What I Read and Loved in 2025

(Spoiler: none of it will help you relax)

Dec 18, 2025 • Tom Chavez

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Cool Demos Don’t Pay the Bills. Iteration Does.

Magic is easy, maintenance is where you earn it.

Dec 4, 2025 • Tom Chavez

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November 2025

The Most Important Conversation I Had This Week

How one uncomfortable question forced me to define what we actually build—and why clarity beats hype in the age of AI “everything apps.”

Nov 20, 2025 • Tom Chavez

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San Francisco, take the hint

(The Weekend Edition)

Nov 8, 2025 • Tom Chavez

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October 2025

Do Less. Build Better.

A conversation with Rachel ten Brink

Oct 30, 2025 • Tom Chavez

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What Got You Here Won't Get You There

The rules of the game are changing faster than humans can adapt and no playbook from the last decade will save you.

Oct 16, 2025 • Tom Chavez

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The real AI pinch point

Hint: it’s not chips

Oct 3, 2025 • Tom Chavez

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September 2025

Dead Metaphors Cost Billions

Capital doesn’t chase reality. It chases stories. The winners know when it’s time to tell a new one.

Sep 25, 2025 • Tom Chavez

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Democracy Is the Platform Beneath Every Startup

Harrison Miller on Amazon’s coin-toss chaos, building through bubbles, and why democracy is the platform behind every startup

Sep 18, 2025 • Tom Chavez

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In Defense of Bubbles

The wreckage is real. So are the gifts hiding underneath.

Sep 11, 2025 • Tom Chavez

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August 2025

America reveres work. ICE raids desecrate it.

From Puritans to the New Deal to César Chávez — across politics and class, we’ve always shared one belief: work is sacred. ICE raids betray that.

Aug 28, 2025 • Tom Chavez

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The update that killed my wife

The strangest AI stories have something to teach us

Aug 14, 2025 • Tom Chavez

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