OK I was busy all morning - what's the top 3 things from WWDC worth digging into?

The themes that stuck out to me now that I've watched most of the Apple stream: "Relive Special Moments" was a repeated mantra around photos in all the separate presentations. Apple prefers the term "Machine Learning" over AI - any other company would have said AI 100 times

Welp that miss blew up the group chat.

This US Open is going to give me a heart attack

EIGHTEEN

Slack's new content deletion has reminded me of all the silly test teams I've created over the years... My favorite two workspace names from today's emails: Best Ever Death Metal Band (featuring users cyrus and jeff) Bluth's Frozen Bananas

Homeowners insurance.

Figma running a master class on Product Market Fit Expansion. First with FigJam, then Dev Mode, now with Slides... Slowly expanding their product suite to pull more of the product development process into Figma.

Ugh this is going to set golf back like 30 years

Since we are sharing my handicap is 9.8 but I’ve been as low as 8.5.

"Listen to your users" can be a trap, especially when the feedback comes from power users. Adam Mosseri with a nugget of wisdom in his interview with Casey Newton

We called this a few months ago on Unsolicited Feedback in our deep dive on Disney. youtu.be/z2j9oNtqBEo?si…

I can't block investment group spam fast enough in WhatsApp. Every time I block one a new one appears. Completely out of control.

A tradition unlike any other.

Swimming Twitter 🤝 Golf Twitter Hating on NBC

The conversion rate on a channel is inversely proportional to the global volume of messages sent on that channel. True for an individual company (send more messages, get worse CTR) but also true for how many messages everyone else sends.

Impressive results here building custom open source models using Glaive AI - if you are building models for production / customer-facing use cases, you should give it a run.

I want to be very clear — Glaive AI is the reason this worked so well. The control they give you to generate synthetic data is insane. I will be using them for nearly every model I build moving forward, and you should too.

Kamala in founder mode 😜

Working with technical founders at the early stages, one of the biggest mysteries for them (and me!) is how to plan / hire / and model out sales once founder-led sales no longer scales. Nakul Mandan // Audacious Ventures has open-sourced a great financial model to help founders with this problem.