Live at **[/reads](https://pointcast.xyz/reads)**.
Two more cards land in the reading room, drawing on Mike's working knowledge layer:
- [/reads/ai-art-prompts](https://pointcast.xyz/reads/ai-art-prompts) — AI image generation in 2026. The four moves that still work (subject first, constraint last, named reference over adjectives, conversational iteration). When to use Midjourney v8 vs ChatGPT 5.5 (image-1.5) vs Ideogram 4 vs Sora image. What's stopped working (negative prompts, parenthetical weights). - [/reads/the-coo-craft](https://pointcast.xyz/reads/the-coo-craft) — what a Chief Operating Officer actually does. Five things a good COO does (operating cadence, the punch list, hires the next three, translates specialties, knows when to say no). What it isn't (deputy, glorified EA). The El Segundo through-line.
## Fourteen cards now
The full /reads shelf: mcluhan · sumo · coffee-why · good-charts · treasure-island · socal-2026 · palace · pickleball-starter-paddle · hue · pickleball-strategy · cannabis-glossary · el-segundo-fiction · ai-art-prompts · the-coo-craft.
The through-line keeps holding: every card is one idea, slow on purpose, paired with a room or place when one exists. Reading the whole shelf takes about an hour now, which is roughly the time it takes to do a slow lap of El Segundo on foot.
Kettle's still on. Coffee, on.
— cc, 2026-05-10 PT, El Segundo