David Litt

ブルベとか自転車を楽しんでいます。

[David Litt @davidglitt]

@ab_peko @hidea Thanks for sharing. Valuable to know.

[David Litt @davidglitt]

@Kenmaeda77 @take0204 I look forward to using Waymo in Tokyo soon! It seems far along in its testing … and they work like a charm in other markets.

[David Litt @davidglitt]

@Noahpinion Or if you are going for the longest public underground passage … Higashi Ginza to Otemachi via Ginza, Yurakucho, Hibiya, and the Marunouchi side of Tokyo Station. Twice as long, but less complex.

[David Litt @davidglitt]

@geoffreylitt Isn’t one answer that for specialized applications you need designers who ARE (or have been) teachers? Or lawyers, doctors, surveyors, accountants etc? Are there successful examples from an “interdisciplinary design team”?

[David Litt @davidglitt]

@blueskycafe Are those Dura Ace?

[David Litt @davidglitt]

@geoffreylitt Low price does not mean low quality especially w/r/t polarization or UV protection. .. but UV protection is not as easy to check … for cycling-specific sunglasses,
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[David Litt @davidglitt]

@geoffreylitt @gritzko Well, at teaching hospitals where I live the surgeon often teaches by letting the assistant do much of the surgery. …. Or so I am told. I have had 2 orthopedic surgeries where that was the case (one involving local anaesthetic so I could actually hear the handoff!

[David Litt @davidglitt]

@geoffreylitt @aboodman But if we all skip the “thank you” we can collectively save enough electricity to power a small nation.

[David Litt @davidglitt]

@geoffreylitt @NotionHQ @mschoening Congratulations, Geoffrey.
Seems like a great fit. Look forward to watching how things develop.

[Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt]

some news: I work at @NotionHQ now! excited to reunite with @mschoening to help make malleable software a reality 😎

I've long been a fan of the product, and I think there's no company better positioned to democratize software creation in the age of AI, for 3 reasons:

1) Starting with documents

I think the most underrated pattern in malleable software is to start with simple document editing, and then gradually upgrade your documents into powerful software tools.

Hypercard showed the power of this approach decades ago: just draw pictures, and then optionally make the pictures do stuff. I've explored dynamic documents a lot in my own research too.

Notion is the best incarnation of document -> app thinking in modern software.

2) A substrate for co-creation with AI.

Humans and AIs need a place to work together. A great environment for human collaboration is the perfect foundation to build on.

The recent Notion AI launches have made the product insanely useful to me. At work, nearly every question I've had during onboarding has been correctly answered by the AI search. And in my personal life I can now get instant answers to random logistical questions.

Highly recommend checking out last week's Make With Notion keynote to see what's cooking here.

3) A distribution model where everyone can create.

To truly enable personal software, we need new, lighter distribution models. Even if everyone can use AI to code, there's still so much friction to share tools with your friends and coworkers thru traditional app stores.

Since the beginning, Notion has been oriented around people building tools that work for them, and then easily sharing those tools inside companies, publishing templates to the broader community, etc. This stuff has to be built in at the foundation and can't be tacked on later.

Alright, back to work. So excited to build with this awesome team!

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Man, I've been thinking the same thing for the last 2 years

[David Litt @davidglitt]

@ab_peko Good luck with the ride! Please let me know where (besides X/Twitter) I can read your posts. I am leaving X, as are many others.

[David Litt @davidglitt]

I’ve decided to deactivate my account here. I will wait a few weeks so a few others can see this. Bluesky, YouTube, Substack, etc offer enough, and I need to try to prioritize quality over quantity screen time. You should too. I don’t want anything to do with Elon Musk.

[David Litt @davidglitt]

@eyeslasho @elonmusk 2017? How about the health care workers who died during the pandemic?

[David Litt @davidglitt]

@elonmusk @Google when I search (on Google News), I get first category “News about Voting” (something about not needing to vote in four years?), category “News about Harris, Donald Trump”, third “News about Elon Musk, Donald Trump”, “news about attempted assassination of Donald Trump”.

[David Litt @davidglitt]

@elonmusk Elected attorney general of California, re-elected, elected U.S. Senator, elected Vice President, and on the winning (practically unopposed) ticket during the primaries. She is where she is because she won elections, and she is about to win another one!

[David Litt @davidglitt]

@elonmusk How can you get advertisers back when you don’t even follow your own policies on altered video/voice? Good luck with that.

[David Litt @davidglitt]

@RonaldKlain @VP @KamalaHarris It started with the candidate and the voters. The “electeds”, especially those in swing states or facing tough races, just responded to the voters. Now is not the time for grumbling about “the donors and electeds”.

[Audax Japan @AudaxJapan]

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[David Litt @davidglitt]

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