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You don't understand Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs wasn't a fortune teller or a master showman. He was a culture hacker performing arbitrage against an unevenly distributed future—building the barely possible because it would change your relationship to the world if he sold it to you.

The year everything changed

Far from my best years being behind me, it feels as though everything in my life has been leading to this moment: building a completely new category of product where the most useful lessons come not from GitHub repos, but from the science fiction novels I’ve been obsessed with since I was a kid.

Building Agent Skills with Claude research mode

Use Claude Desktop to rapidly generate Agent Skills according to the spec.

How to get help from a robot

This isn't a tool that replaces humans. Properly applied, it's a tool that amplifies our imagination, discovery and ambition, creating more leverage for our finite time on this planet.

The Expanse guys return to economics

Daniel and Ty spend four hundred pages presenting an indictment against all of the modern world. The arrangements we tolerate, the atrocity we look past, the economically-driven cruelty we're born into… the book is a searing rebuke of all of it.

Where's the agent debugger?

It's hard to reason about so many interlocking parts moving so fast. Past a certain level of complexity, you just can't keep it all inside your head. So, somehow, we have to investigate, shining light into black boxes of our own creation.

LLMs: the opposable thumb of computing

Amidst all the hype, all the skepticism, all the rending of clothes, I am here to tell you: the LLM is to computing what the thumb is to our hand.

Microsoft's game

Microsoft is one of the great leviathans of computing history. The game it plays remains relevant decades later. Here's how it works.