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"don't say no to several small ideas; say yes to a few big ones"
It’s not prioritization until it hurts
Early in my career, I remember asking the most senior engineer I worked with to join an urgent meeting that week.
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“Avoid creating teams that have a lower priority mission/goals compared to the rest of the org: you just create a team that dies in slow motion.”
Fair but Unequal
Opportunities within companies are all inherently different. Here
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Context engineering is the new prompt engineering
Context Engineering Guide
Prompt engineering is being rebranded as context engineering
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It’s almost like watching a YouTube livestream of an experienced developer speed running building an application, except that app is exactly what you asked them to build
Phoenix.new is Fly’s entry into the prompt-driven app development space
Here’s a fascinating new entrant into the AI-assisted-programming / coding-agents space by Fly.io, introduced on their blog in Phoenix.new – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix: describe an app in …
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Epic slides from Karpathy YC talk.
Full post:
https://www.latent.space/p/s3
Slides on Karpathy's Slides - AI Startup School 2025 - http://latent.space/s3
notes on “Software in the Age of AI” Andrej Karpathy’s talk at YC AI Startup school Subscribe for updates/ongoing notes: https://latent.space/s3 based on tweets about the talk But will update once actual talk is published
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Beautifully written
Notes on Roadtrips by The Browser Company
What roadtrips may or may not have to teach us about creativity, ingenuity, and building something entirely new.
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Advice to managers: everything takes longer than you think.
Everything takes longer than you think
The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough. It’s that your expectations were never realistic to begin with.
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Age of Adaptable Software
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
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Finally someone explained why "10-minute book summaries" never worked for me
> When you read a deep book on a big subject, the learning comes from your brain forming new connections as it spends extended time marinating in the material.
Skip all this work and no new connections are built.
We're Using AI Backwards—Here's How to Max Your Brain on AI (I call it Cognitive Choreography)
How to use AI for cognitive expansion instead of information compression—and why this shift will determine who thrives vs. survives in the age of AI (plus thinking in new ways is fun right?)
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DoorDash story-
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5yWbixaP6aSSSSwwZ0FPNk
Stanley Tang (DoorDash) - Scaling the Unscalable
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL) · Episode
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