21 korrents from this recording
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0:07:20 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsYou don't even need to predict the future that well. If you just live in everyone else's relative future, which really is just a couple of um high conviction high courage uh update to beta clicks. It's not that hard to live in the future.
0:11:11 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsJust imagine you use very bad software and um the team that started the project decided early to use Xamarin and then they never had a chance of making this as good as all the other things you really appreciate on your phone due to this decision no matter how good they are.
0:13:06 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordswhat you are try like trying to do as a tool maker, as an infrastructure builder, um as a product maker is you want to make a uh tool that brings the floor up significantly, but doesn't constrain the ceiling. And that is extremely hard.
0:20:12 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsAnd you know what no sci-fi author dared to predict is that the Turing tests just passes by.
0:24:54 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI I think this is golden age of humanity right now. It's the I think it's the end of the beginning. And and so I think we will um I think people in 1,000 years will um study these times uh the way we are studying um Cicero's times of the end of the Roman Republic
0:29:07 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsHowever, we are actually absolutely doing this. It's just the great works are kernels of operating systems, the browser, the um lots of the software platforms, the phones, the um the incredible advances in uh silicon lithography
0:42:45 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsBut again, the people who love to solve problems are the ones who are just so enabled right now and I think everyone starts there. No one is falls in love with solutions at the beginning of their careers.
0:43:40 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsyou are you are a sales operations expert, right? Like what is that? That's that's that that's like a title for a particular way how companies end up solving a particular operational problem they had at some point.
0:44:25 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI I sent a memo to my company like and we set the expectation that we require that people reflexively reach for AI now and and we require it because it's unfair not to because the people who do otherwise going to be the people who sequester all the best careers to themselves, right?
0:46:03 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI I like the term context engineering because I think the fundamental skill of using AI well is to be able to state a problem with enough context in such a way that without any additional piece of information, the task is plausibly solvable.
0:47:00 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI write much better emails since I became a good context engineer. I just like I now realize how much is unsaid in instructions. Why is so many things so much of what people describe in companies as politics is actually bad context engineering.
0:48:43 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
A stated company value that nobody would take the other side of is a platitude, not a choice.
Their wordsfiguring out a document that is actually like sort of all the things that are not platitudes whereas like all the things where someone else like some other company would plausibly take the other side of and but that's but those are the real choices, right? Like if no one would take the other side, it's a platitude.
1:00:48 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI believe those things are utterly incorrect now. I I I I think people love leadership. Like they like they they love complaining about it, too, which they should. And it like it deserves all criticism it gets, but like there's something absolutely wonderful being part of a group that's being led.
1:03:24 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsAnd I I just ended up like realizing everything I don't like is someone else's dream job. And that's like incredibly liberating.
1:23:33 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsno one carries the full legitimacy inside of a company. Legitimacy is a currency in a companies. No one carries the full legitimacy in a company, even the CEO. The CEO just has a lot of input on the plan. The plan carries the legitimacy.
1:26:14 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI think both of them have given re-founding events to their companies. I think they are actually um uh they have made such large changes with such clear breaks from the past that they are actually are the authors of their companies' cultures now.
1:32:59 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsleadership and consensus are two sides of the same spectrum. Like they don't intersect at all. It's like every time consensus makes a decision, it's the absence of leadership.
1:34:11 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI I think most companies play too much with pricing all the time. It's like it just like causes all these problems with data and like it makes it hard to predict and then suddenly you you do you AB test discounts and then you cheapen the product because now people are just going to wait for the next discount
1:38:55 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsIt's just like like I don't think a great book has been written as a big collaboration between multiple people. It's like books are hit it are as good as they are because they're always single author.
1:44:16 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsin management uh like a CEO is is being fired when results are bad, which I think is fundamental that's multiple levels of wrong. Um, but like the way to judge a CEO is like out of what opportunity did you carve what company?
1:46:51 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI I I just feel at the end of life you meet the people the person you could have become. Um, and uh I So so you I think the work in life is try to minimize the difference between um that person and and who you actually ended up being.