Agreed. We had three under 4 at one point and it was pretty rough. These days life is just awesome

Jeff Bezos just told you exactly how to price AI. Nobody listened. Bezos: “AI is real and it is going to change every industry. In fact it’s a very unusual technology in that regard in that it’s a horizontal enabling layer.” Horizontal enabling layer. Three words that reprice the entire technology sector. The iPhone was a vertical. One product. One new market. Electricity was a horizontal. One substrate that rewired every market on Earth. Wall Street is pricing AI like it is the next iPhone. Bezos is telling you it is the next electrical grid. Right now, thousands of companies are trying to sell AI as a product. A feature. A tool. A subscription tier. Every single one of them will be priced to zero. You do not sell a horizontal layer. You do not compete with it. You build on top of it or you disappear beneath it. For a century, entire industries survived on one thing. Complexity. The friction of navigating law, medicine, logistics, finance. That was the moat. If you could not memorize the maze, you could not compete. A horizontal layer does not navigate the maze. It dissolves the walls. Electricity did not compete with the candle industry. It erased the need for one. The most dangerous part of a horizontal shift is how quiet it is. It moves underneath the economy. The surface looks normal. Revenue still holds. Every day you operate on the old substrate, you accumulate a debt you cannot see and cannot repay. The internet repriced distribution. AI is repricing cognition itself. When intelligence becomes a utility that runs through the walls of every company on Earth, the premium on human expertise does not erode. It evaporates. This is not a disruption. Disruptions replace products. This replaces the ground you are standing on.

There are some really interesting details in here from someone who clearly understands the complexities of sensors in cars. Interesting to contemplate how much the integration of software and hardware plays a role here

Supply chain attacks continue to snag folks consistently. Clawdbot has some interesting thoughts in it, but “hand all the keys to the kingdom to an AI bot” does remain *spicy* 😉

Highly recommended read for anyone in the React ecosystem blog.isquaredsoftware.com/20…

Looking forward to talking about some of the things we helped @auditboard with this last year, hope to see you there!

This is pretty nifty

Elon Musk fired 80% of Twitter (6500 people) and everyone thought that Twitter was doomed. He was right. Everyone was wrong. It’s the management masterclass of the decade and every entrepreneur must understand why it worked 🧵:

Helpful discussion of banking sector concerns, quite useful to be aware of when navigating life internationally bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/s…

These are great

Do you have any idea just how far out of your way you have to go in your treatment of Open Source to have Oracle coming out looking like the better party?

I am not the world’s biggest fan, but have to appreciate the insouciance possible because they industrialized the process of launches. Cattle, not pets, in space.

My life's work is leaving the launch pad. Ignition sequence start!

Fascinating. According to this, it was social media virality and panic that caused the bank run on SVB; without that, it probably would have been okay, or at least more okay than it is.

Can confirm, Greenback Tax Services has been great to work with

I love this idea of "thickening the arms of the T-shaped skillset." Expertise is never static, we're always evolving. Depth vs breadth doesn't have to be a fixed strategy vs a continuing balance.

Who feels like speaking at @EmberEurope tomorrow?

Reading through @pnpmjs issues, and Found github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/… ... Pnpm supports yaml and json5 as package.json formats. This is huge! I can finally comment about why dependencies, and scripts, etc exist and group them together game changer. 🎉