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A working library · In her 1974 essay “Escape Routes,” Le Guin addresses a common criticism of science fiction:

A working library · The Language of the Night by

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · Nailing it in the first take is a sign of preparation and professionalism. No need for two tries if you are clear abo...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · One of the best traditional bakeries in New York has a kitchen you can see from the counter. People wait in line for ...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · Compared to what?

Tomasz Tunguz · Google Cloud grew 82% year-over-year to $24.8b in Q2 2026, beating the $22.3b consensus. The number alone would headl...

David Heinemeier Hansson

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · It’s a dance between workers, bosses and the market.

Tomasz Tunguz · We are now in an era where we should expect 3x more from each other.

Cedric Chin · Commoncog · About two weeks ago, a Commoncog member asked if “all successful businesses really so simple/dull that they all clean...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · Hank Green has an interesting take on the [scientific method](): We advance because scientists work to persuade other...

Tomasz Tunguz · Like two sailboats in a marathon race, open & closed AI labs are tacking & jibing in San Francisco Bay.

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The folks at [TryAI]() put Fable to the test in directing a music [video]().

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The nearest lightning was 1,200 miles away. At least that’s what the weather site reported.

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · There are lots of things you can do, but it’s not clear you should.

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · The decline of Europe is not inevitable, despite how much Americans love to joke/proclaim that the continent is doome...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The right words in the right sequence create information. Ideas that change our world.

Tomasz Tunguz · What does a bare-bones pickup truck have in common with a state-of-the-art AI lab?

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · Even though it’s invisible, easily transported and weightless, software used to stick around. It took years to archit...

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · We've been buying servers from Dell since the 2000s at [37signals](), but I was never too impressed with their person...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The meeting is now broken.

Tomasz Tunguz · [![A friendly cartoon robot wearing a leather horse harness, reins trailing off to the side](https://res.cloudinary.c...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · When we upgrade something in our lives, the thing we used to be satisfied with is no longer satisfying.

Tomasz Tunguz · AI is like a colander. Customers pour in. Many pour out.

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · In the 1980s, France started [43 nuclear reactors across 14 sites](). On average, each reactor took just seven years ...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · This is a useful term. It helps us understand a topic or theory that can be considered from multiple points of view b...

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · It's no mystery to me why the Tesla Model Y is the world's best-selling car. As a total package, I could make a fair ...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · Last year, the recording session I did with Mel Robbins was going so well that her producers asked me to stick around...

Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · Billy Harrow is taking people on a tour at London’s Natural History Museum when he makes an impossible discovery: the...

Tomasz Tunguz · Three years ago, we launched Theory Ventures with a simple premise : AI would reshape how software is built, sold, de...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The professionals you have the most in common with may be your competition. They wrestle with similar problems and ha...

Tomasz Tunguz · It all started when I knocked on a door in Palo Alto.

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · What’s this idea (book, meme, song, TV show, marketing campaign) for?

Tomasz Tunguz · I still remember when my agent would forget what I said mid-sentence.

Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · Near the end of The Tombs of Atuan, the wizard Ged is in the desert with a young woman, Tenar. They have escaped a gr...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · A hundred and fifteen years ago, [Christian Larson]() wrote one of the first popular self-help manifestos. The Optimi...

Tomasz Tunguz · AI companies have committed $9.75b in 12 months to forward-deployed engineering. The FDE model, embedding engineers i...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The world is like this and therefore I feel like that.

Tomasz Tunguz · The Economist ran 25 frontier AI models through the World Values Survey[1](), the questionnaire that has mapped the m...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The more often we succumb to the urgency of the moment, the more urgency we create.

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · Freedom is responsibility with a sexier name.

Derek Sivers · 17 conversations in Jakarta, Indonesia: [sive.rs/met/at-14]()

Cedric Chin (Commoncog) · Commoncog · ![Using the Quartz Crisis to Make Sense of Technological Disruption](https://commoncog.com/content/images/2026/07/usi...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · “I blame myself.”

Tomasz Tunguz

Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · On the planet Victoria, the people of Shantih Town live alongside the people of the City. When a group of townspeople...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · It’s difficult to ride a bicycle in the pitch darkness. We need to see where we’re going to avoid obstacles. And it’s...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The standards have changed a lot in the last few millennia:

Tomasz Tunguz · Most teams building agents pick the model first & the architecture second. That is backwards. The model choice is the...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · Everybody eats.

Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · Arriving in Germany in the summer of 1990, James C. Scott is surprised to find that Germans seem entirely unwilling t...

Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · In this series of short explorations of anarchist thought, James C. Scott proposes a “process-oriented” view of anarc...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · A [simple 7-question test]() helps us realize how diverse a population is. On this quiz, the highest possible score i...

Derek Sivers · 16 conversations in super-multicultural Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur: [sive.rs/met/at-13]()

Tomasz Tunguz · The CIO’s priorities are clear. The public markets reveal them.

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The backlist are the products already in the marketplace. Built earlier, still sold. The frontlist is the new.

Cedric Chin (Commoncog) · Commoncog · ![A Retrospective on Goldratt’s Thinking Tools](https://commoncog.com/content/images/2026/06/retrospectivegoldrattthi...

Tomasz Tunguz · Anthropic spends 2.3x its payroll on compute.[1]() With ~5,000 employees & roughly $10b in inference & training spend...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · If you can swap your slogan with a competitor’s without changing the meaning of either brand, then your slogan is mea...

Tomasz Tunguz · Every founder receives the question on slide three. What is your moat? They answer with technical differentiation. A ...

Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · Twenty years after she disappears without a trace, Selena’s sister Julie rings her up. When they meet, she first refu...

Cedric Chin (Commoncog) · Commoncog · ![Did Quartz Really Kill the Swiss Watch Industry in the 70s?](https://commoncog.com/content/images/2026/06/quartzkil...

Tomasz Tunguz · Today all inference is real-time. A human types, a model responds, & the clock starts over. The infrastructure is bui...

Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · Reading is the art of attention. What a mess we’ve made of that word. From the earnest effort of a mind reaching for ...

Tomasz Tunguz · [![Screenshot 2026-06-24 at 8.54.22 AM](https://res.cloudinary.com/dzawgnnlr/image/upload/w1512,h802,cfill,gauto,qaut...

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Tomasz Tunguz · Crypto is the quietest part of the venture capital market. Funding is at multi-year lows. The narrative says the spac...

Tomasz Tunguz · The fastest-growing companies in AI are either selling inference or reselling it. They’re its [first derivative](). B...

Codrops — Entrepreneurship · Entrepreneurship – Codrops · Taste gets you started.

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · Europe is finally waking up from many decades of naive pacifism. While the continent is loath to give America credit,...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · We have more agency and choice than we know.

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · [A long riff on book publishing with (perhaps) wide applicability to your work as well.]

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · [Rupert Lowe](), member of the British Parliament and leader of the Restore Britain party, released [The Rape Gang In...

Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · It’s pretty astonishing how far people will go to announce various forms of status:

Tomasz Tunguz · The gap between Databricks and Snowflake was $490m in March. It’s $1.6b today.

Steve Blank · We just finished the 16th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford.![](https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/upl...

Tomasz Tunguz · Today, a Hacker News thread asked a simple question : “Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily co...

Tomasz Tunguz · We’re entering the golden age of AI applications. Three recent developments confirm it.

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Derek Sivers · India tech friends: I just bought my ticket to IndiaFOSS in BLR Sept 26-27: [fossunited.org/indiafoss/2026]() Want to...

Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · I’ve talked about [one just-so story of AI]()—the notion of its inevitability—and I want to talk about another, that ...

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Steve Blank · [Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad… and How Great Companies Stay Great](), by Eric Ries.

Steve Blank · We just wrapped up our [Hacking for Defense class at Stanford.]()

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · The great joy of having built [a successful business]() that employs a broad team of talented people is that I get to...

Cedric Chin (Commoncog) · Commoncog · ![Reflections on the Software Dark Factory Q&A](https://commoncog.com/content/images/2026/06/reflectionssoftwaredarkf...

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · The open source movement spent decades [fighting for everyone's right]() to change software, through free access to c...

Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · One of the just-so stories we keep hearing about AI is that it’s inevitable, that the technology is here and will con...

A working library · Why We Fear AI by

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · I've been working on [Basecamp]() for half my life, and nearly my entire professional career in software. The first c...

Cedric Chin (Commoncog) · Commoncog · ![Software Dark Factory Q&A](https://commoncog.com/content/images/2026/05/softwaredarkfactoryqajaytaylornavanchauhan....

Derek Sivers · About the craft of writing a great film screenplay. A bit tedious (with sloppy repetitive writing) but I always love ...

Derek Sivers · Fight Club: I liked it the first time years ago, but watching a second time when you already know the end reveal? Ele...

Cedric Chin · Commoncog · I’ve had four conversations in the past year where someone said to me, “I have young kids / I have an existing life I...

A working library · House of Day, House of Night by

A working library · In the work against war, Woolf notes that women—unlike many of their brothers—have four great but perhaps misundersto...

A working library · Pedro the Vast by

Derek Sivers · Someone asks you to do something, and you feel that pressure to answer immediately.

Derek Sivers · Last week someone asked why I prefer books.

Cedric Chin · Commoncog · I'm pleased to announce a live Commoncog members-only workshop on Eliyahu Goldratt's Thinking Tools by Commoncog memb...

A working library · It is right that the murder of many people

A working library · Reconsidering Reparations by

Derek Sivers · Forty years ago, a family moved from India to Canada, and raised their children with “Indian values”.

A working library · The Shapeless Unease by

Cedric Chin · Commoncog · Note: This is Part 3 of a short series on sensemaking. You may read Part 2 here.

Derek Sivers · I can relate to the original meaning of this old term that means to be good citizen of the internet.

Derek Sivers · From the Tang dynasty on, a large number of popular simplified characters were created and used widely among the comm...

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · The financial industry understands itself to be an arm of the government. We were inducted into this service other-th...

A working library · In one layoff announcement after another, we hear that AI can now do the work of a great many people, which is why fa...

A working library · The Third Reich of Dreams by

steve blank · This article previously appeared in The Cipher Brief.

Derek Sivers · It’s being able to see choices where others only see constraints.

steve blank · This article previously appeared in the Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (EIX)

A working library · Rollo May asserts plainly in the opening pages of The Meaning of Anxiety that anxiety in fact has meaning, and that o...

A working library · The Meaning of Anxiety by

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · Do you see the same truth? That's how C.S. Lewis defined the essence of friendship. And that's what we gathered 130 p...

A working library · Orbital by

Derek Sivers · Having an influx of people from disparate backgrounds show up at your border.I became such an avid reader and writer ...

Derek Sivers · Psychology compared individual traits.

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · Open source promised that users would be free to change whatever code they were running. The reality, however, is tha...

Sam Altman · Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything.

steve blank · Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discove...

A working library · We by

Derek Sivers · When it is liquid goo during its metamorphosis, is it butterfly or caterpillar or what?

Cedric Chin · Commoncog · This is Part 2 of a short series on sensemaking. You may read Part 1 here.

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · Intel really delivered with Panther Lake. A [2026 Dell XPS 14]() using this chipset with an IPS screen can hit just 1...

steve blank · Join us at The 7th Annual Red Queen Conference

Derek Sivers · We are strangers to ourselves.We act in our self-interest on hidden motives.

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Cedric Chin · Commoncog · This week we published The Leadership Corridor: How James Kilts Built Leaders at Gillette. The case comes from Kilts’...

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Jason Fried · A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it.

A working library · We are, once again and inexplicably, seeing a conversation unfold about reforming the military force in our streets, ...

Cedric Chin · Commoncog · This is Part 1 on a short series on sensemaking.

steve blank · Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival

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A working library · The Salt Eaters by

Derek Sivers · When in this book I write of China’s pain, I am registering my pain too, because China’s pain is mine.We survive in a...

Derek Sivers · When I was in the music business, there was a record producer who lived in New Jersey, but refused to come into New Y...

Derek Sivers · At sive.rs/book I have a collection of my notes from the 420+ books I’ve read since 2007.

Cedric Chin · Commoncog · Note: This is Part 8 in a short series of essays on Understanding Customer Demand. Read Part 7 here.

Derek Sivers · Last month, I moved into my new home in the woods.

Derek Sivers · Every living thing spends time maintaining its own life and the life of the systems it depends on: bodies, vehicles, ...

Derek Sivers · It’s also paying attention to how they say it and what they do while they are saying it.Listening has to do with how ...

steve blank · What Lies Ahead I have no Way of Knowing, But It’s Now Time to Get Going

A working library · All industries and disciplines, over time, direct people into greater and greater specialization. Those who have been...

David Heinemeier Hansson

steve blank · When I was a new VP of Marketing I got a painful lesson of who my PR (Public Relations) agency actually worked for. L...

A working library · The Waves by

Derek Sivers · The public gets hysterical: massive overreaction to a statistically tiny evil.

Jason Fried · A few weeks ago I sat down with David Senra (of the outstanding Founders podcast) to record an interview for his new ...

A working library · Our present-day realm of state terror operates through abductions, murders, and content farms. ICE workers raise thei...

A working library · A Strategy for Labor by

steve blank · And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” John 8:32

Derek Sivers · I have so much more to say on this subject, but this book is done now because I believe short books are useful.

Derek Sivers · For the last three years, my boy and I have had a pet mouse.

Derek Sivers · Your outside doesn’t need to match your inside.

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · ![Fraud Investigation is Believing Your Lying Eyes](https://storage.ghost.io/c/46/e1/46e1395c-fd21-481f-88a8-d3179eb9...

Derek Sivers · When I got my first guitar, the nice man at the shop put on new strings and tuned it.

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Derek Sivers · I spent basically my whole life in America, and had no desire to travel or be anywhere else.

Derek Sivers · No matter what choice you make, someone will tell you it’s wrong.

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steve blank · This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop

Derek Sivers · After you privately internalize a belief, talk about it with friends.

Derek Sivers · Once you find a viewpoint you want to adopt, a great tool to internalize it is a private journal.

Derek Sivers · You load the program into the computer, and it begins its calculations.

Derek Sivers · Picture the stereotype of an explorer, hundreds of years ago, on an expedition to uncharted lands.

Derek Sivers · You can do anything.

Derek Sivers · This is where I would share powerful questions that you can answer for big insights and change.

Derek Sivers · On the Olympic podium stood the winners of the gold, silver, and bronze medal.

Derek Sivers · To list all the beliefs I’ve found useful would fill a whole book.

Derek Sivers · Hundreds of thousands of Chinese coolies worked on the transcontinental railway from 1865 to 1869.

Derek Sivers · To change, reach past what comes naturally.

Derek Sivers · When things aren’t going well, you’re in a bad state of mind.

Derek Sivers · Pick something that’s holding you back from what you want to do, be, or feel.

Derek Sivers · You might say, “I can’t help the way I feel”, as if it’s completely out of your control — as if you have no choice an...

A working library · “Again and again,” writes Hannah Proctor,

A working library · The Cancer Journals by

A working library · The word “burnout” has taken on so many meanings, become a kind of casual and generic refrain that seems to apply to ...

A working library · Burnout by

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Jason Fried · [ ![cuisinart.png](https://world.hey.com/jason/86a83d1f/representations/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjQxNDQ4NzYwNCwicHVyI...

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · ![One Regulation E, Two Very Different Regimes](https://storage.ghost.io/c/46/e1/46e1395c-fd21-481f-88a8-d3179eb9f950...

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Jason Fried · AI workflows are technically impressive, but there’s a deeper reason people are really amped about AI agents. This is...

A working library · In an effort to understand the then-present state of women in the workplace, Virginia Woolf goes looking to the newsp...

Jason Fried · My folks are in town visiting us for a couple months so we rented them a house nearby.

A working library · Annals of the Western Shore by

Derek Sivers · I create that nature through what I choose to do.

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Programming note: Merry Christmas! There will likely be another Bits about Money after the holiday but before New Year.

A working library · In despair at a critical review, Virginia Woolf turned to her husband and asked,

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steve blank · TL;DR DoW Directory revision 3 is Online here, Order a print copy here.

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A working library · “What is meant by ‘reality’?” asks Virginia Woolf:

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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Programming note: Bits about Money is supported by our readers. I generally forecast about one issue a month, and hav...

Jason Fried · Have you noticed that every issue and idea tracking tool you loved slowly morphed into boring, sluggish, corporate bl...

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Jason Fried · There are plenty of opportunities to invite people to your product ahead of the formal launch. Alpha, beta, etc.

A working library · In Three Guineas, an essay that expands on her writing in A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf responds to a letter as...

A working library · A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas by

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A working library · I am thinking again about this notion of “self-sameness” that Byung-Chul Han talks about in The Disappearance of Ritu...

Jason Fried · The Concept2 RowErg is one of the highest quality products I've ever used.

steve blank · Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and...

A working library · One of the imperatives in contemporary, professional work culture is to “grow.” There is often a sense of height or l...

steve blank · I’ve always thought of myself as a practitioner. In the startups I was part of, the only “strategy” were my marketing...

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A working library · James Hillman does not want you to interpret your dreams:

A working library · The Empusium by

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A working library · In The Dream and the Underworld, James Hillman sees dreams as the psyche’s work of soul-making and asks us to respect...

A working library · The Dream and the Underworld by

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steve blank · The October 2025 PEO Directory – Update 2.

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steve blank · Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have a...

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · The ultimate goal of financial plumbing is to enable commerce in the real economy. Consider the humble window: it is ...

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Sam Altman · We have been learning quickly from how people are using Sora and taking feedback from users, rightsholders, and other...

Sam Altman · We are launching a new app called Sora. This is a combination of a new model called Sora 2, and a new product that ma...

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Sam Altman · Growth in the use of AI services has been astonishing; we expect it to be even more astonishing going forward.

steve blank · Great founders shine in a crisis.

steve blank · Announcing the 2025 edition of the DoW PEO Directory. Online here.

Sam Altman · AI has gotten remarkably better in recent years; ChatGPT can do amazing things that we take for granted. This is as i...

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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Much of the operation of the financial industry is legible to people outside of it. Your credit card works basically ...

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steve blank · How did you go bankrupt?”

Sam Altman · We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and ...

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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · In the sciences they call it the file drawer problem: studies that fail to achieve significance or reach the "wrong" ...

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Sam Altman · Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.

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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · This column doesn’t offer investment advice, as I am not a registered investment advisor. This is not merely a mandat...

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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Happy New Year! I have a housekeeping message (which you will see immediately below, if you’re reading this via email...

Sam Altman · The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradig...

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Recently, noted VC Marc Andreessen kicked off a discussion about debanking, in a podcast with his co-founder Ben Horo...

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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Programming note: Bits about Money has been a bit irregular recently.

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Programming note: I recently launched a weekly podcast, Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie. About 50% of the conve...

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · My family recently bought a duplex in Chicago, after years of living in Japan. This exposed me to Relatable Banking I...

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Many beginnings imply a contemporaneous ending. This is often bittersweet. Some personal news implies a tearful goodb...

Sam Altman · There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight.

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Sam Altman · Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q 1 fusion and 2) re...

Sam Altman · Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instr...

Sam Altman · I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion I’ve seen.

Sam Altman · A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting...

Sam Altman · A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In gener...

Sam Altman · I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers.

Sam Altman · Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support with clinical trials...

Sam Altman · The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common qu...

Sam Altman · Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health, and the economy to...

Sam Altman · I’m trying to fund startups/projects helping with COVID-19, because it’s basically the one thing I know how to do tha...

Sam Altman · Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to face a global tra...

Sam Altman · The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy...

Sam Altman · There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder. But there isn’t very much about how to be a good sta...

Sam Altman · I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create...

Sam Altman · Today, OpenAI released a new result. We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general reinforcement learning alg...

Sam Altman · I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is the only use cas...

Sam Altman · I think I am

Sam Altman · I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was

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Sam Altman · A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year hu...

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