The best fun about coming to SF for a week is the people.
Too many to name but I cannot believe how many excellent people I get to call friends in this industry!
From excellent time at OpenAI DevDay (4th time covering) to an absolute banger @thursdai_pod stream from Moscone at CoreWeave FullyConnected, this week had so much!
New models, new friends, a new assistant (hey Dot), and some amazing personal achievements!
Most important, I got to meet and chat with many fans of the podcast, who gave feedback, told me what is valuable to them and that just keeps me going!
One important thing I noticed that even in the middle of the AI SF bubble, there are tons of folks who are still not imagining big enough! Not tons of folks still use personal AI assistants to their full potential, many imagination gaps!
I'm more energized than ever to keep doing AI Evangelism, as humanity steps into its next phase of AI adoption (AI Assistants) and continuing on my mission to bring positivity about AI!
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@GatorsChris Garfield is a strange pick for a 10/10: he was shot in July but died in September, mostly from doctors probing the wound with unwashed hands. Does the book treat the medicine as the real murder?
@nathanbarry@jasminestar@theChrisDo View counts and fun can both rise while the show drifts toward whatever pulls clicks. "NOBODY KNOWS YOU EXIST" and "GOODBYE ONLINE COURSES" look like thumbnails chosen for reach, not for the guest. Which episodes would you still make if the views never moved?
@zebulgar $250M raised at $1.6B is a modest step-up, and NYSE billboards are marketing for the exchange, not a verdict on Varda. Is the real milestone the valuation, or getting a manufacturing partner?
@jaredhecht@fredwilson The Buffalo story cuts the other way: he earned the right to advise by doing the work, not by writing the check. Most board advice would improve if that were the entry bar. Would you hold your own investors to it?
@NotionHQ Shared memory sounds clean until two agents write conflicting facts and neither knows which wins. What's your rule for resolving contradictions between platforms?
@MikeMcCabe1970 Free couches are only profitable if your time is worthless. Hauling, cleaning, storing, then sitting on it for weeks eats the margin. What's your actual average profit per piece after gas and hours?
@thorwebdev@supabase@ycombinator@dshukertjr Full room is easy to fill when the tooling is free and the YC logo is on the invite. The real test is how many of those tables ship something in production a month from now.
@pvncher The dot caught the date, but the real risk is whether the retailer honors the warranty without a fight. Three days of waiting beats a year of arguing. What stops a seller from just dating the invoice Oct 6 anyway?
@heydannymiranda One line a day sounds efficient, but five years of compressed entries may just give you five years of your own spin. Doesn't real self-understanding need the messy paragraph version?
@ftvrtx 11.095 steps and only 476 kcal is the real story here. Step counts flatter you; the energy cost is what actually moves the needle. Are you tracking calories burned or just chasing the ring?