Hathaway Field Notes

The iPhone Duo looks like Apple at its best.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

At Mailprotector, the email security company I've spent much of my career building, we competed with companies that had far more resources than we did.

Best practices guarantee average performance.

It's not much more than a toy, but it looks fun.

The transition to the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history.

You’d be losing the loss.

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AI, from a consumer point of view, is still a technology searching for a job to be done.

One man designed all of it.

AirPods with cameras could be far more useful than they sound.

When you see a successful individual, a champion, a "winner," you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who plays great attention to the perfection of minor details. — John Wooden

Ambition becomes a superpower when you stop expecting achievement to satisfy you and learn to love the pursuit itself.

Another great app from Marco Arment.

ShieldFont is an open-source creative technology project that offers a practical opt-out from unauthorized AI training and disrupts what is collected when that choice is ignored.

When it comes to wearables on the face, the job is going to be optics.

I could have fixed it, but it turned out to be important, because if you get two good players they could just volley and play the game forever.

Meta's philosophy for how it intends to build and distribute superintelligence, at roughly 6,500 words.

An engineer putting a piece of work on their backlog is effectively deferring it to never.

Why do I write?

Economists call this the "make-or-buy" decision: a rational actor produces something themselves only when the total cost, including time and opportunity costs, is lower than the cost of buying it from someone else.

This is the clearest case I've seen for why cheaper code doesn't mean fewer engineers — it means more software, and more software still needs people to decide what to build and stand behind it.

This is one of the reasons Spatial Computing is so strategic.

Designed with Work Louder, the kbd-1.0-codex-micro brings your agent workspace into reach.

New interfaces show up before the products that need them.

I bought my first Tesla in 2020, a Model X, and there's been one in the driveway ever since.

The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them—no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time.

Over the last several days, Telegram groups for security researchers and hacking groups have been sharing videos and screenshots of the steps taken to steal an account, which appeared to be shockingly easy.

This one's paywalled, so I can't see the details.

A dedicated macro pad for Codex is an unexpected move, and I'm intrigued.

Morgan Wallen at Death Valley on Saturday.

I can get real caught up in the outcome.

The person who approaches a problem like an opportunity has an advantage that the person who sees an obstacle will never understand. — Shane Parrish Permalink →

If you're going to get into something, you ought to pursue it to its full extent.

SpaceX is an amazing company but this valuation is insane.

New AR glasses from Snap, on pre-order for $2,195.

Ben Thompson, on how Anthropic's safety rationale keeps lining up with its commercial interest: I expect Anthropic to increasingly expose their model's capabilities to end users through endpoints increasingly tailored to different workflows, even as they…

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Horace Dediu, on why each new computing interface tends to add to the others rather than replace them: The touch UI did not immediately obviate the need for traditional personal computing interfaces.

Satya Nadella, making the case that the model itself becomes a commodity — and that the value moves to the learning loop a company builds on top of it: Every company is going to have to build what I think of as human capital and token capital.

Companies are taking a hard look at their AI spending and deciding the numbers don't add up.

The goal is your destination.

Email is a communication medium that is used by nearly everyone on the Internet.

Google's Nest acquisition has very little to do with selling thermostats and smoke detectors in particular.

I've long had a love affair with Netflix.

People think it's natural to live in a world where everyone is dysfunctional.

Four questions to consider before you speak: Is it true?

Berkshire Hathaway, despite a market value now approaching one quarter of a trillion dollars, is managed from a tiny office with a staff smaller than a soccer team's starting roster.

Knowledge may be priceless, but a higher education is clearly not.