when the space of what can be built explodes because the cost of trying goes to zero, deciding what to build becomes the bottleneck. knowing which model output is plausible and which is actually good is not a commodity skill. taste is underrated in technology.
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
Hello tweeter. I’ll be in Vancouver for an indeterminate amount of time! I have no friends there so would be excited about meeting new people :) Hopefully will return home sometime this year but if not shall make the best of it.
Japan has so many elements of what I want in the future of civilization. Safe streets where kids walk to school. Healthy food supply. Quality and craft culture. Longevity. Law and order.
The future is not neon drone shows, it’s technology in the service of humanity and beauty.
It is surreal to real what has taken place in these “Influencer Villages”, where folks in other “Influencer Villages” watch in the millions.
Not the plot to any movie as it was beyond the imagination of Science Fiction writers.
The single most important article yet published on Trump's second term, by two scholars who since 2016 have been consistently correct in anticipating Trump's effect on our political system. Everyone should read it.
The single most important article yet published on Trump's second term, by two scholars who since 2016 have been consistently correct in anticipating Trump's effect on our political system. Everyone should read it.
Steve Jobs: “There’s a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a great idea and a great product”
“One of the things that really hurt Apple was, after I left, John Sculley got a very serious disease. And that disease—I’ve seen other people get it too—is the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90% of the work.”
But that’s never the case. As Steve explains, a product idea never turns out as originally conceived because you learn a lot from the details of building it, and there are always tradeoffs you have to make.
“There’s a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a great idea and a great product… and it’s that process that is the magic.”
He compares a team working hard on something they’re passionate about to a rock tumbler:
“It's through the team--through a group of incredibly talented people--bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together... they polish each other and polish the ideas. And what comes out are these really beautiful stones.”