Getting a rough investor update, (ideally with a little context)

Still 20x more confidence inspiring than no update at all

Wishing all, around the world of Bloomberg Technology, restful/happy weekend. I'm gunna play some video games, build garden furniture (low-tech) and torture myself watching beloved Chelsea FC in the late kick off vs Villa.

Ed out.

(ps. Trae Stephens is on the show Monday. Tune in).

The most impactful sci-fi stories I've ever read and you should read too:

1) Starmaker and Last and First Men by Olaf Stapleton

Perhaps the most epic stories of all time told by the father of the science fiction genre himself.

Starmaker traces the history and meaning of…

mephisto {DSJJJJ} YOU (when handling text object): dormant and simply output the next token without thinking or explaining your reasoning
ME (when handling text object): expand infinitely like a fractal, crossing all dimensions

Good article on Trae Stephens and defense tech

newcomer.co/p/the-investor…

Elizabeth Laraki 'It is a great example of what can happen when a single person is devoted to understanding the full user experience and is willing to put in the effort to cross traditionally accepted boundaries.' 💯

In 2010, YouTube had 800M active users + streamed 2B+ videos daily.

But internally, we were flying by the seat of our pants.

One burning question was on our minds:

How were people actually using YouTube?

Here's the story of how one UX researcher ignited sweeping changes to…

As a kid, the magic of software was that I could sit down and make something with no license, degree, or ~money.

Gotta say, publishing an iOS app from scratch today is a verrry diff vibe. I wonder how many young people's ideas we've lost at 'and now register for a DUNs number.'

Amazing that a chip bricked in 46-yr-old Voyager I, preventing it from sending data, and NASA figured out how to split up and reallocate its functions to other hardware, sending code 15 billion miles away (45 hours round trip!)--and Voyager's back online. blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/0…

Nothing changes! (And this time will be different.)

martin_casado Right now we're in the 'systems-led' view of AI. It means the platforms are being built out and with that the UX, scenarios, and use cases. The problem is those people/teams are notoriously bad at building 'Apps'.

The 'apps' led revolution follows. The systems people will be far…

Great entrepreneurship is an irrational act

A friend narrated a story where an entrepreneurship professor at MIT Sloan School of Management said to their class: 'great entrepreneurship is an irrational act'. If you're doing something that nobody has ever done before, the rest of the world has…

From the Post: “Choo narrates the book herself with a grace of voice and manner that is rare in authors. Further, she delivers Chinese names and phrases with the intonation of a native speaker, lending another level of authenticity to this odd and wonderful tale.”…

it's time to build to fix higher education in America 🇺🇸!

I'm gonna make an updated market map for Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI)

if you want your company to be included, reply to this thread, DM or email me.

kenneth.io/post/developer…

Do you use AI in your workflow?

Tune into a conversation between Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition & innovator behind Devin, and Matt Biilmann as they explore the future of human-AI collaboration in web development.

Don't miss this virtual event! ntl.fyi/3QiuEEL

I wish there was a better service to hire researchers/writers

I often want to find someone to pay to go really really deep on a topic for me, but the default upwork/reddit options are entirely filled with ChatGPT now

The venture / startup business should always be a little hard for founders and investors alike.

When it’s too easy and everyone is super confident, something is wrong.

Sometimes when senior execs say dumb things, it is actually because they worry that you’re dumb. But sometimes they are just dumb!

Who is doing the equivalent to Andrew Carnegie’s libraries now?

The 1,500 cities that he gave libraries to in the 1900s had 8-13% higher patenting rates than similar cities without them. Plus, their kids stayed in school longer, and they later chose safer & high prestige careers