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A startup is a bundle, and Windsurf broke the bundle
I am delighted that Windsurf has turned out well. It sounds like everyone is getting a good outcome of some kind, and the principal actors involved get to claim good Read more A startup is a bundle, and Windsurf broke the bundle
Scarcity and Abundance in 2025
I mean, what stage of the S curve is this? It’s been a tough week for the AI haters; not only because of Ghibli Day (if you aren’t in the Read more Scarcity and Abundance in 2025
If you’re first out the door, it’s not called panicking
So, I guess there are four possible scenarios here? Scenario One: the Trump economic gambit is a good strategy, but they’re executing badlyScenario Two: it’s a bad strategy, and they’re Read more If you re first out the door, it s not called panicking
Wine tasting with Claude Shannon
There’s some counterintuitive but deep intuition that things can feel higher signal when they are 99% false but 1% true, versus it they are 99% true but 1% false. A Read more Wine tasting with Claude Shannon
10 Predictions for the 2020s: Midterm report card
In December of 2019, which feels like quite a lifetime ago, I posted ten predictions about themes I thought would be important in the 2020s. In the immediate weeks after Read more 10 Predictions for the 2020s: Midterm report card
Innovation takes magic, and that magic is gift culture
There’s a certain magical quality to creating new things together. Any time we bring something genuinely new to life, especially if it took a group effort, something special happened that Read more Innovation takes magic, and that magic is gift culture
Have you ever seen a goth downtown?
Creativity After AI The comic Chris Fleming has a great bit: “[The singer] Saint Vincent said something the other day… ‘I am so glad that I moved to New York Read more Have you ever seen a goth downtown?
Manifest Destiny returns
This dream is all amiss interpreted. It was a vision fair and fortunate. Your statue spouting blood in many pipes, In which so many smiling Romans bath’d, Signifies that from Read more Manifest Destiny returns
When Did Things Happen?
To the extent that we were taught any history at all, I suspect that many of us learned our world history in a fairly linear fashion: First the Greeks, then Read more When Did Things Happen?