Jing Kuang's Time Machine
Step into a time machine for realistic optimists. As Founding Partner of Y+ Ventures, first-gen immigrant, and mom of two, I share reflections on consumer AI, venture building, and my founder journey.
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The Next Software Battle Is for the Customer’s Next Job (opens the original)
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From a 99% Chance of Failure to 98% (opens the original)
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On September 4th, Cresca App went live.We had started building in earnest at the end of May. Just over three months later, an idea that had lived in my head for years was sitting in the App Store.Seeing it there felt less like shipping software and more like taking a loaf of bread out of the oven.You know it began as flour, water, and yeast. You kneaded it, waited for it, and wondered whether it would rise at all. You saw it as a sticky mess. You nearly burned it more than once.Then the oven doo
Fast and Slow, Mirrored (opens the original)
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Humans spent a million years evolving fast thinking, and spend ten years of practice compiling slow thinking into intuition. AI distilled the entire internet's slow thinking into a single forward pass — and now pays to buy slow thinking back. The price structure of intelligence has flipped in front of us. And the real bottleneck of this flip isn't thinking. It's memory.When Daniel Kahneman published Thinking, Fast and Slow in 2011, he probably didn’t expect its most devoted readership to end up
Unfinished on Purpose (opens the original)
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You already know the feeling this essay is about. You just may not have seen it written down.You’re at a conference. The speaker is credentialed, the deck is flawless, the insights arrive on schedule. Two minutes in, a small cold thought crosses your mind: a chatbot could have written this. And once you’ve thought it, you can’t unthink it. You stop listening, not because the talk is wrong, but because it’s findable. Everything being said, you could have asked for.<p class="c
The Future of Social Is Offline (opens the original)
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For most of the past twenty years, technology has moved in one direction: away from the physical world and onto the internet.Shopping moved from stores to websites. Friendship moved from living rooms to social feeds. Work moved from offices to Zoom. Music, movies, education, dating, and even parts of our identity became increasingly mediated by screens.Thanks for reading Jing Kuang's Time Machine! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subscription-w
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