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Over the time that’s passed between the Apple 1 and today, the vibe in Silicon Valley has gradually flipped from being playful and irreverent to megalomaniacal. Somewhere in there is the answer to the question of why the general population doesn’t love or trust the tech

One of the most significant moments in my life was realising at age 34 that it didn’t matter what kind of external measure of success I reached at what time, but wow this concept “antifragility” seems important…

Terrifying

A company stops being interesting when its leaders stop growing.

A day in enviro tech: > Device on interstate farm that randomly stopped two days ago has started up again > Take “device not working” off list of things to worry about > Add “device started working again and I probably won’t ever know why” to list of things to worry about

This new Gmail Polish feature is amazing and provides exactly what I need… - changes the name of my client contact to an incorrect spelling - rewrites the body so that instead of writing like an ordinary human I write like an MBA.

Evaluate people not on their past achievements but on the personal qualities they’re working the hardest to develop.

The paradox of startup investing: A startup gets better after every time an investor says "no". The reason it can take 100+ investor connections to close a round is that every "no" leads to an improvement in something: the plan, the product, the team, the traction, the

Sama on The Social Radars is a better version of Sama than what’s been on display for the past few years. It must be insanely hard doing what he does these days. Also nice to be reminded of the ways YC, at its best, can bring out the best in people.

Build your embedded enviro-IoT platform out of of development boards and breakout modules before hiring engineers to design a custom PCB. (It's been working smoothly for 4.5 months now. Custom PCB design now in progress.)

A perfectly preserved specimen of The Paradox of Startup Investing... x.com/tomhowardau/st…

Managing AI agents by writing evals is so much less awkward than those coffee walks where you figure out the right amount of small talk before telling someone why you're disappointed with them and try to close out on an optimistic note.

The deflationary impact on software is profound and accelerating.

This is the kind of initiative that makes me so excited to now be working full-time at YC.