People resist new technology, new ideas. As Dostoevsky opens Crime & Punishment with: "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." I think fear points the way toward progress. Here's an ad from 1915 (via Pessimists Archive) suggesting a horse outperforms a car.

Pretty amazing confluence of new technologies all landing at the same time. Haven’t seen a period like this for a decade and a half when we had cloud and mobile emerge together. Never a better time to be building software.

Had a great conversation with Yoshua Bengio. Both of us agreed that a good step forward for AI risk is to articulate the concrete scenarios where AI can lead to significant harm. More to come, and looking forward to continuing the conversation!

Sam Altman is a hero of mine. He built a company from nothing to $90 Billion in value, and changed our collective world forever. I can't wait to see what he does next. I, and billions of people, will benefit from his future work- it's going to be simply incredible. Thank you

i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people. will have more to say about what’s next later. 🫡

Sam Altman and Greg Brockman have my full support. I’m saddened by what’s transpired. They, and the rest of the OpenAI team, deserve better

Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today. Let us first say thank you to all the incredible people who we have worked with at OpenAI, our customers, our investors, and all of those who have been reaching out. We too are still trying to figure out exactly

When I talk to more established startups, one of the first things I want to know, after asking about the growth rate and whether they're profitable, is whether the founders still have board control. I'm more optimistic about the company when the answer is yes.

. Sam Altman is a once in a generation CEO. He’s an instigator whose positive mark on the world will be indelible, and profound, in every corner of the globe. It’s an honor to work alongside him wherever he is.

The idea of a standoff between 3 board members and 95% an organization's employees is so unprecedented that it seems almost grammatically ill-formed. I wouldn't have thought such a thing was even possible. If 95% doesn't count as a vote of no confidence, what number would?

we are so back

At the end of the day, the greatest privilege of my job is working with people who are driven by mission. These last 5 days, I saw people across OpenAI remaining calm and resolute in driving their mission despite all that was happening around them. And I saw people across

good to be back

Working with your files in Vision Pro is wild

Recently I came across this diagram, mapping out the time it took for different companies (including Looker, which I co-founded) to make the journey from idea to Product-Market fit, and the results are…not surprising at all. Across the board, the earlier you get a product into

Nolan Bushnell, the co-founder of Atari, once said something that has always resonated with me. "Everyone who has taken a shower has had an idea," he said. "But, it's the people who get out of the shower, towel off, and do something about it that make the difference."

Want to make things easier for your team? Give them something hard to do. If they’re the right team, and it’s a task that feels important, they’ll thank you for it.

Innovation, Streitschrift für barrierefreies Denken, 2018.

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At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety.... I’m here to talk about AI opportunity.” I’m thrilled to see the U.S. government focus on opportunities in AI. Further, while it is