Miguel Coutinho

Leading @ndiconnects

[Miguel Coutinho @MiguelACoutinho]

@jon_stokes might not agree, but this post is way more interesting than his latest one about the HF hacking event.

So much of modern life is about systems that got over optimised on the verifiable while killing the unverifiable

[Jon Stokes @jon_stokes]

https://t.co/qNg5HdwwBC

[Miguel Coutinho @MiguelACoutinho]

@rkurzban Is it still possible to get an e-copy?

[Miguel Coutinho @MiguelACoutinho]

Wtf am I reading?

[Miguel Coutinho @MiguelACoutinho]

Yesterday,I was asked about career strategies while having lunch at @NDIconnects office in London and my only contribution was “read as many books as you can, embrace challenges, make yourself useful” 👇

[tae kim @firstadopter]

“Charlie Munger talked about the importance of being multidisciplinary and multidisciplinary thinking. He thinks getting a functional understanding of many disciplines is not that hard. You can just go read the books now or you can talk to your AI about it. I think multidisciplinary thinkers are going to do incredibly well.” - @collision on @tbpn

[Miguel Coutinho @MiguelACoutinho]

And no, most people using AI for knowledge work are not learning along the way, as @WillManidis put it in a recent essay, they are using it to jump to the end without going through the journey

[Miguel Coutinho @MiguelACoutinho]

And no, most people using AI for knowledge work are not learning along the way, @ma

[Eric Markowitz @EricMarkowitz]

https://t.co/dFEzoaUtZ6

[Miguel Coutinho @MiguelACoutinho]

Another comment: I have had several discussions about AI productivity over the last year with very smart friend who are fully AI-enabled and one question I never get an answer to is precisely “what’s the purpose of work/craft if you, as a human, are not learning and growing?”

[Raiza Martin @raizamrtn]

I really believe that the next turn of AI is personalization and proactivity, with one massive caveat:

These two things are only powerful if they are "subtractive."

Let me explain.

Most “personalized” products today add more: more recommendations, more alerts, more surface area. True personalization should do the opposite. It should quietly take things away.

The same goes for proactivity. A proactive system shouldn’t interrupt you, it should preempt friction. It should remove steps, not insert itself.

Since we launched Huxe a month ago, I've been talking daily to our users. Unanimously, each person describes the best quality of the app as being subtractive: it takes away something as its core value.

"I listen to it first thing in the morning instead of opening my mail app"
"Instead of opening a bunch of tabs, I just listen to the news"
"I always look up this niche topic to keep track of it, but now I just created a station about it"

In these quotes I'm hearing what I've always believed about good products, too: there’s a real usefulness in things that unburden us, especially from tasks we’ve always believed we had to do, but never actually liked doing.

So as we build the app more, we're really embracing the art of subtraction.

People want less:
fewer tabs,
fewer decisions,
less friction.

Not just an app that does everything for you, rather an app that removes everything that gets in your way.

[Miguel Coutinho @MiguelACoutinho]

❤️

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

“AC this, wash dryer that, US woohoo, EU boohoo” - Why are we eating this brand-warfare from the outside about us up?

Europe has the strongest precision manufacturing in the world, we have leading teams in AI, CV, robotics. Europe is a leader in Automation and Frontier Tech!

Not a single NVIDIA chip could be produced without European machines. Not a single American cloud, robotics, or deep-tech firm would operate without European manufacturing or suppliers.

But we are too humble. Brainwashed to never celebrate Europe. By outsiders and our local politicians.

Time for a change.

Europe is the birthplace of industrialization.
The home of frontier tech.

Time, we act like it.

Welcome to the real Europe! 🔥🇪🇺

[Miguel Coutinho @MiguelACoutinho]

👀 feels like an intro to something longer 📚

Loving @packyM spiritual phase

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

https://t.co/DrUZry1Phj

[SemiAnalysis @SemiAnalysis_]

Ever wondered how those humanoids are dancing in the videos? Check out Tesla's Optimus here hitting a smooth shuffle, and let's dive into one of the methods that may be used.

1/7

[Miguel Coutinho @MiguelACoutinho]

For many years now, there are two Airbnbs. The 1% of experiences that represent what HQ pushes and everything else that is actually what it is. Not saying the 99% are bad experiences, they are just not as on brand as HQ seems to believe.

[Chris Paik @cpaik]

An open letter to Brian Chesky:

https://t.co/doMC0R1vWD

[Miguel Coutinho @MiguelACoutinho]

@LibertyRPF @fahdananta C+. Most of the stories in the book can be found in other books. It’s a bit like Dealers of Lightning. If you were able to condense it further, it would be a really good book. And the problem is not length, just too many details that are not that relevant

[Miguel Coutinho @MiguelACoutinho]

@LibertyRPF @fahdananta Very interesting times, but a bit hard to chew

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Seneca, 1,976 years ago, and yet

[Miguel Coutinho @MiguelACoutinho]

What’s happening with @substack on mobile Safari and the cookie banner? I select “accept all” and it keeps appearing over and over

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I didn't realize this till recently, but when big, bureaucratic organizations create incubators, the startups that come out of them are damaged from the start by focusing on big customers instead of the scrappy early adopters that successful startups usually sell to.

[Miguel Coutinho @MiguelACoutinho]

Compounding of interpersonal trust within groups of people that work well together is so often mismanagement. The default is to break them apart so that you can some how spread their brilliance across the company, often, just averaging it out by exposing it to mediocrity.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

My conversation with Jony Ive yesterday at @stripe sessions.

[Miguel Coutinho @MiguelACoutinho]

If intentionality doesn’t exist, companies grow to slow decision-making