A personal tech newsletter by a long-time industry worker, mixing practical job-hunting advice after layoffs with candid, opinionated takes on hype cycles like AI and crypto. The tone is casual and self-aware, aiming to be fun as much as informative.
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Michael Lopp (Rands) writes personal, reflective essays on leadership, writing, and a career in tech. Issues combine anecdotes from his time at companies like Pinterest and Riot Games with lessons on creating, speaking, and managing people.
Thoughtful Apes is a design-leadership newsletter about how tech teams can slow down enough to build what matters, covering burnout, AI-era clarity in product design, and organisational conditions. Readers get essay-style reflections that connect current events and survey data to practical questions about design process and decision-making.
A former Meta engineer writes about reaching financial independence on a big-tech salary, covering RSU compensation, tax-advantaged accounts like the backdoor Roth, and life after early retirement. Posts mix personal experience and data from his own records with step-by-step practical guidance.
A product director at Google Labs shares personal reflections and hands-on experiments with generative AI agents, from building side projects and in-person conference games to a talk on building products when AI can act. Readers get a candid insider view of how one PM thinks about what is worth building in the agentic era.
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