Spencer Yen

I don’t believe in stuffed or stacked foods, but in particular I’m out on loaded toasts and sandwiches. It’s why burrito culture also has never made much sense to me. In that IG-approved glob of messiness, you don’t actually end up tasting anything, just a mishmash of textures. Instead, I prefer a well-prepared, well-seasoned base toast with no mor... See more

Yeah, first of all, thanks for having me. I’m stoked to be here and I’m still processing the launch. It was a big one for us. We’re at a scale now with 700 million users where there are many surprises that are just kind of baked in when you operate with this many users and they’re all different. So I mean, to answer your question, yes, I was surpri... See more

I do think people will go to fewer websites. I think people will care more about human-crafted content than ever. My directional bet would be that human-created, human-endorsed, human-curated content all goes up in value dramatically

Personal superintelligence that knows us deeply, understands our goals, and can help us achieve them will be by far the most useful. Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices.

few of us seem to understand how things are made, what they cost or why. Prices feel arbitrarily high. Products’ origins are obfuscated by overseas production and one-click ordering. Labor and the people who perform it are easily hidden from public view. Yet you can now peek at it, on your phone, for free, almost anytime. The internet was once conc... See more

LLMs can be the most amazing tool for learning humankind has ever created, or you can rely on it to do your work for you and then your learning will atrophy.

It’s a next token predictor, and you can use those next tokens to do your work and bypass the learning process, or you can use those tokens to empower you as a programmer and supercharge your l

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While I respect, and am even jealous of France’s relaxed culture, a life pointed to the accumulation of simple pleasures, I miss England’s (and the US’s) dynamism, the tinkering entrepreneurial-ism, which might result in less outward contentment, but does accomplish big, important, and long lasting things.

If I lived in France I would get either bor

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Seeing my children grow up in Copenhagen has made me realise that Danish children are cosseted in many ways. The country’s one-size-fits-all state-school system has a laudable emphasis on supporting lower-achieving pupils but it often comes at the cost of the academically ambitious. Competitiveness is generally discouraged and the limelight is mean... See more