Agriculture was a tremendous invention – it got people fed and freed them to do many things. But agriculture – taken to the extreme in the pursuit of profit leads to a sick and obese population and industrialized farms with little regard for the environment or animals. And in response to that, we now have amazing artisanal and healthy food choices ... See more
“ Owning the workflow” means embedding the product so deeply into the customer's operations that it's not just a tool, it’s the nervous system of a department.
What a modern LLM does during training is, essentially, very very quickly skim the textbook, the words just flying by , not spending much brain power on it.
Rather, when you or I read that math textbook, we read a couple pages slowly; then have an internal monologue about the material in our heads and talk about it with a few study-buddies; read an
publishing houses work more like venture capitalists. They invest small sums in lots of books in hopes that one of them breaks out and becomes a unicorn, making enough money to fund all the re
The web hasn’t had its artisanal moment. Right now, giant, ad-based networks created by six men that everyone begrudgingly uses with diminishing emotional returns, control the vast majority of the web.
Being prolific in many more areas than ever before by a young age (they think of their career in “eras” and see technology as merely one means by which they can make an impact)
For someone to be successful in starting a company and then turning it into a multigenerational business, they need to have good taste in at least these two things: ideas to pursue and people to recruit.