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Going back to Excel and shifting my metaphor up a level, today ChatGPT sometimes seems more like the original PCs than like Excel (or VisiCalc). It’s a general purpose technology, there’s a command line, and some stuff that’s theoretically magic, and a few things that are extremely useful to a few people, but we don’t yet have the richness of all... See more
Benedict Evans • Unbundling AI
good format (seeing) begets function (reasoning)
on the same theme. we go from:
digits → tallying → numerals → digital digits
inscriptions → paper → word documents → infinite digital canvas
We're launching a pickup and delivery only grocery store in Austin this fall.
It's the 1st phase of our city wide network and is powered by our Rapid Fulfillment Center.
Grocery is notoriously difficult, here's why we're starting with it: https://t.co/Vyrdh7E9qf
Excerpt: “Over the last 15 years, Excel has been unbundled into a host of other apps, such as Asana, Looker, and QuickBooks. But this unbundling was only possible once Excel became ubiquitous enough for users to know they wanted a purpose-made alternative. In order for that to happen, Excel needed widespread adoption with power users who began using it for niche workflows that it wasn’t originally designed to support.
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Once those workflows were created, the power users realized that parts of their workflow were inefficient, or that features were missing for their use cases. They felt a need for purpose-built tools—and that became the opportunity for B2B SaaS to develop into a $327 billion market.”
Viewed as a way to understand reality more deeply, suddenly research shifts from something intimidating to something beautiful, this process of slowly feeling the inner workings of the universe come into focus, clicking into place, a blossoming of clarity suffusing, igniting the jungle of neurons traversing my mind, until I can finally see.
Kanjun Qiu • Research as Understanding ∙ Kanjun Qiu
My most profound moment in college was when a professor mentioned that we were in school not to learn concepts, but to learn how to think critically. It was a major unblocker for me.
Prior to that moment, I'd been prioritizing getting good grades in my classes. It was the most important thing at the time. The clearest object I had in front of me.
Now
“People who are direct are generally in touch with themselves and their desires. People who are habitually indirect usually aren’t.
This is because people who are indirect don’t have much experience with their inner world making contact with the outer world. They sit and theorize instead of saying it out loud and seeing... See more