What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat ✦ must read
This is a painfully good read. :-/
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Parents, Consider Underachieving ✦
I am just so tired, and so bad at crafts. I dream of the day we can all take it down a notch without shame: skipping an event here, ignoring a made-up holiday there. What I need is a quorum. Without it, my kids will continue to feel neglected — all their friends went to the world fair, and they said the food at Venezuela was incredible — and I will continue to feel guilty, pretty much all the time, but especially when I’m staring at my ceiling at 3 a.m.
I Saw Something New in San Francisco ✦
This conversation will be one of the single most important ones of the decade—maybe the rest of our lives.
A website to destroy all websites ✦
All hail the personal website! Henry’s is an extraordinary example of one.
Meter- The Internet Utility ✦
Good friend of mine just started working at Meter. Fascinating company.
Software Bonkers ✦
Can’t overstate how big this all feels.
South by AI
4,000 sessions. One quiz. I built an AI-powered SXSW schedule builder because I didn't want to read all those descriptions either.
How to Do Great Work ✦
Long, great post. One I suspect I'll come back to many, many times over the years, highlighting different parts each and every time.
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule ✦ must read
Thinking about this a lot lately and how so much of my life is and has been on a "manager's schedule" for quite some time, even when not working full-time. Claude Code, going deep on tinkering and building, has aggressively put me back in a "maker's schedule" mindset.
Read Anthropic CEO’s Memo Attacking OpenAI’s ‘Mendacious’ Pentagon Announcement ✦
It's hard not to highlight this entire memo. Truly remarkable candor (which I appreciate). And while there are two sides to every story—in this case, maybe three or four sides—it's hard not to side with Dario on this one.