Sublime

scale is challenging - you can do something that 95% of people like, but the remaining 5% are literally a hundred thousand people who are now *angry* - we're not evolved to process emotions at this scale (physiologically) and i see it stop many (tragically) from wanting to create

the biggest frustration of a hardcore technologist in san francisco is how many companies both tiny and gargantuan are kinda fake - investors often can't tell the difference between story and substance and armed with a billion dollars it may take a decade for it to fail. as an

in my testing, deepseek crushes western models on ancient chinese philosophy and literature, while also having a much stronger command of english than my first-hand chinese sources. it feels like communing with literary/historical/philosophical knowledge across generations that i never had access to before. it's quite emotionally moving. it makes s... See more

Building a great product is a bit like marriage: if you commit your life to making it excellent over long periods of time, and earnestly care about understanding the other person (users), you’ll be surprised at what you can build.