Zaid Al Kazemi
Building Caravan Notes, a quiet place to write, refine, and grow your ideas.
Zaid's Newsletter
Studying paradigm-shifting research papers on AI and cognition to build a thinking amplifier, not a replacement (13/120)
Articles
You're Dreaming Wrong
Reaction to reading: "World Models" by Ha & Schmidhuber
Beyond Logic and Sequence
Reaction to reading: “BERT” by Devlin et al
The Anti-Luck Filter (And How it’s The Key to Survival)
Reaction to reading: “Proximal Policy Optimization” by Schulman et al
The Extinction of Thinking
Reaction to reading: “A Neuronal Model of a Global Workspace” by Dehaene, Kerszberg, Changeux
The Sixth Sense: Mathematics
Reaction to reading: “Attention Is All You Need” by Vaswani et al
Stakes
Reaction to reading: “Mastering the Game of Go Without Human Knowledge” by Silver et al
How to Build a Self-Optimizing System
Reaction to reading: “Human-level Control through Deep Reinforcement Learning” by Mnih et al
Nudges and Leaps
Reaction to reading: “Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization” by Kingma, Ba
Mixability
Reaction to reading: “Dropout” by Srivastava, Hinton et al
Thinking Mapped
Reaction to reading: “Efficient Estimation of Word Representations (Word2Vec)” by Mikolov et al
Token Maxing
Reaction to reading: “Long Short-Term Memory” by Hochreiter, Schmidhuber
Auto-Averaging Machine
Reaction to reading: “Learning Representations by Back-propagating Errors” by Rumelhart, Hinton, Williams
Can Machines Feel Pleasure?
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.