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Loved that puzzle, thanks for sharing it. I’ve solved a lot of math problems in the past but this one had a unique flavor of interleaving logical reasoning, partial information and…

Defensibility re: companies is well studied, by Hamilton Helmer who and his grad student did case studies of several hundred "defensible" companies and identified 7 "powers" that h…

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Yeah! That's the danger with any kind of "model" whether it is CoT, CrewAI, or other ways to outsmart it. It is betting that a programmer/operator can break a large tasks up in a b…

This is so uncannily close to the problems we're encountering at Pioneer, trying to make human+LLM workflows in high stakes / high complexity situations. Humans are so smart and do…

Maybe one way to think of it is fractal management where a manager would have deep read-write interactions with few skip levels. HBR style says read everywhere, write only direct r…

Tony Fadell’s idea of a Parent CEO vs Babysitter CEO in Build comes close to this founded mode concept but I am so glad PG memed the founder mode concept into existence, and talk a…

As someone who currently runs on decreased sleep, I can relate to a bunch of these. But in my case, the root cause seems to be stress from increased load, and the higher cortisol l…

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Good to know, but when I applied in 2005/6 iirc they did have as a part of the application a question about anyone in my family being from MIT. But I didn’t meet many students whos…

https://d13v.com More than 100 essays on various timeless topics. Most recently I wrote a series called “how to be a game changer” which focused on creating win win situations in a…

Hi Josh - I got your email at join@pioneerclimate.com and replied back. The other two bounced :)

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Any folks from Convex, do you have plans on adding vector indexes to Convex databases?

It is not that the commit was wrong. It was the right commit, in the sense that it did expose and trigger the bug. OP is being too modest :) But the root cause of the bug was in an…

This is the type of content that fills me with awe after a long day of meetings. Thank you OP! It is not clear from the article if you booted linux 290K more times _after_ the bise…

Another example of how real world data is always messier than a neat model: Vatican is entirely encircled in Rome, therefore any area outside Vatican is closer to Rome than the Vat…

I am reminded of one of Matt Mochary’s teaching: when you have to do a task, which takes away your energy, and cannot be delegated to someone else, them make it “exquisite”. Next t…

This. Most of the value of the company is to be created in the future, and you'll likely pivot (based on statistics, your specific idea may turn out to be spot on).

The VP of Sales is interesting. I would imagine that agents wouldn't look like the traditional human roles, but would stack fractally under each other, like functions in code do.

Why not a mixture of both? We all have insecurities- I’m sure even Mr Wolfram. But success also leads to confidence. An entrepreneur has to pitch his brand and “wolfram” is his str…

Probably he comes off as big ego, which we are hardwired to resist. However I think a lot of that narcissism is confidence justified by his successes and track record, he’s created…

I went through an active search two years ago, and what I learned is that cofounder fit is super hard to find, and probably impossible to timebox. But I thought that similar to how…