Max Beauroyre

“Think about one person who has not enjoyed working with you. Picture them. What would they say?”

The economically and politically relevant comparison on most tasks is not whether the language model is better than the best human, it is whether they are better than the human who would otherwise do that task.

If I were an AI researcher who had a bunch of grad students who are really good at prompt engineering, I’d take them to ordinary businesses to see just how much they could increase efficiency. I’m not talking about tech companies but insurance firms, warehouses, or retail stores that don’t necessarily have high-level coders. Their job would be to e... See more

Though taste may appear effortless, you can’t have taste by mistake. It requires intention, focus, and care. Taste is a commitment to a state of attention.

Tim O’Reilly has a wonderful metaphor for money: he says money is like gasoline while driving across country on a road trip. You never want to run out, but the point of life is not to go on a tour of gas stations.

People are inclined to want to do great work for really rich and successful people. They see it as their ticket. Drawing that out of people before most even know about your company, on the other hand... that’s a skill worth studying.

He sees the hunger people have for a wisdom and nourishing that algorithms and devices don’t provide—but the humanities can. This is the real crisis in humanities, and it’s reached a boiling point.

I don’t travel as extensively as Dana, but I hear the exact same thing in my online dealings with people. They want something that the tech can’t provid... See more

In reality, the homepage is a marketing asset — and even more specifically, it is a product marketing asset .

For startups of all sizes, its purpose is to answer fundamental questions like...

1. What does the product do?


2. How does it work?


3. What does it look like?


4. When would I use it?


5. How does it help me make progress in what I’m trying to accomplish?

The history of progress is the continued commoditization of once-scarce things.