Ever wondered why apps like Linear, Arc, Airtable, and @frame_io feel like gliding on ice, while others feel like trudging through mud?

It’s not subjective nor based on taste, it’s all about precise, measurable front-end rendering techniques I call ‘FluidUI.’

The…

Love this clip from @Karpathy on how Elon Musk runs companies:

1. Small, technical teams

2. If you're not contributing or learning from a meeting, just walk out

3. Talk to the person responsible, no matter the level

4. Relentless bias for action

every word of this is accurate.

that said - VCs have been nothing but good to me, with very few exceptions.

the right takeaway is: if you want to be a founder and grind hard, do it because you really want to build something.

there are way easier ways to make money.

40 weeks, 40 documentaries.

Let's go build the future.

founder pro tip: it’s fine to take vc inbound meetings (associates or otherwise) but make sure to schedule them on weekends only. amazing filter.

Seems there is some confusion about what ‘product sense’ means.

Here’s my definition: it reflects your ability to discern high quality across multiple layers of product execution:

1. Design aesthetics and vibe
2. User Experience (UX)
3. Performance and interaction
4. Feature…

🆕 Latent Space Podcast: The Summer of Simulative AI!

latent.space/p/sim-ai

'one of the first truly ai native products, and will be as impactful as chatgpt.' - Siqi Chen

'Trying out Figma on Websim' - Dylan Field

'literally the most alpha that has ever leaked' - google bard

Having…

OH at @USV: a new experiment where an AI records our conversations during the current week, synthesizes themes from them and shares them with the world

Week of Apr 22:

1/ Organismic approaches to carbon sequestration - synthetic biology platforms to design microorganisms that…

Emery Wells i think these are all true, the one thing i would add to #5 is that intuition alone isn’t sufficient either, and placing intuition and research as opposing forces is a missed opportunity. i prefer: “hone your intuition through customer context and apply your intuition”

TikTok’s 3 strategic comms mistakes with this video:

1) LITERALLY DOING THIS 👀

The TikTok team was so concerned with getting the words exactly right that they had the CEO read from a script. But trust is won or lost through body language — not words — and the script messed up…