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Willem

@vanlancker

Startup building, investing, and design · Thrive, Oyster, Google, Apple

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'The successor to the Personal Computer is imminent. And that starts in the Browser'

Excited for the future the Browser Company is building—so much accomplished in just 4 years

Congrats to the entire The Browser Company team on these new resources to help achieve their vision 💙

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You should start many books but finish relatively few.

Reading less for information retention and more for dipping, however briefly, into new ideas and views.

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The difference between an idea's success and obscurity? Timing.

Answering 'Why now?' can feel like a box-check but is as critical as execution or creativity.

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New consumer startups can't just nudge habits and expect success — they have to bulldoze an existing behavior out of the way. The inertia of routines and habits are too strong for incremental changes.

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Sora’s apparent use of unity and other video game data for training creates really wild implications for how it evolves — particularly regarding what constitutes ground-truth for figures, environments, etc.

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The Mighty Rectangle

For millennia our primary medium for well... everything… has been rectangles.

Stone tablets. Papyrus scrolls. Printed books. TVs. PCs. Smart phones. The rectangle has reigned supreme.

Does Apple Vision Pro have the potential to change our relationship…

The Mighty Rectangle For millennia our primary medium for well... everything… has been rectangles. Stone tablets. Papyrus scrolls. Printed books. TVs. PCs. Smart phones. The rectangle has reigned supreme. Does Apple Vision Pro have the potential to change our relationship…
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One quality measure of products is how they make you feel about yourself when you use them — in control, creative, empowered, etc.

Very excited for The Browser Company's latest act to bring that to search and more. youtube.com/watch?v=WIeJF3…

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