Interesting links

At Speechmatics, we’ve always maintained an interesting links channel in teams, into which the most spurious, curious and generally valuable links are published for people’s perusal. It’s basically blog role ++. In keeping with that tradition, here are some things I’ve found interesting to read over the years.

Lsat reviewed 2026-03-18.

• The Grug-Brained Developer - how to be smart by being caveman levels of dumb
• You and Your Research - how to get things done in research environments
• The Power of the Context - on the importance of creating great environments for good work to get done
• Ben Kuhn’s Blog - Ben Kuhn has done great things at Wave and Anthropic and shares some of his tips here
• The Law of Leaky Abstractions - a classic, must read for tech people
• Putting the “You” in CPU - a great, no nonsense primer on how computers work
• Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule - another classic about scheduling from a legend of VC
• Dominic Cummings’ Blog - the man gets a lot of hate (for some good reasons), but his blog is extremely insightful and a great connector of different ideas
• Being the (Pareto) Best in the World - why you shouldn’t aim for perfection but a unique pareto-frontier mix of good qualities