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Essays on the endless journey of building products, teams, and ourselves.
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What will make personal AI go big? (opens the original)
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AI for No Good Reason (opens the original)
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Out of all the lives that have been lived throughout history, if you drew one at random, who would you be?This was the premise of The Veil of History. In just a few clicks, you can determine where and when you would have lived, and whether you would have been a prince or peon. (Spoiler alert: you were probably a peon with a short life.) Ethan Mollick made it with Claude Code, and it was one of the many cool projects I’ve stumbled upon made
How to Stop Complaining About Your Software (opens the original)
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i.In 1975, Andy Warhol made the observation that “a Coke is a Coke, and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.” Marc Andreessen referenced this in 2023 and threw in an extra line: "Same for the browser, the smartphone, the chatbot!"That’s kind of cool in some ways, right? The richest and most powerful people in the world are opening the same Slack as we do. They’ve got the same smart phones. Their Duolingo owl sends them the same guilt-trippi
You Cannot Mandate an AI Transformation (opens the original)
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We have heard it so often that it now occupies the space between meme and cult mantra: AI is going to change everything!<img alt="" clas
Eye, Hand, AI: a letter to my daughter (opens the original)
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I write a letter series for my daughter, who is now 11. This is one I gave her a few months ago.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="726" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DqJE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:st
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