Weekend Reading List — 30/05/2026
Have a great weekend.
Links
“Inside Notion” - Brie Wolfson / Camille Ricketts. Like Linear, Notion is a fascinating company to study, because on the surface, it just seemed so vulnerable to AI disruption. It’s “just” docs and tasks after all. Instead, they’re thriving. Lots of good lessons in here.
“Reasoning models don’t so much think as navigate” - Robin Sloan. A beautiful little post musing on whether reasoning models are thinking by “thinking harder” i.e. applying more intellectual effort, or just steering or navigating towards the directionally correct “idea-space”. As always, Robin’s posts are short, sweet and crazy thought-provoking.
“Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back their AI jobs apocalypse prophecies as they eye blockbuster IPOs” - Sasha Rogelberg. Turns out, fear-as-marketing was a pretty bad strategy for the frontier labs, at least in terms of mass market sentiment. A lot of people really don’t like AI, so it’s hard not to be cynical about these 180’s. You wonder what they really believe, and say behind closed doors.