Sam Schillace
Technologist; deputy CTO at Microsoft, earlier co-founder of Writely, which Google bought and built Google Docs on, and a Google engineering leader on Gmail, Blogger, Picasa and Maps.
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Their wordsSo when I look at the ease with which I (and many, many others) are building software, I start to think that distribution is even cheaper now - “less than free”. I don’t need to go get software, I can just make it. And that feature wall is eroding even more - now I can build exactly what I need, exactly how I want it, exactly when I want it.
↗Distribution is less than freesundaylettersfromsam.substack.com
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Our reading
Value lies in what is hard and non-obvious; the obvious and easy is where low-margin crowds are.
Their wordsHard and non-obvious (at first) is where value lies. Obvious and easy is where low-margin crowds are.
↗If it’s easy, it’s not worth much. sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsCode was always just a tool - the creativity was the interesting part.
↗If it’s easy, it’s not worth much. sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsOften what differentiates teams or individuals is how quickly they notice that a technical change has made an old assumption obsolete or unlocked a new capability.
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Their wordsAll of these discoveries challenged our understanding of both reality and our place in it, and AI is doing it again.
↗AI is photography for thinkingsundaylettersfromsam.substack.com
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Their wordsOn the one hand, as we’ve discussed, your personal attention is now the most valuable, critical resource. It’s easy to get the computer to do work for you - it’s harder to pay attention to that work and make sure it’s right.
↗Do More By Knowing Lesssundaylettersfromsam.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Our reading
Trust is a compression of attention: past evidence tells you where you no longer need to check.
Their wordsIn some sense, trust is a compression of attention. We can verify something more quickly because evidence accumulated in the past lets us know where we do or don’t have to check now.
↗Do More By Knowing Lesssundaylettersfromsam.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece