Digest Run

January 9 – January 23, 2026

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The Agent Skills Directory

skills.sh · skills.sh · Jan 22, 2026 · Raindrop

This is npm for AI agent capabilities - a standardized way to package and distribute specialized knowledge that agents can use. For someone building AI-powered workflows and side projects, this could dramatically reduce the time spent crafting prompts and could become a new monetization channel for developer expertise.

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AI UGC Scaling Guide for TikTok Shop Brands - Maverick

docs.google.com · docs.google.com · Jan 22, 2026 · Raindrop

This is a detailed playbook for using AI to automate UGC creation at scale, which directly applies to Brian's AI automation work and side project experience. While the TikTok Shop focus might not be his domain, the underlying automation architecture and AI toolchain integration concepts are highly relevant to his expertise.

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How McDonald’s Took Over America | Ray Kroc [Outliers]

fs.blog · Vicky · Jan 22, 2026 · Readwise

This hits Brian's sweet spot of systematic thinking applied to scaling businesses - exactly what he needs for his side projects and what his audience of developer-entrepreneurs wants to learn. The focus on execution, standardization, and building scalable systems maps directly to how he approaches technical architecture and business automation.

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Remotion now has Agent Skills - make videos just with Claude Code!

x.com · x.com · Jan 21, 2026 · Raindrop

Remotion adding Claude agent skills essentially democratizes video creation for developers - you can now build animations by describing what you want instead of writing code. For someone running multiple side projects, this could be a game-changer for creating marketing content, demos, or automated video generation at scale.

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I'm addicted to being useful

seangoedecke.com · seangoedecke.com · Jan 21, 2026 · Readwise

This hits Brian's core identity as someone who runs multiple side projects and clearly gets energy from solving problems and building useful things. The "addiction to being useful" framing perfectly describes the mindset that drives successful solopreneurs and side project builders - it's not just about money, it's about the compulsive need to solve problems and create value.

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A fun trick for getting discovered by LLMs and AI tools

cassidoo.co · cassidoo.co · Jan 20, 2026 · Readwise

This is highly actionable content that directly applies to Brian's side projects and personal brand building. The specific implementation details (llms.txt, /for-llms pages, Schema.org) are exactly the kind of tactical optimization Brian would appreciate and could implement across his projects within a weekend.

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i want to do everything, so i do nothing

x.com · blue · Jan 20, 2026 · Readwise

This directly addresses the "shiny object syndrome" that plagues developers with side projects. Brian's combination of fintech work, multiple side ventures, and writing aspirations makes this highly relevant. The practical advice to focus sequentially rather than simultaneously could resonate with his engineering mindset.

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Jeff Bezos: When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right.

articles.data.blog · Articles of Interest · Jan 20, 2026 · Readwise

Perfect intersection of engineering craft and product intuition that Brian deals with constantly in fintech. The practical wisdom about trusting user complaints over metrics directly applies to his work building credit-card-linked offers platforms and analytics dashboards.

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Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?

articles.data.blog · Articles of Interest · Jan 20, 2026 · Readwise

This hits Brian's sweet spot of AI/automation trends plus developer productivity concerns. As someone building AI-powered dev workflows, he'd likely have strong opinions about whether we're losing important cognitive skills or just adapting to new tools. The data about declining reading complexity could spark thoughts about code complexity, technical documentation, and how AI is changing how we process information.

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Claude Code won't fix you

x.com · Behzod · Jan 20, 2026 · Readwise

This appears to critique the hype around AI coding tools like Claude, which perfectly aligns with Brian's preference for practical over theoretical takes on AI. Given his hands-on experience with AI integrations and dev workflows, he likely has nuanced views on where these tools actually help versus where they fall short.

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The Renaissance of Software Development

x.com · brandon · Jan 20, 2026 · Readwise

This hits directly on AI's impact on software development, which Brian is actively integrating into his workflows and side projects. The "renaissance" framing could spark a contrarian take - Brian likely has strong opinions on what AI actually changes vs. the hype, especially given his hands-on experience with AI-powered dev tools.

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The Human in the Loop

adventures.nodeland.dev · Adventures in Nodeland · Jan 19, 2026 · Readwise

This perfectly captures the tension Brian likely feels between AI productivity gains and the critical nature of financial systems that can't afford "I didn't review it, AI wrote it" mistakes. The author's perspective on review-as-bottleneck rather than coding-as-bottleneck probably mirrors Brian's own experience scaling side projects while maintaining quality standards.

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I’ve Been a Public School Teacher for 20 Years. Trust Me: Homeschool Your Kids

x.com · 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 🇺🇸 · Jan 19, 2026 · Readwise

This directly connects to Brian's family considerations and his background in automation/productivity - he'd probably have strong opinions about traditional education vs. modern learning approaches. Given his tech background, he'd likely see opportunities to discuss how technology could enhance alternative education models.

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R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Free Play” | The New Yorker

newyorker.com · Françoise Mouly · Jan 19, 2026 · Readwise

This hits Brian's family/parenting interests directly - the tension between consumer culture pressures and simple joys resonates with his life stage. While it's not a tech article, the underlying theme of "less stuff, more focus" connects to his productivity mindset and could spark thoughts on digital minimalism or automation reducing life complexity.

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Agent-native Architectures: How to Build Apps After Code Ends

every.to · every.to · Jan 19, 2026 · Readwise

This is a comprehensive framework for building AI-native apps that could directly impact Brian's work at the fintech startup and his side project automation. The emphasis on atomic tools, emergent capability, and mobile-first patterns aligns perfectly with his TypeScript/serverless background and print-on-demand automation interests.

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Introducing: React Best Practices - Vercel

vercel.com · vercel.com · Jan 19, 2026 · Raindrop

This hits Brian's sweet spot of AI-powered development workflows and engineering craft. The "structured for AI agents" angle is particularly compelling since he's actively building AI-powered dev tools. The performance ordering framework could be solid content for his practical, opinionated writing style.

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How to Time Travel

medium.com · Brian Chesky · Jan 18, 2026 · Readwise

This hits Brian's core tension as a startup founder/engineer with young kids - the constant tradeoff between building/shipping and being present for life's moments. Chesky's insight about new experiences creating vivid memories vs. routine days that blur together is directly applicable to Brian's world of balancing deep work, family time, and the risk of letting years of "grinding" become unmemorable.

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Software's YouTube Moment is Happening Now

x.com · Anish Acharya · Jan 16, 2026 · Readwise

This directly connects to Brian's experience building AI-powered dev workflows and automating side projects like print-on-demand. The "software as creative expression" angle aligns with his transition from pure engineering to writing and running multiple projects, plus he's perfectly positioned to validate or challenge this thesis with real examples.

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A Social Filesystem

overreacted.io · overreacted.io · Jan 19, 2026 · Readwise

This is a deep dive into AT Protocol's architecture using filesystem metaphors - interesting for understanding distributed social systems, but probably too niche for Brian's audience. The technical concepts around decentralized identity and data ownership could inspire broader thoughts about platform risk and data portability for developers.

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Americans keep moving to where the water isn’t

vox.com · Bryan Walsh · Aug 28, 2022 · Readwise

This intersects Brian's personal finance and family planning domains well - he likely faces these exact location/risk tradeoffs as a fintech engineer with a family. The economic incentives driving people to climate-risky areas despite obvious downsides mirrors how engineers often make technical debt decisions for short-term velocity gains.

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Giga Browser Agent

x.com · x.com · Jan 22, 2026 · Raindrop

Without access to the actual content, this appears to be a Twitter post about some kind of browser automation agent. While it could touch on AI/agents (one of Brian's core interests), the lack of accessible content and the ephemeral nature of a single tweet makes this unlikely to provide substantial writing material. Brian typically needs concrete examples and technical details to craft his practical, experience-driven posts.

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How to fix your entire life in 1 hour

x.com · DAN KOE · Jan 21, 2026 · Readwise

This is generic productivity advice disguised as a life hack. While the core message about focus and breaking down goals isn't wrong, it's surface-level content that Brian could write better from his actual experience building systems and shipping projects. The "fix your life in 1 hour" framing is clickbait that doesn't match his direct, practical writing style.

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New X Algoritm Recommendations

pbs.twimg.com · pbs.twimg.com · Jan 20, 2026 · Raindrop

This appears to be a corrupted image file that's completely unreadable - just JPEG binary data and encoding artifacts. There's no actual content about X algorithm recommendations or anything else that would be relevant to Brian's interests or work.

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Austrian Economics vs. Chicago Economics

articles.data.blog · Articles of Interest · Jan 20, 2026 · Readwise

This is a very brief blog post that just quotes another article about economic schools of thought. While Brian has interest in personal finance, this theoretical economics content doesn't connect to his practical, building-focused approach or his current work domains.

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Articles of Interest

articles.data.blog · articles.data.blog · Jan 20, 2026 · Raindrop

This is a curated link blog with eclectic topics ranging from education philosophy to AI hallucination research. While there are a couple technically relevant pieces (the OpenAI hallucination paper, cognitive debt concept), most content feels too academic/abstract for Brian's practical writing style and audience.

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Claude Code config as infrastructure:

x.com · Brian Lovin · Jan 20, 2026 · Readwise

Without the actual content, this appears to be about treating Claude Code configurations as infrastructure-as-code, which should align with Brian's serverless/CDK background. However, the lack of substantive content and Twitter-thread format makes this more of a passing observation than something meaty enough to build writing around.

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Untitled

Jan 18, 2026 · Readwise

This appears to be a broken bookmark or invalid URL with no accessible content. There's literally nothing to evaluate - no title, author, content, or even functional URL.

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A Complete Knowledge Base Of HUMAN 3.0

letters.thedankoe.com · DAN KOE · Jan 17, 2026 · Readwise

This is a dense personal development framework that attempts to synthesize multiple psychological models into a "4-quadrant, 3-level" system. While it touches on AI and productivity themes Brian cares about, it's primarily focused on consciousness development and spiritual frameworks that don't align with his practical, engineering-focused writing style.

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How Precision Time Protocol is being deployed at Meta

engineering.fb.com · Ahmad Byagowi · Nov 21, 2022 · Readwise

This is a deep technical dive into Meta's nanosecond-precision timing infrastructure that's impressive engineering but not directly applicable to Brian's current work or side projects. While the distributed systems concepts around linearizability and consistency are relevant, the specific PTP implementation details are too infrastructure-heavy for his fintech/side project focus.

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