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Hey hi hello. It's me, Ann, the yellow sweater-wearer. I gave this talk at The Love Symposium. It was called Understanding Interpersonal Conflict. Here's generally how it went: -A conflict is a disagreement. Not all disagreements escalate into fights. -Fights are caused by

This is a big deal. “Agents” is AI hype for software programs that run in the background. In a world with lots of AI software, it will be really helpful to have a native file format for these new types of software to talk to each other. singularityhub.com/2024/11/21/dro…

3 non-obvious lessons I learned about team building by growing from $800K to $8M ARR with a team of 8 in 10 months. I hope these hard-earned lessons could inspire and help other founders:

Housing costs could increase by 20% as a result of Trump's deportations. (Source: WSJ)

Announcing Model Training based on FLUX Dev More real. More on-brand. More consistent than ever. In 3 min, generate realistic portraits, on-brand assets, consistent characters and more The era of personal AI is here

Important wake up call: #H5N1 BirdFlu just sequenced by CDC from severe Louisiana patient Most important, the H5 virus mutated inside the single patient to gain an ability to bind human receptors in the upper respiratory tract It takes just one… cdc.gov/bird-flu/spotl…

Thanks to nojitter for publishing a recap of my fascinating conversation with Matt Vartabedian about Agentic AI and CX: nojitter.com/ai-automation/…

Great find Kibera

Bombshell reporting. X threatens advertisers with political trouble if they don’t spend money on the platform. wsj.com/business/media…

The capabilities of the large language of life models (LLLMs) are rapidly proliferating! nature.com/articles/d4158… nature Ewen Callaway arcinstitute.org/manuscripts/Ev… Arc Institute Patrick Hsu Brian Hie Garyk Brixi #Evo2 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk’s Texas Gigafactory bloomberg.com/news/features/…

I extracted the most common failure patterns from my 20-year-long startup journey. (spoiler: most successful founders have done the same thing, while failed ones did many different things) Why Startup Founders Fail:

This is a bigger deal than people realize. We will create more new disease cures with existing medicines than new ones: nytimes.com/2025/03/20/wel… via @NYTimes

A 2022 study found that ¼ of unicorn companies in the US had a founder that first came to the US as an international student. Deterring world-class talent from coming to the US and building things here is a great way to kill America’s economic edge. nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/…

"we just taught sand to dream and the dreams are getting more vivid and sometimes when we look at the loss curves we swear we can see them looking back"

In the age of AI, eloquence is common. Wisdom is rare and to be treasured.

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