Curated reading
This is an editorial list, not a link dump. Every item is here because Yuri or a cohort member found it genuinely useful and explained why.
Foundational reading on Claude Code
Section titled “Foundational reading on Claude Code”- Claude Code official docs — Anthropic’s source of truth. Always check here first when something looks different from this curriculum. The platform moves fast.
- Claude API docs — The API the agents in Module 03 are built on. Reference material, not a tutorial.
- Anthropic’s prompting guide — The single most leveraged skill in this whole stack. Read it once a quarter.
AI agents
Section titled “AI agents”- Building Effective Agents (Anthropic) — Anthropic’s own framework for when to use a workflow vs. an agent. Required reading before Module 03.
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) — The spec that makes Module 05 possible. Skim, don’t memorize.
Thinking about AI as a business operator
Section titled “Thinking about AI as a business operator”- The AI Wage Gap — Yuri’s ongoing work on what AI does to mid-career compensation. Frames why you’re building, not just how.
- Every — How I AI — Senior operators sharing real workflows, not theoretical frameworks.
Newsletters worth the inbox space
Section titled “Newsletters worth the inbox space”- Latent Space — Engineering-adjacent AI news. Skim weekly.
- Stratechery — Ben Thompson’s strategy lens. Best macro context on AI as a business shift.
- One Useful Thing — Ethan Mollick. The least hyped, most actionable AI writing in academia.
Missing a great resource? Cohort members can submit additions via the cohort Slack. Once a resource lands here, it becomes part of the curriculum for everyone.