Mar 15, 2025

I TRIED MAKING A CLICKBAIT AD—HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED

Ads promoting quick results with minimal effort—losing weight, becoming an engineer, overnight success, or learning a language—far overshadow legitimate ads. It seems most people naturally …

Mar 1, 2025

CHATGPT 4.5 AND THE TURNING TEST

ChatGPT 4.5 is out, and the internet shat all over it. But I think Sama might be onto something—it’s the first model that would fool me in a Turing test encounter. Its less robotic nature, …

Feb 15, 2025

JUNIOR ENGINEERS ARE NEITHER BETTER NOR WORSE OFF WITH AI

There’s an ongoing debate about whether junior engineers are better or worse off in the age of AI. Some argue that they’re worse off because they might miss learning fundamental principles, …

Dec 15, 2024

APPLE’S FOUNDER MODE?

There’s been a lot of comparison about Apple having been in ‘founder mode’ under Steve Jobs, but whatever that mode really is, I believe Apple still runs that way today, but perhaps I’d call …

Dec 1, 2024

CONTRARIAN AND RIGHT: A CASE OF UBER’S IPO BET

A few days before Uber’s IPO, someone in the Amsterdam office had the idea to (unofficially) circulate a sheet for employees to bet on the stock’s closing price on the first trading day. The …

Nov 15, 2024

LEARNING A LANGUAGE WITH REAL CONTENT

Language practice and learning with real, interesting topics often seem antithetical—but we’re tackling this problem by building a language context around you. Think of language context as …

Nov 1, 2024

NON-HEDONISTIC TREADMILL OF PRODUCTIVITY

In a recent interview, Sam Altman mentioned that he expects billion dollar companies to be created by just a single person or a few people. But isn’t that huge leap in productivity as a …

Oct 16, 2024

RADIO → TV

Print 📰 → Radio 📻 → TV 📺 → Internet 🛜 → Social Media 🖥️ → Generative AI 🤖. I’ve read somewhere that when new technology appears, people often carry over methods and practices from an older …

Oct 1, 2024

SAFARI PROGRESS BAR

If you’re using Safari browser today, with every page load, you see the progress bar that I somewhat accidentally developed. Let me explain. Back in 2012, we wanted to create a better, more …