A collection of year-in-review posts from around the web
The most popular and most important posts on Stratechery in 2025.
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Contents Intro Fear of Man What CEOs Are and Aren’t AI: Helper, Not Replacer Fees and Performance Outside Board Members Selling for the Right Reasons 2025 Roundup Wrapping Up Health Update: Settling in for the Long Haul The Strange Math of Genero
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A year of unlikely investments, long-term bets, and new beginnings.
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Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal's Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair
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The most-read articles of the year, plus some personal favorites, and a look back at a busy year in tech
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Jane: Well, we’ve done it again: despite the many forces militating against us (our children, your job, an exciting variety of upper respiratory infections, that one time my library e-book expired halfway through writing my review and I had to pay for an actual copy), we’ve kept this wacky joint project going another year.
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From power-law breakouts to bubble concerns, my final post of 2025 takes a retrospective look at the most consequential AI debates of the year and examines what these signals may reveal for 2026.
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For the past 15 years I’ve put together a ‘Year In Review‘ post on my website as a way to summarize my thoughts and feelings on the year that was.
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some notes from 2025 “Remember the path.” — Master Oogway, as he falls down a volcano. * * * “It is not bad. But also not good.” “Hmm…okay…but do you think it meets your quality standard?” “No. Still una...
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For the last twelve years, I've been writing a year-in-review post. Here's what happened this past year in my journey.
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Looking back on a turbulent year.
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Past years:
My favorite posts of 2025, some notes on the business, and a thank you to our readers.
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Hi! Nathan here, founder of Lex. This week, a new tradition: an annual letter from me to you. By all measures, 2024 was an incredible year for Lex. We...
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Three years writing every week about AI.
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at the end of 2024 i announced a year long speedrun. here’s what happened: now for the longer version. family my wife and i welcomedRead More
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This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …
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My favourite book, film, podcast, live event, song, meme, purchase and more for the year.
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Yet another edition of my annual recap! This year brought my son to kindergarten, me to forty and to a new job at Imprint, my fourth book to bookstores, and a lot more time in the weeds of developing software.
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