Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are

Regret minimization is the best mental franework for life decisions

Your homepage just became more important New data from analyzing 7 million+ referral sessions confirms that AI chatbot traffic converts significantly better. - AI users stay 2.3 minutes longer on sites (10.4 vs. 8.1 minutes) - They view more pages per session (12.4 vs. 11.8) -

this has to be the most contrarian career path ever: from college dropout to founding and selling Loom for $1B to mechanical engineering intern. a real hero.

Not all sins are equal. Greed can push us beyond existing boundaries, essential for creating truly great things. Sloth drives efficiency. But wrath and gluttony rarely create value for society.

We are not serious people anymore.

i've yet to see a plausible explanation for why LLMs *introduce* em dashes so much, since they don't seem to be as prevalent among the training data

prompt engineering has always felt like a leaky abstraction

this from Nat Friedman

Crafting novel UI interactions will remain out of reach for LLMs for a long time. Best form of differentiation in a sea of vibe-coded apps.

Proud ❤️

"For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." —Middlemarch, George Eliot

At some point the meaning of ‘driving’ and ‘self-driving’ will invert.

the last living client of frank lloyd wright, roland reisley, is 101 and has lived in his flw house for 73 years. this quote from him about it made me cry

Bullish on Google as the long-term winner of the consumer AI race. Chrome is the front door to the internet for 70% of the world to find answers, shop or just about anything. Shipping Agentic mode might make it an easier on-ramp for the large majority of people than replacing

Corporate inboxes slowly becoming the workslop feed version of Meta Vibes