AI builders & operators

• Ethan Mollick (oneusefulthing.org) · The clearest empirical voice on what working with AI actually looks like for normal people and organizations.
• Simon Willison (simonwillison.net) · Hands-on notes from the frontier of LLM tooling, practical agent engineering, and building in public.
• Chip Huyen (huyenchip.com) · Rigorous, zero-hype writing on AI engineering, evaluations, and system design.
• Geoffrey Litt (geoffreylitt.com) · Malleable software and what happens when anyone can build small, personal tools that fit how they work.
• Hamel Husain (hamel.dev) · Practical guides on building LLM evaluations and judging real outputs instead of vibes.
• Eugene Yan (eugeneyan.com) · Applied machine learning, system design, and LLM evaluation patterns that hold up in production.
• Armin Ronacher (lucumr.pocoo.org) · Sharp, pragmatic essays on software craft and agentic tools.
• Matt Pocock (aihero.dev) · TypeScript teacher whose open-source agent skills I use in my own setup.
• Claire Vo (clairevo.com) · Founder of ChatPRD and host of How I AI, where guests share their screens and show how they actually use AI at work.
• Lenny Rachitsky (lennysnewsletter.com) · Lenny's Newsletter and podcast: practical advice on product, growth and careers.

Writing, strategy & the personal web

• Ben Thompson (stratechery.com) · Strategy, aggregation theory, and the business mechanics underneath tech shifts.
• Paul Graham (paulgraham.com) · Still the benchmark for plain, load-bearing prose.
• Derek Sivers (sive.rs) · Creator of the /now page movement and a master of concise, independent thinking on the open web.
• Nick Gray (nickgray.net) · Author of The 2-Hour Cocktail Party and builder of PersonalWebsites.org and slashfriends.org, bringing human blogrolls back to the web.
• Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok (marginalrevolution.com) · Marginal Revolution, the economics blog I check most days.
• Joe Weisenthal & Tracy Alloway (bloomberg.com/oddlots) · Hosts of Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast on markets and the economy, and a big influence on me lately.