What Caught My Eye Culture · Brands · Design · Building Weekly Links by Mike Litman 150+ Sources, 1 Taste Filter Curated, Not Aggregated What Caught My Eye Culture · Brands · Design · Building Weekly Links by Mike Litman 150+ Sources, 1 Taste Filter Curated, Not Aggregated
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When Everything Can Be Built, Taste Becomes the Only Moat
M.G. Siegler channels Steve Jobs to argue that as AI makes building trivially easy, the gap between competent and exceptional comes down to one thing: aesthetic judgement.
The model is not the product. The person deciding what the model should make is the product. If you have taste, you have leverage.
^ said it better than I could
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22 May 2026 10 links
automation creating more work, Spotify's audiobook tool, Air Transat's World Cup campaign, the AI Resist List, the State of AI Design, Costco's bulk boom, agentic shopping risks, adult friendship and more
Top pick: The Uncomfortable Truth: AI Progress Is Creating More Work, Not Less
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15 May 2026 10 links
the AI-native org, the UK-Wayve deal, Meta smart glasses, DeepMind's AI pointer, YouTube's upfront, Spotify's lifetime Wrapped, Amazon 30-minute delivery, Instagram on the TV and more
Top pick: The AI-Native Org Has No Translation Layer. That Is the Whole Point.
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8 May 2026 10 links
the AI operator role, Claude's SpaceX compute deal, the lo-fi rebellion against AI, Suno's $2.5B bet, Zest Maps, handmade imperfection, Spotify's CLI, BuzzBallz World Cup cocktails and more
Top pick: The Biggest Job in Silicon Valley Has No Title Yet
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1 May 2026 10 links
the AI fog HBR is trying to navigate, Naval on code, maker taste, the AI labour bottleneck, Spotify Fitness, Pret's read on customers, AI psychosis, Coke vs Pepsi, Wizz Air's price war and more
Top pick: The AI Fog Just Replaced the Five-Year Plan. HBR Says That Is Actually Good News.
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24 April 2026 10 links
transferring taste into AI agents, Sunak on youth jobs, who actually uses Claude vs Meta AI, Google's 75% AI-written code, Tim Cook's timing, Waterstones and more
Top pick: The Missing Skill for AI Builders: Giving Your Agent Taste
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17 April 2026 10 links
Claude Code's new desktop, OpenAI going British, Grüns hitting $300M, Allbirds pivoting to GPUs, and the smartest brand campaigns of the week
Top pick: AI Is Not a Labour Crisis. It Is a Meaning Crisis.
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10 April 2026 10 links
Sam Altman's trust problem, viral mechanics, office status games, and a new Anthropic model that could reshape cybersecurity
Top pick: The Most Important Character Study in Tech Right Now
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2 April 2026 10 links
two-person billion-dollar companies, AI eating VC, Rec Room's goodbye, and a Carl Pei U-turn
Top pick: Two Brothers, Two Employees, $1.8 Billion in Revenue
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27 March 2026 10 links
product craft, AI ethics, beauty AI, taste, and a Whopper that became a hot dog
Top pick: Great Products Are Still Extremely Hard to Build – Even With AI
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20 March 2026 8 links
AI taste, agent payments, niche brands, personalised TV, and a billboard made of 319 sheets of A4
Top pick: When Everything Can Be Built, Taste Becomes the Only Moat
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14 March 2026 10 links
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Top pick: The Non-Coders Are Shipping Faster Than the Engineers
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