It just seems implausible this is what we are made of, essentially, nanotechnology about a billion years beyond anything we can design or make ourselves.
Steve Jobs: "I've made this mistake probably more than anybody else in this room."
When challenged about Apple's technology decisions, Jobs shared a marketing lesson that changed how he approached building products:
"You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to try to sell it."
He continues:
"And I've got the scar tissue to prove it."
Jobs explains that when developing Apple's strategy and vision, the starting point was always:
"What incredible benefits can we give to the customer? Where can we take the customer?"
Not: "Let's sit down with the engineers and figure out what awesome technology we have and then how are we going to market that."
He acknowledges that some technologies might be impressive in isolation, capable of producing great demos or even small commercial applications.
But as Jobs puts it, the hardest question is:
"How does that fit into a cohesive larger vision?"
Start with the experience you want to create.
Then build backwards.
This year, I wish you less — less information, less food, less entertainment, less communication, less stimulation. You already have too much of all that, and it stands in the way of your serenity, health, sleep, and creativity. Merry Christmas! ☦️
Elon Musk: Intenté sin éxito convencer a Trump de que no impusiera aranceles. https://t.co/UMQKfB9pmX
«Creo que, en general, el libre comercio es más eficiente. Los aranceles tienden a crear distorsiones en los mercados. ¿Le gustaría que hubiera aranceles entre usted y todos los demás a nivel individual? Eso haría la vida muy difícil. ¿Le gustaría que hubiera aranceles entre cada ciudad? No, eso sería muy molesto. ¿Le gustaría que hubiera aranceles entre cada estado de los Estados Unidos? No, eso sería desastroso para la economía. Entonces, ¿por qué quiere aranceles entre países?
El presidente ha dejado claro que le encantan los aranceles. He intentado disuadirlo de este punto de vista, pero sin éxito».
New breakthrough quantum algorithm published in @Nature today: Our Willow chip has achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage.
Willow ran the algorithm - which we’ve named Quantum Echoes - 13,000x faster than the best classical algorithm on one of the world's fastest supercomputers. This new algorithm can explain interactions between atoms in a molecule using nuclear magnetic resonance, paving a path towards potential future uses in drug discovery and materials science.
And the result is verifiable, meaning its outcome can be repeated by other quantum computers or confirmed by experiments.
This breakthrough is a significant step toward the first real-world application of quantum computing, and we're excited to see where it leads.
Your economic life expectancy is shrinking.
Every year, you’re worth less to the market — not because you’re dumber, but because machines compound faster than you do.
It’s the mathematics of obsolescence:
if capital compounds at 30% and you grow skills at 5%, the gap isn’t linear — it’s exponential decay of relevance.
AI doesn’t need coffee breaks, doesn’t forget, and doesn’t get emotional about sunk costs.
It just eats inefficiency and digests margin.
The new game isn’t “work harder.”
It’s own the infrastructure that replaces you.
You either compound with capital, or you get compounded by it.