predictions of the future

You know, absent solving some of these big problems, things are going to be so much better off. Alzheimer's, obesity, you know; we'll have a cure for HIV. We will have gotten rid of polio, measles, malaria. You know, the pace of innovation is greater today than ever. I'm lucky I still get to back incredibly smart people who are doing all of that

If there’s one thing I saw at Eternal, despite our ability to create incredible brands and audiences → distribution on old platforms is broken.

I truly believe we are headed for a new type of spiritual crisis with the devices we have. Put as directly as possible, I believe it’s a dopamine crash. We are strung out daily for our dopamine fixes, and we need to present serious alternatives.

when we expand a technology we expand it towards both the divine and the profane. But it is up to us to both define that which is divine/profane — instead of a broad acceptance of the profane as “just another use case that we can’t avoid”.

“communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do, and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.”

As more and more identity formation happens online, it is inevitable that most of it happens in private spaces. As we spend more and more time living in these spaces, it’s inevitable that their intentional shaping should become more important to us. As more and more internet-first communities choose to build the means for themselves to live, it is

As more knowledge workers spend their days prompting LLMs, it’s become popular to argue that asking good questions is becoming more valuable. What is less obvious but I think more interesting is that it will expose how little we actually care about answers, and in turn, what makes questions so valuable in the first place.