Hi friends 👋, Happy Friday and welcome to our 211th Weekly Dose of Optimism! Lock-in season is in full swing and the Dose is bursting at the seams. But I believe in you. Once you’re finished, you can find a lot more to read in the new not boring library , which includes many of the books and essays I’ve linked to most in not boring. Let’s get to it. This Week’s Weekly Dose is brought to you by… Reducto The Only Document Parsing Product You’ll Need Reducto is the document ingestion layer trusted by AI teams at Scale AI, Harvey, Toast, and Vanta to reliably turn complex files into structured, grounded data for production AI systems at scale. Processing more than a billion pages per month, Reducto has built its reputation on the long tail of difficult documents that break conventional OCR: dense tables, unusual layouts, handwriting, low-quality scans, strikethroughs, and formatting-dependent information. Its new frontier parsing model, r-1 , combines layout detection, reading orde
