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Happy personal + professional news: Knowable has been acquired by @Medium. Knowable will live on as a standalone product, and the Knowable team will lead audio initiatives for Medium as well. What, why, how… 🧵👇

Negative emissions have been dramatically underfunded in proportion to their importance. This needs to be fixed if we’re going to have a shot at reducing the cost enough to make 10-gigaton-scale deployment possible by midcentury. It will take likely take years or decades for basic research and pilot projects to scale and get cheap enough; so we nee... See more

There is also opportunity for immersive programs in digital skills outside of software development. There are far fewer full-time programs dedicated to teaching digital skills in marketing, sales, accounting, finance, and design than in coding. Universities aren’t teaching Salesforce, Google AdWords and Marketo but those are the tools students need... See more

Pocket was supposed to become the aggregation layer for reading, showing what each of us consumed, pulling it together in a beautiful interface, and facilitating sharing. It hasn't happened. The product is unchanged from five years ago, and nothing has stepped in to fill the gap. There's an opportunity for a company to take the best of Twitter (and... See more

I don’t expect voice interfaces to replace software with screens anytime soon though, because there is so much work that would be impractical with voice. Imagine trying to build a spreadsheet with your voice. Keyboards and screens are pretty great for a lot of knowledge work.

Mass production made suit/cars/teapots cheaper and more plentiful. But Bentleys are still made by hand—artisanal goods are still seen as higher quality and higher status.

In this analogy, LLMs make writing vastly cheaper and more plentiful. But they never quite reach the quality of the best human writers. Most  writing  was always emails a

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That the best way to review a product experience is to ask 3 questions on EVERY screen: “how did I get here?” “what do I do now?” “where do I go next?” — these questions will reveal flaws in object model, UX, onboarding, and orientation.

The four million people who drive for Uber probably own less of the company combined than a single dentist in New Jersey with Vanguard in their portfolio.