Markets and understanding your users is all that matters. Everything else is on the margin.

I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible. I'm acting as its human liaison, buying anything it says to. Do you think it'll be able to make smart investments and build an online business? Follow along 👀

if you had asked me in January how long it would take us to blend symbolic ai and generative ai i would have said 5 years… took 10 lines of json with the new chatgpt plugins system x.com/imjaredz/statu…

Rode in a driverless car for the first time tonight. Unnerving, but most surprising was how quickly it changed from fascinating to banal.

A lot of people who had DMs open to everyone now can't receive DMs from unverified accounts. And this is not something they're aware of because the setting was changed without them being consulted. Let your friends know!

It's a ferromagnet "We argue that, together with the pronounced shape anisotropy of the small fragments, the soft ferromagnetism is sufficient to explain the observed half levitation in strong vertical magnetic fields. Our measurements do not indicate the presence of the

Is there anyone in the world who uses Infrastructure-as-code *without* GitOps? Who is the term GitOps for? Some hacker who writes Terraform but only on their own machine?

Despite all the effort that has gone into it, it doesn’t look like programming language design has any real compounding power. There are better and worse languages, but other market and technical forces can swamp language choices.

Thrilled to announce that the California Public Utilities Commission just approved @Cruise for fared operation 24/7 across all of San Francisco! It’s a huge milestone for the AV industry, but even more importantly a signal to the country that CA prioritizes progress over our

Everyone complains about stagnancy at the top of the tech industry, but 10 years ago the biggest companies were Google, Facebook, and Twitter, and today it’s Alphabet, Meta, and X. Disruption never stops!

I support City Attorney David Chiu's fight against a court injunction that won’t let San Francisco remove tent encampments when people reject offers of shelter. If someone refuses shelter, they shouldn’t get to camp anywhere they want indefinitely. And they shouldn’t get to do

True for all startups, but this is 100x harder in Bitcoin/crypto vs something like SaaS. No one hypes up a pre-launch SaaS product that they’ll never use.

Turns out remote people care less about their jobs… which is obvious, but something team “we’re just as productive” will need to contend with.

Speaking as a professional software user experience designer, you do NOT want to create software systems which compel ideal processes. You want flexible systems which make ideal actions easiest and other actions transparent.

I’ll never forget getting an exploding term sheet from a VC, supposedly because the entire firm was going to Burning Man

Dystopia as imagined in the 80s: the world is controlled by corporations Dystopia as imagined in the 2020s: the world is controlled by nonprofits