Life Update: I'm teaming up with my good friend @i_dhavalt from Unacademy to start a new venture at the intersection of EdTech and creator tools.

There are no limits anymore. Anyone can do anything. The only limiting factors are agency and ambition. Never has a college degree, work experience, network, even the accumulation of knowledge been worth less. You can just ship things.

Early startups don’t fail because people don’t work hard. They fail because momentum leaks through hesitation, politeness, and unspoken assumptions. People hesitate to interrupt. They soften asks. They work around blockers instead of confronting them. They wait, assuming

He has. And I like that he is fully aware of it.

We just trained the first LLM in space using an @Nvidia H100 on Starcloud-1! 🚀 We are also the first to run a version of @Google's Gemini in space! This is a significant step on the road to moving almost all compute to space, to stop draining the energy resources of Earth and

We must normalize obsession.

Your job as a PM is to deliver business impact by marshaling the resources of your team to identify and solve the most impactful customer problems.

Larry Page: Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it's very hard to fail completely. That's the thing that people don't get.

Netflix owning more of what gets made and how cinema is consumed is inevitable. But I’ll never equate the experience of watching truly great movies in theatres to watching them at home.

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Easily the most mature take on the debate so far.

I don’t get it. Otherwise smart people proclaim the end of SaaS because AI takes over the software part. Software-as-a-Service was never about the software and always about the service. AI changes nothing about the business reasons to buy instead of build. And yes, you can

I have always admired Garry’s thinking and clarity over the years. But this one isn’t going to age well.

If you aren't cold calling/emailing 1-2 people per month who are 2-3 levels "beyond your league", and not getting rejected 50% of the time, you aren't hustling hard enough. START. If you are getting rejected 100% of the time, you haven't figured out how to cold open yet. STOP.

If you're in your 20s/30s, just imagine I'm grabbing you by the collars, shaking you up and saying out loud: APPLY YOURSELVES! Forget what anyone's telling you about work life balance - there is no goddamned balance! We are genuinely entering a very interesting techno and capex

When you ask your designer for a deadline

Software engineering has been within 6 months of being dead continually since early 2023

Notion is a rare product I continue to use despite being very unreliable and slow to this day. Just copying and pasting from Notion doesn’t work 9/10 times for me.

the tl;dr of the Dwarkesh Patel Interview with Ilya Sutskever •Current approaches will “go some distance and then Peter out ”they’ll keep improving, but won’t deliver AGI. •The kind of system that would work is something “we don’t yet know how to build.” • Significant impacts

True. I was also in the audience at Google I/O ‘16 when TPUs were first announced. That vertical integration approach to AI is now paying off really well for Google.

One reason CEO roles are so draining: There's no boss to give you positive reinforcement for good work