Wild stat: AI could hog 99% of world electricity someday. Congress heard it straight from Schmidt

Why? It's a VC that's more than dumb money

😂 Nervana was a leading ML company acquired for half a billion. Forgettable.

MIT has built a camera so fast it can capture light itself Records 1 trillion fps so we can slow down the fastest thing in the universe and watch it move through a scene If you filmed a bullet going through an apple at 1 trillion fps the playback would take a YEAR to watch

He’s now acknowledge he was off

Accountancy firms worldwide shitting themselves that they just lost half their work

A positive trend

Go and create 🧑‍🎨🎨🧑‍🎤🏴‍☠️

Backlogs make or break startups. Ours was breaking. Knowing what to work on next in a startup is a massive challenge. We started with Jira as the backlog. It was effectively siloed to engineering and too expensive for the whole team to live in it. We added a spreadsheet so

We need The Socrates Test not whether AI can think like us, but whether we can still think like Socrates. Probe and reason. Don’t just accept AI

Safe to say the recruitment industry is changing

12. Corporate espionage

Should you build or borrow? The default founder mentality is to build everything custom. Feels safer + better. We did it at Twine. Admin panels, upload media processing, even HR systems. The dumbest thing we built was a kind of CRM system Essential Q, so you don't waste team

Chat is no more sacred than my eyeballs or ears which get shoved full of ads daily Google, written content and socials (particularly TikTok/IG) made ads very opaque. As part of the tech world, we're all far more attuned to what an ad is. Most people don't care. If the ad is

Call me pedantic but this is 2.3x better

Wild simonwillison.net/2026/jan/30/mo…

Jevons paradox: