skims
Talks, skimmed to what holds.
Decisions, claims, and risks pulled from talks and podcasts worth the time — each line checked against the tape, each backed by a receipt you can play.
10 skims · updated August 10, 2026
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Dylan Field
Config 2025: Figma product launch keynote (Dylan Field, CEO & Co-founder, Figma) LIVE at Moscone
Field's Config 2025 keynote makes one argument and then demonstrates it with eight products: design is no longer a step in the process but the process itself, and AI raises rather than lowers its value — because when…
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Karri Saarinen
Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen (co-founder, designer, CEO)
Saarinen's argument lands upstream of aesthetics: in a crowded category design is table stakes, and quality is an organizational choice — founders aligned on it, hiring that interviews for it, and a structure with one…
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Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #452
Amodei's five hours reduce to one empirical stance: the scaling curve has answered every theoretical objection since 2014, and if it holds, powerful AI lands around 2026-27 — so Anthropic's bet is to industrialize…
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Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky's new playbook
A year before anyone called it founder mode, Chesky laid out the operating model on tape: the delegate-and-step-back orthodoxy starves projects, so the product-led founder takes the reins — one roadmap, a functional…
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Shreyas Doshi
The art of product management | Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo)
Doshi's five practices share one spine: name the thing the room is not saying.
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Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475
Hassabis on Lex runs on one conjecture — whatever nature built through selection, a neural net can learn — and everything else follows: an adversarial AGI test staffed by the Terence Taos of each field, science as the…
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Jony Ive
A conversation with Jony Ive
Ive's hour with Collison is not a design tutorial — it is an argument that care is legible: people can feel, through what you make, whether somebody gave real thought to them, and the details nobody sees are where that…
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Aravind Srinivas
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search
Srinivas's YC talk is a wager statement: the browser — not the chatbot, not the protocol stack — is where agents become real, because it is the one surface that needs nobody else's cooperation.
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Steve Yegge
S1E2: FAAFO! Faster, Ambitious, Autonomous/Alone, Fun, Options
Yegge and Kim's answer is structural: the developer becomes a head chef running agent line cooks, and the organization compresses around that — coordination tax collapses, ambition scales, options multiply.
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Andrej Karpathy
Software Is Changing (Again)
Karpathy's argument is bigger than 'AI writes code': software is on its third rewrite, natural language is the new programming interface, and today's LLMs are an operating system in its 1960s timesharing phase.