Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/maildump My way of learning 2026 Jamiepluscoffee 25350be9-6a81-596e-8c64-b572b69966d9 yes en Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:07:27 -0700 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:08:04 -0700 https://img.transistorcdn.com/R4JGIrhA418A1trctLTV8Gl_qW4ErloPbVmfX2OSlE4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84YzEy/MjZiYWNhOGRiMDFi/ZTc5NTdlMTQxYzRl/ZjdlOS5qcGVn.jpg episodic Jamiepluscoffee My way of learning My way of learning. Jamiepluscoffee No No 10 10 MailDump 10: Practice Rooms for Robots, and a Cliff Already Born full 5817207f-cc78-4e52-8ccc-41e9f6738d81 https://share.transistor.fm/s/443d43e5 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:07:25 -0700 Jamiepluscoffee Jamiepluscoffee 422 World models get a price tag, agents get leashes, colleges meet demographic arithmetic, and the archive asks where the body fits in thinking. World models get a price tag, agents get leashes, colleges meet demographic arithmetic, and the archive asks where the body fits in thinking. newsletters, world models, AI agents, higher education, software, Claude Code, OpenAI, decision making, embodied cognition, MailDump No 4 4 Smart Brevity 4: The signal is narrower than it looks: recency posing as memory, failures that teach, less supervision that wins full b45d551f-1e1f-4d6d-a759-c3bdeef4bd0b https://share.transistor.fm/s/33c52d59 Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:09:32 -0700 Jamiepluscoffee Jamiepluscoffee 471 The signal is narrower than it looks: recency posing as memory, failures that teach, less supervision that wins; Memory-need stratification: pooled memory scores mostly measure recency; Memory framing: calling context "memories" changes how often it gets used; Hindsight-to-foresi The signal is narrower than it looks: recency posing as memory, failures that teach, less supervision that wins; Memory-need stratification: pooled memory scores mostly measure recency; Memory framing: calling context "memories" changes how often it gets AI, machine learning, AI research, evals, AI product management No 9 9 MailDump 9: Colleges Close, Solar Goes Red, and Who Checks the Work full 1ddefb49-bd06-43c4-a98c-e223ad309005 https://share.transistor.fm/s/469967dc Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:07:38 -0700 Jamiepluscoffee Jamiepluscoffee 469 Colleges closing on demographics, red-state solar, the 1% next door, offices and software decoupling from headcount, science after cheap thinking, who checks AI work, and an archive thread on founder speed. Colleges closing on demographics, red-state solar, the 1% next door, offices and software decoupling from headcount, science after cheap thinking, who checks AI work, and an archive thread on founder speed. maildump, newsletters, higher education, solar, private equity, office market, software, AI for science, AI workflow, startups, founders, speed No 3 3 Smart Brevity 3: Your training signal has a shape, and it can lie: who teaches, how loudly, and who checks full 8d2b7803-322a-48e8-bd12-9c601f4c21ca https://share.transistor.fm/s/3c73c373 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 05:07:44 -0700 Jamiepluscoffee Jamiepluscoffee 452 Your training signal has a shape, and it can lie: who teaches, how loudly, and who checks; On-policy distillation scaling: small RL teachers can lift bigger students past themselves; Multi-teacher distillation: normalize each teacher's feedback spread or the loudest domain wins; Your training signal has a shape, and it can lie: who teaches, how loudly, and who checks; On-policy distillation scaling: small RL teachers can lift bigger students past themselves; Multi-teacher distillation: normalize each teacher's feedback spread or AI, machine learning, AI research, evals, AI product management No 8 8 MailDump 8: What Endures When the Model Doesn't full d6c9de7b-4e6f-43ee-a18a-352a58364262 https://share.transistor.fm/s/36a78ef9 Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:33:45 -0700 Jamiepluscoffee Jamiepluscoffee 587 Tech incumbents buy bargaining power instead of betting on one model, climate lawyers turn attribution science into a courtroom weapon, and business, money, and product writers convert fuzzy judgment into fixed rules. An archive dive asks whether AI self improvement can stay human led. Tech incumbents buy bargaining power instead of betting on one model, climate lawyers turn attribution science into a courtroom weapon, and business, money, and product writers convert fuzzy judgment into fixed rules. An archive dive asks whether AI self platform strategy, climate litigation, pricing strategy, retirement accounts, product discovery, AI self improvement, newsletter roundup No 2 2 Smart Brevity 2: Measure the decision, not just the outcome full e25346a5-9a82-4c10-9f8c-4236aa710449 https://share.transistor.fm/s/5a5fb3a8 Sat, 26 Sep 2026 05:09:01 -0700 Jamiepluscoffee Jamiepluscoffee 516 Measure the decision, not just the outcome; Regularized harness self-improvement: auto-tuned agent harnesses overfit unless edit size, specificity and bloat are constrained.; Decision-fork evals: grade an agent's choices at branch points; longer thinking does not improve taste, d Measure the decision, not just the outcome; Regularized harness self-improvement: auto-tuned agent harnesses overfit unless edit size, specificity and bloat are constrained.; Decision-fork evals: grade an agent's choices at branch points; longer thinking AI, machine learning, AI research, evals, AI product management No 7 7 MailDump 7: The Price of Proof, the Cost of Attention full 645f3117-2587-4ac2-8638-a951099422a5 https://share.transistor.fm/s/aad872ec Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:07:03 -0700 Jamiepluscoffee Jamiepluscoffee 487 A costly compute proof meets a cheap architecture; a forward deployed engineer's failure and a shadowing technique share a root cause; Oura's IPO and Big Tech's bundling disagree on wearable moats; and design mail shows craft judgment reasserting itself once AI made production free. A costly compute proof meets a cheap architecture; a forward deployed engineer's failure and a shadowing technique share a root cause; Oura's IPO and Big Tech's bundling disagree on wearable moats; and design mail shows craft judgment reasserting itself o AI compute economics, OpenAI, DeepSeek, forward deployed engineers, Oura IPO, wearables, DSA, wealth concentration, design craft, AI marketing, Hack Design, Scott Galloway No 6 6 MailDump 6: What Actually Landed full 45bb0ff1-4cdb-4cdc-9ded-929ec2765b5d https://share.transistor.fm/s/740fb8d9 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:46:43 -0700 Jamiepluscoffee Jamiepluscoffee 689 A catch up edition: AI writers agree the model itself is fading in importance, product writers converge on taste as the scarce skill, a UK campaigner and a US grid analyst reach the same fix for local power, a backdoor Roth quirk, and a five year archive dive on distribution as the scarce resource. A catch up edition: AI writers agree the model itself is fading in importance, product writers converge on taste as the scarce skill, a UK campaigner and a US grid analyst reach the same fix for local power, a backdoor Roth quirk, and a five year archive AI harness, model layer, product management, taste, judgment, climate, community energy, grid, personal finance, backdoor Roth, retirement accounts, health, identity, performance psychology, tech industry, distribution, growth, catch up edition No 1 1 Smart Brevity 1: Scaffolding is where this week's gains are, and it is dumber than assumed full bf60ff15-63d9-4440-8b75-e11548c9ede6 https://share.transistor.fm/s/3babe4ec Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:26:19 -0700 Jamiepluscoffee Jamiepluscoffee 627 This week in AI, taught properly: skill libraries, harness portability, KV cache eviction, cheaper agent evals, and where the scaffolding gains really come from. This week in AI, taught properly: skill libraries, harness portability, KV cache eviction, cheaper agent evals, and where the scaffolding gains really come from. AI, machine learning, AI research, evals, AI product management No 5 5 MailDump 5: Debt, Discipline, and Deciding Before the Storm Hits full cc0be78f-029f-439d-afe3-e47de64242c7 https://share.transistor.fm/s/f8d76279 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:01:58 -0700 Jamiepluscoffee Jamiepluscoffee 436 A catch-up edition: is the AI money machine a bubble or the real thing, a five-step way to cap AI spending, climate finance pivoting toward land restoration, AI's indirect labor effects, and an archive dive into deciding before pressure hits, from Finding Mastery. A catch-up edition: is the AI money machine a bubble or the real thing, a five-step way to cap AI spending, climate finance pivoting toward land restoration, AI's indirect labor effects, and an archive dive into deciding before pressure hits, from Finding AI bubble, AI spending discipline, Anthropic, Poolside, OpenRouter, SaaS Academy, Dror Poleg, Climatebase, COP17, Finding Mastery, decision making, catch-up edition, MailDump No 4 4 MailDump 4: The Podcast Roundup full c08c00ec-6635-4723-91e0-11dfc98eb606 https://share.transistor.fm/s/f9a93fd8 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:57:39 -0700 Jamiepluscoffee Jamiepluscoffee 1867 The podcast roundup: two weeks of 20VC and More or Less, briefed. The podcast roundup: two weeks of 20VC and More or Less, briefed. podcasts, 20VC, More or Less, AI, venture capital, weekly digest No 3 3 MailDump 3: The Half-Cent Model, the Return of the Room, and Carbon Removal's Reckoning full 098784a6-02e2-4e6e-bbfd-b53adaac3334 https://share.transistor.fm/s/0d4dcdec Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:18:41 -0700 Jamiepluscoffee Jamiepluscoffee 728 This week's dump sets a lab price war against one practitioner's real savings, checks Scott Galloway's four-part case for offline experience, watches two carbon removal newsletters split on who has to be the first buyer, and pulls a twelve-year idea-validation convergence from the archive. This week's dump sets a lab price war against one practitioner's real savings, checks Scott Galloway's four-part case for offline experience, watches two carbon removal newsletters split on who has to be the first buyer, and pulls a twelve-year idea-valid AI pricing, Claude Code, DeepSeek, Opus 5, Kimi K3, carbon removal, climate policy, product management leadership, business building, idea validation, Scott Galloway, tech industry, newsletter roundup No 2 2 MailDump 2: Work What You Have, the People Bottleneck, and the Moat AI Can't Fake full db8f7b1a-4ea1-4c4c-954e-9676bb62289a https://share.transistor.fm/s/6cbc146b Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:16:56 -0700 Jamiepluscoffee Jamiepluscoffee 693 This week's MailDump digs through a still-stalled newsletter backlog for what three growth operators, five climate voices, and two health researchers each independently discovered on their own terms. This week's MailDump digs through a still-stalled newsletter backlog for what three growth operators, five climate voices, and two health researchers each independently discovered on their own terms. newsletters, business building, climate, marketing, personal finance, health, product management, SaaS, retention, growth No 1 1 The Grid, the Bubble, and Two Business Truths full 59756e73-edb3-4c9c-96b0-ee762793eaa3 https://share.transistor.fm/s/46df4b59 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:07:29 -0700 Jamiepluscoffee Jamiepluscoffee 645 A debut catch-up on what your newsletters have been saying: the power grid as the real AI bottleneck, whether the boom is 1999 again, and two truths about how businesses actually grow. A debut catch-up on what your newsletters have been saying: the power grid as the real AI bottleneck, whether the boom is 1999 again, and two truths about how businesses actually grow. newsletters, weekly digest, AI, climate, business, startups, personal finance No