can't shake the feeling that the only real way to prevent people from getting sucked into the digital slop vortex is to make the physical world more beautiful, nourishing, convivial, kind

We may still have Mission Impossible starring Tom Cruise in 100 years.

Ten years building a community of product leaders (~500k, about a third of the field) taught me this: Don’t start with the 90%. start with the 1%. Design for them with mechanisms that let them do real work. They’ll pull in the next 9%, then the 90%.

If this guy was an 18yo in SF he’d have a $5M pre seed lined up

I hope we can say this about Chia

I've been thinking about what it means to be a great CEO in the AI era, and one key question keeps coming up: are you trying to rise to the top of your industry, or are you trying to change it? If you're aiming for the top, you’ll likely look for shortcuts: stacked distribution,

Everyone should read this. If you align “hard” with a political party you have turned off your brain and outsourced your thinking to others. Data is clear on both sides of aisle. Think for oneself.

Nothing compounds more than being a good person

Smart move by Anthropic to carve out a brand identity as “the thinking man’s AI lab” Positioning as a defender of human intellect is a unique differentiator and taps into the anti-slop zeitgeist Unclear impact on sales, but it’s great for recruiting smart principled people,

“Learn how to use the AI tools” is fine advice. But by the time you master one, the same product, or a competitor, will already be accessible and easy to use for anyone that’s just starting. Better advice: build and ship as fast as you can with AI, before the rest of the world

Buying zcash

Everything is exceedingly normal until it isn't.

I was studying other times in history when gold prices more than doubled in the reserve currency of the time, as they did in the past year: it's rare and almost always a sign of a profound loss of confidence in the existing monetary and political order, going all the way back to

Later we'll find it hard to believe that masked thugs were dragging people off the street at gunpoint. At least I hope we will, since the other alternative would be to decline into the kind of country where that's normal.

never met a user

How is it that everyone decided to visit Japan in 2025?

For all the hate on Anthropic, this is why I have some respect for their approach. Chatbot erotica AI is (obviously) a net negative for society.

Why does every B2B SaaS founder think they’ll get acquired by Salesforce or Hubspot

Yo Sam Bhagwat you should write a book on gtm/distribution for books. I see this book constantly, at every event, in every office, every other day on the feed, in my dreams 🤯