Max Beauroyre
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Max Beauroyre
The death of the press release
Why launching products on social media is the only way to go
Recently I've been working with a lot of early startups as part of A16Z SPEEDRUN — our accelerator focused on the intersection of TECH x GAMES — and many of these teams end up launching… Show more
More thoughts on why PR is not working
process
Outcomes
Craft
She wanted to live frugally, she wanted to have the autonomy to pursue her interests without thinking about money, and this meant she was going somewhere no one wanted to live so rent was cheap.
Henrik Karlsson • Relationships are coevolutionary loops
Hiring new programmers has nearly stopped, but there’s never been a better time to be a consultant on integrating AI into your business.
Daniel Kokotajlo • Ai 2027
The Art of Tending to Oneself | Are.na Editorial
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The paradox of having finite time, and often infinite desires
The common assumption about automation, even setting aside the financial effects, is that people will be incredibly unhappy without work.
Avital Balwit • My Last Five Years of Work
Technology doesn’t just make old tasks easier —it creates entirely new standards.
Before washing machines, families washed clothes maybe twice a year.
After that, weekly laundry became the norm.
Before washing machines, families washed clothes maybe twice a year.
After that, weekly laundry became the norm.
The three dynamics above can help us understand DeepSeek's recent releases. About a month ago, DeepSeek released a model called "DeepSeek-V3" that was a pure pretrained model 3 — the first stage described in #3 above. Then last week, they released "R1", which added a second stage. It's not possible to determine everything about these models from th... See more