The tech world is rife with stories of incumbents launching internal challengers to combat agile startups. One of the more telling examples is Siebel’s attempt to fend off Salesforce by rolling out CRMOnDemand.What happened? Instead of solidifying their position, Siebel created chaos.
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Something quite strange happened last week. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei argued that AI companies need to “pace the frontier”, essentially slow down how quickly they make their most powerful models more capable. Sam Altman agreed with him. Think about that for a second.
OpenAI shutting down Sora as a standalone product says something important about consumer AI: Most people do not want creative superpowers. They want less work. That is the mistake a lot of founders are still making. They confuse technical possibility with product
By the end of 2025, consumer AI saw significant strides, with major players like OpenAI and Google pushing new models and products. This year marked a shif…
People’s motives are unknowable. Let go of the need for a reason. Ignore their explanations. The only true facts are their actions Derek Sivers’ latest thought-provoking work, “Useful Not True,” is all about challenging your perception of “truth” and embracing what’s genuinely
Life isn’t linear, and yet we constantly try to mold it around linear goals: four-year college degrees, ten-year career plans, thirty-year mortgages. What if instead we approached life as a giant playground for experimentation? Based on ancestral philosophy and the latest scientific
The expansion of AI infrastructure has significant environmental costs. Training large models can consume vast amounts of energy; generating text can use as much energy as charging a smartphone nearly four times, and generating one thousand images is equivalent to charging a
One day in 2004, Gardiner Harris, early for a flight, sat down at an airport bar and started talking to the woman on the barstool beside him. She was a drug sales rep for Johnson & Johnson, and her horrific story about
A pioneering professor of organizational behavior turns the concept of networking on its head, arguing that we must move beyond the standard mentorship model to embrace sponsorship, where we use our social networks and political capital on behalf of others.”It’s not what
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