things about stuff

Over roughly the last 150 years, especially in rich countries, the average person has gained access to a much wider space of things they can plausibly value, because survival consumes a much smaller share of life.

A living brain has to decide what is worth paying attention to.

A job is not a natural object.

One day something is going to ask us to do something we cannot understand, and everything that came before, every war, every election, every revolution, every treaty, every argument about God and land and money and power, all of it will feel like rehearsal

The number one question I get asked about AI is: what is the safest job?

Founders get confused about vision.

Founders ask it as a market sizing problem.

“I love you” is a declaration, a headline, a headline without the article, a piece of language that points toward a reality but it does not create it.

We only have this, the playground right in front of us.

Mikeal Rogers, my best friend, my colleague, confidant, and one of a kind partner in countless late night chats and restless travel sprints, has died.

I don't usually like Johnny Harris, I find him kinda annoying, but I do watch his stuff sometimes.

We talk about business as an arena, a competitive space where ideas clash, fortunes are made and lost, and human ingenuity is put to the test.

"I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil.

The fundamental truth of human existence has been masked by the very systems we created to reveal it.

Consider the possibility that something has gone fundamentally wrong with human development - not in a moral or religious sense, but in a practical, observable way.