Grok is either not good or so good it can tell the future.

Solar eclipse, UConn in the NCAA Men's final, and the kickoff to Masters week.... a day like no other.

This short film did a great job of working within the constraints of the medium to build something compelling and interesting. I love seeing how artists use tech constraints to unlock new creative solutions.

Big day for the great state of Connecticut.

Seven lessons learned from Tom Preston-Werner and the GitHub story at the indievc event the other night that I am still thinking about a few days later:

1. To bootstrap a business, it's important to think about TTFD (my own acronym, not his) - Time To First Dollar. You need to be…

The history of Reddit and YCombinator are so deeply intertwined. Would YC be the YC we have today without Reddit? Would Reddit exist without YC?

ycombinator.com/blog/the-reddi…

Is there any precedent for this Inflection deal? Part acquihire, part licensing deal, all very odd and confusing.

x.com/Jessicalessin/…

Happy new year, friends.

Options:

1. Get Gong set up and get good at mining it for insights.
2. Don't build the things they ask for until you can talk to customers.
3. Find a new job.

This is such a pain to deal with and I’m happy to see someone building product to solve it.

'City of Yes' - love this.

I did NOT expect my writing on Cognitive Flexibility Theory to show up on Reforge’s podcast!

Fareed Mosavat opens with how some kinds of knowledge work in business is tacit, and built from large collections of cases.

This week, I joined Fareed Mosavat + Ravi Mehta on Unsolicited Feedback to talk about how AI is going to unlock a new world of insights from qualitative data.

We cover the shift from data gatherers to data gardeners, the need for a new tech stack, and more: reforge.com/podcast/unsoli…

Tahoe snow reports have reached ludicrous mode level.

And I’m going to be out of town all next week with zero chance of experiencing any of it once the chaos subsides.

I can't stop thinking about this demo and what happens when we can prompt with things other than text.

What other 'magic tools' can we create with gen AI tools where basic input turns into high quality, controllable outputs?

Magic Paintbrush
Magic Camera
Magic Microphone…

Speed is a feature. Low latency unlocks new use cases. This is a wild demo. Mind blown.