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AI alone is cool. But mastery + creativity + AI hits on a whole different level. Don't let anyone discourage you from pursuing excellence and craft. Keep studying the blade.
Right! And the sharpest past is the edge cases like empty states and error states that surface during code reviews. Now they surface while you’re still designing. Designer can poke at them and see the side effects instantly
I’d add a few more to the list:
- The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Peter Kaufman
- The Model Thinker by Scott Page
- Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian
- Quit by Annie Duke
- Essentialist by Greg McKeown
- Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green
- No Rules Rules Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hasting and Erin Meyer
The big lesson from AI is that everything is code. A slide deck is code. Design is code. That cool promo video? Code. Excel automation? Code. The universe? Probably made of code too.
The future is open source.
The past is closed source.
As I’ve been saying for the last 15 years, this cuts across ALL technologies … ALL categories … ALL timelines.
There is a saying that experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
But that experience is a perpetual goldmine that keeps on giving, if you are open to learning from it.
In the next version of Claude Code: subagents run in the background by default, so you can keep talking to Claude while your subagents work
If you want your agent to run in the foreground, just tell Claude
Your first attempt might not be very good, but nobody's early work is good. There will always be a gap between where you are and where you want to be. And the bridge between that gap is courage. The courage to look foolish in the beginning. The courage to show up again when your early work is criticized. The courage to look yourself in the mirror and say, "I realize I'm not good enough yet, but the only way to get better is to keep working on it."
The best predictor of success for tech companies, at every stage from during the YC batch to public company with billions in revenue, is the rate of shipping new stuff.
Talked to an engineer inside of NVIDIA about how they and their team works. Very interesting:
“We don’t need to worry about layoffs. This means no need to worry about elbowing people out of the way to try and make yourself “safe” and important. So everyone helps everyone.”