Cool Links
A curated collection of websites, articles, and resources I find interesting and worth sharing. These are places I return to for inspiration, learning, and perspective.
- Find Your Ideal Remote Work Spot
A map tool for finding cafes, coworking spaces, and offices to work from. Simple, focused, and actually useful if you're tired of working from home.
tool - Humans Spend ~1 Hour Traveling Per Day
A 1994 paper arguing travel behavior is driven by instinct, not economics. People consistently spend ~1 hour/day traveling regardless of era or transport tech.
science - Practical Gardening Advice That Actually Works
YouTube channel covering everything from container ginger to raised beds. Straightforward, well-produced videos for beginners and experienced growers alike.
gardening - Let LLMs Render Your React Components
Open standard for AI apps that respond with actual UI. Define your component library, and LLMs render it directly.
tool - Real Engineer Prompts for Claude
Matt Pocock's personal Claude skill files, open-sourced. Practical prompts for things like TDD, architecture review, and GitHub triage.
ai - Turn HTML Into Video, for Agents
A library from HeyGen that renders HTML/CSS as video frames. Useful if you're building agents that need to produce video output programmatically.
tool - Daily Curated Web Design Inspiration
A hand-picked gallery of well-designed websites, organized by page type. Good for quickly seeing what's working in modern web design.
design - Sequoia's Three Archetypes of Product-Market Fit
A useful framework for thinking about PMF: hair on fire, hard fact, or future vision. Helps founders understand not just if they have fit, but what kind.
startups - Karpathy's AI That Researches Itself
AI agents that autonomously run ML experiments on a single GPU. Karpathy letting LLMs do the science on small-scale language model training.
ai - Jack Dorsey Rebuilds Block Around AI
Dorsey cut 40% of Block's workforce and rebuilt around an AI 'intelligence layer.' Honest talk about org structure, hierarchy, and what companies look like when AI is the core.
video - Curated Essays From the Best Writers
A well-organized collection of longform essays and articles sorted by topic and author. Good for finding serious writing on almost anything.
learning - Visual Theme Editor for shadcn/ui
Tweak colors, typography, and more for shadcn/ui with live preview, then export to Tailwind. No signup, tons of presets.
tool - Design Files Modeled After Famous Brands
A collection of DESIGN.md files inspired by top companies like Stripe, Linear, and Apple. Drop one into your project so AI coding agents build UI that matches.
design - Keith Rabois on Hiring, AI, and Contrarian Takes
PayPal Mafia veteran shares frameworks on spotting talent, why customer feedback can hurt consumer products, and where AI is reshaping startup roles.
startups - SF Landmarks Where Startups Were Born
An interactive map of San Francisco spots where founders think, build, and hit milestones. Part local guide, part origin story collection.
startups - Building Claude Agents From Scratch
Full workshop walkthrough of Anthropic's Agent SDK — covers the agent loop, bash tool, context engineering, and live coding. Dense with practical insight.
video - Demo Videos That Don't Look Like Screen Recordings
Mac screen recorder that adds 3D device mockups, auto-zoom, and AI voiceover. Makes product demos look polished without much effort.
tool - Brainstorm Better With Extreme Constraints
Ten provocative questions — like 'what if you charged 10x more?' — that force genuinely new thinking. Useful for product strategy, not just idea generation.
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