🐎Wind moves the curtainTake a thirty-minute solo walk every weekend, reflect on your weekly actions, write down one adjustment for next week’s routine, and use quiet reflection to refine your positive daily habits steadily.
🦸The phone rings from parents in the villageYears later, a young girl named Zoe visited the lighthouse, carrying a copy of the “Selfie Legacy” book. She was a writer, and she wanted to tell the story of the legacy, to share it with even more people. She took a selfie in front
🤪Sanatorium with family Water, relaxationThey sat in silence for a moment, listening to the quiet, feeling the warmth of the café, feeling Elara’s presence all around them. The memory flower on the counter blo
🧔At the factory: a united team, goals are achievable and clear!Split big scary targets into five-minute quick tasks, cross off finished items fast. Short rest breaks restore confidence to get back on your steady life track.
🌷The secret to quality: attention to details is our key to customer trust!Watch grey wild geese drift across pale soft autumn sky, thin cool wind carries dry leaf scent and lets all heavy work pressure fade into open quiet natural peaceful moments alone outdoors.
Today, we’re launching Tau’s humanoid cleaning service in San Francisco at $30 per hour.
Access is initially invite-only as we scale operations. If you don’t have an invite yet, join the waitlist at https://t.co/JrRpjIzRZv.
All footage is shown at 1× speed. Each humanoid is jointly controlled by a human operator and AI.
Sequoia's thesis: the next $1T company sells work🏗️, not software
Sell a copilot and you compete with every model release. Sell the outcome, books closed, contracts reviewed, claims handled, and every AI improvement widens your margin instead of threatening your product.
The insight most people miss: for every $1 spent on software, roughly $6 goes to services.
SaaS chased the software dollar. AI chases the services dollar at software margins.
Not AI for accountants. The AI accounting firm. Not AI for lawyers. The AI law firm
The winners will look like services firms rebuilt on software infrastructure, and most founders are still building copilots.
Which dollar are you chasing?
Showing his respect to @nvidia Jensen Huang, Japan's METI minister Akazawa showed up with a leather jacket on at the the government's physical event. 赤沢経産大臣が革ジャンを着て登場。
WARNING: Longer post (but worth reading or bookmarking for later).
Your life has seasons.
Each one is unique. Characterized by its own distinct desires, struggles, opportunities, and identity.
But one reflection I've had recently is just how easy it is to completely disassociate with the present season.
To give all your time and energy toward a longing for some nostalgic memory of a prior season or an anticipation for some beautiful state of a future season.
You look back at the past and all you see is sunshine. Because it all worked out. You forget (or glaze over) the struggle you endured. You're here today. You made it. You're alive. You're doing fine.
You look forward at the future and dream on what could be. You'll have so much more. More freedom. More purpose. More health. More deep connection. More everything.
The past is beautiful and the future feels limitless. So, logically, you slowly start to treat everything about the present as the bridge. A dash connecting your past and your future. A gap to be crossed as quickly as possible.
Everything you do today is in anticipation of some eventual end state.
I'm doing this now, so that I can have that later.
Unfortunately, the danger of that dissociation with the present is significant. You may spend your entire life living for a future that has a decidedly mirage-like property. You inch closer, but when it's right in front of you, it disappears and reappears on the horizon.
You may spend your entire life skipping through the present, deferring your presence, your joy, and your very humanity to a future that never comes.
In a classic French fable, a young boy is gifted with a magic ball of golden thread. He's told that if he simply pulls on the thread, time will leap forward. The catch, of course, is that once it's pulled, it can never be put back.
The young boy takes advantage of the newfound powers. Each time he's faced with a boring day at school, a frustrating set of chores, or a scolding from his parents, he pulls the thread, skipping through to the good parts.
As an adult, he continues, leaping through mundane struggles in his marriage, the friction of having a newborn, and the boredom at work. He finds himself pulling on the thread more and more, avoiding even the most minor inconveniences of his life.
But when he wakes up one day and sees an old man looking back at him in the mirror, he's filled with regret. He realizes in that moment that as he chose to skip through the boredom, struggles, and friction, so too did he miss the real texture of being alive.
How often do we all do the same? How easily do we default into this disassociation? Disconnecting from the present in anticipation of some future.
A mentor recently asked me this:
"Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?"
It hit me hard.
And to be honest, I haven't stopped replaying those words since he said them.
Why are you in such a rush?
The world wants you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines.
In doing so, you slowly relinquish your agency. You give up your claim on your own life. Surrender authorship to a pen that was never even yours.
In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is presence.
Be in the season you're in. Don't romanticize the past, don't fantasize the future. Be here. Be now. Be in this. All of its texture, depth, and struggle. All of its joy, tension, and pain. Sit with the uncertainty. Become friends with it. Fall in love with it.
Because every single thing you do today is something your younger self dreamed of and something your older self will wish they could go back and do.
The good old days are happening, right now.
And the next time you find yourself skipping through the present, remember these words:
Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?
How to keep AI spend flat while token usage grows exponentially: Not with friction and spend alerts. With better defaults, routing, and caching.
Better Defaults (not Usage Caps) – Engineers can choose any model they want, but defaults matter. We’re experimenting with defaulting to open weight models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7 through our LLM gateway, while still encouraging engineers to choose the right model for the task. 91% of our employees were never hitting their usage caps, so instead of lowering caps and driving up alerts, we're moving to cheaper defaults. Note that code reviews use a diversity of models, so they can check each other's work.
Better Routing – In our custom harnesses, we preprocess prompts and route to the best model for the job, considering cache hits and model pricing. For instance, you may want a frontier model for planning, but not for execution where they can be overkill. Ultimately, humans shouldn't be choosing models - AI can automate this task.
Better Caching – Cache misses are the easiest way to drive your cost up. All of our requests are cache aware, so we’re reusing a warm cache wherever possible. For example, our cache hit rate went from 5% → 60% in LibreChat once properly implemented.
Keep Context Lean – Start fresh sessions when switching tasks. Scope file context narrowly. Disconnect unused tools. Don't just compact. The goal isn't fewer tokens used, it's fewer tokens wasted.
Better Visibility – Our engineers can use as many tokens as they want, from whatever model they want, but we’ve made usage visible – and the more you spend on AI, the more impact we expect.
The goal isn't to suppress usage. It's to build the infrastructure that makes exponential growth sustainable.
Putting this into practice has cut our AI spend nearly in half, while our token usage continues to grow.