Ricardo Matos

Millions of Gmail users have had this experience and I'm sure many of them have concluded that AI isn't smart enough to write good emails yet.

I noticed something interesting the other day: I enjoy using AI to build software more than I enjoy using most AI applications--software built with AI.

When I use AI to build software I feel like I can create almost anything I can imagine very quickly. AI feels like a power tool. It's a lot of fun.

Many AI apps don't feel like that. Their AI features... See more

“Compliment others more.

You’ll barely remember you did it, but the other person may never forget that you did.

Kindness has unlimited upside.”

I’ve come to think about AI’s role in my work in six parts, which correspond to the six parts of my workflow:

1. As a “second brain”


2. As a thought partner


3. As a first draft factory


4. As a first set of “eyes”


5. As a content multiplier


6. As a product manager

Games can therefore be understood as imagination infrastructures—engines for imaginative engagement. There are so many games out there these days, endless virtual worlds, that the utopian potential of this medium to break far beyond the limited possibilities for collective imagination in “normal” society also seems endless.

What does it look like... See more