They call it "pre-boarding" but they don't fool me. I can see that it is actual boarding.

Epic

Skeptics say "If AI makes you so much more productive, where are all the apps?" People's attention is the bottleneck, overcome only by a scaleable go-to-market machine. Not cheap/easy. If you pay attention, there are delightful free apps posted every day on here, far more than before.

Strangely satisfying to see Opus 4.8 struggling with Python packaging. Finally met its match

"the short answer? good things" aka "raising prices by 20%"

Crossover episodes are my fav

May we present to you 5,000 words on Casey Handmer and Terraform Industries reported over several months. If you would like to read about a team trying to make fuel from water, air and sunlight while working inside of a castle, we have what you need right here corememory.com/p/the-magical…

I've used William James' writing on habit with students in grade 8. James makes the case that we are bundles of habits, that character itself is formed through the conscious repetition of chosen actions. He wrote that by age thirty, your character has "set like plaster." Now, William James is difficult for 8th graders. But they can absolutely grasp the core idea: that who you become depends on what you practice doing, day after day. We talk about it in concrete terms. If you practice being patient when something is frustrating, patience becomes easier. If you practice quitting when things get hard, quitting becomes your default. James gives them a framework for understanding why effort matters that goes far deeper than "because I said so." By means of maintaining enthusiasm regarding the experience of reading difficult texts carefully together, pausing to laugh as we share examples, they learn to enjoy the struggle.

Boys found a label maker 🙄

James Baldwin, parenting in a nutshell

Huge congrats to the @trywindmill team!

Not only that, most students in their gym classes can leap tall buildings.

Roam is the secret to Flex’s success. Highly recommend.

This is the second Unicorn on Roam announcement in as many days.

𝐎𝐟𝐟-𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬: @BridgeBioPharma Founder & CEO Neil Kumar and @Roivant CEO @gline discusses the hub and spoke biotech model and trying to build a sustainable business for the long-term. $BBIO $ROIV Watch the full episode: biotechtv.com/post/off-targe…

Interesting take from a public company CEO. Worth reading. Here's my reaction. Software is important, and AI lets you write software more quickly, but software is VERY FAR from the only concern. Most often, software is not the bottleneck to being able to scale up a company successfully. And the companies with high performing sales, marketing, customer success, design, engineering, etc can benefit a ton from AI as well, it's not only a tool for startups. I wouldn't be surprised if the eventual outcome is much like the web -- originally thought to usher in a decentralized future, in reality it allowed centralization like never before as there is a power law when it comes to companies and their performance. How many startups have automation like Google, who famously has enormous amounts of code being checked in, almost entirely automated at this point? My AI usage is not as sophisticated as that, and I bet it's not just me. Back to reviewing my weekly dependabot alerts.. 😅

Very interested to see if Apple starts changing its posture towards AI..

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