Spencer Yen

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

What Koks offered its diners wasn’t culinary perfection: it was uniqueness. In an era when matcha macarons and eel ceviche are available across the globe, its patrons were thrilled to spend an evening eating things that nobody they knew had ever eaten.

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

Similarly, the push notifications of social media platforms periodically tease you with what you’re missing out on, and the only way for you to find out more is to re-enter the maze. The result of having your day punctuated by these notifications is that your attention is constantly intercutting between the real world and the virtual one, so that y... See more

It's as simple as noticing after a conversation: Are you more energized? Are you more upbeat? Are you excited? Are you vibrating a little bit, like the concept of excitation?

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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