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Don’t be a product visionary—or, worse, a product dictator. Your company shouldn’t be a cult of personality, building exclusively what you want on the timelines you decide. WeWork is one example of how that path leads to certain doom. Among the numerous excesses, questionable decision making, and lavish capital infusions based on little evidence th... See more
Sahil Lavingia • The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
AI scientists cannot help this or themselves. Like all technologists, they put blind faith and total effort into achievement, damn the consequences. The excuse is that if I don't someone else will (and gain from it whether money, fame, etc.) so why not me?
But the internet is not the only-good/never-bad achievement these presumed in the 90's. Always... See more
But the internet is not the only-good/never-bad achievement these presumed in the 90's. Always... See more
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
Many concepts that sound good on paper are infeasible to implement, or simply don’t produce the expected results. It’s frustrating when that happens, of course, but the pace of experimentation and learning at a startup is unparalleled. I think this is an especially important form of rigor for theorycels like me. Building product forces a different ... See more
Jasmine Sun • exit interview
For better or worse, my op-ed came in the thick of the “techlash”: a growing consensus that Silicon Valley’s ambitions had reached excessive, even predatory extremes.