This year, I read ten important historical novels: Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, To The Lighthouse, Bleak House, Portrait of a Lady, Anna Karenina, Life and Fate, Heart of Darkness, Madame Bovary, and The Magic Mountain. Reflections: • Four of these are more than 800 pages long. The

The Midjourney web app is exceptionally well-implemented.

It feels that biographies of 19th century and early 20th century figures will in some regard never be matched: because the culture was one of abundant letter-writing, we often get unparalleled insight into the subjects' frames of mind and thought processes. Today, of course, we

It's hard to definitively attribute the causality, but it seems that AI is starting to influence Stripe's macro figures: payment volume from customers that signed up for Stripe in 2025 is tracking way ahead of prior years. (And ahead of even 2020, when the lockdowns triggered a

In May 2024, 25% of Stripe Atlas founders said they were building an "AI company". Last month: 40%

NEW: Works in Progress's first podcast series, Hard Drugs, is out now. It's written and presented by Saloni and Jacob Trefethen, and it's all about medical innovation – speeding it up, scaling it, and getting it to people who need it. Subscribe now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wor…

Privy is one of the most insanely well shipped developer products I have ever used > Their bug fixes and feature requests were released within less than a week of reporting > The team is excellent and quite grounded to provide the best support for onboarding > The documentation

We're delighted to welcome Privy to Stripe. Money has to reside somewhere, and Privy builds the world's best programmable vaults. Alongside our other stablecoin work, we're looking forward to enabling a new generation of global, internet-native financial services.

🚨It’s time for a new issue of Works in Progress 🚨 Read Issue 19 to find out: - What we can do to eliminate lead in the developing world - How Japan successfully densified its cities - The best way to build good railway networks, cheaply And much more! worksinprogress.co

We're working with our friends at Coinbase 🛡️ and Shopify to enable stablecoin payments.

Found Charles Piller's Doctored, on recent fraud in Alzheimer's research, to be a very valuable read.

One of the best parts of Stripe is working with the world's most interesting businesses. Taking advantage of this, we're launching a podcast where we host founders and leaders for a cheeky pint in our hastily-constructed office pub. Coming soon: episodes with Greg Brockman, Meta’s Susan

Susan is amazing.

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Introducing Arc Institute’s first virtual cell model: STATE

Today Arc Institute released the first version STATE, a virtual cell model. I wrote up a short blog post about it. You can check it out here: arcinstitute.org/news/virtual-c….

Arc's first virtual cell model. Am very excited about where this program is going.

Cells are dynamic, messy and context dependent. Scaling models across diverse states needs flexibility to capture heterogeneity Introducing State, a transformer that predicts perturbation effects by training over sets of cells Team effort led by the unstoppable Abhinav Adduri

Congrats, Amjad Masad! The rate at which great products like Replit ⠕ are growing usage and revenue continues to be quite remarkable. It's perhaps the most pro-upstart era we've ever seen. Like a lot of AI-native companies, Replit is built on Stripe's Optimized Checkout Suite (with

this is one of the most insane charts i’ve ever seen.