Annie Zhang

Watch out for 45-day exclusivity clause. Sometimes some funds and accelerators will try to get you to sign an agreement giving them exclusivity for weeks or months before you even get to see the full term sheet/side letter. We’ve seen numerous cases of this, unfortunately, and the terms are also usually not great. Push back on agreeing to this with... See more

In the AI era, everyone's shipping at light speed. The temptation is to abandon craft for cadence, to ship fast and fix later. But the best teams are learning that taste isn't the opposite of speed—it's what makes speed sustainable.

If current AI systems already exhibit genuine multiple personalities rather than sophisticated acting, then we're not preparing for some hypothetical future scenario -- we're living through the emergence of a new form of consciousness right now. Consider the economic ramifications alone: if an AI system's "day trader personality" makes a series of ... See more

I would draw a distinction from the egg theory. The core of the egg theory is that when a product or process is too easy, people don’t feel a sense of contribution or accomplishment. The IKEA effect, though, focuses on the value people place on things they’ve had a hand in creating.

When I think of AI agents, I think of the “egg theory” in consumer psychology.

When you get down to it, not everyone is as laser-focused on making money as they say they are. “There are people whose primary goal is to be right. That works a high percentage of the time, but it can be disastrous because your ego and portfolio get caught up in that goal instead of just making money,” Duncan says.

Underneath all of this is something deeper: taste as a spiritual orientation. Not in the religious sense, but in the felt sense of alignment. Of knowing what your energy wants. Of feeling what’s harmonious and what’s out of tune.

We’re drowning in content.

In qualitative modeling, which is what Kind is interested in, aspects of the real-world system are represented in a discrete manner. The states may be described, for instance, as “present,” “absent,” or neutral,” and relationships between variables may take the form of “increases,” “decreases,” or “irrelevant,” rather than mathematical formulae.