Humans raise the ceiling, AI raises the floor

Bold claim from a guy who has never invented anything. Btw, business isn’t about inventing, it’s about creating value. iPhone 16 sales: 37 million units, opening weekend Meta Quest sales: 50 million units, all time

Has anyone described the ways in which AI changes how leaders get leverage? The ability to use AI to automate and scale processes and knowledge transfer to get more results from fewer people seems like a good litmus test for new managerial hires.

The score card after Buffett announces he's stepping down this year: 5,502,284% for Berkshire vs 39,054% in the S&P 500. x.com/modestproposal…

Here’s a cheat sheet to reading pitch decks: “We’re democratizing access” = we’re scamming old people “Our engineering team has over 20 years of experience” = our engineering team has never accomplished anything “We’re using a proprietary AI model to accomplish this” = we’re

"These are important thinkers, and understanding them can be very useful... I don't know if he's thinking about Immanuel Kant or not. I doubt it, but if he does, I am comforted at least in my certainty that he is doing his best to reach for all of it and not just the McNuggets."

Congrats to Airbnb for finally discovering TaskRabbit

If I book a chef on Airbnb, who charges who the ridiculous cleaning fee?

A Chris Rock Joke fits well here: "Stop telling kids they can be whatever they want to be. You can be anything you're good at, as long as they're hiring. And even then it helps to know someone." x.com/morganhousel/s…

non aesthetic things He put a motion sensor sprinkler after people kept parking in his drive through 👀

Rick Rubin x Anthropic are writing a book on vibe coding I can't believe this collab is real

“[Writing a novel] is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” - E.L. Doctorow I think “writing a novel” could be replaced by a lot of things, and boy what an analogy!

“I consider reading the greatest bargain in the world. A shelf of books is a shelf of many lives and ideas and imaginations which the reader can enjoy whenever he wishes and as often as he wishes... the book-lover can experience hundreds or even thousands of lives.”

"The gift with the highest return: believing in someone before they believe in themselves."

"Overthinking is underdoing with better vocabulary." - FS Nike was right all along... #JustDoIt

Jensen Huang (founder of Nvidia) dropped the most underrated life advice:

Well well, guess who's the top user of Chatgpt. Shocking