Anyone who needs to charge for startup advice isn’t qualified to give it.

Nerves of stainless steel

Excited for the upcoming era of geopolitics where Rome has fallen and Islam and a temporarily outward-oriented China are the world's two great powers...because that means in a little while we get the next Genghis Khan

Why women live longer than men

I am now a ChatGPT voice mode in the car guy. Recent trips: "Teach me the history of the Oakland estuary" "Recap the last two matches at the French Open" "Prep me for a meeting with [person I'm driving to meet]" Nobody else do this or podcasts will die.

When you drop everything to do something important, you realize how brutally unimportant much of what you were doing before was. Life goes on fine if you never hit inbox 0.

Uh oh

The first LinkedIn profile

The happiest people I know don't have perfect lives. But they have one thing in common: They've mastered the art of moving on. They don't keep score, they don't cling to what if, they don't dwell. There’s a hell of a lot of progress hiding in the skill of not staying stuck.

Every online retailer that has to advertise on facebook

I reckon we’re on this timeline

Not sentiment. Not market cap. Not users. Revenue.

this is one of my favorite charts; IEA expert solar forecasts each year vs actual installations people are really bad at wrapping their heads around exponentials

Change is coming.

Adam Jonas seems to be our new Mary Meeker for the 4th IR.

This is fine…

Space fact: Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo, is the only human, alive or dead that isn’t in the frame of this picture, 1969.

americans are going to derive why they rejected a king 250 years ago, from first principles

We really have not made a lot of progress on explaining the deep mystery of LLMs: How does a model using matrix multiplication to predict the next word manage to simulate human thought well enough to do all the very human-like things it does? And what does that mean about us?

To AI or not to AI..