Good snippet from Morgan Housel sub newspaper for social media TLDR - books still good in 2024

Honest Q. I’m pretty sure LLMs have made an avg software engineer 4-5x more productive at building new things. Have they made 10x engineers more productive at the same rate? Or are there diminishing marginal returns depending on how strong the engineer is?

Find people smarter than you. Find people who move faster than you. Then spend lots of time around them. It’s the easiest way to get better.

This is true

15 years ago Akshay was at Stanford. Dylan was about to start at Brown Today. Both run $10B+ companies (Notion + Figma) 1) talent finds talent 2) the kids tinkering with startups never shake the addiction 3) be nice to the people you meet. You never know what they do next

Human instinct is to over prepare on fear. It’s our survival instinct. In the case of AI, we can quickly be spooked by the scary scenarios. I am too. The irony tho is AI also has the ability to make technology & the internet safer than ever before. Idk if it’s happening yet

very proud of emmy, Aliyan Ishfaq, & Carrie on their launch. Stanford builders on a mission to accelerate construction. BuildSync was one of the first teams I met when I started LeapYear, and it's been an absolute pleasure to work with them as part of LY F24 batch.

Batch #2 applications are in for LeapYear W24. We got 150+ apps from nearly 300 builders. We are reviewing all applications over the next few days to narrow down, get more information, and gather advisor feedback. If you applied, we are humbled by your desire to build