Below is an unstructured list of links, interesting essays, and various tidbits that I find myself having to look up when I want to send them to people.
On designing AI-native applications well
- Various articles on why a chatbox is a terrible interface design choice and why you can do so much better - Natural language is the lazy user interface (2023), Why Is Everyone Obsessed With Chat Interfaces? (2025), Beyond the Debate on Chat UI: Why We Must Move Toward Generative UI (2026)
On communicating your thoughts and world view effectively
- Paul Graham - Writing, Briefly
- George Orwell - Politics and the English Language
On life, motivation, and experience
- John Salvatier - Reality has a surprising amount of detail
Philosophy-adjacent
- If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II by Adrian de Wynter; the related If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious by Eric Schwitzgebel; with a special mention to the China brain thought experiment.
On Engineering inside Data-Heavy Regimes
- The Bitter Lesson by Richard Sutton.
- Agents need Work Data by Anjali Shrivastava and JOODALOOP