If a group of the most elite professionals in the world each make optimal individual decisions, will their group outcome be optimal as well? Let’s use NBA shot patterns, game theory, and the dynamics of incentive structures to see why that answer is “not always.” As you can

Uber paying their drivers pennies to train the AI that will replace them is one of the most demonically elegant workforce transitions I’ve ever seen.

If every employee maroons themselves on “self sufficiency islands” then the team suffers because it restricts the multiplicative collective productivity potential. So it’s important not to conflate maximizing your own individual potential wrt to the team with Herculean

This is accurate with an important caveat: the individual must understand and respect the point of diminishing returns of their own potential vs team potential. The real skill here is knowing when to “pass the baton” such that overall output is maximized.

You literally consume at least an entire bottle of wine over the course of the meal.

Tasting menus that incorporate a wine pairing are really an insane construct. It’s an eloquently adorned Trojan horse for binge drinking.

Under appreciated use case of AI: Interpreting high end dining menus so you can pretend as though you have some vague idea what you are ordering,

Now I can just explain the idea behind what I’m trying to do and it gets done. Cursor has completely eliminated the technical middleman separating idea from execution. It has finally created the “unified programming language” I always thought we would one day achieve…it just

The biggest disconnect for me with programming was just the vernacular — I knew what I wanted to do and how I wanted it done, but I just wasn’t fluent enough in the language to accomplish anything meaningful myself. That has completely been flipped on its head now.

Cursor is the product of the decade. It harnesses the potential of AI into this concentrated beam of productivity that makes anyone capable of anything. I am constantly amazed at what I am able to accomplish using it. Just phenomenal.

He is literally just enabling crime

“A key reason we have to abolish private property is it reduces burglaries” How is this guy a serious candidate

There is a tool for every job: For exercise, biking is fantastic. But for transportation, it is simply not optimal. Trying to shoehorn inefficient technology into a system optimized for efficiency is simply not worth it.

“So why not just make the road impeccably safe and maximally efficient for everyone?” Unfortunately, money does not grow on trees. All cyclist-friendly infrastructure projects run into the same problem; they have three constraints, but can only realistically achieve two: 1)

2) I am considerate of other people If there is a far more efficient way to use a public utility, who the hell am I to impose my less efficient method upon everyone else? I would feel horrible making everyone else less efficient just because I wanted to use inferior

1) My own safety Biking on a road puts your life in everyone else’s hands. Any passing car can kill you with an accidental (or deliberate) flick of the wheel. Why in gods name would anyone take that risk? I have no interest taking the risk of losing my life or limbs just

Don’t get me wrong; I love biking. It’s actually my favorite form of exercise. But I enjoy the experience in contexts that are safe and germane to biking — and that never includes riding on a major roadway. I do this for two reasons:

There are two solutions to this: 1) Redesign our entire infrastructure system to cater to inferior technology — trying to solve an impossible trilemma of safety, efficiency, and affordability…OR 2) Just don’t ride bikes near cars As an avid biker myself, I think the answer is

2 things: 1) this inefficiency is *entirely* the EU’s fault — they are forcing Apple to sell charger bricks separately. 2) EU buyers are actually getting a *BETTER* deal as a result. Apple… - reduced the price of EU MacBooks by €100 to compensate. - made the brick available

I’m sorry to be so pointed about this but I am growing very tired of these kind of socialist-leaning anti-corporation takes directed at our best companies. I would hope a publication like Bloomberg would have cultivated a better understanding of how things like this work. Just

This Bloomberg managing editor can’t comprehend why the specific company he’s tasked with covering would adopt piecemeal pricing for components of a bundle after regulators mandated the bundle be disassembled. You expect to see reflexive uninformed anti-corporation takes from