Thoughts of the Week: June 30th, 2025
newsletter.scottdclary.com/p/thoughts-of-the-week-june-30th-2025
Jul 15, 2025
102
Social Selling on LinkedIn
medium.com/scott-d-clary/social-selling-on-linkedin-a1bb066695fa
Jul 15, 2025
10
Scott D. Clary on Success and Happiness
www.linkedin.com/posts/scottdclary_scottsthoughts-activity-6632298492175884288-bAsm/
Jul 15, 2025
21
Context Engineering
blog.langchain.com/context-engineering-for-agents/
Jul 12, 2025
141
Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compensation/
Jul 4, 2025
63
Lies per Second, Meetings per Decision Ratio, and other important biz metrics
andrewchen.substack.com/p/lies-per-second-meetings-per-decision
Jul 4, 2025
7
Contrary Research Rundown #142
contraryresearch.substack.com/p/contrary-research-rundown-142
Jun 30, 2025
133
In a first-of-its-kind decision, an AI company wins a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors
www.npr.org/2025/06/25/nx-s1-5445242/federal-rules-in-ai-companys-favor-in-landmark-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-authors-bartz-graeber-wallace-johnson-anthropic
Jun 30, 2025
7
levered beta is all you need
textql.notion.site/levered-beta-is-all-you-need-20ba769a508880388186ef0c2fa11389
Jun 27, 2025
197
Unit Economics
blog.samaltman.com/unit-economics
Jun 20, 2025
62
The Gentle Singularity
blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity
Jun 14, 2025
114
What "Working" Means in the Era of AI Apps | Andreessen Horowitz
a16z.com/revenue-benchmarks-ai-apps/
Jun 9, 2025
71
What is Memory? | OpenAI Help Center
help.openai.com/en/articles/8983136-what-is-memory
Jun 6, 2025
4
Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next
every.to/thesis/knowledge-work-is-dying-here-s-what-comes-next
Jun 5, 2025
204
Find Your People
foundersatwork.posthaven.com/find-your-people/
Jun 4, 2025
52
All in on AGI – Google I/O 2025
heartcore.substack.com/p/heartcore-insights-2eb
May 30, 2025
3
The Hidden Playbook: How B2B Tech Startups Can Build a Magnetic Social Media Strategy
read.glasp.co/p/the-hidden-playbook-how-b2b-tech
May 30, 2025
5
5 ways to listen better | Julian Treasure | TED - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSohjlYQI2A
May 22, 2025
8
The Speaking Expert: How To Speak So Everyone Hears You! Julian Treasure - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE1KnWX2thQ
May 21, 2025
1
How to Speak So That People Want to Listen | Julian Treasure | TED - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIho2S0ZahI
May 21, 2025
5
Shared Memory, Knowledge Arbitrage, Why the Future of Creativity is Bright & AI Education FTW!
www.implications.com/p/shared-memory-knowledge-arbitrage
May 20, 2025
94
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The Urgency of Interpretability
www.darioamodei.com/post/the-urgency-of-interpretability
May 16, 2025
162
OpenAI’s Sam Altman on Building the ‘Core AI Subscription’ for Your Life - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctcMA6chfDY
May 15, 2025
11
What is the most popular language to study in your country?
blog.duolingo.com/which-countries-study-which-languages-and-what-can-we-learn-from-it/
May 13, 2025
82
The Reading Obsession
www.enterlabyrinth.com/p/the-reading-obsession
May 12, 2025
4
The New Moat: Memory
www.newinternet.tech/p/the-new-moat-memory
May 7, 2025
83
Who is writing the story of your life?
read.glasp.co/p/who-is-writing-the-story-of-your
Apr 30, 2025
82
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman explains why your company priorities are wrong
x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1916822616012136588
Apr 29, 2025
41
Human Curiosity in the Age of AI
read.glasp.co/p/human-curiosity-in-the-age-of-ai
Apr 25, 2025
63
The Data Wars & Reimagining Your Product During a Platform Shift
www.implications.com/p/the-data-wars-and-reimagining-your
Apr 25, 2025
157
Productivity
blog.samaltman.com/productivity/
Apr 22, 2025
155
How to calculate CAC Payback Period (the right way)
www.mostlymetrics.com/p/how-to-calculate-customer-acquisition
Apr 22, 2025
101
How to Calculate Net Dollar Retention Rate (the right way)
www.mostlymetrics.com/p/how-to-calculate-net-dollar-retention
Apr 22, 2025
4
Use This 3-Step System to Get More Out of Every Book You Read
read.glasp.co/p/use-this-3-step-system-to-get-more
Apr 18, 2025
53
Introducing GPT-4.1 in the API
openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/
Apr 14, 2025
8
Contrary Research Rundown #131
contraryresearch.substack.com/p/contrary-research-rundown-131
Apr 14, 2025
154
Every marketing channel sucks right now
andrewchen.substack.com/p/every-marketing-channel-sucks-right
Apr 9, 2025
155
"The Psychology of Human Misjudgment"
jamesclear.com/great-speeches/psychology-of-human-misjudgment-by-charlie-munger
Apr 6, 2025
114
The End of Reading
www.theringer.com/podcasts/plain-english-with-derek-thompson/2025/02/28/the-end-of-reading
Apr 3, 2025
2
The Cybernetic Teammate
www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-cybernetic-teammate
Mar 29, 2025
93
Using AI to make teaching easier & more impactful
www.oneusefulthing.org/p/using-ai-to-make-teaching-easier
Mar 29, 2025
161
The original growth hacker reveals his secrets | Sean Ellis (author of “Hacking Growth”) - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjJ6xcv7e8s
Mar 28, 2025
194
How To Validate PMF EffectivelyㅣSean Ellis, Hacking Growth - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDBXoIiYFdQ
Mar 28, 2025
135
How to Be The Hero of Your Story - Jason Feifer
www.jasonfeifer.com/story-of-confidence/
Mar 25, 2025
41
Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/
Mar 20, 2025
82
Reading Well
map.simonsarris.com/p/reading-well
Mar 16, 2025
74
Pure Independence
collabfund.com/blog/pure-independence/
Mar 11, 2025
187
The Most Precious Resource is Agency
map.simonsarris.com/p/the-most-precious-resource-is-agency
Mar 8, 2025
83
How to be More Agentic
usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-be-more-agentic
Mar 4, 2025
93
Andrej Karpathy on X: "Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are" / X
x.com/karpathy/status/1894099637218545984/
Mar 3, 2025
41