WRITING / FIELD NOTES

Writing

I write about models and tools, and also about content, growth and real-world practice
The point is not what happened, but what to do next time

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Original articles

PODCAST & ARTICLE NOTES / 02

Podcast / article notes

Podcasts, articles and long-form material turned into study notes you can keep using

Study notes / 2026-08-3001

Mission Is the Boss: Liu Mingyu on the Cosmos Team and NVIDIA's Organizational Philosophy

A thematic close reading of Liu Mingyu on the Cosmos team and NVIDIA's organizational philosophy, from Mission is the boss, aligned goals and autonomous decisions, to GSD, organizing resources and owning outcomes

Study notes / 2026-08-2102

Sam Altman x Garry Tan: Never a Better Time to Do a Startup

A thematic close reading of Sam Altman's conversation with Garry Tan at Y Combinator Startup School 2026, from the relative advantages of startups, networks and helping people, to freedom, agency and taste in the AI era

Study notes / 2026-08-1703

Sam Altman x Cory Levy at Internapalooza

A thematic close reading of Sam Altman's live conversation with Cory Levy, from AI lowering the cost of experiments, validation and scaling, to non-consensus judgment, emergent capability and the feedback loop of spotting talent

Study notes / 2026-08-1504

The full-length interview with Elon Musk

A thematic close reading of The Economist's full interview with Elon Musk: what humans are worth once AI surpasses them, the robot economy, risk control and cross-company governance

Study notes / 2026-08-1405

Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?

A passage-by-passage close reading of Patrick Collison's startup conversation with Harj Taggar: the cognitive cache, lean validation, differentiated starting points in the AI era, and the limits of competing with big companies

Study notes / 2026-08-0306

LOOPS.md: Designing Agents That Run for Days

Moving from prompts to agent loops that keep running: role separation, on-disk state, acceptance contracts, restart rules and trace auditing

Study notes / 2026-08-0307

From the Pelican Test to Worlds on Demand

A passage-by-passage close reading of Karpathy's Opus 5 world-generation experiment: long-horizon execution, 3D world modelling, and the limits of a model auditing its own work

Study notes / 2026-08-0308

LLM Knowledge Bases: Building a Personal Knowledge Base with Large Models

A passage-by-passage reading of Karpathy's personal knowledge-base workflow: data ingest, knowledge organisation, query output, continuous filing back and health checks

CASE STUDIES / 03

Startup case breakdowns

Working backward from results to the product, distribution, pricing and growth moves; kept as a separate archive

All cases