I wrote 8,000 words on Hayao Miyazaki’s creative process at Studio Ghibli. “Ideas rise to the surface from unknown places in the mind,” he says. “I mean the most primitive brain. The ancient, reptile part. It’s very savage, but it’s usually under control.”readtrung.com/p/hayao-miyaza…

Linus Torvalds recently wrote about using AI to clean up old Linux code. He wrote in a Git message that some code was “too obscure” so he “did what I preach: use modern LLM tools to help make sense of it all.” Found bugs going back to 2013 and fixed them.

Here are my non-spoiler thoughts on You Can See Everything and why I think it’ll win Best Picture: readtrung.com/p/nathan-field…

the 2026 Oscar’s Best Picture and Best Director competition, explained

Eric Schmidt owns 1% of Anthropic. Dario’s wife — who Schmidt used to date — introduced him to Anthropic. Schmidt’s peak ownership of Google was 5% (now ~1%). He got that Google CEO job after going to Burning Man with Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Next-level networking skills.

If someone on your team is building a public reputation in your industry, that's the cheapest marketing you'll ever get. Treat it like a flight risk and you'll turn it into one.

anyone that bought S1 was privy to the greatest comedic Rube Goldberg machine in TV show history

a very entertaining part of Brady Rogers campaign is that he made a fake attack ad of himself and batted away the allegations

am big fan of Tin Can (wifi enabled landline phone)…show your kids the “wait by the phone for your friend to call you between 4pm and 5pm” struggle is too real

On a related note, here are my (spoiler free) notes on “You Can See Everything”…most meta documentary ever readtrung.com/p/nathan-field…

Leaner plan benefits, higher rates, and a lot of confusion for consumers. I spoke with @GydeInc co-founder and CEO, @Will_Johnson, about how Gyde gives brokers the tools to meet this moment and guide consumers through it. Watch the full episode in this post. Listen on Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5rO…

Victoria’s Secret (VSXY) is up +190% over the past year, massively outperforming the SOXX Semiconductor ETF (+74%) and S&P 500 (+15%)

Matsson follows up his musings on France with a relentless series of jabs at Roy family. One of the best written Succession scenes: ▫️”Lecture me Vaulter Guy" ▫️”[Waystar is] a parts shop. Good parts. Bad brand." ▫️”I don't care what you think. You're a tribute band." ▫️[About Greg in Swedish] “There’s more of them…6’9 of pure nepotism!” ▫️ “[ATN] is fine but the graph is horrible. It's not complicated. A lot of yelling. Long term, I don't think news for angry old people works. I'd fold it in. Fat pipe that shit. Simple, cheap, huge. Ikea'd to fuck." ▫️”I'm just trying to make you fucking rich." ("Already Rich") ▫️”On the offer, I think I am what I am what I am." ("Ok, Popeye")

LangChain CEO Harrison Chase says his company spends ~30% of engineering salaries on coding tools (and Chase now only codes by messaging an agent from Slack): "I think we spend probably roughly 30% of our engineering salary on coding tools. It's actually gone down the last two months, while the number of tokens that we've used has actually gone up. And we've done this by doing three steps. First is basically just visibility. We tracked all of our coding agent usage to LangSmith, so we could tell who was spending how much, what they were spending it on. We could do analytics over that. Second, is just basic cost controls. We set a budget, and if you hit the budget, you can talk to our VP of engineering and he'll almost always increase it, but it's just a safeguard against agents being used incorrectly or going in a bad loop. Then third, we control the harness. We actually built our own in-house cloud coding agent, Open SWE is what we call it. It's actually the only way I code anymore, because I'm in Slack all the time, so I just message it from Slack and it kicks off.”