Worth your time — July '26 - by Adlet Balzhanov
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Worth your time — July '26<br>Best of what I read and watched in July 2026
Adlet Balzhanov<br>Jul 31, 2026
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I consume a ton of content every month. Some of it's gold, some of it's not worth your time. Here's my curated list of the best stuff I read and watched in July. Worth every minute, imho.<br>Drop your recommendation links in the comments. Always happy to discover new stuff from you folks.<br>Creator of OCaml: Functional Programming, Formal Verification, Programming Languages | Xavier Leroy (The Peterman Pod Ryan Peterman)
The task is not the job (Luis Garicano)<br>Silicon Continent<br>The task is not the job
A few days ago, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, went on Fox News and said that AI will eliminate up to half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within one to five years. He named finance, consulting, law, and tech. He has told versions of this story for a year, including in his recent essay …<br>Read more<br>3 months ago · 155 likes · 12 comments · Luis Garicano
The Reverse Information Paradox (Satya Nadella)<br>https://snscratchpad.com/posts/reverse-information-paradox/
The Power of Worked Examples (Vasilios Syrakis)
The Cold Email (Zach Holman)<br>https://zachholman.com/posts/cold-email
And again, drop your recommendation links in the comments. Always happy to discover new stuff from you folks.<br>Thanks for reading,<br>Adlet Balzhanov<br>📌 FREE to join: a newsletter, helping 4,000+ Big Tech engineers level up fast. Read by engineers from Google, Meta, Amazon, Uber and more
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