Today I'm releasing The Living Museum, an experimental interface for the British Museum that brings its digital collection to life using AI. livingmuseum.app/explore

I'm hesitating to shut down Parlay. I've tried almost everything to keep it alive except tweet about it, so here it goes... Every year, 100k students participate in class discussions on our platform. These are actual back and forth conversations between all students, not just the confident, extroverted ones. There is no obvious replacement for the class discussion experience we've created. With AI changing the way we think about learning, the case for discussion-based learning is even stronger than it was when we first started 9 years ago. (Discussion-based learning is a moat against AI generated work). Cumulatively, Parlay has hosted: - 200K class discussions in written and verbal formats - over 7M written ideas contributed - over 3M live speaking turns I'm radically open to paths to keep this going. If you think of an acquirer, strategic partner, or someone who can help carry this forward please DM/share. Thank you.💙

In Ontario, it's easy to overlook that we're living in an era of managed decline. Prices are high, but not exorbitant. Jobs are scarce, but not entirely out of reach. Incomes are stagnant, but they aren't falling. Life is difficult, but not impossible What happens when this quiet suffering compounds over decades? The gap between where we are and where we should be grows every year, until one day we look around and the world looks very different than the one we imagined for ourselves. The Ford years have been a disaster. The other Liberal contenders offer no real alternative. But with Eric's candidacy, we finally have the chance to do something about it. I support Eric for OLP leader because he is the pragmatic visionary who can help us escape managed decline and thrive.

I’m entering the race for Ontario Liberal Leader because I believe Ontario can still win! But not if we keep ignoring our big problems. (1/3) 👇

I saw @mattyj612 speak for the first time at the @_torontosociety last week. Ladies and gentlemen, we found him. The next Carl Sagan. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Anthony Bourdain. Steve Irwin? Get this guy a primetime television slot and an AMEX gold card now.

The event I'm looking forward to most in tech week

Today we’re launching the newest version of @paradigmai When we started Paradigm, the goal was never to tack AI onto existing spreadsheets. It was to build a new type of interface that does the work for you. Now we’re pushing that vision much further. Workflows turn Paradigm into a system that runs research processes for you. Connect your CRM, existing spreadsheets, Slack, email, and internal data, and let Paradigm continuously run the research workflows your team already does. Same intuitive interface. But now a system of action. If you tried Paradigm before, try it again. Manual research is now a competitive liability.

Introducing: THE VIADUCT SEASON THREE

🚨 EXPLORATORY ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Ontario can be so much more than it is today. I am exploring a run for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party because I believe in growth, opportunity, and institutions that actually deliver. Let’s talk about Ontario’s future. 👇

what happened yesterday is the predictable outcome of rhetoric that demonizes zionism and dehumanizes zionists. the war in gaza has coincided with a massive surge of antisemitic intimidation and violence. why? because anti-zionism has become so virulent and normalized that it casts jews as targets. when you become convinced zionism is evil, you inevitably come face to face with the reality that most jews are zionists. but most of them aren't likud supporters, settlers, or radicals who believe in israeli expansionism or jewish supremacy - they're regular people who simply believe israel should exist in some form. a healthy response to this is to do a double-take. you probably know a few jews, and they're decent people, so if they're zionists, surely not all zionists can be bad? perhaps it's more complicated than that? but many people go in the other direction. they decide to blame jews for supporting unimaginably heinous things like genocide and baby-killing. this transforms them from innocent bystanders into foot soldiers for israel, and legitimate targets in the war against zionism. i have no doubt the lunatics at bondi beach believed their attack on jews was equivalent to an attack on zionists, and therefore israel. that's the story extremists tell themselves even when the underlying motivation is plain old antisemitism. if you are active in the pro-palestine movement, i implore you to call out and shut down anti-zionism when it turns virulent. "zionist" shouldn't be a dirty word. "zios" shouldn't be used to talk about people as if they're subhuman. protesters should not be parading through jewish neighbourhoods. change the rhetoric, de-escalate, and you will reduce the risk of further violence.

two ideals are being presented here: 1. we should have robust, well-functioning public services 2. we should be lenient towards antisocial behaviour from disadvantaged groups unfortunately, affluent leftists are the only ones who fail to realize these are contradictory.

mark carney better be in japan scouting pitchers right now

announcing FALCON our first step in building one place to craft your ideas now available in alpha on falcon.so

"I need to build a nuclear reactor from scratch" "how many engineers do you have?"

the hero we need but don't deserve

me to my 996 friends: every saturday night i call you when you're still at work and i'm coming home from the bar. we talk about our lives, have a few laughs, and it's great. but you know what the best part of my night is? it's the ten seconds after i call you, before you pick up. because i think maybe, just this one time, you won't answer. no message, no explanation, no nothin'. just gone. i don't know much but i know that.

charlie kirk was a moderate. trump, believe it or not, is a moderate. if you eliminate the moderate voices, something else will take their place, and if you didn't like kirk or trump, you're *really* not gonna like what that is.

the tech grindcore lifestyle is very different than the finance grindcore lifestyle. in finance, analysts work long hours completing menial tasks to meet impossible deadlines. they are building sales decks and basic DCF models, but through this they develop taste, judgement, and most importantly, resilience (or they churn). in tech, engineers might work long hours, but they take time to socialize, eat meals, attend talks, and learn about what their colleagues are working on. this is necessary for highly technical, creative work - more time will not make a feature/model better the same way it will make a slide deck prettier. however, nearly every great engineer or researcher I know will become obsessive about a problem at some point and work nonstop until they solve it. they do this purely for the love of the game. that might also be true of people in finance, but that's harder to discern since their reward function always has a monetary component.