I've long been underwhelmed by Google Docs, Word, and Notes as creative writing tools, so I built my own. It recreates the focus you get writing with pen and paper, but at the speed of a keyboard. Feels great!
Shipping is necessary but not sufficient to build an actual business.
The consequence is that a small subset of the population is going to eat a bigger portion of the cake. Not that more people are going to get to eat the cake.
One thing Iβve noticed is that weβre all very bad at predicting what AI will be bad at.
For example, a couple of years ago we thought AI would always struggle with creative tasks but now we see itβs becoming very good at them.
On the flip side, there arenβt really many things we expect AI to be great at where it ends up failing.
Projecting this into the future is both exciting and scary
His commentators are still not getting the nonlinearity: if low VO2 max is lethal, above average VO2 max starts decoupling from increased longevity.
Same with the measure called "IQ".
There are really few articles that are worth reading but that one gives a great glimpse of the world we live in and the one we're headed to: harpers.org/archive/2026/03/β¦
It went really fast from wondering if computer science was still the best way to navigate a post-transformer world, to wondering what will even be left to face the starkness of the human condition
π¨ SAM ALTMAN: βPeople talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model β¦ But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.β
I genuinely think itβs overwhelming to live in 2026
Thereβs centuries of books you need to catch up with
But at the same time weβre in this short window of time where you can still build companies before it all suddenly concentrates
And fuck I need to try Gemini 3.1 because it makes insane animates
And I need my 8 hours of sleep because well longevity shit
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