David Laprade | Blog

My favorite discoveries from 2025.

In the book Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman introduces a dilemma: We spend our days pursuing various accomplishments that we desire to achieve.

My favorite discoveries from 2024.

“Solutions in search of a problem” are inventions with interesting properties that have no clear commercial use.

DISCLAIMER: I am neither a doctor nor a lawyer and this does not constitute medical or legal advice.

When my cofounder and I started ATLAS, our thesis was that a small upstart could create the “AI-powered UI of the future”.

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

My favorite discoveries from 2023.

Note: This post was also published on Atlas’s blog.

2 weeks notice is the gold standard when quitting.