My November 2025 best business reads roundup
/ Product, AI & Strategy
👀 Why Growth Playbooks Are Crumbling, and What’s Next – Elena Verna, Product School
If “go-to-market” appeared in your budget slides, stop and watch this. Elena Verna’s (if you don’t know her, go find out) talk is so sharp I rewatched it three times.
https://x.com/yishan/status/1987787127204249824
Yishan Wong, former CEO of Reddit, argues most AI app startups won’t survive – foundation models will swallow them before they scale. He offers sharp suggestions too.
A great recap of what’s happening in the browser world. Will this revive the open internet?
The Real Problem With AI Coding – Paul Sanglé-Ferrière, cubic
A new word is entering the business lingo: comprehension debt.
How Cerebras Solved the Wafer-Scale Yield Challenge – Cerebras
Will wafer-scale chips be the future of AI? Let’s start finding out.
/ Work & Digital Life
Are we becoming fish-brained? – Richard Shotton, MediaCat UK
If you’ve ever quoted that “our attention span is shorter than a goldfish,” read this. TL;DR: We’re not dumb. We’re discerning.
How two “children of the pandemic” built the affordable housing website New York needed—but grown-ups never managed to do.
If robots learn to fold towels, thank the workers in India wearing cameras to train them. Another chapter in tech’s recurring story: behind every “autonomous” breakthrough, there are people in India doing the invisible work that makes it possible.
Bonus read: a great take on our weird relationship with fame — written by a pop star herself:
The realities of being a pop star – Charlie XCX
(Photo of the Month: a Russian humanoid robot named AIDOL suffered a dramatic public failure during its debut at a technology event in Moscow on November 10, 2025, collapsing face-first moments after stepping onto the stage)
Originally shared as a LinkedIn post. Check it out here.
