The number one question I get asked about AI is: what is the safest job? I've been thinking about this for years now. Since a friend told me Anthropic was doing well and the implications of that started sinking in. That was 2022, my answer hasn't
Founders get confused about vision. I think it's because they read too much HackerNews and too many blog posts from people who saw stages but not zero to IPO, and somewhere along the way the word "vision" got tangled up with the word "dream."
Founders ask it as a market sizing problem. Policy people ask it as a program design problem. Twenty year olds ask it with the kind of clarity that only comes from having nothing invested yet in the polite fictions: If genAI and robotics automate away most labor, what is the
“I love you” is a declaration, a headline, a headline without the article, a piece of language that points toward a reality but it does not create it. It is a prior, not a posterior. It is "cheap talk" in the game theory sense, it costs almost nothing
We only have this, the playground right in front of us. No clear evidence of any other life or meaning beyond simply being here and now. Are you attempting something ridiculous, perhaps even absurdly ambitious? Honestly, who cares? Be true to yourself, explore something new, deeply engage in creating meaning
Mikeal Rogers, my best friend, my colleague, confidant, and one of a kind partner in countless late night chats and restless travel sprints, has died. Mikeal died of aggressive cancer. Words feel wholly inadequate because I want to capture the sweep of what he meant to me and to the
I don't usually like Johnny Harris, I find him kinda annoying, but I do watch his stuff sometimes. This morning he released a video on boredom, and that lead me down a long road of research to learn this: Boredom consistently predicts sadistic behavior. Across nine studies with
We talk about business as an arena, a competitive space where ideas clash, fortunes are made and lost, and human ingenuity is put to the test. For a long time, I've thought of it as something more: a kind of wrapper. A surprisingly decent, if imperfect, container around
"I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is
The fundamental truth of human existence has been masked by the very systems we created to reveal it. Both our analytical frameworks and our religious traditions have grown so intricate and self referential that they have become barriers to the simple path toward collective liberation. This is not about good
Consider the possibility that something has gone fundamentally wrong with human development - not in a moral or religious sense, but in a practical, observable way. The evidence surrounds us, yet we rarely step back far enough to see the pattern. Begin with a simple observation: despite unprecedented material progress,
A fun story. Our fundamental misunderstanding of existence begins with it's opening. Our misunderstanding is in how we read the opening chapter of Genesis. When explored through its original Hebrew, the Book of Genesis reveals something deeper than a story of moral obedience and sin. The phrase traditionally