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Wrote two things while away from this hell site
“A Land Without Giants” — the search for new founder archetypes
&
“Distribution Determined Design” — an investigation into the relationship between distribution and product design (the title is very accurate for... See more
It's funny how quickly @tbpn became the go-to insider Valley podcast, and @theallinpod is now the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour of tech: the boomer institution that's somewhat relevant but kind of boring.
(Zellenials can consult the dusty texts for the MacNeil reference.)
Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)x.comSilicon Valley is an extraordinary theatre of sociology right now. Apropos of nothing, my observations about a few people I'm paying attention to:
- Why Sam Altman does interviews at all is beyond me. He's so verbally slithering it's an absolute insult to the public. He thinks you are stupid or too cowardly to say it... See more
Justin Murphyx.comWho are your top 5 programmers of all time and why?
Mine:
1. Fabrice Bellard (ffmpeg, tinycc, quickjs)
2. John Carmack (doom, quake)
3. John McCarthy (lisp, father of AI, invented GC, timesharing)
4. Linus (linux man)
5. Dennis Ritchie... See more
zack (in SF)x.comTHE SCI-FI GURU WHO PREDICTED GOOGLE EARTH EXPLAINS SILICON VALLEY’S LATEST OBSESSION
Joanna Robinsonvanityfair.com
I've been saying this for a while now but, Please, remove the concept of windows from your AR/VR experiments!
If you keep them in the interest of regular people goes from "oh cool new tech" to "why do I have to wear a heavy headset to see the same thing I have on my PC?"
I wiped out a simple... See more
On a new episode of JRE:
Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) dives into secret debanking of tech founders, AI control plans, and remote workers gaming the system.
Nothing was off limits, from food policy to Silicon Valley's civil war.
Let me save you 3 hours: 🧵... See more
