·Top highlight Medium’s recap, financial turnaround, and difficult path back to health. Tony Stubblebine 18 min read· Jul 11, 2025 I’m gonna write the wonky post of Medium’s turnaround. I’m not sure if a company is allowed to be this blunt about how bad things were. But it’s very much of the Medium…
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This project began as an elaborate shitpost where posting gym selfies would pipeline people into reading socialist books. As stupid as that sounds — it has been wildly successful. More seriously, there has been an endless amount of mainstream media think-pieces that desperately seek to connect…
Claude now has Research capabilities that allow it to search across the web, Google Workspace, and any integrations to accomplish complex tasks. The journey of this multi-agent system from prototype to production taught us critical lessons about system architecture, tool design, and prompt…
PMO INSIGHTS BY AMERICO PINTO If you’ve spent enough time working with PMOs, like I have, you’ve probably seen this scenario play out more than once: The PMO team, full of energy, dedication, and the best of intentions, rolls out a new set of services with enthusiasm. The team feels productive,…
Profiles The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee. June 2, 2025 Yarvin wants to destroy democracy. Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and J. D. Vance are among his fans.Photograph by Carolyn Drake for The New Yorker…
There were two anthologies of modern poetry in our house when I was a teenager and they both offered glimpses of the world outside that were more intense, more useful, than anything on television or on albums or in ordinary books. One was The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse, edited by Kenneth…
Untitled (to a man, George McGovern) 2, Dan Flavin. Dia Beacon, 2024. Dear Arc members, You’re probably wondering what happened. One day we were all-in on Arc. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, we started building something new: Dia. From the outside, this pivot might look abrupt. Arc had real…
May 16, 2025 Thoughts on thinking I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time. It’s horrifying. The fun has been sucked out of the process of creation…
Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long time in the Internet world. During this time, Netscape sat by, helplessly, as their market share…
This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Anthropic. Contents Recently I’ve been having a lot of conversations about how to structure and staff teams. One framework I’ve referenced repeatedly is to break down team leadership into a few different categories of responsibility. This is…
We starve it. Sweat it off. Freeze or carve it out. We claim that two thirds of Americans have too much of it, and then we take weekly injections just to shrink it. Body fat is generally demonized, and the way we treat people with larger bodies fills me with wrath. We build tiny airplane seats and…
Project Management Settings Profile Projects Inbox Network Favorites Log out Search PMI Search across PMI Search across PMI Search results loaded Popular Search Terms Content Index Advanced Search PMI Heartland Nebraska / Iowa Chapter - April 29, 2025 Joseph has worked in the intelligence field for…
Contents I’ve been thinking recently about what sets apart my coworkers who’ve done the best work. You might think that the main thing that makes people really effective at research or engineering is technical ability, and among the general population that’s true. Among my Anthropic coworkers,…
The Weekend Essay Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension. May 3, 2025 Illustration by Mojo Wang I feel a troubling kind of opacity in my brain lately—as if reality were becoming illegible, as if…
Nephaster cyaneus (Cloudstar)(1997), Dorothea Tanning Many people are working far beyond their emotional capacity at all times. You might not realize it, but you’re taxing their systems just by being who you are. What’s worse, a lot of people promise way too much, both because they overestimate…
“I feel like the older I get the more freedom I have to write about a greater range of life experiences,” Sally Rooney says when we meet to discuss her new novel Intermezzo, which centres on two love stories with significant age gaps. “Because I’ve lived slightly more, not a whole lot more, but a…
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In the two decades I’ve been in this racket, I’ve never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple’s announcement on Friday that the “more personalized Siri” features of Apple Intelligence, scheduled to appear between now and WWDC, would be delayed until “the coming year”. I…
Back in 2017, the iPhone X was announced alongside the iPhones 8 and 8 Plus in mid-September. The iPhones 8 shipped that month, and I published a review of the iPhones 8 on September 19. The iPhone X, though, wasn’t available to order until October 27, and didn’t start shipping to customers until…
Contents My few most productive individual weeks at Anthropic have all been “crisis project management:” coordinating major, time-sensitive implementation or debugging efforts. In a company like Anthropic, excellent project management is an extremely high-leverage skill, and not just during crises:…
I signed up for a three-hour Gordon Lish lecture earlier this summer, which was to be held on July 14th, 2018, at A Public Space in Brooklyn. It was titled “The Art of Revision.” I had no idea what to expect. It was wilder than I had anticipated. Gordon spoke without pausing once. I wrote nine pages…
Illustration by David Plunkert Listen to an audio version of this article. I am sitting in a bland conference room in Midtown Manhattan with twenty-nine so-called business professionals, and one of our instructors, Sharon, has just told us to imagine a huge rectangular brass nameplate, as if walking…
‘Anovelist is condemned to produce a succession of novelties, new names for characters, new incidents for his plots, new scenery,’ reflects the beleaguered hero of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Evelyn Waugh’s portrait of the artist as a middle-aged car crash. But really, as Pinfold goes on to say,…
In school, you might have heard that the Industrial Revolution was preceded by the Scientific Revolution, when Newton uncovered the mechanical laws underlying motion and Galileo learned the true shape of the cosmos. Armed with this newfound knowledge and the scientific method, the inventors of the…
The author Daniel Oppenheimer and his wife, Jess, rewatching a recording of their Zoom sessions with the couples therapist and best-selling author Terry Real.Credit...David Hilliard for The New York Times The Great Read It took a superstar couples therapist to help me see beyond my anger. The author…
In 2025, there are no shortage of tools sold to product managers. But you know what? It’s about time. I can still remember an era when product managers spent all their time: Creating roadmaps in sheets Creating opportunity solution trees in Miro And preparing for product reviews in slides… It was a…
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This post is crossposted from my Substack. Original here. A modified version of this essay is now part of a much more comprehensive essay series, The Intelligence Curse. Edited to add: The main takeaway of this post is meant to be: Labour-replacing AI will shift the relative importance of human v…
This series of articles explores organisation-external communications, how to engage the world out there to impact how your peers think and act, how this process shapes our identity and what we might become. It forms part of research into my next book on organisational and human sensemaking.…
In his preface to the new edition of My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunket remembers being in the room with George W. Bush when he was told that a second plane had hit the Twin Towers. Bush was reading to a group of schoolchildren in Florida and Plunket, then a journalist on the Sarasota…
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Hearing Things by Feven Merid Dylan Green, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Ryan Dombal, Andy Cush, and Jill Mapes. (Photo: Victor Jeffreys II) At the start of this year, Condé Nast announced that Pitchfork would merge with GQ, and in the process laid off a dozen…
Open Questions Often, it’s our most obviously necessary tasks that feel the most impossible. December 31, 2024 Illustration by Josie Norton You have something important to do—something vital. It’s not an item on a list but a burdensome project, urgent and complicated. Your home office must be…
UPDATE 2025: Here is something special to mark 19 years. Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your parents or your idols, not the philosophers or the poets, not your liberal arts education or your twelve-step program, not church or therapy…
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. For anyone who teaches at a business school, the blog post was bad news. For Juliana Schroeder, it was catastrophic. She saw the allegations when they first went up, on a Saturday in early summer 2023.…
Almost no one learns how to speak a foreign language very well in school. By the numbers, it’s tempting to declare, “Learning a foreign language is impossible.” But that’s plainly false. Going from zero to fluency is ultra-rare, but I’ve seen it happen. How does fluency happen? First and foremost,…
Sally Rooney. Photograph by Kalpesh Lathigra. Each of Sally Rooney’s novels writes back to a novel that she admires: Conversations with Friends to Jane Austen’s Emma; Normal People to George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda; Beautiful World, Where Are You to Henry James’s The Golden Bowl; and Intermezzo to…
NOtes on the culture The best compliment a man — gay or straight, old or … not so old — can receive is to enter the pantheon of daddies. To accompany this essay, the queer New York-based artist Billy Sullivan created a trio of pastel works exclusively for T based on images of Oscar Isaac, Colman…
In negotiations, the best alternative to no deal In negotiation theory, the best alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA) is the most favorable and independent course of action a party can take if negotiations fail, aligning with their interests in the absence of a deal or an agreement. BATNA…
I AM NOT SAYING that I conjured a new Sally Rooney novel, but last year, I posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, “I know she just published a book, but like . . . when is Sal Roones coming back. I need her,” and a few months later, it was announced that she would be returning with her fourth…
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