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A popular icebreaker in San Francisco these days is “How would you spend your life if AGI meant nobody needed to work?”

I’ve been thinking recently about what sets apart my coworkers who’ve done the best work.

This post was adapted from an internal doc I wrote at Wave.

My few most productive individual weeks at Anthropic have all been “crisis project management:” coordinating major, time-sensitive implementation or debugging efforts.

This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Anthropic.

This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Anthropic.

This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Wave.

This post was adapted from a “management roundtable” I gave at Anthropic.

Last Friday was my last day as CTO at Wave, capping an incredible ~8 years filled with more professional and personal growth, joy, and meaning than I could have hoped for.

Recently I noticed that most existing “why you should write a blog” articles (e.g.) have at least one of two shortcomings, according to me: They mostly focus on counterarguments to not starting a blog, rather than positive arguments in favor of starting o…