The real villain here is Google. Google found one of the very best business models of all time, skimming all the surplus profit off of the entire free open internet. This is the natural end state of that process.

Success often means you become a glorified router for capital, people, and information. What makes good routers is strategic thinking, but the job itself is largely mundane. This is why the example of people who continue to make things themselves is inspiring.

Sama: "I think I mostly got what I wanted by ignoring advice..."

Perhaps counterintuitive but energy is not fixed or finite. It can be surprisingly generative In fact, things that should sap you often do the opposite: going to the gym when you’re crabby, working really hard and coming up with a new idea, or learning something new

After years of being pro-Calendly I'm now trending anti-Calendly. Having meetings jammed randomly into your day is an insane way to live. Would rather spend the effort checking availability than have my life be robbed from me 30 minutes at a time.

What does this teach you about life?

It’s wild that some mid level PM is making design tweaks for “retention” and ends up completely tearing the entire fabric of our society into a downward spiral of gamified virtual hot people musical chairs. “What if we added a bursting emoji heart?!” = Birthrates fall to zero

Got an email from a student looking for an internship in private equity. Here's my response: Hope it helps someone else trying to break into a new field.

Current new-crop of AI assistants is uninspired. "What if we made like a little guy who summarizes your meetings? Or this other guy to schedule your dentist appointment" We need to aim higher. Emotion sculptors and dream architects, reality-weavers, dimensional navigators

Remember this for whenever you design something. https://t.co/pdZrYP87uR