new breakfast octopus dropped https://
fortune.com/2024/07/25/seq
ouia-capital-roelof-botha-investment-culture-apple-nvidia/?mlr456
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Sequoia Capital Investment Culture: Apple and Nvidia Leaders
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Review of The Atomic Human: What Remains if Machines Take Over
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Review of the Atomic Human by @bryanappleyard (thanks for sticking with the digressions Bryan!). What will remain of us if the machines take over?
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Five Essential Factors for Startup Founder Longevity Success
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Just crossed 8 years at HF. Based on my experience, these are the five most important factors of longevity for startup founders: #1 Amazing cofounders (for me: crazy smart, kind & driven – @julien_c & @Thom_Wolf
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Future Workplaces: Pool Parties Replace Remote Work Culture
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Remote work is outdated. The next big thing is offices with pools.
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 25 juillet 2024
Who said meetings can't be a pool party? Would you like to work with them?
Source: Comedy Central#future #workplace pic.twitter.com/qEzwZmrMwDRemote work is outdated. The next big thing is offices with pools. Who said meetings can't be a pool party? Would you like to work with them? Source: Comedy Central
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Margaret Hamilton’s MIT software powered Apollo 11 moon landing
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55 years ago this month Apollo 11 took off —and then landed a man on the moon — thanks to software from an MIT team led by 32-year-old Margaret Hamilton.
— Sean Gardner (@2morrowknight) 24 juillet 2024
(video: @MAKERSwomen) @NASA @MIT_CSAIL #WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM #NASA pic.twitter.com/wmpXXN4ppt55 years ago this month Apollo 11 took off —and then landed a man on the moon — thanks to software from an MIT team led by 32-year-old Margaret Hamilton. (video: @MAKERSwomen) @NASA @MIT_CSAIL #WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM #NASA
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GenAI Backlash: Silicon Valley’s Audacity Crisis Deepens
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For today's column I tried to capture a feeling I'm seeing more. Of people cooling on genAI and how the audacious, manifest destiny rhetoric coming out of SV is grating on people. https://
theatlantic.com/technology/arc
hive/2024/07/openai-audacity-crisis/679212/?gift=iWa_iB9lkw4UuiWbIbrWGcok43b8aWmdu7RNywzq6Xo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Investing in Distributed Creator Intelligence Over Concentrated Resources
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I'd be a lot more inclined to invest $10M into 2000 creators. The distributed intelligence and creativity of the crowd feels underutilized.
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Netflix Uses AI to Generate Targeted Trailers for Audience Engagement
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When Netflix launched "House of Cards," they used AI to create multiple trailers for different audiences, maximizing engagement. This shows how targeted marketing can achieve better results. #AI #Marketing
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Growing skepticism toward generative AI and Silicon Valley hype
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For today's column I tried to capture a feeling I'm seeing more. Of people cooling on genAI and how the audacious, manifest destiny rhetoric coming out of SV is grating on people.
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Humans communicate without shared vocabulary understanding
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I love this – humans can still understand each other and communicate without a shared vocabulary.