Daily Reading List – August 27, 2024 (#385)

I had a very light meeting day today, which messed with my head. But, it was great to answer all my email, write a blog post, do some research, and work on upcoming presentations.

[blog] Routines and habit stacking. Tom looks at incorporating goals into current routines, and piggybacking on existing success.

[blog] Level up your codebase with Gemini’s long context window in Vertex AI. I love this example from Karl. He shows us exactly how to take a large codebase and use Gemini to send prompts like “provide a getting started guide” and “implement this feature.”

[article] Does Market Share Still Matter? Do “market leaders” have the most efficiency, market power, and quality? Or do highly digital firms have similar profitability to the market leaders? Interesting research.

[article] Profitable on day one! What does it even mean to be “profitable? Jason encourages us to use the term correctly.

[blog] A Year of Project IDX. If you haven’t checked this out, at least give it a scan. IDX is an interesting developer environment, and I’ve used it to build a few apps.

[blog] What conditions make developers thrive most? This looks at recent research about where devs don’t just perform, but thrive. Four key dimensions come into play.

[blog] Friction Logs. This is about the process of using products, recording the experience and papercuts that come with it, and sending that feedback to those who fix it.

[article] Why AI can’t spell ‘strawberry’. Such an interesting problem! I tried this scenario with the latest Gemini Flash models we released today, and it did indeed answer correctly.

[blog] How DoorDash is pushing experimentation boundaries with interleaving designs. Sophisticated stuff, but looks like a useful strategy for getting better signals earlier.

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