Best things I read in 2025

I have always been a voracious reader, but like many people I haven’t really sat down and read a book for a few years. However, I’ve always felt the urge to read something and have constantly consumed various articles, blogs, posts and really anything I could get my eyes on. I started to feel though as I was reading a lot and remembering no enough. So at the start of 2025, I started a new job that had a longer public transport commute — as a consequence, I started reading HackerNews articles on the train and started getting exposed to some wonderful writers and their ideas. These are the some of the best things I found:

The Rot Economy

I discovered this piece on January 2nd. Despite being written in early 2023, it encapsulates Zitron’s broader thesis and serves as the foundation for his 2025 work. The crux of the article is that the economy is broken, with both public markets and venture capital being decoupled with what makes business genuinely valuable and the reckless pursuit of ‘number go up’ only serves to benefit the few at the expense of the many.

Societally, have turned our markets and businesses - private and public over to arsonists

Zitron doesn’t hedge—he calls venture capital “reckless” and growth-obsessed CEOs “arsonists”. The article resonates as the past two years of software innovation have felt hollow as we watch tech companies try to justify their obscene AI spend with features nobody asked for.