or, designing AI apps with a sense of taste How do you turn a freeform query like ‘sfo-jfk’ into a beautiful image? This was a real problem I to solve recently. Whenever our users create a trip, we find a beautiful photo of their destinatio…
Opus 4.5 is out and people cannot stop raving about it. AGI is nigh! It's a step-change in capabilities! Don't get me wrong. It's very impressive. But after trying it out in a real codebase for a few weeks, I think that view is overly simpl…
A long time ago, a manager friend of mine wrote a book to collect his years of wisdom. He never published it, which is a shame because it was full of interesting insights. One that I think a lot about today was the question: “How are you pa…
Or, more than you ever wanted to know about consumer LED light bulbs. If you’re reading this, you probably spend a lot of time indoors. Apparently, humans spend more than 90% of their time indoors – more than some whales spend underwater! (…
Recently I've found myself making not-very-funny jokes about EA. A few weeks ago, I moved, and two of my friends came over to help me unpack books. While doing so, we found a collection of the EA classics: Doing Good Better, 80,000 Hours, a…
10 years ago, I started my freshman year of college. This is the advice I needed to hear, not the advice you need to hear. In fact, some of it may be actively bad for you. See Should you reverse any advice you hear? Thanks to Aditya G, Rebe…
I’ve recently come up with an idea that I like to call the Baked Goods Theory of social interaction. It goes like this: What sort of event qualifies? You need to use some common sense for this, but here’s some guidelines that I think apply:…
Have you ever seen Exchange Place in Jersey City? Exactly opposite of New York’s Financial District, across the East River, it’s an almost comical sight. It looks like an extension of Manhattan, full of gleaming skyscrapers slammed right up…