The Startup CTO’s Handbook

I’m past this point in my career but I’m hanging onto this to forward to people who might need help or guidance beyond having a chat with me! Don’t let the github link hold you back – it’s also available from all book sellers as a printed book instead of a pdf or .md file.

As of today I have not read this book, so don’t consider this a recommendation (yet).

https://github.com/ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook

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Turn off Google’s new tracking “feature”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/how-turn-googles-privacy-sandbox-ad-tracking-and-why-you-should

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Want a temporary email address?

Found this in my notes from 6 years ago, they’re still around!

https://trashmail.com

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Running SQL Server in Docker on MacOS

I run a mix of environments, but this might be handy someday:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/development-with-sql-in-containers-on-macos/

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Blog post and video about the strange world of LLMs

Not mine, just keeping track of it here if I want to refer anyone to it. I especially liked the bits about how to trick the LLMs.

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/3/weird-world-of-llms/

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Google has no moat for AI

Interesting copy of an internal Google memo. There are a lot of callouts in there for “AI” implementations that are happening outside of the tech biggies… Amazing how much stuff is going on, and how quickly things are progressing. I wonder if we have “AI” helping to write AI yet… It won’t be far off.

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

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All too true post about hype cycles

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/hype-cycles

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Daring Fireball First Impressions of Apple Vision Pro

It’s going to be an expensive 2024…

https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/first_impressions_of_vision_pro_and_visionos

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EU AI Act To Target US Open Source Software

https://technomancers.ai/eu-ai-act-to-target-us-open-source-software/

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New Yorker article on coaching

No matter how good you are, or how far along you are in your career, is there an opportunity to bring a coach into your life to help you further improve?

Personal Best

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