We could populate a gallery exhibition just with the stunning cover iterations @pablodelcan and @devinjacoviello created for The Origins of Efficiency and The Scaling Era. Maybe we will…

The Origins of Efficiency is an outstanding read. @_brianpotter shares both a 10,000-foot model of how production efficiency happens and riveting examples of that model in practice. I never expected to become intellectually invested in the Model T assembly line, but here we are.

Evolution of the Scaling Era cover: “It’s hard to find unique ways of visualizing AI without defaulting to the obvious,” says @pablodelcan. “In our design process, we experimented with unexpected metaphors—flowers growing out of neural networks, abstract mathematical puzzles

One of the reasons I like this book is because it is unapologetically written for the aspirational reader. It is dense with footnotes. If you want to understand AI, but don't have a deep background in it, this book will give you as much back as you put in. Highly recommend.

I learned so, so much from The Scaling Era. @dwarkesh_sp and @g_leech_ are the first to bring together multiple perspectives — from the most important people in the field — rather than advancing a single take. It will make your understanding of AI exponentially richer.

Works in Progress is now available as a print magazine. I think it's the most beautiful and readable magazine I've ever seen. Subscribe today for $100/£75 to receive six beautiful, 120-page issues a year. https://t.co/sCOVnY1mf1

🧵 on how efficiency improvements in food and textile production lifted millions out of famine and made it much cheaper and easier to produce just about everything, from @_brianpotter’s The Origins of Efficiency.

Through *the* most detailed research and *the* most riveting case studies, @_brianpotter will persuade you that the pursuit of speed and scale has shaped every facet of our world — and there’s so much more that can be done. →

How was penicillin able to eliminate 80% of WWII battlefield deaths? Why did nails once make up 0.4% of US GDP? In The Origins of Efficiency, @_brianpotter unpacks how production efficiency happens, and why it is of civilizational importance. Preorder: https://t.co/KEyYy67F90

new book from stripe press: origins of efficency by brian potter art direction: @devinjacoviello cover design: pablo delcan interiors: kevin wong & @geoffhalber producer: @trv_mcl big dog: @narrowd publishing: @_TamaraWinter @rebeccahiscott @s8mb & @Jennifer_Yun

I talked to @_TamaraWinter about tacit knowledge and the illegible social scaffolding that supports so much of society. Tammy is essentially a professional tastemaker: she and the @stripepress team choose which ideas are worthy of Stripe's global audience in the form of a few

Stripe Press and Works in Progress are looking for someone to grow our audience, plus sell books and magazine subscriptions. We want to do everything we can to reach millions more readers. If that might be you, please apply. https://t.co/Ri3yZi1J4t

Devices that can read the activity of neurons and send them to a computer sound like the stuff of sci-fi. But @rebeccahiscott explains that brain-computer interfaces may be as little as five years away. https://t.co/7kVs9xS8VB

Hot off the presses

Reminder: the REAL Figma Config is next Wednesday in London

Tag yourself on the @stripepress Sessions Cafe bookshelf—I’m at the intersection of Christian Dior and Christopher Alexander 🙂‍↔️

We made a new batch of zines for the @stripepress coffee shop at @stripe Sessions next week, and let me tell ya, they are stunning. Including zines for @dwarkesh_sp and @_brianpotter’s forthcoming books, plus one for @chughesjohnson’s Scaling People, because it was long overdue!

Had the most inspiring conversation with @jackrusher about generative art, the inherent humanity of creativity (and how AI might change that), and how excellence is a function of habit. Grateful for the words and wisdom. https://t.co/UDSKW5L08b

@dwarkesh_sp With @g_leech_’s curation, the book isn’t just a collection of warm takes on AI; it’s a narrative of the last 6 years in exponential AI growth. We at @stripepress truly believe it will stand the test of time. Hope our eventual AGI overlords agree. 🤖 https://t.co/7codopWa03

One of the (many) things that is so remarkable about @dwarkesh_sp’s interviews with AI leaders is his ability to elicit the types of conversations that usually only happen behind closed doors. The PR-softened messages fall away, and the real questions and concerns come out.