Claude Code and back | Gui Seiz & Alex Kern (Figma)

The old linear waterfall workflow is gone. What replaces it is a fluid, bidirectional loop where design and code inform each other in real time.

longreads.com

A Sojourn into the Stephen King Archive: ‘The Dark Half’

The archived typescript shows that King approached the processes of drafting and revising this novel as a real-time collaboration between himself and Bachman, whom he treated as an alter ego.