Sept. 9, 2025, 9 a.m.

Recent relevant reads

Draft's Letters

It’s time once again to read things that are not me, even though isn’t why you’re here? Let’s try not to think too much about that.

  • I wrote once about Thomas Ptacek’s article where he uses LLM for development. Here is a nice counterpoint to it. Via. Related, clean.
  • Give me all of the conversion maturity models that you have, please.
  • As I’m sure all of you remember, in 1998 I wrote a brief piece on my blog about how the VC-funded advertising model for free content online was structurally untenable and would eventually come to be replaced by direct payment. Here is someone saying the same thing in 2025, and – no offense to the children, who remain our future – I’m sure they wrote it better than any 16-year-old possibly could.
  • Civilization hasn’t collapsed quite yet, but when it does, it will be unsurprising to those who have been paying attention. For everybody else, there is numbness, bypass, and deferral.
  • I wrote some text on Hobonichi Techo, Yeti, and some of the principles behind our repositioning. It can get even more meta than this!
  • Dating as a head. Relatable.
  • And lastly, how to make stirfry.

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