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Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file

There's a shocking fact about AI that nobody tells you: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks. Yes, really. I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI. But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone. So I spent my entire holiday diving deep into AI research—reading 30 papers, watching hours of lectures, analyzing trends, and catching up to the research frontier. ✨ Here’s what I learned: - You don’t need months (or years) to catch up. - You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience. - You need fewer than 20 papers and 2 weeks to understand the major breakthroughs shaping AI today. It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant: - ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old. - Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplication. The biggest secret? Many groundbreaking AI papers with thousands of citations are surprisingly simple and applied, like adding "let's think step by step" to the prompt, or simply asking the LLM over and over again to improve its answer (Self-Refine). I realized there are tons of founders and builders in the same boat—wanting to dive deeper into AI but unsure where to start. I've created an essential AI Guide that helped me catch up, in just 2 weeks, to the frontier of public AI research to figure out where the next opportunities and gaps were: - Curated list of only the most important papers - Simple explanations of key concepts - Clear pathway to understanding the frontier of modern AI It’s perfect for: - Founders expanding into AI - Builders wanting to innovate at the frontier of AI - Investors looking to separate the signal from the noise 👇 Want the full guide? - Like and Share this post - Comment "AI Guide" - I'll send you the complete guide (ps, I’m also teaming up with @VishalVasishth, co-founder of @obviousvc with @ev (focused on large-scale societal impact companies like Twitter, Medium, Beyond Meat), to host a small meetup to discuss what's working and needs to be solved in the AI stack in SF. Message me if you're interested)

Go @DaytonFlyers! 😂

😂 @mk approved #MortalKombat

The signs in the crowd for this game are gonna be WILD espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/4… You got exactly 3 months people… #hawktua #HawkTuah

First Browns QB song since @BernieKosarQB?

The @Browns are playing chess while the rest of the league is playing checkers… 😂 “OK, we’ll pay Watson an insane contract and that’ll destroy the Ravens because Lamar will want the same” espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/3596…

OK @Sightglass here goes nothing… 9 months sealed in the freezer… giving birth to pour overs and crossing my fingers for the best 😂

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How it started, how it’s going

What is happening now with private REITs is more important to markets than the FTX blow up. More impactful and just as interesting, although without the Tom Brady storyline. Let's unpack it. 1/

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Thanks @foofighters for spending 1,867 minutes with me in 2022. I couldn’t stop listening to This Is a Call. #SpotifyWrapped open.spotify.com/artist/7jy3…

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We’re finally going to see a Musk product in self-driving mode.

I asked my friend at Twitter how he’s doing. He said he can’t complain.

"Voting is the adult equivalent of writing a letter to Santa Claus." Now that's a good quote...

This is what relying on intuition rather than data looks like