Amazing job for the right writer.

Pixar started out selling high-end graphics computers, but only succeeded after leveraging its own technology to make feature films.

I wonder what AI startups will win, not by building and selling tools, but by building and using those tools to make something extraordinary.

'How to build a future you want to live in—lessons learned from a life devoted to reinventing San Francisco.'

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This new genetic history of the modern strawberry is remarkable. I had no idea all of today's strawberries descend from an accidental cross in the gardens of Versailles 300 yrs ago--or the wild stuff modern breeders did in the '70s. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Michael Nielsen My favorite fictional futures are genuinely complex and avoid of the monotony of u/dystopias.

Doctora Malka Older’s Infomocracy, Ada Palmer’s Too Like the Lightning, and Robin Sloan’s forthcoming Moonbound are good examples.

Anton Ego's monologue in Ratatouille is absolutely incredible.

'But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new.'

Signed a library copy of Bandwidth for a reader after a talk today—they assured me they had sought and received permission from the librarian. 🤓

A key pillar of strategy consulting.

These are the kind of weird, important feedback loops that I became obsessed with while writing Veil.

A world unto itself.

Great lineup of publishing nerds—wish I could be there!

I made a space station animation - Orbital Megastructure. Procedural and real time of course. I tried to make it feel big. It was difficult to get the complexity of the structure to feel organic and not grid-like.
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Whenever people ask me about this, I tell them “you surf the wave, not the board.”

But Seth Godin’s example is better.

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Good advice.

Fine reminder that Cormac McCarthy wrote the most metal sentence about the sun and the moon in all American lit

Make things you’re proud of for people you care about.

Author and entrepreneur Eliot Peper on taking risks:

“If you know something’s going to work, it’s not worth working on. It requires no courage. It requires no faith. It requires no skin in the game. Whether you’re a spy or a teacher or a spouse or a painter or an abuela or an…

If investing time and thought into writing a document is what makes the document valuable, substituting time and thought with AI undermines the value of the document.