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Review of The Diplomat: Season 3

Founders create problems.

Last week, Amazon quietly hosted a private open house for senior engineering leaders at its Seattle headquarters.

AGI is here.

I can never see myself writing code by hand again.

Onboarding engineers is hard.

Task: Product Founder Fit: Building domain expertise is not hard, but entrenching oneself in the culture of an existing industry takes time.

Olshansky's review of Platonic: Season 2

tl;dr Add a simple “Leave a Tip” section to llms.txt.

There’s a quote I heard a little while ago that really stuck with me: If you are not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart.

Feedback shouldn’t be a one-time or regularly scheduled event.

One thing I’ve changed my mind on recently is the importance of politics.

Why hosting your own content matters more than ever in the age of LLMs, licensing, and AI-driven discovery.

Review of The Diplomat:

The only agent you'll ever need to write, maintain and update prompts.

Fools ignore complexity.

On Charlie Munger Charlie Munger once said: “Show me the incentive, and I’ll show you the outcome.”

Chris Dixon once said: “Come for the tool, stay for the network.”

Just read the CLARITY Act and was impressed by how much technical detail Congress baked in.

Stripe is building a new blockchain: Tempo.

Computer Science degrees are more relevant than ever before.

Feynman’s Problem Solving Playbook: Write down the problem Think very hard Write down the answer AI-era Feynman’s Problem Solving Playbook: Type out a good prompt Think very hard about the output Repeat (1) & (2) until you get the answer

Olshansky's review of The Four Seasons: Season 1

One of the biggest mistakes in AI evals is treating them as objective truth.

I hear a lot of conflation between RPCs and APIs.

Means a lot that you want to learn about me :)

Work in an environment that teaches you what your limits but doesn’t push you past them.

KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid.

Olshansky's review of Zero Day

Overall Thoughts & Summary I have huge admiration for the work Palantir does and a ton of respect for Alex Karp, but I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone.

Olshansky's review of Deadpool and Wolverine

Olshansky's review of My Oxford Year

Olshansky's review of The Lazarus Project: Seasons 1 & 2

Baking bread by reading & following the recipe VS Baking bread without ever seeing the recipe

There is a big opportunity to build the “Google home page” for finding and accessing APIs for any open data sources and services.

Olshansky's review of The Amateur

Olshansky's review of Happy Gilmore 2

Olshansky's review of Death of a Unicorn

Olshansky's review of Sirens: Season 1

Olshansky's review of Our Times

Olshansky's review of Ticket To Paradise

Olshansky's review of Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans

Olshansky's review of The Righteous Gemstones: Season 4

Olshansky's review of Dream Scenario

Olshansky's review of Squid Game: Season 3

Olshansky's review of Big Mouth: Season 8

Olshansky's review of The Residence: Season 1

Olshansky's review of the movie It's What's Inside

Olshansky's review of the movie Mountainhead

tl;dr — Pocket Network will hard-fork from Morse MainNet to Shannon MainNet on June 3, 2025 at 10 a.m.