My July 2025 best business reads roundup
/ Product, AI & Strategy
GEO Guidelines: How to Get Quoted by AI Through Generative Engine Optimization – Jakob Nielsen
Reflections on OpenAI – Calvin French-Owen
5 Things I Learned from 5 Years at Vercel – Lee Robinson
Contentful’s Pivot: Ambition Meets the WCM 4.0 Reality – Scott Simmons, The Real Story Group
The Tiny Teams Playbook – Latent Space
State of AI 2025 Trends and Insights – Vercel
/ Work & Digital Life
POV: “The Alphas are coming” and we’re already understanding them wrong – Liz Gorny, It's Nice That
How Omni-Conscious Brands Win in a Buyer-First, Fragmented World – Tanya Thorson, MarTech
Behind the Streams: Live at Netflix. Part 1 – Netflix Tech Blog
🎧 As a bonus: An excellent talk by Gerard Reid, leading expert and financier in energy transition, co-host of the popular "Redefining Energy" podcast. An excellent introduction for tomorrow’s world that will make you a G.O.A.T. at dinner with your climate skeptic friend:
Welcome to the Era of Energy Disruption - Gerard Reid
(Photo of the Month: Humanoids not serving popcorn at the new Tesla Diner in Hollywood, California. The robots are teleoperated by humans, anyway — and the overall experience is falling short of the hype )
Source: ironically, X.com
Originally shared as a LinkedIn post. Check it out here.
