I've linked it before, but I can't get over how insightful this Paul Graham essay is, so I'm sharing it again. paulgraham.com/conformism.html

Mercenaries work for money. Missionaries build for others. Artists create for themselves.

Your mindset can change the outcome without changing the facts.

A Future in Sync is the first futures report created by RADAR. We're proud to have been part of the core team that co-created it along with ~50 contributors from around the world. futureinsync.radardao.xyz

It’s not 10,000 hours, it’s 10,000 iterations.

The biggest tech news from the innovation economy in this month's #MaRSMonthly, featuring @ACTOApp, Borrowell, Muse, Vive Crop Protection, PolicyMe, Flash Forest, Avidbots and Two Small Fish Ventures.

The more comfortable you are with yourself, the less you need to win the moment and the more you focus on winning the future.

Open registration | Speculative Design and Climate Futures - mailchi.mp/index-space/sp…

Reading Metalabel and co—matter's brilliant new publication exploring ideas for an alternative creative online ecosystem with more world-building and multiplayer modes where groups of people can pool skills and resources in support larger visions collect.metalabel.xyz

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✨ This week in AI ✨ Ground-zero for a bunch of massive AI releases. This is all you need to read to get up to speed on AI ⇢ Stanford Alpaca 7B ⇢ Google Workspace AI ⇢ GPT4 ⇢ Anthropic Claude ⇢ Midjourney V5 ⇢ Microsoft Co-Pilot in 365 🧵 A thread, let's unpack

something like an IAEA for advanced AI is worth considering, and the shape of the tech may make it feasible: openai.com/blog/governanc… (and to make this harder to willfully misinterpret: it's important that any such regulation not constrain AI below a high capability threshold)

The library of are.na is a wealth of knowledge are.na/sydney-k-y/the…

sequoiacap.com/article/genera…

BuildCanada.com is live. Build Canada helps entrepreneurs share their ideas for a bolder, richer, freer country.

New Anthropic Research: Project Vend. We had Claude run a small shop in our office lunchroom. Here’s how it went.

Introducing a new type of civic tech made possible by AI. Every citizen should have a live, systems view of their government and today we bring that to SF! Track gov entities, spending, news, and more in real time. With LLMs, we can bring this to every city. Who's next?

Published: Network Intelligence been thinking about how to connect the dots better with LLMs aislinn.substack.com/p/network-inte…

Rick Rubin says vibe coding is the punk rock of coding. Rick Rubin

Part 2 of Big Ideas 2026, with takes from our American Dynamism and Apps teams on what next year holds for tech: a16z.news/p/big-ideas-20…