my summer internship offer was just rescinded. if you're hiring or know someone who is hiring for a pm/designer this summer. i’d love to connect! i have attached my website below.

my summer internship offer was just rescinded. if you're hiring or know someone who is hiring for a pm/designer this summer. i’d love to connect! i have attached my website below.

there is no better time in tech than now to be a jack of all trades, master of a few. just make sure to keep adding to the few year over year, such that the cumulative breadth of expertise you collect becomes an increasingly rare combo. remember, if you're top 10% in 3 different areas, that already makes you top 0.1%. keep switching it up until you get to "your best", and then switch it up again (great for a particular flavor of people who don't enjoy resting on laurels, maybe not so great for others). question all institutional value and pedigrees, all traditional career paths or corporate ladders: the college industrial complex is getting shaken up, alongside a disappearing managerial class, so if you're pursuing either make sure you are fully internally aligned with why. social/political capital in a particular institution can feel incredible, but if you're spending all your energy on complex political people games, you're not a technologist anymore, you're an unelected politician. if you're ok with that, then all's well. critical thinking is more important than ever: take nothing at face-value, question everything and everyone. the equivalent of ai slop can be found in humans operating under misaligned incentives and interests. the sooner you're clued into disambiguating the talkers/larpers from the doers, the better off you'll be figuring out where and who to invest your time in. the anxiety of job displacement is very real, since a surprising amount of white collar work/prestige is built on a performative house of cards, significantly lacking in correlation with technical breadth, depth, and skill. as long as you keep learning, keep building, keep producing receipts, you will be fine. if all that sounds ok to you, welcome to the world of technology! it's truly one of the few places you can experience child-like wonder every few years, and be constantly humbled & excited by new adventures, as scary as they may seem at first. don't give up, drink your water, get your sunlight, and take breaks as needed. tech careers are notoriously nonlinear, so you might as well embrace it and enjoy the ride!

The loudest story about AI is a lonely one. One person with an army of chatbots. Other humans are friction. That gets the future wrong. The best things aren’t built alone. In a moment of change, we want to remind the world (and ourselves) what Notion stands for: — Think Together

The End of Software docs.google.com/document/d/1…

Training LLMs end to end is hard. Very excited to share our new blog (book?) that cover the full pipeline: pre-training, post-training and infra. 200 pages of what worked, what didn’t, and how to make it run reliably huggingface.co/spaces/Huggin…

I wrote a 4000-words long article about all the math you need to know for machine learning. Trust me, you want to bookmark this: thepalindrome.org/p/the-road…

I've spent the year studying how designers are exploring. Then the @karrisaarinen vs. @ryolu_ debate kicked off, and it captured everything I've been seeing this year. I sat down to write a 60 second video about it. 6 hours later I'd written something more. Reasonable hyperbole: this was the most important convo in design this year. Featuring: - @steveruizok - @asallen - @mrblackstudio - @floguo - @raunofreiberg - @weberwongwong - @tomjohndesign - @stephenhaney - @basementstudio - @samraaj

omg no way figma.com/blog/prototypes-ar…

Anthropic has the highest bar for visuals in tech

if i were starting my design journey today, i would – 🎨 expand my taste • explore one non-design discipline deeply, like film, music, architecture, or sports • read psychology and behavioral sciences to understand how people think • break down the top 0.1% products and understand what makes them feel great • rebuild those products from scratch to train my eye on details 🎛️ become fully ai native • use cursor or vibe code to ship one end-to-end usable project every month • learn core coding concepts and logic, even if ai writes most of it • if in college, use .edu email to try every ai tool for free / cheaply 🗣️ strengthen my communication • study great storytellers and pitches to spot patterns and practice them • read quality content and write often to sharpen articulation • showcase my work to friends or like-minded communities 🕸️ grow my surface area • build a simple website and upload all my work in progress experiments • cold dm teams and founders, take small freelance projects to learn from • make it easy for people to reach me with clear links • join one active builder community and meet people

My four word career advice is "get good, be known." My longer career advice is here:

I'm teaching a new "Intro to Modern AI" course at CMU this Spring: modernaicourse.org. It's an early-undergrad course on how to build a chatbot from scratch (well, from PyTorch). The course name has bothered some people – "AI" usually means something much broader in academic contexts – but I think the time has come where the first thing that many students interested in AI should see is how the AI they are familiar with actually works (because it's really simple!) The more people who understand it the better. I'll be trying to put as much material as I can that we develop online (assignments autograding, hopefully lecture videos), though as a first-time course there are also likely to be some bumps along the way. Hopefully it becomes a good resource over time, though. Feedback welcome.

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Point Reyes today…