Your CEO should be strong.
Your CTO should be wise.
Your COO should be wicked, cunning, of mysterious origins, fluent in the dark arts, blurry in pictures,
I'm old enough to remember when everyone thought AI solving ONE novel math problem would be a front page story around the world
Today, AI solved not one, but NINE open problems - some 50 years old.
AND proved ***44*** out of 492 open OEIS conjectures.
Zero media coverage.
Crazy hair in Miami :)
AI solving Erdos problems should be a way bigger deal on a societal level than it is :) embracing the permanent underclass on the beach is one idea 💡
New essay for @TheFP on searching for God in Silicon Valley.
"They are building something that has brought them, unexpectedly, to the edge of where He would be."
My son’s teacher was telling him off , when he turned to her and said : “I am new to this world, I am brand new, I am only four”. I remind myself of this all the time , we are all relatively brand new considering how old the world is so we need to give ourselves some grace
That feeling of muscle ache after late night lift as a semi-confirmed member of the underclass where all you have is a body as a status symbol and a hope for longevity to pretend you’re enjoying what is , romanticizing every single second of the dread while clauding the most perfect matcha recipe and admitting to yourself you love yourself too much to be concerned
This has a clinical name. Revenge bedtime procrastination. And the ADHD version runs on a completely different mechanism than the neurotypical one.
A neurotypical person stays up late because they want more leisure time. The ADHD brain stays up because it spent every drop of dopamine it had on executive function during the day. Sitting in meetings, managing transitions, filtering impulses, remembering the thing you were supposed to remember. That burns through dopamine the way sprinting burns through glycogen. By 10pm the tank is empty.
But here's where it gets counterintuitive. The exhaustion is physical. The dopamine deficit is neurological. Those are two separate systems. Your muscles want sleep. Your prefrontal cortex is starving for the stimulation it was denied all day because it spent 14 hours on task-switching and impulse control instead of anything that actually felt rewarding.
The phone at midnight is the brain trying to collect what it's owed. Low-effort, high-stimulation content. Scrolling, short videos, rabbit holes. The exact profile of activity that delivers dopamine without requiring the executive function you already depleted.
The sleep researchers call this a "self-regulation failure." It's closer to a debt collection. You borrowed against your own reward system to function all day. The bill comes due at midnight. And the brain will not let you sleep until it gets paid.
for the first time, we’ve created an ai system that genuinely feels like someone is present in the room with you
spark makes eye contact. he blinks like we do. he knows if you’re paying attention.
in testing, people often reported not knowing if a human operator was involved