A newsletter exploring how high-performers create exceptional work by transforming limited resources into extraordinary results, drawing on Picasso's metaphor of turning a yellow spot into the sun. The piece argues that excellence requires judgment, vision, and resourcefulness across all fields—from painting to engineering to dentistry—and distinguishes this from mere competence or effort.
An essay exploring the concept of managed pacing across performance domains, from competitive swimming to frontier AI development. The author argues that excellence comes from qualitative improvements in technique rather than maximizing raw effort, and applies this principle to Dario Amodei's proposal for deliberately pacing frontier AI development to allow safety work to keep pace with capability advances.
Omarchy is a manifesto calling for talented developers worldwide to unite behind making Linux win on the desktop by reviving hacker culture's code-first ethos, emphasizing excellence, beauty, and fun while rejecting bureaucratic governance in favor of benevolent dictatorship and leveraging AI agents to build The Perfect Computer.