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May 5 – 11, 2026  ·  May 11, 2026
Articles · Books · Concepts
The Night Manager
John le Carré
took a pause, got back into it
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir
Paul Newman
Steve McQueen: A Tribute to the King of Cool
Marshall Terrill
Trainer, not approver
Both Parsons and Koshy John land in the same place from different angles — the senior engineer's value is no longer in reviewing diffs but in shaping what the agent produces in the first place. Reviewing scales linearly with output; training compounds. Worth thinking about how the same shift applies to Salesforce delivery work, where review queues are the silent bottleneck.
OPINIONS.md as a portable taste graph
Kun Chen's experiment of distilling his durable beliefs into a single file and feeding it to his agents feels like an under-explored primitive. Most personal context lives in scattered notes and Substack drafts; consolidating it into something agent-readable changes how aligned future tool runs can be. Tempting to try for the SDF+AI work.
Icons of Cool Men: Steve McQueen and Paul Newman
Two iconic men who pursued adventure, acclaim, captured hearts, and experienced a life larger than most. Partially a rabbit hole that dovetailed from a watch thread about Tag Heuer Monacos and Rolex Daytonas, but partially I've looked up to them most of my life and, through some recent life changes, felt drawn back to the parallels of their stories to my own. Can I achieve their success and avoid their failures? What is the deeper draw beyond their immeasurable coolness?
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