This video explains why I skipped a $175K Harvard MBA. The opportunity cost is fucking insane.
Forget the degree. Build skills. Go deep on one niche until you're top 10, not in your city but Top 10 in the World.
You'll be shocked how much that beats "playing it safe" with your peers.
Dr. Pratosh at IISc Bengaluru tells his students that rapid advances in AI are commoditizing intellectual labour.
He raises an unsettling question: if companies stop recruiting on campus in the next 5–10 years—even at India’s top universities—what will the purpose of a university education be ?
A must watch video for everyone in tech
Accepting this race and entering the “endgame” is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company’s Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available.
@HubSpot
Your new UI rollout is another step backwards.
Hubspot pushed a new Grey Orange theme for the crm with no toggle, no opt-out, no way back to the previous 'Classic Blue theme' that users were perfectly happy with.
As experienced today, there's no support or heads-up before the change.
You already messed up last time with the data policy and now this UI is dull and painful to look at.
Rollback or allow user preference for the color theme.
Landing a job in tech is only hard right now if you're not an A+ player.
All of the best engineers, salespeople, and marketers in tech are constantly being fed job offers.
There's no room for B talent in tech.
This isn't Costco.
Anyone who's struggling to land a new gig needs to take a looooooong look in the mirror.
sf could get absurd cuz ai liquidity will create thousands of newly rich people all bidding on the same finite things:
- elite private schools & preschools
- great daycare / nannies
- houses in a handful of neighborhoods
country clubs, gyms, restaurants
- top doctors, therapists, tutors, coaches
- basically anything involving trusted human attention
- proximity to the right people
will be interesting to see how it plays out, even ultra rich relative to the rest of the country might feel squeezed.
@isenditbacc Nope. You'll be surprised how many people suck at simple prompting the AI.
Creating workflows, custom dashboards, reporting will still be there.
Meta is doing heavy heavy heavy scraping on all my sites this week too (and seemingly everyone else's sites now)
So much so that I got load average alerts for it today on one VPS
The fact that they're hitting url2og (my own screenshot service for all my sites) might they're scraping not just text but images too, so maybe they're working on an image, video or just world model
P.S. these stats are just from url2og not even my other sites!
You're welcome @finkd but maybe I should start charging you for it with @cloudflare 😊
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows includes a Global Device ID (GDID), a permanent identifier automatically assigned to a PC during installation.
According to Microsoft, the GDID is used for security purposes,The company says it is not used for advertising or tracking users across apps and websites.
Unlike advertising IDs, the GDID cannot be disabled or reset by users, as it is designed to remain tied to the device for its lifetime.
Microsoft publicly acknowledged the identifier only after it appeared in court documents related to an FBI investigation.
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs officially launched Ode today. A $1.5 billion AI services firm.
Forward deployed engineers embed inside enterprise companies, map their operations, and build custom AI systems on top.
Read that again.
That's essentially what we do at Boom, and what so many operators in this space are doing successfully right now.
Map the workflows first. Consolidate everything into one operating system and layer. Layer AI on top of a foundation that actually works. After 87+ clients, it's the only approach I've seen hold up.
Now the smartest money on the planet put $1.5 billion behind the same playbook.
And to be clear about what this actually means. It doesn't mean the opportunity just closed.
Ode is a boutique firm. Their own executives admit demand for these engineering teams far outstrips supply. Their pipeline comes from PE portfolio companies. They're built to serve a few hundred clients, max.
There are hundreds of thousands of companies (In the USA along) doing $2M to $50M a year. Drowning in manual work. Running on 20 disconnected tools. Full access to the best AI ever built and zero idea how to apply it.
Ode will never call them. Somebody has to.
Blackstone doesn't make $1.5 billion bets on maybes. Neither does Goldman. They ran the numbers and concluded the biggest business in AI is implementation.
Walking into a company, mapping how it actually runs, and building the systems that change it.
They just published the playbook.
Every company on the planet is going to hire an AI services firm. The only open question is whose.
People will read this news, nod, and go back to waiting for a sign.
This was the sign. Go build.
Extremely excited to announce our first air-to-air kill of a flying moth by an autonomous micro-drone. This is a big step towards completely eradicating mosquitoes.