Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
🧠 When the Founder Is the Moat
In startups, especially deep-tech and AI, the moat often isn’t data or models. It’s the founder(s).
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
Skills are conceptually extremely simple: a skill is a Markdown file telling the model how to do something, optionally accompanied by extra documents and pre-written scripts that the model can run to help it accomplish the tasks described by the skill.
Your data model is your destiny – Matt Brown’s Notes
Every founder has a data model, whether they realize it or not. Either you choose it explicitly or it gets inherited from whatever you’re copying. Most founders never articulate it. By the time the architecture solidifies around these implicit choices, it’s nearly impossible to change.
This Study Says Not All Stress Is Bad, and Might Help You at Work
There’s ample advice on tackling and lessening the impacts of stress in the workplace. But a new report published in the journal of the American Psychological Association concludes that some kinds of stress can be useful on the job.
The next product
The newcomer doesn’t have to meet the others where they are. It just has to feel right — like someone opened the curtains and let the sun back in. The type of product that lets people exhale and say, “finally!”
Congratulations, Publicly – by Anu – Working Theorys
One of the worst things about the internet becoming ‘real life’ is that it’s a place where you perform conversations instead of just having them.
You Still Need to Think
As coding agents become more capable and long-running, they don’t remove the human job of thinking. Someone still has to direct the work—set goals, choose constraints, and judge outputs.
