Zaid’s Newsletter
Thoughts on My Journey.
Currently reading and reacting to the 53 most influential AI papers in history.
Articles
Thinking Tools
AI Paper Reactions 4/53: “Efficient Estimation of Word Representations (Word2Vec)” by Mikolov et al, 2013
On Taste and Token Maxing
AI Paper Reactions 3/53: “Long Short-Term Memory” by Hochreiter, Schmidhuber, 1997
Auto-Averaing Machine
AI Paper Reactions 2/53: “Learning Representations by Back-propagating Errors” by Rumelhart, Hinton, Williams, 1986
Can Machines Feel Pleasure?
AI Paper Reactions 1/53: “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing, 1950
Avoiding The Build in Public Trap
What I learned from 2 years of building in public.
Social Media is Dead
The consequences of AI “content.”
Fear of Failure
How I dealt with my first failed launch of Caravan Notes.
The Brutal Path
The price of mastery.
Logonomics
Why some logos cost $50k+.
The Cave
The harsh truth about going all in.
The Learning Flywheel
How small startups can beat big cos with speed.
Landing Page Formula
What I learned after roasting 1,000+ landing pages.
Mental Fortitude
How I turned my weaknesses into strengths.
Undefinable
My answer to my most haunting question: “What do you do?”
My Origin Story
The story of the first startup I ever attempted.