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August 2025
Article

The Four Styles of Confidence on a Team

Teams thrive when members express proportional confidence, sharing not just their opinions, but also how likely they are to be right.
July 2025
Essay

High Agency In 30 Minutes

A practical guide to becoming the person others trust to solve problems no one else can.
June 2025
Article

The Last Six Months in LLMs, Illustrated by Pelicans on Bicycles

An analysis of recent LLM progress through an unusual test: generating pelicans on bikes in SVG.
May 2025
Memoir

Paul Thomson's Search Fund Manifesto

A raw account of raising a search fund, buying a business, and the emotional reality of 252 days on the road.
February 2025
Article

Proprietary Product Distribution is Better than Sliced Bread

Explores how businesses can create sustainable competitive advantage through proprietary distribution channels.
February 2025
Article

Deep Research and Knowledge Value

Deep Research excels at synthesizing information but also reveals its key limitation: it can only find what's publicly available online.
February 2025
Longform

The Artificial Intelligence Revolution

An exploration of how exponential growth in computing power is leading toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) and beyond.