Zaid Al Kazemi
Building Caravan Notes, The Thinker’s Journal
Zaid's Newsletter
Thoughts on My Journey.
Currently reading and reacting to the 53 most influential AI papers in history.
Articles
Thinking Tools
AI Paper Reactions 4/53: “Efficient Estimation of Word Representations (Word2Vec)” by Mikolov et al, 2013
On Taste and Token Maxing
AI Paper Reactions 3/53: “Long Short-Term Memory” by Hochreiter, Schmidhuber, 1997
Auto-Averaing Machine
AI Paper Reactions 2/53: “Learning Representations by Back-propagating Errors” by Rumelhart, Hinton, Williams, 1986
Can Machines Feel Pleasure?
AI Paper Reactions 1/53: “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing, 1950
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.