Matt Little
@littlematthewr
Matt Little
Rick Ruben on how to create anything great:
“If you need 10 of something, make 30. Then pick the best.”
“If you need 10 of something, make 30. Then pick the best.”
The best, most promising relationships are formed out of reverence and fearless love and curiosity and imagination. The most divine relationships constitute a messy, awkward collaboration between two savage souls who dare to ask for more from this world. Nothing is more beautiful than two people who dare to be wild and rapacious together! The most ... See more
“There’s something you get at about why we pay attention to certain things and collect them…that is different than a cynical and algorithmic view of taste…Our desire and attention falls to certain things because of the way that we feel about the person, place or thing that introduces them to us. In that way, taste is a lot more similar to love than... See more
Leadership
Ultimately, AI starts as a leadership problem, where leaders recognize that AI presents urgent challenges and opportunities. One big change since I wrote about this topic months ago is that more leaders are starting to recognize the need to address AI. You can see this in two viral memos, from the CEO of Shopify and the CEO of Duolingo, e... See more
Ultimately, AI starts as a leadership problem, where leaders recognize that AI presents urgent challenges and opportunities. One big change since I wrote about this topic months ago is that more leaders are starting to recognize the need to address AI. You can see this in two viral memos, from the CEO of Shopify and the CEO of Duolingo, e... See more
Penrose.com created a benchmark for basic account balance tracking, using a year’s worth of actual data from places like Stripe — and found a result that I suspect will be typical: AI errors tend to compound over time. (In fairness, ChatGPT agent wasn’t yet out when Penrose ran the test, but I would be surprised if their results were wildly differe... See more
AI Agents have, so far, mostly been a dud
Design for the Loop
Designing something to be livable rather than flippable changes your choices. Suddenly, "move fast" = a bad joke. Instead, you ask: Can I bear the texture of this? Are the relationships I’m building ones I could stand to inhabit on loop?
It sounds sentimental, until you consider how many modern businesses are, in effect, pyramid s... See more
Designing something to be livable rather than flippable changes your choices. Suddenly, "move fast" = a bad joke. Instead, you ask: Can I bear the texture of this? Are the relationships I’m building ones I could stand to inhabit on loop?
It sounds sentimental, until you consider how many modern businesses are, in effect, pyramid s... See more
Everyone wants the summary. But the summary is what's left after someone else decided what matters. Their priorities aren't yours. Their filters aren't yours. When you operate on summaries, you're thinking with someone else's brain.