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Satya Nadella on how he leads a 200,000-employee organization by wandering the virtual corridors of Teams. Watch the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/g2YnfZjm.

And we are live: the first print issue of Works In Progress is landing on people's doorsteps today. Over the next few days, our thousands of subscribers, everywhere from Alaska to Australia, should be receiving their first copy. We set out to make the most beautiful magazine on the planet, and I am very excited about what we've started. The actual content is as good as ever. We have pieces on inflatable space stations, the war between the Swiss and Japanese watch industries, the "great downzoning" in the world's cities, and on whether Ancient Greek and Roman statues were really painted as badly as museums claim (perhaps not). I hope you enjoy it! And if you'd like to get a copy of this edition, you can subscribe here and you'll be sent this most recent copy, along with the rest of your year's subscription as it comes out: https://lnkd.in/e_fN8tvf.

Stripe communities are meeting in cities around the world. Join to connect with founders, developers, and entrepreneurs building on Stripe. Register: 🇧🇪 Brussels (November 22): https://luma.com/f7gs82fe 🇬🇧 London (November 26): https://luma.com/yr9bxsyx 🇲🇽 Mexico City (November 27): https://luma.com/txfv7wdv 🇨🇦 Toronto (December 2): https://luma.com/vqtanzsd 🇬🇧 London (December 3): https://luma.com/1xl0mjl0 🇬🇧 London (December 4): https://luma.com/styf627f 🇺🇸 New York (December 4): https://luma.com/q6z2hayx 🇵🇱 Poznan (December 6): https://luma.com/85mrxxco 🇺🇸 Las Vegas (January 5): https://luma.com/trsiamjf 🇨🇭 Zurich (January 22): https://lnkd.in/gxbNgfzn

Stewart Brand has spent 60 years inviting us to look at the world anew—from the communal living of the Whole Earth Catalog to the deep-time thinking of The Long Now Foundation. Now, with MAINTENANCE: OF EVERYTHING, PART ONE, he asks us to re-examine the tedious tasks we usually ignore. As Brand writes, “Maintenance is what keeps everything going. It’s what keeps life going.” As he says, this is not a book about "changing the damn oil." It’s an invitation to see maintenance as a profound act of responsibility and care, a new frame of reference, and “a fruitful way to rethink all manner of things.” The print volume expands on the series Stewart Brand began in our sister magazine, Works In Progress, on the civilizational importance of repair. Part One explores lessons from maintaining sailboats, motorcycles, cars, and weapons, touching on everything from the evolution of manufacturing precision to the never-ending battle against corrosion. MAINTENANCE: OF EVERYTHING, PART ONE is out January 2026. Preorder now: https://lnkd.in/epKkVsKU.

“So my new concept is that each company has its own foundation model that captures essentially the tacit knowledge… the tacit knowledge that resides in people's heads… I think it'll also reside and compound as weights in some LoRA layer that is unique to your company.” Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, sits down with John Collison to discuss the diffusion of AI inside the enterprise. He explains why “all your data at your fingertips” is the evergreen pitch, why this AI CapEx cycle is different from the .com bubble, and his vision for agentic commerce. They also cover Microsoft's product bundling strategy and how he "wanders the virtual corridors" of Teams to run the company. YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gttQ4dB4 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gdg5ZymN Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gutNCGTQ Full transcript on Substack: https://lnkd.in/gDyUEAXk

We've renamed our open-source AI home: https://lnkd.in/et2RHBb8 (previously agent-toolkit). It’s the central repo for everything we’re building to support AI developers. Find resources for building agents (including MCP and the agent toolkit), monetizing AI products, and optimizing your Stripe integrations. More to come.

Casey Handmer on Cheeky Pint: “One of the mistakes I’ve seen a lot of first-time founders make is they assume that an hour of coaching is as good as an hour of firing. Nothing is worse for your career than sitting in a job failing for you because you don’t have the guts to quit and your manager won’t fire you.” Watch the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/gEUKuJZU.

Over the last year, we've spent hundreds of hours with users to understand their billing needs. These learnings inform our roadmap: we recently shipped expanded support for Billing multiprocessor, a number of flexibility features that support partial payments, un-allocation of payments, mixing of intervals, pre-billing, and so much more. Check out this blog to learn what's new: https://lnkd.in/gTns2VHQ.

bolt.new launched with a single tweet. Founder and CEO Eric Simons shares how his team spent more than 100 hours perfecting that tweet—learn how they acquired 30,000 paying customers in a few weeks and then scaled to 7 million users in just a year. Watch the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/e-YFJGBz.