I think WWDC proved Mike Rockwell is the real deal.

Dario Amodei has just one direct report, his COS Avital Balwit; Anthropic's executive team reports to Daniela Amodei, who handles much of day-to-day operations (Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

i don’t think you understand how insane omni is

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

The @noondesign team showed me Canvas 6 on Tuesday and my brain has been spinning since.

Most tech companies break out product management and product marketing into two separate roles: Product management defines the product and gets it built. Product marketing wires the messaging- the facts you want to communicate to customers- and gets the product sold. But from my experience that's a grievous mistake. Those are, and should aways be, one job. There should be no separation between what the product will be and how it will be explained- the story has to be utterly cohesive from the beginning. Your messaging is your product. The story you're telling shapes the thing you're making. I learned story telling from Steve Jobs. I learned product management from Greg Joswiak. Joz, a fellow Wolverine, Michigander, and overall great person, has been at Apple since he left Ann Arbor in 1986 and has run product marketing for decades. And his superpower- the superpower of every truly great product manager- is empathy. He doesn't just understand the customer. He becomes the customer. So when Joz stepped into the world with his next-gen iPod to test it out, he fiddled with it like a beginner. He set aside all the tech specs- except one: battery life. The numbers were empty without customers, the facts meaningless without context. And, that's why product management has to own the messaging. The spec shows the features, the details of how a product will work, but the messaging predicts people's concerns and finds way to mitigate them. - #BUILD Chapter 5.5 The Point of PMs

There is a longstanding idea in software: WYSIWYG @noondesign is a canvas environment where humans and agents can create, edit, and ship product design. Its substrate is code. WYSIWYG. The canvas affords us selection-based workflows and structure that text alone can’t match.

Steve Jobs: Talking about Pixar and storytelling.

iPhone 1 thru iPhone 17 vs LOW light

Taste is selection. Even the act of generating and creating sits downstream of selection process: the tools that survive the Darwinian process, the words and forms we first inherit then deem most resonant, the editorial scrutiny we apply to our own work.

The pattern described by former Apple designers was: show rough work, get feedback fast, improve it, show it again, and repeat. They compared it to an SNL-style cycle: early ideas, midweek critique, late-week rehearsal, then executive review.

Using Claude Code has a weird side effect: You don't just get more productive, you actually want to work more. There's something addictive about watching a product being born in real time in front of your eyes. "One last feature" after "one last feature" and it's already past 3am.