What I Read This Week

An irregular but must-read newsletter on startups and many other random topics. It started as a weekly newsletter in 2021. A lot of that writing formed the basis for Rowan’s book 'How To Be Wrong' (published in February 2025).

Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that the most consequential technologies serve humanity. We bring clarity to how the tech ecosystem works in order to shift the incentives that drive it.

Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

Exploring how AI shapes the building blocks of human progress: education, work, democracy

How to think like a programmer, letters to my younger self, and system thinking

Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers, AI engineers and engineering leaders, useful for those working in tech.

1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.

Conversations about what it means to be human, and what it means to build a new culture together with AI. Posts created jointly with AI, but initiated and shaped by Tim O'Reilly

A publication by Tim O’Reilly and Ilan Strauss on AI commercialization risks and governance. Disclosure and protocols for healthy AI ecosystems.