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Joy Division - Disorder
Europe only has 4 major business lines:
1. Selling luxury goods to American & Chinese consumers
2. Selling weight loss drugs to Americans
3. Selling tourism services to American & Chinese travelers
4. Taxing American tech co's
Yes, I'm exaggerating, but not by much.
45 projects.
1 pays the bills.
Keep shipping.
:-)
sam altman on how to be successful
After spending a week in Shibuya:
If you're somebody that is so fortunate to have infinite money and flexibility (not me)
You would be wise to spend a quarter of your year in Shibuya
The food/vibe/spectacle here is second to none
Physics laws, animated
[🎞️ Alan Becker]
Leadership Vs Management
The evolution of our understanding
The R&D spending of Amazon is greater than the R&D spending of all companies and government in France. Alphabet beats Italy.
Andrew Ng says AI agents can iterate using thinking, research and revision, and the improvement is bigger than going from GPT-3.5 to 4
A lot of the things that made relocating to Silicon Valley so necessary back in the day have mostly evaporated.
Need a deep talent pool? The best developers are just as likely to be working from a cabin in Montana.
Need to raise money? The 95% of the process that doesn’t involve in-person pitching can be done anywhere in the world.
How about networking? It used to mean going to the right party or tech meetup; now it’s more likely to mean joining the right Discord or Slack channel.
See what I mean?
Not the only reason, but…
In 1977, @Nike executive Rob Strasser typed a list of 10 company “principles."
Sales was $29 million with less than 1,000 employees. It had yet to go public.
Dangers:
Bureaucracy
Personal ambition
Energy takers
Knowing our weaknesses
Don’t get too many things in the platter
Correlation is not causation
This is a great little example of how simple agent-based systems can lead to emergent behavior, even with tiny AIs like Apple's on-device LLM.
Matt Webb built a demo AI smart home, when he asks it "turn on the light for my dog" the home figures out how.
If you're a digital artist and like nostalgic, inky texture, I think you're gonna LOVE my downloadable procreate brush.
This took me a while and I'm so happy to share it with you ❤️
Happy drawing!✏️
Wim Wenders explains how Peter Falk agreed to star in "Wings of Desire" (1987) without a script:
"One evening I got Peter Falk on the telephone and told him this bewildering story of guardian angels, circuses, a trapeze artiste and an American actor who charms his former colleagues. There was a pause, and then he asked me if I could send him a script.
I said: 'No, I can't. There's nothing in writing about this ex-angel. I can't even send you a single page: he's just an idea.' He liked that; if I'd sent him a script he might not have accepted. But since there was nothing to go on at all, he said: 'Ah, I've worked like that before with Cassavetes, and honestly I prefer working without a script.'"
(Wim Wenders, 'Le Souffle de I'Ange', 1987)
Paul Rand ∘ NeXT logo presentation book and proofs, 1986.
Jessica dared me to tweet that I lunched upon a heel of bread that I retrieved from the trash. (She said "stale bread" but it wasn't stale. It was still perfectly good. It was also, critically, sitting on top of the other stuff; see related Seinfeld episode.)
Got to admire the hubris with which the AI pioneer John McCarthy, speaking in 1973, confesses to have coined the term "artificial intelligence" as a fund-raising gimmick.
A boring service business will give you financial freedom.
These are my top 7 right now:
1) Mobile Detailing
Need to get this flag for my office