126 days - fastest in 25 years. Congrats to the team!

Until now, we’ve only designed platforms like vehicles and components that warfighters operate. This is the first time we’re designing something they wear…

something Palmer Luckey discusses on JRE is that until now, we've lacked a massive economic incentive to fundamentally understand how the brain works. while research labs studied it to cure diseases, tech companies weren't pouring in the billions they are now to understand

easy alpha for founders looking to get more competitive advantage: get a stylist. sequoia’s pierre lamond had so much drip lucian freud painted him.

art should be made by humans, not robots. semantic.art is a search engine for the masterworks of human creativity. free for everyone, forever.

you can also frame the conflict between tech and finance in theological terms tech culture (and sf/berkeley by extension) can broadly be described as a form of hyper-protestantism. this is explained well in Tom Holland’s Dominion. tech is obsessed with bringing about utopia and

didn’t expect to hear the ceo of figma talk about brat summer today. go king

the three stages of pretending kale tastes good

if you’re into econ or data and want to work on something actually cool, i highly recommend applying for this! ara’s sharp, and doing some really fun research with ramp’s data

Today, I write about US-China competition in AI and associated technologies as I see it. “Race” is a fairly poor analogy, in my view, for understanding the magnitude of what is underway.

Ep. 33: TBPN (John Coogan & Jordi Hays) - Inside Tech's Water Cooler John Coogan and Jordi Hays are the hosts of @TBPN, a daily live show covering the technology business. TBPN was launched only about a year ago, but has become a mainstay in tech culture and a center of

wrote a short post on how 13Fs get misread and why we should probably get rid of them TL;DR is that 13Fs don't actually reveal that much information about a fund's holdings, yet people act like they do. you see this a lot in discussions about options (e.g. michael

Today we continue the 100 Year Conversation with General David Petraeus, former leader of the Army and the CIA. A project to capture timeless wisdom from leaders who have built institutions that endure. The central question: How do you build something that lasts 100 years?

"That any general system... would go at a velocity exceeding ten miles per hour... is extremely improbable." (said in 1835 on railroads)

man Byrne Hobart is so good at this.