Max Beauroyre

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

Character is the ability to get one's self to do the difficult things that produce the desired results

They will have their own beliefs , and their own experiences —but these will be portals on reality that others may now refuse to acknowledge. That’s because all evidence is tainted. Everything demands skepticism.

Consider those loonies who believe that the Apollo moon landing never happened. Now imagine a world in which everybody is like that about... See more

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... See more

Webster decided what it should be. He changed the spellings. Colour became color, centre became center, defence became defense. He hardly discovered these spellings in the wild. He largely invented them by fiat because he believed that an independent nation deserved an independent language, and this was the only way to build it.

The Company as a Machine for Doing Stuff