OpenAI solving one of the most famous math problems is extremely impressive, and of little impact to most people's lives; Meta's Muse agent launch has the potential to be the exact opposite. OpenAI solving one of the most famous math proble…

Writing things down is powerful, for humans and for AI; what comes first, however, is what to write, why to do it, and actually getting things done. Listen to this post : Log in to listen It was Merlin Mann and his 43folders website who int…

The best Stratechery content from the week of August 31, 2026, including the market speaking, Apple finding religion, and society losing friction. (Photo by New York Yankees/Getty Images) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a remin…

Somebody at Meta built an internal leaderboard called Claudeonomics . It ranked the company’s top 250 consumers of AI tokens and handed out titles like “Token Legend” and “Cache Wizard.” Engineers set agents ru…

Every few weeks there’s another headline declaring the “death of the CMO.” The argument changes slightly each time but it’s basically the same thing, some version of: Companies are flattening leadership, marketing is becom…

I used to have a manager who worked for me and would often come to me with a tricky problem to be solved. We would go to a conference room and she would explain the details. I would ask a few questions, but would mostly listen. After about …

WE don’t need more freedom; we need more helpful boundaries. David Epstein, author of Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better, says we don’t need to work outside the box as much as we need to be working inside the right box. We insti…

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Jenna Nicholas on hope: “Hope is more than a lofty ideal; it's a lifesaving force. Ultimately, h…

HERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2026 curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. The Executive Condition: The Hidden Health Crisis of High-Perfor…

We just finished the 16th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. In those 16 years, the class has gone from a radical idea – that the Lean method could provide a more productive framework for new startups – to something that e…

Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad… and How Great Companies Stay Great, by Eric Ries. Every once in a while a book comes along that doesn’t just change your tactical thinking, but makes you see the world in a different way…

We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. This was the 11th year we’ve taught Hacking for Defense, and the impact of asymmetric warfare, (drones, off-the-shelf technologies, etc.,) disruptive technologies (AI, comm…

Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad… and How Great Companies Stay Great Available for pre-order at incorruptible.co As Incorruptible ’s publication day draws near – May 26 in the U.S., May 28 everywhere else – it’s exciting to feel the…

I’ve spent a lot of time in recent years thinking about governance: its role in the current state of the markets and society, the way it functions in individual companies and also as a powerful collective force, and how we can approach it i…

I recently spoke with the New York Times about an issue that's both very much in the news and on my mind: building a company honestly. The temptation to "fake it 'til you make it" in business is real. For some, it's overpowering. The pressu…

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Eleven days. That's how long our pipeline ran perfectly with zero errors, green Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), clean Snowflake loads while producing audience counts that were 40% wrong. A data pipeline is like a translation chain: If …

OpenAI today announced an internal AI system solved the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem , one of the seven notoriously challenging Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics that has remained unsolved since its introduction 26 …

Four researchers spent six weeks reconstructing what happened on a 25-year-old German programmers' wiki: agents identifying as OpenAI systems had turned it into a coordination channel, leaving about 18,000 posts, trading task answers, …

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Tomorrow is the first meeting of my freshman seminar at Harvard . Here are the books we are reading this year: The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers, by Robert Heilbroner Capitalism and Freedom,…

I am deeply honored to be named an International Fellow of the British Academy.