Max Beauroyre

Chris Sacca shared recently on Dialectic: “Only play rigged games.” He avoids public markets because he’s just a spectator there. In venture, he can shift the odds. “It may be lucky,” he says, “but it’s not an accident.”

Unfair advantages come in three flavors: product insight, go-to-market edge, technical moat. One gets you in the game. Two means... See more

The Airbnb marketplace is evolving toward its most effective product; it seems that what consumers want more than an exotic experience is something like a Days Inn but more stylish and less obvious — a generic space hidden behind a seemingly unique facade.

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.

The homogeneity of these spaces means that traveling between them is frictionless, a value that Silicon Valley prizes and cultural influencers like Schwarzmann take advantage of. Changing places can be as painless as reloading a website. You might not even realize you’re not where you started.

Opus 4.5 delivers clean, natural-sounding writing, but I’m sticking with Sonnet 4.5. It’s faster and more honest, and whatever differences there are in the writing quality on a word-by-word level are minor enough that I don’t feel compelled to switch. I’m still all-in on the Anthropic ecosystem for writing, but this release isn’t for me

Press releases announce “company-wide AI adoption.” Hallway conversations tell a different story. Employees haven’t opened the tools in weeks. The data lies. Comms lies. Dashboards show logins, not usage. Activation, not integration.

This is transformation theater. The appearance of change without the pain of change.