Just gave a new talk to a group of 20 CTOs/CPOs in Sweden. So amazing to test new material with a small live group. Immediate feedback with the eyes and faces, laughs and silences. Plus the hands shooting up. In a setting like that, where interruptions are welcome, the TIMING of…

Apple: 'We present Ferret-UI, the first MLLM designed to execute precise referring and grounding tasks specific to UI screens, while adeptly interpreting and acting upon open-ended language instructions.'

arxiv.org/abs/2404.05719

Currently engaged in correspondence with multiple folk who are running experiments on their software dev processes, and one of them just brought up Taguchi methods!

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We've been testing Taguchi arrays for a few months now. Things are converging ...

The difference between raw functionality and good experience shows up as a power law in price.

This and Ben Thompson's interview with Hugo Barra are must-reads/listens. Compelling bull case for non-Apple headsets. Like the spread of multitouch phones, gaze-and-pinch will spread, but this time the superior app and content ecosystems might not be Apple's.

📢 Pragmatic drag and drop is now public! 🎉

Fast drag and drop for any experience on any tech stack

Only six seats left for the next Shaping in Real Life cohort in May.

Bob Moesta and I are doing an interview project right now to learn about the progress alumni are making. Lots of quotes like this:

'In the past, we'd be in the middle of a project and we couldn't see the end.…

Just wrapped the first cycle of building a new product with a new team. So energizing!

A lesson I've learned, that was hard to see from the 'inside' as an employee in the past: With good partners, you get more out than you put in.

I can bring something that feels important and…

Mario Kostelac Media is technology. Radio, TV, internet — all involved major hardware innovation.

Think about them medium of CDs. CDs are pressed, CD players read them with lasers, etc. Storage is one aspect.

For LLMs, the unique storage aspect is the weights in the model. Writing is…

Surprised by often I hear from execs who want to switch to a Shape Up way of working just after firing a CTO.

“Business only happens if the customer brings it up.”

Re: Ryan Florence’s question: “Why does nearly everyone (developers and users) prefer web apps on macOS but native on iOS?”