Can anyone teach an old dog new tricks?

I've seen three big waves of technology so far, and they've been remarkably evenly spaced: Chips mid 1970s, the web late 1990s, AI early 2020s.

If you take the job at the startup instead of the safer one at a big company, all your coworkers will also be people who took the job at the startup. In ten years they'll be running everything, even if the startup tanks.

What are the best AI books that go deep in an industry vertical? Salman Khan has ticked the box for Education with “Brave New Words” #ai #books

Pondering Excel Macros vs AI agents. Back in the day: "Ok Excel, watch me click these 57 buttons in the right order to do this simple task." Now: "Hey AI, do that whole thing for me while I go get a coffee”

No luck required! ☘️ Ireland 🇮🇪 are crowned mixed 4x400m champions in #Roma2024! 😍 Their first European gold medal since Sonia O’Sullivan in 1998. 🥹

we are at an ai hackathon:

A quick call can turn into a long fall from productivity. 😆

Was thinking about brands that I had a positive experience with recently. Visited Abercrombie & Fitch whilst in LA. How did I miss the run up of $ANF? What a turnaround!!

Question from an outsider - Who is the "they" so often referred to in the The All-In Podcast when speaking about the Democrats? "They" whom seem to hold the power and decision making authority within the party David Sacks @jason Chamath Palihapitiya david friedberg

Jesus Christ almighty

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Remarkable run by Niamh Allen to finish 11th at the European Cross Country - she gave birth to her first child just three months ago. Spoke to her recently about her road back. m.independent.ie/sport/other-sp…

Warren Buffett: "The idea of spending loads of time trying to guess how many iPhones or whatever it may be are going to be sold in a given three-month period — to me, it totally misses the point." "Nobody buys a farm based on whether they think it's going to rain next year."

Curious if we will see a world where you could tap into the LLM context of the likes of Elon Musk dharmesh Patrick Collison. An AI that thinks, reasons, and strategizes like them A marketplace for personal & company LLM contexts 🤔 Already out there?

Tiger Woods. Rory McIlroy. The only two men in the last 50 years to complete the Career Grand Slam. As the prophecy foretold ✨

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Lovable just raised $200M at a $1.8B valuation led by Accel. This all started unexpectedly with me calling my friend at 6AM to go for a walk. I've never shared this story before: (thread)

The real insight: 99% of the world's best ideas are trapped in the heads of people who can't code. They have problems. They know the solutions. They just can't build them. AI shouldn't help engineers code faster. It should help everyone else build.

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