Links
A small collection of references I expect to reuse. This page should stay boring and useful.
Software
- Git worktree documentation
- pnpm motivation
- npm ci documentation
- Corepack documentation
- Turborepo documentation
Writing/blogs I like
- Lenny Rachitsky — product/operator clarity, tactical but strategic enough.
- Marc Andreessen — thesis-driven writing, opinionated, high-conviction.
- Ben Horowitz — founder/operator essays with scar tissue.
- Dharmesh Shah — simple, optimistic, founder-led systems thinking.
- Brian Halligan — category creation, culture, go-to-market, founder taste.
- Jason Fried / DHH — direct, anti-bloat, opinionated product/company writing.
- Paul Graham — compressed startup reasoning.
- Ben Thompson / Stratechery — business strategy structure.
- Eugene Wei — long-form product, culture, and technology analysis.
- Patrick McKenzie — practical software and business writing.
- Martin Fowler — clear engineering architecture prose.
- Charity Majors — engineering orgs, observability, and sociotechnical systems.
- Will Larson — staff/principal engineering, engineering strategy, org design.
- Camille Fournier — engineering leadership with practical judgment.
- Gergely Orosz — engineering industry and pragmatic product engineering.
- Simon Willison — AI and software notes with clarity and intellectual honesty.
- Ethan Mollick — AI adoption, experimentation, and future-of-work framing.
- Bjarne Stroustrup — engineering taste from first principles.
Company blogs/publications I like
- a16z — high-conviction market framing.
- HubSpot Blog — approachable category and go-to-market thinking.
- Stripe Blog — engineering, product, and business taste.
- Intercom Blog — product-led growth, messaging, and customer experience.
- Linear Blog — product taste and craft.
- Signal v. Noise — opinionated simplicity and anti-bloat company thinking.
- GitLab Handbook — operating system for remote/product/engineering orgs.
- Netflix Tech Blog — engineering systems at scale.
- Cloudflare Blog — technical depth with business relevance.
- Shopify Engineering — platform and product engineering at scale.