Waqas

This is quite a thread! A canonical example of how unbridled margin expansion & market control inevitably create the conditions for disruption - and perhaps eventual demise? - for the incumbent. Remember - one man’s margin = another man’s opportunity. “instead of a vampire…

At a large enough organization, there’s a lot of truth to this. Shipping the org chart becomes the “default” (i.e. inertia leads you to this state), and it can require a tremendous amount of energy to break the cycle and work well across silos. In such environments, even if…

re: the Tea App fiasco.

Urdu: "Bohat gharoor tha sooraj ko apni shiddat par, so aik pal hi sahi baadalon se haar gaya" Loose translation: "The sun was (far too) arrogant from its power - that in one fell swoop, it lost to the clouds"

I found this clip particularly interesting from an org design perspective. Even for organizations that are not frontier AI labs, there are often parallels to the "three tribes" approach where groups/teams are split by distinct company-level values or priorities. In OAI's case…

“overridden by the objective of feeling good and sounding clever” This makes a lot of sense if you reframe as the objective to not feel badly. No one wants to feel not-smart, not-clever, not-right, not-funny, not-wise, etc. The desire to not feel badly is a powerful but…

Well said by @annetgriffin.

It is a testament to the product-market fit of traveling internationally that it survives despite the pains of flying internationally.

“the iron is always hot” is a powerful assertion, from a psychological standpoint. Often, the harder part is knowing where & how you want to strike. As in, what that means to you.

Sharing a very cool product/concept from @sariazout and team. This solves a real problem many of us face: - Feeds are far too ephemeral. - Algos, left to their own devices, trend borderline user hostile. - Inspiration comes in many forms across many apps, platforms, sites,…

People believe that building alignment is synonymous with moving slowly. This is only true if you are (a) building alignment too widely or (b) not skilled at building alignment. In other words, unless you’re operating at big scale, it’s a skill issue. The latter is what we…

I’m here to report back that if you are willing to go to the depths of your pain, you will be able to go deeper into your joy and gratitude than you ever even knew was possible.

Do you remember that time when they distracted you from the real things with the current thing?

I think the reason this is true is because there are so many things that contribute to failure. But often much fewer things that lead to success. And it's often obvious what those things are. Learning what works is much more clarifying than the "what if" of failure.

Product Owners, oft maligned, rise like the Phoenix from the ashes.

This is especially true if you needed a level of “reality distortion” to achieve said success. This is especially difficult if your success was more to do with luck than you might like to believe. This is especially valuable when your success is still a fraction of your…

Well said.