Raphael Poss

Technical stuff that made me raise an eyebrow: Bug Blindness by Dan Luu.

This book entertained me greatly: Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It - Chris Voss & Tahl Raz I initially picked it up because of its good ratings, expecting to learn a few things about sales techniques.

I first started reading Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship by Thomas Dullien as a distraction from another task, and then caught myself reading it with attention.

One topic I'd like to cover today is life games.

Last month, unusually, there was very little time left for reading between running my household, taking care of my health and making progress on my work projects.

The following analysis summarizes my current thinking about the risks & opportunities around increasing LLM/AI usage over time, specifically from the perspective of government policymakers.

Work-related updates: Last quarter I completed a first version of the back-end of our app at Q10E Labs, and so we started to work on middleware to orchestrate data storage and synchronization across devices and users.

A few thoughts inspired by the stuff I read last month: Thought: complexity in humans systems increases by an order of magnitude at each layer of delegation.

I finally finished reading this recommendation by a friend: The Creative Act: a Way of Being - Rick Rubin Overall, this was enjoyable to read.

This month, there were some non-computer news that I felt worth paying attention to.

The month was so busy that I barely had time to read anything.

I had two very strange reading experiences this month.

Although I am still working my way through a rather dense book on philosophy recommended to me two months ago, work brought me to dive into three technical books on UI design in the hope to fix some shortcomings to my current project.

A thing that happened in October was the first anniversary of my volunteer role in an online community of late teenagers and young adults.

As companies scale from early-stage to growth phase, one of the most critical challenges is building a product organization that can maintain velocity while increasing headcount.

Currently reading multiple books at once, so progress on each of them is slow.

If you’re running a company or allocating capital in 2025, chances are you’ve noticed something strange: the words that once organized political and economic life—conservative, liberal, socialist—no longer tell you much about what governments will actually

This month's main book: $100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No - Alex Hormozi This one bubbled on top of the list from a confluence of references from other materials I was studying.

Last month's active lifestyle left me less time for reading.

Last month, I explained how I am currently building an app, a “digital companion” that helps users pace the stuff that matters to them through their day.

I am currently working on a new project.

Here are the important short-form (and not-so-short-form) reads for this month.

Buckle up: we need to talk about serious stuff. ❦❦❦ First, some notes on short-form learnings this month.

January saw me get back to reading.

In Lullaby language, Jerry Weinberg reflects on these problematic words that people add to their sentences to put the listener's mind to sleep.

Serendipitously, a series of fortuitous circumstances put me in touch with the CTO of a company in California who hired me as his mentor and coach.

There is one thing I have learned during my networking workshop last month and which I have kept thinking about ever since.

One news item is that I have started this “incubator program” that I was writing about two months ago.

Since health prevents me from reading these days, I transitioned to watching (and listening) to a bunch of people talking about their life path and experience.

This month's book reads: Rich Dad Poor Dad — Robert T.

Quite some reading happened.

This month (in fact, most of my time since I returned from Geneva in March) pretty much felt I was occupied with a full-time management job.

The irregular schedule and dynamic days left less time than before for reading.

Just a bit more than two weeks did not enable long reading sessions.

An important thing that happened this month is a reboot of my reading habit.

A thing that came through self-reflection is that my previous work projects were hyper-focused in one area, and that this focus came at the cost of giving up on my interests in other areas.

A couple weeks ago, Cockroach Labs and I parted ways amicably.