between Alex Kendall / Wayve announcing their funding and Alexandr Wang setting up shop in the UK, a great day to be optimistic about tech in the UK.

A) ft.com/content/a5704e…

B) gov.uk/government/new…

Welcome to the UK!

Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth I call the latter 'accidental moderates'. (If they have opinions you don't often see together, they can't be on either the right or the left.)

paulgraham.com/mod.html

It’s depressing when you can predict all of a person’s political / social viewpoints from knowing just one.

On the other hand: when someone holds surprising opinions you don’t often see together, it’s a delight.

For the past two months we ran an experiment in The Free Press: searching essays looking back on thinkers who proved uncannily prescient about our current moment.

We called the series: The Prophets.

I loved the idea idea of the series. Emily Yoffe was the editor, so that was enough for…

This is a very good email from Kevin Scott

- recognizes a shift in what was thought possible

- recognizes where a team is behind despite best efforts

- does so without really blaming anyone.

This is the sort of stuff that can catalyze a discussion that changes strategies…

To make a different point: when you ask companies how they did X where X was a very hard thing , you’ll always get an answer that involves dozens of little steps adding up.

Sunday rant.

For software engineering, my sense is that the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil” has massively backfired. Its from a book on data structures and mainly tried to dissuade people from prematurely write things in assembler. But the point was to…

I remember the “Twitter is failing “ takes every few weeks.

But yet here we are Elon Musk

My answer to when someone asks “how do we get society to do X”

“Have Chalamet and Zendaya do a movie where they do X”

when a product team is humming, you can feel it.

-> checkins
-> new builds/demos/staging things to try
-> pipeline to 'thing discussed in brainstorming meeting' to 'artifact of code' is tight

love how often I get emails thanks to the memos collection here. you see management/leadership has run into the same issues for a very long time.

sriramk.com/memos/

I often point people to Internal Tech Emails which does a better job these days for more modern stories.