8. We often abandon ourselves in an attempt to prevent other people from abandoning us.

SF being particularly charming today 🚃

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An attempt to explain (current) ChatGPT versions. I still run into many, many people who don't know that: - o3 is the obvious best thing for important/hard things. It is a reasoning model that is much stronger than 4o and if you are using ChatGPT professionally and not using o3

The future belongs to people who are good at creating things, not people who are good at dividing them up.

Bill Atkinson, a pioneering Apple engineer and key member of the original Macintosh team, died on June 5, at age 74 from pancreatic cancer (John Gruber / Daring Fireball) daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06… techmeme.com/250607/p16#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

Can’t believe it’s been 20 years since “Stay hungry, stay foolish” stevejobsarchive.com/exhibits/stay-…

Just try to be as useful as possible to your fellow human beings. Elon Musk on his closing thoughts for the YC AI Startup School folks

It is quite funny to me that all the founders of the largest businesses ever had to, at some point or another, assure investors that their model was all about software even as they frantically deployed enormously capital intensive infrastructure all the way along. Google was

Was certainly true of Cloudflare. Our early team was described by one investor as “the land of misfit toys.” I took it as a compliment.

The White House unveils the AI Action Plan, seeking to assert US dominance over China, including proposals to ease permitting for AI infrastructure projects (Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250723/p24#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

I believe writing is thinking, and voice is identity. So I’m generally skeptical about outsourcing writing to LLMs, except for these two scenarios: You’ve written something original, and you want to pressure test it before putting it out into the world. “Where is my argument the

To be productive is a good unto itself.

after cliticizing OpenAI last week, feel like all AI companies will end up adopting what it did i.e. fewer to no model choices. which in turn will favor OpenAI since it shifts the competition to who has the better product, an area Sam and his team have a clear lead in.

Your best work comes through you, not from you.

The larger V3 Starlink satellites that will deploy from Starship will bring gigabit connectivity to users and are designed to add 60 Tera-bits-per-second of downlink capacity to the Starlink network. That's more than 20 times the capacity added with every V2 Mini launch on

Marketing is a creative and adversarial game. Channels get discovered, exploited, and discarded. New products need new distribution. It’s hard to hire rule-breakers, so the best marketers tend to be the founders themselves.

Michael Mealling -- e/acc Jared Isaacman We are going to build a Moon base

RIP Scott Adams - one of the most original, insightful, and fearless thinkers who ever lived. 😞🙏

In 1964, John McCarthy, the creator of LISP, proposed sending a 5,000-pound AI-powered robot to search for life on Mars This machine would be able to: - Navigate obstacles autonomously - Support over-the-air software updates from Earth - Use computer vision to identify terrain