Today we're launching @CautionHosting, a hosting platform for software you can't afford to have hacked.
Deploy sensitive workloads to secure enclaves in minutes and give customers cryptographic proof that prod is running the exact release you approved, not an opaque binary you have to trust.
Caution is built for payment processors, healthcare platforms, AI agents and inference, crypto infrastructure, and other sensitive systems. It removes the blind trust software runs on today: trust in the cloud host, in production admins, in CI/CD, and in the assumption that the code you reviewed is the code actually running.
We spent years securing systems responsible for over $600B in assets and hit the same wall every time: teams couldn't prove what was running in production. Now that AI can find and exploit zero-days faster than anyone can patch, "trust us" isn't enough. Infrastructure has to stay secure even when it's compromised, and prove it.
Verifiable compute becomes the default, like HTTPS did.
Ben Affleck shares how he overcame his alcohol addiction. Says it is not “overpriced rehabs”.
“I hate to say it but the cure for addiction and the only cure I’ve seen is not these overpriced rehabs or these fraudulent fixes that are sold to people”
“The cure for addiction is suffering”
“You suffer enough and then something inside you goes ‘I’m done’”
The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney
Even my grandmother is helplessly addicted to instagram reels now.
She hardly even reads anymore. First time I noticed her cognitive decline in old age.
Silicon valley tech nerds making the algorithms as addictive as possible will never reach the pearly gates. I promise.
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke explains Goodhart’s law and why he doesn’t like KPIs or OKRs
“Goodhart’s law is real. The moment a metric becomes a goal, it’s no longer a useful metric… No metric by itself is a complete heuristic for a complex business. There’s a million different tensions in a company, and you can’t keep all of them in harmony by optimizing for one thing.”
For this reason, Shopify doesn’t use KPIs or OKRs. But as Tobi explains, this doesn’t mean they don’t value data and metrics.
“We are extremely data informed. We have invested enormous amounts of money and time into systems that give us basically everything at our fingertips… But what Shopify attempts to do is just not over-fit for what’s quantifiable.”
People love optimizing for highly-quantifiable things because there’s immediate gratification that comes from seeing a number go up. But Tobi thinks that the most important aspects of a product are rarely quantifiable:
“The overlap of the most valuable things you can do with a product and the things that happen to be fully quantifiable are like maybe 20%. Which leaves 80% of a value space unaddressable by the people who only look at quantifiable things.”
He continues:
“Shopify is comfortable with unquantifiable things like taste, quality, passion, love, hate… The sort of deep satisfaction that a craftsperson feels when they’ve done a job well is actually a better proxy if you allow it to be.”
They then have robust analytics systems that tell the company if something’s wrong or a new rollout breaks something.
“We think about it as a cockpit for a pilot. The decisions are still made by pilots, and we think this leads to better results… I think there needs to be more acceptance in business of unquantifiable things… And then metrics take a support function.”
Source: @lennysan (Feb 2025)