tobi lutke
@tobi
@Shopify CEO by day, Dad in evening, hacker at night. Aspiring comprehensivist. (tweets auto delete eventually) retweet=noteworthy share, not endorsement
had this wild and wonderful conversation with @RickRubin. Turns out, having a legendary producer excavate your brain about code, craft, commerce, culture, racing, and AI is oddly therapeutic.


How a few rich dairy farmers are sabotaging Canada’s big, beautiful trading future: Full Comment podcast nationalpost.com/opinion/how-a-…
DHH: ELON’S AUDACIOUS MISSIONS ARE INVIGORATING “Elon's level of audacity is so rare that when we see it, we don't fully know how to analyze it. We think of Elon as finding great talent, and I'm sure he's also good at that. But I also think that this beacon of the mission,…
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Shopify’s Storefront web components continues to be highly underrated for the kinds of commerce experiences it unlocks. It’s effectively forward deployed commerce.
🚨 DEAR ELECTIONS CANADA 🚨 100+ people hijacked Pierre’s by-election Tomas Szuchewycz is listed as the official agent for nearly all of them. Under the Elections Act, he must: 1) Open separate bank accounts for every campaign 2) Keep records, filings, and transactions 100%…
If you keep promoting good ideas and good ideals, they'll eventually spread. We've been planting these seeds of persuasion for a quarter of a century. Now we bask in the shade of fully grown and mature conversions. world.hey.com/dhh/the-long-a…
Silicon Valley's new status symbols. Sharing in my little newsletter shortly (link below).
The @tobi “Context Engineering” post was so so so needed. We need he and Karpathy level figures to help shift minds here. Puts focus on where real gains can be had. The “I’ll tip you $100 if you get this right” prompt engineering era is over. It’s the context engineering era.
Context engineering.
This guy is using this huge 40,000 character Meta-Prompt to turne ChatGPT into Warren Buffett. The prompt locks the model into acting as Warren Buffett by loading 40,000+ characters of his biography, routines, quotes, formulas, and case studies. It injects complete valuation…
But @CBC is happy to take Caucasian taxpayer money.
The zero-sum trap: the more people believe that wealth, status, and well-being are zero-sum, the more they back policies that make the world zero-sum. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
Breaking 🚨🇦🇷 | Historic Gains for Argentine Workers as Salaries Outgrow Profits as Share of GDP
Since nobody asked :-), here is my list of papers not to be missed from ICML: 1) Dion: distributed orthonormalized updates (well, technically not at ICML, but everyone's talking about it). 2) MARS: Unleashing the Power of Variance Reduction for Training Large Models 3) ...
Canada's outdated capital gains policies are driving entrepreneurs and investors away. We need competitive tax reform to keep talent and investment here, building the businesses of tomorrow. Today, Canada has two policies to encourage builders to start businesses the Lifetime…
This taxonomy for Context Engineering is sooo handy. I'm making a comprehensive video tutorial on this using DSPy, and my goal is to incorporate atleast one major algorithm from all the blocks.
Top 10 Most Valuable Companies in Canada 2025 🇨🇦📈 1. RBC - $186B 2. Shopify - $152B 3. TD - $128B 4. Enbridge - $99B 5. Brookfield Corp - $98B 6. Thomson Reuters - $90B 7. BMO - $81B 8. Constellation Software - $77B 9. Canadian Pacific Railway - $76B 10. Scotiabank - $68B
Over the last few weeks, I’ve had multiple Jewish friends tell me that they are leaving Toronto and Canada. They say they no longer feel safe sending their kids to school here. This is just so incredibly sad.
A Twitch livestreamer got an earthquake warning before the quake hit, live on air. The alert system fired faster than the tremors reached him, giving viewers a real time demo of just how sharp Japan’s seismic tech really is. [📹 Shiori / Shiori_japan1]
Introducing Rails New, a beginner-friendly series hosted by @typecraft_dev that takes you from installation to `rails new` to a fully deployed productivity app, all in just 10 videos. Perfect for newcomers to #Rails. You’ll learn Rails philosophy and core concepts like MVC,…
Let’s be honest. YouTube peaked with this video youtu.be/26n6AU0qIW0?si…, everything else is just filler content