# myles (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover myles. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Long Walk: Shipping Your Writing](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/writing) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ § July 2025 The honeymoon is over. The first draft was a thrill. Now, it's a tombstone in the ‘review’ folder. Here’s how you ship: 1. Slay the Enemy. Your enemy is fear. You feel it now. A tightness in your stomach, the knot in your throat. The whisper of the critic: “This sucks. Everybody will call you out on it.” This is the fear of shipping the imperfect. This is the final battle. 2. Find the… ## [Staring into the Void](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/void) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Staring into the Void - by Myles Marino ## [Learning from the best traders](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/traders) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Key lessons from the best traders like Soros, Druckenmiller, and Michael Marcus on what you can do to become a better investor ## [Investor and Operator Resources](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/tools) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Curated collection of resources from great operators and investors including Warren Buffett, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos and more ## [Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/sum) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ My thoughts on David Eagleman's book exploring different concepts of the afterlife ## [Dirtbags can't sell](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/sales) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ The only sales guide you will ever need: successful sales is the practice of radical empathy ## [Net-nets in Private Markets: RockRose Energy Case Study](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/rockrose) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ How RockRose Energy acquired Marathon Oil's UK business and got paid to do it. ## [Book Notes and Big Ideas](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/read) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Key insights and big ideas from books I've read on investing, business, philosophy, and more ## [Anatomy of an Outage](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/outage) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ How we diagnosed and fixed a critical authentication token expiration issue in our mission-critical software ## [KSPI - Myles Marino](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/kspi) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Content coming soon. ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/nOGYTTkLE3Fj) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [How I Lost 20 Pounds by Learning to Hate](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/how-i-lost-20-pounds-by-learning-to-hate) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ From January to July, the number on my scale dropped from 225 to 205. The secret wasn’t a punishing gym routine or a keto calculator. It was a targeted strike against a single enemy: my daily ritual of cracking open a morning Dr. Pepper and an afternoon Coca-Cola. That habit was the soundtrack to my day. The hiss-crack of the can, the sugary rush, the inevitable crash. Breaking a ritual woven so… ## [Richmond Spots and Interview Q&As](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/host) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Collection of Richmond's favorite spots and Q&As with investors Zack Oliva and Mohnish Pabrai ## [I build a guestbook so you can say hi to me using PHP](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/guestbook) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ A technical breakdown of the new guestbook feature, detailing the PHP backend, JavaScript frontend, user flow, and a quick fix for a common file permissions issue. ## [First Ave Networks: One of Ted Weschler's Best Investments](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/first-ave) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ First Ave Networks is one of Ted Weschler's best investments. In this case study, we explore how it achieved 1236% returns in eleven years. ## [ECC Capital Corporation Investment](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/ecro) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ ECC Capital Corporation is a coal mine value investing play with potential upside ## [Avoid Competition: A Sam Zell Case Study](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/compete) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ How Sam Zell's first real estate deal highlights the advantage of low-competition markets ## [The History of Clipboards and Computers](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/clipboards) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ The history of clipboards and computers from TECO to modern systems ## [Buying CareCloud Preferred As](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/ccld) _2026-08-15 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ The Preferred A's for CareCloud could be a good investment. ## [Everything Is a Context Problem](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/context-problem) _2026-08-14 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ The bots weren't dumb. They just didn't know anything. They read our in-house notes and guessed at the answer. ## [Transformer Engineers: Charlie Munger's First Deal Almost Broke Him](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/te) _2026-07-26 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ How Charlie Munger's worst business taught him the one lesson that made Berkshire Hathaway possible. ## [World's cheapest GPUs, deployed fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/s9tXZlkUy1H6) _2026-07-25 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy a live GPU-backed API in minutes for under $10 ## [The Mistake Is in the Magnitude](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/magnitude) _2026-07-20 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ The crowd can decipher the direction of a mega-trend. Where nearly everyone goes wrong is in estimating its magnitude. ## [Joel Greenblatt, the Activist](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/greenblatt-activist) _2026-06-22 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ In 1994, Joel Greenblatt launched his first and last hostile activist campaign at Alliant Techsystems — the same year he made an effortless 40% on American Express. ## [Costly Delusions and Self-Improving Engines](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/one-shot) _2026-06-16 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Believing you can one-shot your LLM problems leads to frustration, wasted engineer time, and runaway spend. Here's the framework we use instead. ## [Muscle Memory](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/muscle-memory) _2026-05-26 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ When you rebuild an interface, you're not just changing the UI — you're breaking habits your users have spent years building. ## [What AI Actually Does to Legacy Software](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/maigration) _2026-05-22 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ How we used AI to migrate 282 hand-pasted payment buttons from a twenty-year-old system — what it got right, what it got wrong, and what only a human could decide. ## [Playing Indian in the University’s Botanical Gardens](https://mylittleplanet.edublogs.org/2026/05/20/playing-indian-in-the-botanical-gardens/) _2026-05-20 · Myles Zhang · Myles Zhang_ To the specific faculty member at Taubman College who shall not be named, read this note before contacting me An essay written as a PhD student at the University of Michigan . Willow Pond at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens . “Do you know where some Indian relics for the walls might be secured?” Fielding H. Yost wrote in a 1933 letter.\[1\] Yost led the University of Michigan’s football team on a… ## [The 50th Percentile Deadline](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/deadlines) _2026-05-13 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Why Musk aims for deadlines he'll miss half the time, and how to apply the same principle to daily work. ## [The JustinBot: Devouring Our Support Inbox With AI](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/justinbot) _2026-05-12 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ How we built our own AI support bot to handle 80% of Tier 1 requests by giving it the full context of a user's account, not just our documentation. ## [Be Involved](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/be-involved) _2026-05-04 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Reading the front page of the Wall Street Journal was never supposed to be a party trick. It was supposed to get you involved. ## [Building on Platforms](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/platform-risk) _2026-03-23 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Platform apps are high-margin, stable, and could get nuked overnight. Here is how we think about the trade-off. ## [Collect Open Source Legends (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/YUklMyOxu1uo) _2026-03-22 · **Sponsored**_ Open-licensed art, limited foil trading packs, and optional on-chain mints. ## [Speed Traps in the LLM-Era](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/speed-traps) _2026-03-22 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ How AI-assisted development tempts us into building the wrong things faster, and why taste matters more than ever. ## [How to See Everyone When You Travel](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/meet-in-groups) _2026-03-22 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Stop doing one-on-ones. Invite six people for bagels in Central Park and let the group take on a life of its own. ## [The Language of Shiny Objects](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/shiny-object) _2026-02-22 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Why calling legitimate work a "shiny object" is demoralizing — and the framework I use instead to talk honestly about prioritization. ## [The Creation of an Algorithm](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/algorithm) _2026-02-22 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ 95% of artists on EntryThingy have only ever submitted to one gallery. Here is how we built a recommendation algorithm to change that. ## [Visiting Cuba helped me realize that another world is possible.](https://mylittleplanet.edublogs.org/2026/02/14/cuba/) _2026-02-15 · Myles Zhang · Myles Zhang_ Based on my delegation visit to Cuba with two activist arts groups, Street Poets from Los Angeles and Solidarity Collective from Minnesota June 14 to 23, 2024 One of the joys of travel comes from the realization that: I have more to learn from others and from Cuba than they could possibly learn from me. I hope to return to the classroom this fall, and every fall thereafter, with these… ## [2025 Vendor Audit: Every Tool We're Keeping, Killing, and Replacing with AI](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/ai-vendors) _2026-02-09 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ We went through every vendor on our credit card statements to answer one question: who survives 2026? Here is the full breakdown. ## [The Engineering of a Meme: Why the "China is Engineers" Narrative Went Viral](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/wang-meme) _2026-02-02 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Tracing the intellectual lineage of Dan Wang's "Breakneck" and how a century-old idea became Silicon Valley's favorite geopolitical framework. ## [Ignoring the Infinite Canvas](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/infinite-canvas) _2026-01-13 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ How to choose what to build when every option seems reasonable. A framework for focus in a world of infinite possibilities. ## [Things on my reading list](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/toread) _2026-01-01 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ A bunch of books that I would like to read in no particular order. ## [The best ideas were never meant to be published](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/greatmemos) _2025-12-06 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ A curated database of history's best internal memos. Skip the fluff and learn from the private correspondence that changed industries. Open source. ## [How Buffett Would Earn 50%+ Returns](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/buffett) _2025-12-06 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Buffett talks a lot about how he would invest and manage a portfolio to earn high returns on small sums of money. Here, I lay out what I think he would do and why. ## [Why Read Biographies?](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/why-read) _2025-12-01 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Biographies work because they hand you a framework, not a fact. Organizational and historical accounts have too many variables to extract anything repeatable. ## [The Edge of Reason](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/secrets) _2025-11-23 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Peter Theil's secrets aren't the primary driver of value. Great companies are built on visible truths that are undervalued. ## [The Founders](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/founders-book) _2025-11-05 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ How early PayPal prospered through internal strife and external headwinds. ## [The Wright Brothers - Creating your own expertise](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/wright) _2025-10-31 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ The Wright Brothers' success was born from favoring their own data and conventions rather than those of so-called experts, ## [Good design is apparent](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/design) _2025-10-29 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Good design is all about reducing questions and being obvious to the user ## [The Wright Stuff](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/wright-old) _2025-10-01 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ How the Wright brothers out-competed those with 100x more funding. ## [The Only Rule Is It Has to Work](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/stompers) _2025-10-01 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ How the Stompers tried to solve coordination issues for their statistically oriented baseball team. ## [We are not a fraction of the universe, but indeed mirrors of our effort](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/optimism) _2025-10-01 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ An exploration of cynicism vs. optimism. How our approach to effort and opportunity shapes our reality, proving that both the cynic and the optimist are right. ## [Your emails are being ignored, and here's how to stop sabotaging yourself](https://mylesmarino.com/posts/email) _2025-10-01 · mylesmarino1@gmail.com (Myles Marino) · Myles Marino_ Learn how to stop sabotaging your emails. Tips on clarity, making replies effortless, formatting for scannability, and writing compelling subject lines.