Business as usual in tech is dead. If you’re not scrambling, you’re doing it wrong

The path to success in tech is 5000 days of feeling like shit because your company is a mess, and then you win

Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down— who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver

The Joe Rogan podcast didn’t make the list of 100 podcasts that shaped the genre and pushed it forward because the media is that relentlessly biased. Amazing.

This is a job posting for a brand new company and I’d really like your help getting it to the right people :) The history of technology is a short one, and it’s punctuated by a small number of trends. They might be: microprocessors, personal computers, the internet, mobile, and now AI. But it’s hard not to believe that AI is the truly big one. Silicon Valley was the epicenter of the action in exactly 100% of these trends, and amazingly, in 2025, AI is centered here too. Someone needs to document what’s happening here! Someone needs to understand who the people are, and what makes them tick. And do so in a way that does not let them take themselves as seriously as they may want to :) I’m helping launch a very novel type of tech media company, and CEO @patrickmcguire is hiring for three special roles. This is a uniquely ambitious and creative project and is in need of uniquely ambitious and creative talent. If this sounds interesting to you, I suggest you talk to Patrick. Please see the job descriptions attached, and please share and engage if you want to help get this off the ground

A right-wing friend is worth 6 regular friends

Resolution rate for @Fin_ai normally increases ~1% per month. Generally you would expect increases to get harder over time as the res rate gets higher. Cool to see it accelerate - the past two months each increased by 3% :)

Most Euro nations now peddle this kind of speech/thought crime bullshit, while AFAIK largely ignoring the actually bad crimes which result in the inconvenient speech. It's so dystopian. I'm not sure how it will end.

this is unironically going to be a HUGE problem in the coming years

If Intercom can ever pull off marketing as exquisitely perfect as this, I will retire happy