Daily Reading List – March 24, 2026 (#748)

Travel day to New York City, and thankfully I had decent airplane wifi. Tomorrow I get to talk to a couple hundred non-tech folks about AI. There’s a lot for me to learn!

[blog] Google ranks #1 on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list. Proud of my colleagues for rising to the moment and doing creative work everywhere in the company.

[article] Your database is about to become an AI tool. Is it ready? Any AI app or system that lasts will need database access. Have you done the necessary steps to prepare?

[blog] Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival. Well that’s a very uplifting title. But Steve Blank’s point is that if your startup is a couple of years old, you need to stop and look around to see what’s fundamentally changed.

[blog] RSAC ’26: Supercharging agentic AI defense with frontline threat intelligence. Security is the topic of the week thanks to the RSA conference going on. Here’s our roundup of security-related data and news.

[blog] Bringing dark web intelligence into the AI era. It’s dangerous out there, but the tools are getting better and giving you a leg up on adversaries.

[blog] M-Trends 2026: Data, Insights, and Strategies From the Frontlines. This is quality data about the current threat landscape, and how it’s evolved over the past couple years.

[blog] In Defense of Deep Reading. Read as much as you can. I agree with everything in here.

[article] AWS at 20*: Inside the rise of Amazon’s cloud empire, and what’s at stake in the AI era. Long, insightful story about the orgins of AWS with quotes from insiders.

[article] Why aren’t AI productivity gains higher? No one can sell you productivity. They can sell you tools to make yourself more productive. But only if the circumstances are set up for success.

[blog] Skills vs. Tools: Replacing the Google Firestore MCP Server with Skills (+ Go Binaries). Neat pattern. Build super fast, local binaries that act like tools from within an agent skill.

[article] When Senior Leaders Lack People Skills, Transformations Fail. No matter how good (or bad) you are at the people parts of the job, we can all get better. And should.

[blog] Your AI agent can now create, edit, and manage content on WordPress.com. Hmm. I’ll probably pass, although some of the operational tasks might come in handy.

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