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In the age of AI, I wonder how humans and organizations will perceive productivity.

Now that summer is nearing an end, I wanted to share a bit about a product I’ve been working on.

I’ve got a gut feeling.

Today’s frontier LLM companies have the same product strategy and sell a slightly different encapsulation of same capabilities with switching costs still very low.

This morning, I read a fascinating conversation.

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, declaring in an internal memo leaked to The New York Times a few weeks ago that employees should work a lot more to win the “race to AGI” is frankly bizarre.

We’ve all heard of the next big thing.

Lately, I’ve been enjoying coding with AI.

The Promise of Apple Intelligence This week from Benedict Evans: Apple has built an LLM with no chatbot.

I’ve been “quiet quitting” Twitter for many years now.

Ideas can outlast human lives, last for generations and spark revolutions.

September went by too fast.

Late last year, I was looking for a timer watch I could use during workouts.

Album art looks really good on iOS 16’s Lock Screen.

Today, I went to an art gallery.

I recently unearthed on YouTube an absolute gem of a conversation held at a Vanity Fair event about 7 years ago between designer Jony Ive, film director JJ Abrams and film producer Brian Grazer — three individuals who are true legends of the creative doma…

Several months ago, I did a big switch from Spotify to Apple Music due to the savings from the Apple One bundle as I was already paying for other stuff like News+, iCloud separately.

I wouldn’t be alone to admit that one of my most important possessions is my Gmail archive.

Late last year, I decided to try Matter.

I saw this chart in a The Wall Street Journal piece today called If This Is a Recession, We Might Not Know for Months: Official acknowledgement of recessions in the United States is the responsibility of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

There’s a social app that’s having a big moment.

Emerging in the tech world this week is a story about Google firing Timnit Gebru and providing a pretty bad excuse for doing so.

After several years of intermittent social media usage, a few months ago, I decided to enforce strict limits on some apps.

Today, I’m publishing a new page on my website: Request for Startups{:target=’_blank’}.

There’s much ado about fairness creams all of a sudden.

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference happened earlier this week.

This week, the EU formally opened antitrust investigations{:target=’_blank’} into Apple’s questionable business practices around the App Store and Apple Pay’s unfair advantage in the world of mobile payments.

India’s Northeast is a land of immense history, beauty and courage.

Just over 6 months ago, in November of 2019, I embarked on a mission to build a new kind of map experience that’s social by design.

In the first half of this 2010s decade, I built two startups.

A few months ago, I covered my favorite picks from Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 batch.

I think a lot about the history of the consumer internet industry.

Recently, TechCrunch covered Y Combinator’s (YC) Winter 2019 Demo Day, giving the world a glimpse into the companies launching from the world’s top incubator for startups.

Every week, I stumble upon startups or products with intriguing missions in the areas of my personal interest.

The world wide web turns 30 today.

Pain, but I won’t let it turn into hate No, I won’t let it change me — Youth, by Shawn Mendes ft.

As I write this, at this very instant, across the universe, galaxies move, stars are born and stars cease to exist, supernova explosions occur, more than a thousand suns burn, meteorites accelerate, satellites zoom by, all while the universe itself moves..

I’ve been wanting to write this one out for a while, and sitting at LaGuardia Airport in New York City waiting for my delayed flight, I felt an urge to finally put it into words and share it.

Early-stage investing is complex.

Over the last year or so, I’ve found myself constantly checking the feeds of the social apps on my phone.

I believe there are 8 defining qualities for a good CEO.

Successful products are first and foremost wants.

Somehow I believe that everything is 0 or 1.

The internet is the real-world equivalent of roads.

I met a man in the elevator today who is about to get married.

The fragility of humankind is often overlooked.

I got my first pair of Warby Parkers this week.

Blogging needs to come back, in a big way.

These are things I really want but don’t see myself building — thus, a wishlist.

Exactly two months ago, I embarked on a retreat from Twitter.