Andy Claremont

Many concepts can be explained concisely, in simple language, and we should all strive for clarity. But the aphorism is a mistake, for a number of thoughts approximate the carpenter’s craft, and to meaningfully reveal them requires time and attention. Sometimes these cannot simply be told to another at all, they must be grown. For a topical example... See more

To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just redo it, redo it, redo it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.

The size of the effect is astounding. Cross-class friendships are a better predictor of upward mobility than school quality, job availability, community cohesion or family structure. If these results are true, then we have largely ignored a powerful way to help people realise the American dream.

The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.

If we want to do AI, we need to build it on concrete, not quicksand. We are getting the process and data supply in good shape. We’re working on a data inventory and catalog, a data fabric with a new data structure and metadata layer, data pipelines, and ad-hoc self-service insights generation. We believe that generative AI will be a key way to crea

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