Max Beauroyre

Plus, MCP only addresses context portability, not memory. I’ll repeat - the accumulated history of interactions, the learned preferences, the refined understanding of each user—that's not portable. And that's where the real lock-in lives.

Nearly everyone who does great work has some episode of early solitary work. As the philosopher Bertrand Russell remarked, the development of gifted and creative individuals, such as Newton or Whitehead, seems to require a period in which there is little or no pressure for conformity, a time in which they can develop and pursue their interests no... See more

We treat our website as a product. With real investment. When we were just a couple of people, we realized that our website is our sales team – since our users would want to self-serve as much as possible.

In that same Strategy essay, I tried to show why strategy - a diagnosis (there is an opening for a financial software company that helps customers save time and money), a guiding policy (“For every product we build, and everything we do, the goal is always, ‘How can we save more time for customers?’”), and coherent actions (all of the specific... See more

Yet AirSpace is now less theory than reality. The interchangeability, ceaseless movement, and symbolic blankness that was once the hallmark of hotels and airports, qualities that led the French anthropologist Marc Augé to define them in 1992 as “non-places,” has leaked into the rest of life.

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... See more

I’ve finally realized why I’ve never been a fan of focusing just on productivity without focusing on other things as well.

Productivity is a natural outcome that happens when you have a deep purpose. When you have a deep purpose, you naturally come up with clear priorities to work on.

When you have a deep purpose and clear priorities, you become

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Listen, Understand, Answer.” To encourage employees to answer questions accurately and efficiently, he has the “LUA” shortcut. If someone is delivering a rambling answer or failing to answer Huang’s question, he will interject with this acronym. It stands for “Listen, Understand, Answer.” As with Bezos and Musk, there’s a mechanical quality to this... See more

There is an ongoing trend where companies spend more and more on training powerful AI models, even as the curve is periodically shifted and the cost of training a given level of model intelligence declines rapidly. It's just that the economic value of training more and more intelligent models is so great that any cost gains are more than eaten up... See more