AI

As I reported earlier this month, OpenAI’s underwhelming GPT-5 release was a moment of reckoning for both Silicon Valley and Wall Street—an overdue reality check on the feasibility and timeframe for achieving A.G.I. or superintelligence (both terms lack agreed-upon definitions and are basically interchangeable, although the industry has recently be... See more

your failure isn’t personal. it’s probabilistic.

& the antidote isn’t motivation, it’s selection.

people talk about market fit for products.

but you need market fit for yourself.

not everyone is meant to be a founder.

not everyone is built for scale.

some of you are legendary in small rooms.

AI was most useful upstream and downstream of the main thing.

pure scaling is not getting us to AGI; returns are diminishing. GPT-5, they report, will not be the jump over GPT-4 that GPT-4 was over GPT-3.

There will still be some people who can write. Some of us like it. But the middle ground between those who are good at writing and those who can't write at all will disappear. Instead of good writers, ok writers, and people who can't write, there will just be good writers and people who can't write.

Is that so bad? Isn't it common for skills to disa... See more

privacy is the womb.

it’s where we gestate who we are before the world gets to shape us.

take it away, & you don’t get more honesty. you get collapse. conformity. psychic suffocation.

if you love freedom, you have to love privacy.

if you care about the human spirit, you have to defend its room to breathe.

& if you still want to become something tomorrow... See more