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Periodic reminder: don’t be the person who actively pours their heart into making things and then goes passive when it’s time to share them
An astonishing new brain image captures the neurons and synapses in the brain in unprecedented detail. The image covers just 1 cubic millimeter of human brain -- but it contains 1.4 Petabytes of data.
Here's a look at our Product Strategy project in Basecamp where most of the shaping/structuring happens. That said, Shape Up is a process that's embedded into everything we do, in every project. But hopefully this provides a window into something interesting for you.
Chris Bache took 73 massive doses of LSD over 20 years.
This was the vision of reality he said emerged from them.
Amusing that it's the exact opposite of the Western materialist worldview.
Brief book report: BUILDING SIM CITY: How to Put the World in a Machine, by Chaim Gingold, is an exhilarating read.
It is one of the best origin stories ever told and the best account I've seen of how innovation actually occurs in computerdom. 🧵
As the years go by
Running Whisper 100% in the Browser, Using WebGPU!
I've been working on Whisper speech-to-text model in the browser using WebGPU, thanks to TransformerJS. The results are amazing!
Created a web app that visualizes audio waves and connects to @GroqInc for a voice assistant. Check out the teaser video demo.
Follow me for updates! I'll soon share the codebase, and a detailed video on creating this from scratch.
A visualization of Chat-GPT prompt completion probabilities, building a tree from an array of texts (where each sub-sequence of words is a node). Real thinking systems.
A picture is worth a thousand words
A mockup is worth a hundred calls
A prototype is worth a hundred mockups
The Mike Flowers Pops
“Wonderwall” (Oasis cover)
A Groovy Place
London Records (1995)
Director: Zowie Broach
The spatial computing app that I think intellectuals truly desire is war room software, collaborative spaces to do thinking and memory palacing within
You've heard about dog breeding. Introducing website breeding.
I find all of the giant debates here over whether AI is useful or not completely disconnected from the surveys showing that AI is one of the most rapidly adopted technologies in history & people who use it keep using
I was skeptical about the first surveys but now there are many
palmer luckey sold oculus at 22 for 2 billion dollars off a kickstarter
and you're raising?
Watch Gemini Pro, first learning a new skill 👨🏫:
How to search and play a song on Spotify.
Then executing it to perfection by playing any song I ask.
What is incredible is that it only uses its vision capabilities plus function calling
There is no steering on the system.
Students at NYU asked the creators of South Park the million-dollar question:
“What makes a good story?”
They gave one of the best explanations of story I’ve heard:
“If we can take the beats of your outline, and the words ‘and then’ belong between those beats… you got something pretty boring.
What should happen between every beat you’ve written down is the words ‘therefore’ or ‘but.’”
They go on to say, “That gives you the causation between each beat, and that makes a story.”
Point 1:
There’s an idea in storytelling called ‘Promise, Progress, Payoff.’
Essentially, a story is a never ending cycle of promises that are paid off over the span of the story.
It’s a cycle of expectation and resolution. Cause and effect. Conflict and progress.
Point 2:
A story isn’t a bunch of random events thrown together.
A story is a series of but / because / therefore moments.
A famous example:
Point 3:
The ‘But / Therefore’ concept works in layers.
You can apply it at the line level, paragraph level, or whatever your largest unit of story is – be it chapter, Act, or whatever.
I’m reminded of a Hemingway quote:
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
Great writing is intentional. It doesn’t wander. It builds upon itself.
Circle of influence
Something I have been thinking about a lot:
I remember asking @PalmerLuckey in the early days of Anduril what he thought about failing at a startup.
And he told me: “I basically just assume that I won’t fail and I don’t”
This is how cells in your body move:
By SmartBiology
Most people are not intellectually curious.
Whatever profession you are in, if you Google the top 20 books and just read them:
You are a thought leader in your field.
In the early 1980s, the Boston radio station WGBH commissioned the 28-year-old choreographer Marta Renzi to make a half-hour PBS special. The result was her first film, YOU LITTLE WILD HEART (1981), soundtracked non-stop by Bruce Springsteen songs. It’s so good. Here’s a clip.
George Hotz says everyone he's met who can program well learned it the same way: they had an idea, and then they built it.
RIP Francoise Hardy. Comme des Garçons' name is inspired by her 1962 hit, "Tous les garçons et les filles" ("All the Boys and Girls").
Action produces information. Just keep doing things