Zaid Al Kazemi
Building Caravan Notes, The Thinker’s Journal
Zaid's Newsletter
Thoughts on My Journey.
Currently reading and reacting to the 54 most influential AI papers in history.
Articles
Nudges and Leaps
On when to tiptoe, when to swing, and the math underneath every good decision… Reaction to reading: “Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization” by Kingma, Ba
Mixability
On being robust solo, combining in multiplicative ways, and being the one every great team wants… Reaction to reading: “Dropout” by Srivastava, Hinton et al
Thinking Mapped
On the geometry of ideas, the tools that could be shaping them, and the leverage that changes what you’re capable of producing… Reaction to reading: “Efficient Estimation of Word Representations (Word2Vec)” by Mikolov et al
Token Maxing
On clichés, regression that looks like progress, and the edge you’re losing daily… Reaction to reading: “Long Short-Term Memory” by Hochreiter, Schmidhuber
Auto-Averaging Machine
On shipping faster, sounding sharper, and quietly becoming everyone else… Reaction to reading: “Learning Representations by Back-propagating Errors” by Rumelhart, Hinton, Williams
Can Machines Feel Pleasure?
On AI reward functions, lazy human desires, and what you lose when you name a feeling… Reaction to reading: “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Turing
Avoiding The Build in Public Trap
What I learned from 2 years of building in public.
Social Media is Dead
The consequences of AI “content.”
Fear of Failure
How I dealt with my first failed launch of Caravan Notes.
The Brutal Path
The price of mastery.
Logonomics
Why some logos cost $50k+.
The Cave
The harsh truth about going all in.
The Learning Flywheel
How small startups can beat big cos with speed.
Landing Page Formula
What I learned after roasting 1,000+ landing pages.
Mental Fortitude
How I turned my weaknesses into strengths.
Undefinable
My answer to my most haunting question: “What do you do?”
My Origin Story
The story of the first startup I ever attempted.