Whatever your bar is for working with people, raise it.

Lisbon is the only city I’m consistently shocked at how bad coworking spaces are here. Has so much potential…

Material UI is probably one of if not THE ugliest design system on the planet.

"I've never found in my whole life that you could convince someone who doesn't want to work hard to work hard." -- Steve Jobs

The talent stack is collapsing in tech. Magic happens when you learn how to work across functions: - Be a designer who can code - Be an engineer who can drive growth - Be a PM who can write marketing copy In my latest interview, I had a wide-ranging conversation with

I don't know about other fields, but in startups the worst thing you can be is a scenester. It's even worse than being stupid. Stupid people can succeed if they try hard enough. But when I hear the founders of a startup described as scenesters, I write them off.

Startup and VC land is mostly full of bullshit The bullshit slows you down or distracts you. Status games, raising money from celebrity investors (and the attendant Coachella lineup image), using hot buzzwords, thinking by analogy instead of first principles Cut it to go fast

Is Google Maps getting worse, or is it just me? Feels like Google's best product is being intentionally ruined.

With Starlink, can't wait for this to become a reality! 😛

So bearish on any automated outbound company

Never felt more rage than standing in the Lisbon airport passport queue. 600 passengers 3 people manning the queue, 2 of them clock out. Love this country, but no one wants to work in Portugal. Hurts my soul.

NEWS: Elon Musk said tonight that he expects xAI's next training cluster to have 1 million GPUs, worth about $25B-$30B, 5x more than their current 200k GPU cluster. "We're already working on the next training cluster. We anticipate it to be roughly 5x bigger than the current

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

Signing into stuff in 2025: > Sign in > Forgot password > Check email > No email > Try Google auth > Hooray, works > Is this really you? > Grab iPhone > Open Youtube app > Yes it's me > Okta sign in required > Enter passkey > Passkey expired > Need backup code > Open password

Email from Fiverr CEO to his team about AI ($1b company):

If you say you want to be involved in “strategy” during the interview process, you’re ngmi. Just means you have an ego, and have never done any hard work in your life. You earn this right.

More evidence that the strong correlation between physical fitness and risk of death is heavily confounded by genetics and other factors. This is a tough one for the preventive health community (including me)!

being in Europe makes it feel like they don't want to make money they are happy with their wines and handrolled cigarettes and debate soccer teams while putting people in jail for social media posts move out of Europe if you want to make money

PSA: infrastructure companies should build products so that they know what infrastructure to build 😁

As intelligence becomes abundant, infrastructure companies will become even more important.