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The CEO of an aircraft company should know how to design aircraft, not spreadsheets

Professional Tribalism

يقول الجاحظ: «وجميع الخير راجعٌ إلى سعة الصدر. فقد صحّ الآن أن سعة الصدر أصل، وما سوى ذلك من أصناف الخير فرع»

This is a great article from Sequoia which argues the tech industry needs $600B in AI revenue to justify the money spent on GPUs and data centers. OpenAI is the biggest AI pure play and is at $3.4B annual run rate. This feels like a bubble unless products worth buying show up.

Let's go! Best selling electric pickup is also made in America. And very likely the most American made pickup too. Happy 4th!

بيروت… خُلِقت لِلَّيْل… تستيقظ قليلاً قبْلَ الأصيل وتحيى، حقاً، حتى الضحى…

knowledge workers? more like knowledge yappers

~12yrs ago, I got a job Google. Those were still early days of cloud. I joined GCP @<150M ARR & left @~4B (excld GSuite). Learned from some of the smartest ppl in tech. But we also got a LOT wrong that took yrs to fix. Much of it now public, but here’s my ring-side view👇

Tesla full self driving has made significant strides in the last year, and I am feeling very confident about this bet. I have made multiple two hour drives without touching the wheel. I wouldn’t have wanted the task of leading a self driving effort for a couple reasons: There

As a senior individual contributor, part of how you get things done is always going to be black magic. In companies where there is an established senior IC population, this is a pretty well understood reality. In others, management will try to micromanage you or count some

At some point in the lifespan of most companies, they _forget_ how to be agile, how start small and grow. The only output you expect from most big companies is a bloated product built around org charts instead of customer needs.

I’m excited about the future of manufacturing in the US. The potential in AI and robotics is amazing.

In my interview with Tucker Carlson I talked about how AI can reinvigorate American entrepreneurship, and I put out a challenge: - Learn to code on Replit, start here: replit.com/learn/100-days… - Build a minimum viable product for your business idea - Share and tag me or Replit ⠕

Steve Jobs: "Don't be a career."

Icon: Marcel Breuer

Burnout happens when there is no progress. Burnout also happens when you have no visibility into how dots will connect in the future. Burnout is about not being able to close the loop after putting a ton of effort and not seeing enough results.

Founder Mode paulgraham.com/foundermode.ht…

wow.

When I was a teenager, the #1 thing that brought me into software is that the only thing that you need to bring immense value to the world is a computer!