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don’t live each day like it’s your last. live like you’ll make it to 100. think in centuries.

We’ve replaced time in the field with time on our phones. What we now call experience is the weighted average of our own and the residue of what other

PirateWires JD: Friends, Romans, countrymen, I’m hiring a new writer. Could be you, could be a friend or acquaintance. Please take a look and pass t

for a long time i’ve been trying to figure out the exact kind of role i’m most interested in, and i think part of the difficulty is that it doesn’t fu

Are you hiring?Officially, there are no open roles. But unofficially, I’m always looking for great talent, and someone to manage social media posts in

when making things becomes frictionless, starting stops meaning anything.

"The way I think about coaching is very much how I think about parenting. Your ability to drive change is down to the quality of your relationship, no

“Before industrialization, it was difficult to separate a product from the person who made it ... Economic transactions had a distinct social componen

Relatedly, before industrialization, there was very little sense that working, in itself, could be dignified or meaningful.2 We were not defined by o

“Do you or your friends have professors whose approach to AI in the classroom felt ‘right’? What was the approach?” - AnonLarge language models are cl

Deeply embarrassed for the people who hold the view that I used to have until I just recently very slightly changed my opinion. What absolute clowns

“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

Christians believe purgatory exists because of God’s divine mercy, but even here on earth, perhaps the waiting period is more merciful than we realize

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

Aristotle described a good life as “sharing in discussion and thought"

App layer is where most of the value is. Nothing has changed. Humans like a well designed focused UX that deeply solves a problem as a first class cit

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, believes this is the primary way AI companies will differentiate their products. It all comes down to personalit

I was reading an article about the state of SaaS recently, and came across this line:The data moat surrounding incumbent SaaS / systems of record is l

Do you believe we are losing cool? VANHÉE: We’re definitely losing an edge. Because everything is super visible, you have to justify and explain every

Adam Mastoirnni in response to the question: How do we become more optimistic and hopeful? I think the root of the problem is the globalization of all

1. Embracing ‘Anti-Scale’According to John their maximum audience is capped at 200,000.“If we have 10 million subscribers we've pivoted. Something's g

Communities are not resources to be optimised and they're not user bases to be migrated. They're the accumulated residue of people choosing, over and

TK: It was a great gala. Numbers-wise, how many email subscribers do you have now?JD: It’s 15,000 on the daily email, and monthly visits are probably

“At both Viaweb and YC, every minute I spent thinking about competitors was, in retrospect, a minute wasted... It's exceptionally rare for startups to

re: many genAI apps can do 'anything and everything' i used to tell this funny story to a lot of consumer founders: when one-shot TTS first started

A lot of companies don’t make it because in the process of trying to get many things right, they don’t get anything right.Why are they in such a hurry

Unlike vertical search aggregators, boutique search engines feel less like the Yellow Pages and more like texting your friends to ask for a recommenda

The Internet consumes enormous quantities of time without generating proportionate quantities of memory

Got asked for a braindump on the future of search/CLI/helping computers become more intelligent and humane... Ready? Here we go... (1/n)

The humanities, rightly understood, are the things that technology cannot take away or substitute for. Of course, I don’t mean ‘humanities’ in the way

What education does is provide a curated experience to help you learn. Done well, it sifts through the myriad resources, possible paths, and common e

Trends in Education • 2023 • Sora Schools

I spent seven years building a kid/ed-tech product and one critical thing I learned about the industry is this... No matter what they signal, most pa

“Life is always winking at us, calling our attention to the beauty hidden in plain sight. Why do we so often miss what’s right in front of us, lost in

The writer Ted Chiang was once asked in an interview if he ever considered publishing more frequently. Chiang, one of the greatest living fiction writ

ASAP: As SLOW as Possible When to Take the Long Road in a Shortcut WorldWhen to Take the Long Road in a Shortcut WorldWhen

“Hosting, then, is the art of creating a field in which people can risk thinking together. It is the art of allowing what is fragmented, defended, pas

Simone Weil’s greatest insight was that attention is the foundation of morality and that letting your attention span degrade is the first step on the

Because I don't want to be a monk. I don't want to go live in a cabin. I'm not gonna swear off Netflix or podcasts or whatever. I like this stuff. It'