Randy Fine was reportedly seen attempting to “hide” under his desk to dodge being served for violating the First Amendment 🇺🇸 The Congresswhale fails to appreciate how hard is it for him to hide.
Did you know that the largest and best-funded experimental laboratory in 17th century Europe was very likely the Roman one run by inquisitors? Ada jokes that the Inquisition accidentally invented peer review. The focus of the Inquisition is really misunderstood - it was obsessed with catching dangerous new heretics like Lutherans and Calvinists - it only executed one person for doing science. And this leads Ada to make an observation that I think is really wise: the authorities and censors are always worried about the exact wrong things given 20/20 hindsight. When Inquisition raids an underground bookshop during the French Enlightenment, they don’t mind the Rousseau, Voltaire, and Encyclopédie, but they lose their minds about some Jansenist treatises about the technical nature of the Trinity.
I quit my executive job to live the AI-native startup life. And I've spent years studying what it takes to shift an existing team to a new way of working. In my experience, it takes 3 things: - a new operating model - technical readiness (prepare the repos!) - cultural change I'm SO psyched to be kicking of this very limited @MavenHQ weekend course (April 18-19) for EPD executives and super senior ICs with my friend Zach at LaunchDarkly, a Principal Engineer that went from AI-skeptic to the AI-champion in our team. This is NOT for - ICs looking to learn things like claude code - people wanting high level consulting fluff - small teams who are already yoloing the tokens This IS for - VP+ executives in product, engineering, and design - staff + engineers - 100+ person teams who need to move AI mountains @gaganbiyani has been asking me to put something together for several years, and I said I would only do it if it was something I really thought I could uniquely speak to, was technical, and focused at my peers. This is that. I'm also excited we'll have @chintanturakhia and @thenanyu as guest speakers to talk about what they're seeing and doing as EPD leaders. We just opened enrollment, and recommend you register as an exec-sr. IC pair to get the most out of the content: https://maven.com/clairevo/ai-native-epd…
AI is turning the Internet into the Library of Babel. https://web.stanford.edu/class/history34…
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The Library of Babel
I grew up reading Byomkesh Bakshi and Feluda: two legendary Bengali detective series that almost no one outside India knows. Now all ~70 novels are translated to English and free to read on http://grandoldbooks.com. My goal: build the world’s internet library. Every great book, in English, free forever. We shipped 10x more books in the last 48 hrs. Follow @grandoldbooks for more.
Mayor Lurie's bodyguards got attacked → press conference. Asian man stabbed in the back at a Chinatown crosswalk → nothing. Repeat offender, caught same day in the act of another crime. Just another day in SF. https://garryslist.org/posts/chinatown-s…
Chinatown Stabbing Victim Got No Press Conference
Ben Thompson on how AI could push us back toward shared experiences: "AI is a perfectly individualized experience; what you read is not necessarily what I read." "So stuff that we both read — is actually compelling." "Identifying things that are common experiences are going to be more and more valuable." "Common content. Common classroom time. Live events. Shared experiences." "Because anything that's individualized is just going to be completely swallowed." @benthompson on Cheeky Pint with @collision
