My April 2025 best business reads roundup
/ Product, UX & Strategy
The Post-Developer Era – Joshua Comeau
No Code is Dead. Long Live Vibe Coding – Kenneth Auchenberg
The Effectiveness Equation – Google Research
/ Society, Work & Big Ideas
Your Audience Doesn’t Need You Anymore – Jessica Giles, ADWEEK
Why I support privacy – Vitalik Buterin
Tech’s Zombie Unicorns and the Tariff Reckoning – Parmy Olson, Bloomberg News
/ AI, Work & Digital Life
Looking for AI strategies – Another Podcast
The 5 “I”s of AI – Jatin Aythora, BBC R&D
Clippy vs. Anton – Latent Space
How People Are Really Using GenAI in 2025 – Harvard Business Review
The 2025 AI Index Report – Stanford University
As an extra, here's an insight into how blind faith in technology as a solution for everything – as reflected in the meteoric fate of Musk’s DOGE – is actually a revival of long-discredited technocratic fantasies from the early 20th century. In short: a failed idea.
The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk – Jill Lepore, New York Times
(Photo of the Month: Tiangong Ultra, a humanoid robot developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, crosses the finish line at the world’s first humanoid half-marathon, completing the race in 2 hours, 40 minutes, and 42 seconds. Beijing, China, April 19, 2025)
Originally shared as a LinkedIn post. Check it out here.
