I wish I were old enough to pay attention to the OJ story. It must have been riveting.

Sharing this only because I've been guilty of this before:

If you're a founder talking to someone well connected in Silicon Valley and say, 'Do you know any investors you can intro to?' You may get someone to think of one or two people off the top of their head.

But most people…

It's that time of year when I switch everything from dark mode to light mode to solve for that one hour a week when I try to work outside and it doesn't go very well

The weird thing about OpenAI is they undoubtedly employ a lot of people whose main purpose in life is to make sure OpenAI fails

I’d be willing to bet the average nonprofit does significantly more harm to the world than the average for-profit corporation

When reading stories like these remember that you’re hearing one person’s perspective.

I don’t know anything about this, but:

“The engineering manager overstepped by talking to customers?”

“I could have solved this by creating more ‘formal processes?’”

🚩

Well, let’s see.

post mann: Not public, probably right on the line.

Stripe: Yes; $150m/quarter operating income according to TheInformation.

OpenAI: Probably not yet.

Airbnb Yes, $4.79B 2023 net income.

Uber: Yea, $1.89B 2023 net income.

Details: Ai.bloomtech.com

BloomTech's first 'AI for developer hyperproductivity' cohort filled up in a couple days. Opening up slots in the next cohort now.

If your company wants to send 30+ engineers and wants to do something private or customized timing, let me know.

The SAT is an objectively fantastic (if not the best) measure that determines who will do well in college and is less biased to income/opportunity than other measures.

They got rid of it to show how forward-thinking they were in 2020, then realized how important it is.

Thinkpad is either .5x engineer or 20x engineer no in-between

Gæddi McGæddson ai.bloomtech.com

In a meeting today and got four calls back to back from one number. Figured it must be an emergency so stepped out of the meeting to take it.

Was a random completely non-urgent call.

Apparently because no one picks up the phone anymore he just calls until they do.