Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are

On this note, this speech Joe gave to Coin Center is one of my fav things he’s ever written coincenter.org/app/uploads/20…

I have so many thoughts on this, as someone who has run large EPD orgs. One of the toughest parts about doing an AI operating transformation inside a prod/eng/design org is that people start operating out of their lane and it stresses SO MANY PEOPLE out. PMs can vibe code

The father plants trees he will never climb and the son climbs trees he did not plant, and somewhere in this sacred exchange lies the mystery of time itself - how a man becomes eternal not by living forever but by teaching another man to die well, and when the son finally

“you can just do things” is a good meme because it orients ppl towards more agency but it is too short term oriented “you can make long term plans and make them happens” is less sexy but more empowering good things require will. great things require will and time

Over the course of my career, I’ve interviewed a lot of people One thing that’s always stood out is someone’s desire to win. You can fake and bs a lot of the other stuff in interviews but hard to fake hunger As a rule, when you to have pick between education, experience, or

One of the most important things I've ever read was this by Sahil Lavingia "The market you’re in will determine most of your growth" It sounds basic but it's not You think how much you work on your product and how great you make it work is what will make your revenue go up But usually

Lots of conversation on what the future of software looks like in the enterprise. Here’s how I think it plays out. For deterministic workflows where the cost of getting something wrong is high, enterprises will have a tendency to pick core platforms for their most common,

People think that having children will mean the death of freedom but actually it's the opposite Having kids will give you freedom of thought and make it easier to become who you truly want to be

so good!

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Banger from elena verna

Replit CEO Amjad Masad: Being 'terminally online' may be an advantage. "If you want to work on a skill, it's going to be about idea generation." "Because the cost of implementation of those ideas is going down rapidly. It's gonna go to zero at some point." "So the bottleneck

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“If someone 50 years ago planted a row of oaks or a chestnut tree on your plot of land, you have something that no amount of money or effort can replicate. The only way is to wait.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/20/some…

Its not Simcity, but business school students who were good at Civ V also turn out to be better planners, organizers, and problem-solvers in this small experiment.

start a company assuming: 1) models will become 10x better 2) the only bottleneck for humans is making as many well informed decisions as fast as possible in a great interface lovable are so impressive, they understood this at gpt 3.5 and the same logic still holds