The top things I have read this week 🏆
Week 23 / 2026
Hey there! Welcome to a new edition of Hybrid Hacker! 🌟
Every week I share the top articles I have found and personally read on the internet. I only share the stuff I believe it’s worth your time.
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I mainly read things from my public daily digest, which curates an ever growing list of sources. Here is this week’s best stuff 👇
🌀 My AI Coding Workflow
14 min • by Luca Rossi
This week I published my monthly update about the AI coding workflow I use to develop Tolaria. Plenty of new ideas in there, including my updated mental model about AI harnesses, organized in Guides, Gates, and Guards.
🥇 Why Japanese Companies Do So Many Different Things
20 min • by David Oks
This is such an awesome article that goes deep into explaining how (and why) Japanese companies are wildly different from US (and Western in general) ones. So much food for thought from looking at things like lifetime employment, horizontal coordination, diversification, and more. A must read.
🥈 The Slide
5 min • by Rands
Putting this appropriately here after I interviewed Rands at LDX3 just yesterday, and asked him about stories and this article in particular. When someone keeps ignoring your feedback, don’t lecture harder — slide up next to them with a personal story about the time you struggled with the same thing.
🥉 Making a New Plan
2 min • by Cate Huston
An ever-underrated leadership skill is admitting you’re wrong and making a new plan when new information is available. Also, it’s easy to judge others for not doing that incorporating new information, until you realize we all do it from time to time. Short and sharp, as always in Cate’s style.
And that’s it for today! If you find this list useful, please share it with your friends!
You can also read the very same things I read every day via this free daily digest 📬
See you next week!
Sincerely 👋
Luca