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Feb 13, 2024

Agent, Browser, Future 2030

Imagine this, it’s the year 2030. You’re 36 years old. You’ve got two kids under the age of three and a third one is on the way. You live in suburbia. New Jersey, in fact. You commute to the city four times a week (you kinda hate it, but hey someone’s gotta do it.) Life is busy. You grew up on the internet. You remember back to 2023. You saw the AI era …

2 years ago · 2 likes · Dez

The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)

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The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)

Brought to you by DX—A platform for measuring and improving developer productivity | OneSchema—Import CSV data 10x faster | Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security. — Will Larson is Chief Technology Officer at Carta. Prior to joining Carta, he was the CTO at Calm and held engineering leadership roles at Stripe, Uber, and Digg. He is the author of two foundational engineering career books…

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2 years ago · 155 likes · 1 comment · Lenny Rachitsky

https://www.michaeldempsey.me/blog/2024/01/08/ai-agents-product-velocity-user-interfaces/

Five Software M&A Observations for 2024

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Five Software M&A Observations for 2024

Software M&A is off to a quick start in 2024! News of Airtable acquiring (and sunsetting) Airplane, along with SentinelOne’s PingSafe acquisition announcement, broke just within the first week of the new year. Following these developments, I received several requests to do a software M&A wrap-up for 2023 (similar to the…

2 years ago · 16 likes · Janelle Teng

Meet 12 Asteroid Shots in AI

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/meet-12-asteroid-shots-ai?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_content=Stanford%20HAI_linkedin_HAI_202401091001_sf185480011&utm_campaign=&sf185480011=1

A Mere Mortal's Visual Guide To AI Vector Embeddings

so you can be the life of the party

Dharmesh Shah
January 10, 2024

https://agent.ai/p/guide-vector-embeddings

The Puritans of Venture Capital

Cottage Keepers vs. Capital Agglomerators

KYLE HARRISON

JAN 13, 2024

https://substack.com/browse/recommendations/post/140649021

Data Moats in Generative AI

An in-depth case study of ChatGPT

KENN SO

JAN 16, 2024

https://substack.com/browse/recommendations/post/140719738

Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business | Theory No. 7

https://substack.com/browse/recommendations/post/93772202

Is 2024 Vertical AI’s breakout year?

https://substack.com/browse/recommendations/post/140264941

A few "Sell Work, Not Software" updated thoughts

SARAH TAVEL

JAN 19, 2024

https://substack.com/browse/recommendations/post/140769392

The Non-Zero-Sum Game of Ambition

The Rarest of Commodities, But The Furthest Reaching Impact

KYLE HARRISON

FEB 10, 2024

https://substack.com/browse/recommendations/post/141551096

Why You Should Join

Why You Should Join Etched

Some opportunities worth checking out: Etched has built a chip that can run transformers >10x faster than GPUs. They’re currently hiring Machine Learning Researchers, Compilers Engineers, Verification Engineers, Firmware Engineers, RTL Design Engineers…

2 years ago · 19 likes · 3 comments · Eric Zhou and Usman Hanif

Why You Should Join Etched

The chip for transformers.

Thoughts on Taste

Welcome to Ridiculous Little Things

Tahirah Hairston

Ridiculous Little Things

Thoughts on Taste

“I thought she was at least thirty. Because of her ‘eye’ – the real knowledge, taste.” – Truman Capote, Answered Prayers Before I even knew the term to describe it, I was infatuated more with the philosophies and sensibilities behind personal style than with the clothes themselves — what we call taste. Now in my 30s, I’ve become more acquainted with my …

2 years ago · 316 likes · 37 comments · Tahirah Hairston

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