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lennysnewsletter.com
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)

Ambition is the new bottleneck for companies, and elevating others' ambitions is now the key part of the PM job.

— Tara Seshan
1w ago
fs.blog
Steve Jobs in Exile

NeXT spent years losing money. His co-founders left. His investors lost faith. His fortune nearly disappeared. At one point, he was a weekend away from shutting the company down. Somewhere in those failures, Jobs learned how to become the leader Apple would eventually need.

1w ago

It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.

2w ago
ftav
The silicon god delusion

Chatbots are the C-suite's ultimate yes-men — able to buttress egos by condensing information their users don't care to fully understand while avoiding questions they don't want to consider. They'll never say the plan is dumb.

2w ago

The biggest misconception in business is that insight is rare and execution is common. In my experience, it's exactly the opposite — workable ideas are everywhere, but people who can execute even a single step beyond the obvious are vanishingly scarce.

2w ago

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

3w ago

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

3w ago
whyisthisinteresting
The Monday Media Diet with Jonny Gannon

Ironically, the 'Ugly American' in the novel is not the arrogant, culturally tone-deaf official the phrase has come to mean, but a man named Homer Atkins — a practical engineer who earns trust by living among local people, understanding their needs, and solving problems with humility rather than bureaucracy. The book's enduring message is that lasting influence comes from building durable relationships and developing local knowledge.

4w ago

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

4w ago
upstartsmedia.com
They Knew He Was A Scammer, So They Offered Him A Job

So in a plot twist of a decision that went all the way up to co-founder and CEO Daniel Yanisse, the Checkr team did something a little crazy. "Let's continue playing the game with him," Yanisse told the team. They decided to offer Ulysses a job.

4w ago

The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. But there is a second, less-discussed corollary: institutions that survive longest are those that deliberately audit their habits before those habits calcify into dogma. Most companies wait until the weight becomes a crisis.

4w ago
fs.blog
The Mindset Behind Building Billion-Dollar Companies | Brad Jacobs

Brad Jacobs has built eight billion-dollar companies, completed more than 500 acquisitions, and created extraordinary returns for shareholders over four decades. Brad explains how he spots trends before they become obvious, why psychology matters as much as strategy, and how he thinks about acquisitions, hiring, capital allocation, decision-making, and building organizations that consistently outperform.

4w ago
ftav
AI people need people

The intelligences we care most about are still organic, not artificial. The fortunes of the company that invented the large language model remain, perhaps more than any other in the trillion-dollar club, all about its people.

4w ago

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. And yet we always speak of the man who does the work, and forget the man who makes it possible for him to do it.

4w ago
whyisthisinteresting
The Saturday Selection, Vol. 115

Fourteen layers of advice from fourteen years of watching where the bodies are buried, from the founder of Skift.

1mo ago
honest-broker.com
Mark Zuckerberg's Empire Is Now Crumbling

Zuckerberg used the occasion to publish a bizarre opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal—proclaiming himself as a champion of human potential and an opponent of centralized power. This is the same guy who laid off 8,000 employees a few days ago, and is building a data center as large as Manhattan. By the way, Zuckerberg himself can't be fired—because he limits the voting rights of most shareholders.

1mo ago

The biggest risk of all is not taking one. Growth and comfort do not coexist. Every time I see a company protecting its core business rather than cannibalizing it, I know a competitor will do it for them—and far less gently.

1mo ago

It is not the neutrals or the lukewarms who make history. Hot lead can melt, but it took hammer blows to shape the very foundations of civilization — the same is true of human will.

1mo ago
whyisthisinteresting
The Dubai Creek Edition

In 1958, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed, then Ruler of Dubai, borrowed around a half a million dollars from the Emir of Kuwait to dredge the creek. Dubai had no meaningful oil wealth at the time. What Sheikh Rashid had was a conviction that trade would define the city, and that the creek needed to be deep enough for modern ships.

1mo ago

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

1mo ago

Organizational culture is not about perks or ping-pong tables. It is the answer to the question: what behavior gets rewarded and what behavior gets punished when no one is watching?

1mo ago

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers — or both.

2mo ago
noahpinion.blog
Europe's resistance to AC is driving it insane

Perhaps the single most ludicrous story was that the people who run the European Commission decided to cut off AC for their lower-level employees, while keeping the AC on for themselves... 'It's like feudalism,' a Commission official working on a lower level of the Berlaymont, granted anonymity to speak freely, told POLITICO on Friday, referring to the fact that upper floors housing commissioners got to keep their AC on.

2mo ago
currincy
Andrew Watt Talks About Making Paul McCartney’s “The Boys of Dungeon Lane”

I asked him how he's able to do that in front of everyone last night. He said really such an enchanting thing. Instead of sitting there and trying to tell someone else, 'No, no, it goes like this. No, no, do it like this,' you just do it yourself and then you know the way the song goes. You know what the drum part's supposed to be, what kind of groove you want. You're just beating yourself up to get it right.

2mo ago
noahpinion.blog
Does anything I write matter anymore?

Whether it was Covid, Trump's advancing age, or his attempted overthrow of the 2020 election that made Trump totally lose faith in everyone but himself, the big man now seems inclined to listen only to the voices in his own head. There's no intellectual movement here, just a cult of personality. There's no one to argue with, because nothing that's happening is based on an argument in the first place.

2mo ago

The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

2mo ago

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.

2mo ago

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal, a being of a warrior horde; he is led by a chief and his horde shares a common life. The striking fact about this is the extraordinary ease with which a man identifies himself with a group.

2mo ago
currincy
Andrew Watt Talks About Making Paul McCartney’s “The Boys of Dungeon Lane”

Instead of sitting there and trying to tell someone else, 'No, no, it goes like this. No, no, do it like this,' you just do it yourself and then you know the way the song goes. You know what the drum part's supposed to be, what kind of groove you want. You're just beating yourself up to get it right.

3mo ago
upstartsmedia.com
Exclusive: Notion Names First Board Of Directors In Key Step Toward IPO

Few – if any – startups in Silicon Valley history have grown as big as Notion, or for as long, without some semblance of a board. But by virtue of a quirk of its own fundraising history and an intellectual internal leadership style, it's the position Notion found itself in even after more than a decade in operation, and as its valuation reached $11 billion.

3mo ago
noahpinion.blog
America needs liberal nationalism back

I believe that in the 20th century, under the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States devised the single best governing ideology that any country has ever created: liberal nationalism.

3mo ago
lennysnewsletter.com
The Lenny and Friends Summit is back!

There's such power in IRL events, especially these days and especially for product leaders, who often lack peers they can be real with.

3mo ago
dwarkesh.com
The mistake of conflating intelligence and power

Power is more the product of having the authority and trust to get lots of people to collaborate with you, rather than some galaxy brain scheming capability. Trump is not powerful because his brain, considered in isolation, is the most effective optimization engine on Earth. He is powerful because the government which hundreds of millions of people consider legitimate gives him a lot of power.

3mo ago
honest-broker.com
How to Tell If You're Living in a Binary Crisis

The key to effective teamwork is having a single enemy. Now here's something even uglier. The same team-building hostility is heating up over in the enemy's camp. That evil team is getting bigger and stronger because it hates you—and precisely because you're bonding with your own team.

3mo ago
upstartsmedia.com
Meet The DJing a16z Alum Who Raised $30M For New VC Firm Worldbuild

There is so much noise in venture today, that actually leading with original thoughts can have a competitive advantage. We want other, larger platforms to view Worldbuild as a tastemaker for where they should be spending time six months, or 12 months from today.

4mo ago
platformer.news
The Trump administration's AI doomer moment

Less than a year later, the administration's sneering dismissal of safety concerns has transformed into something that resembles a mild panic.

4mo ago
longreads.com
All My Dad’s Sons

Dad heard about a team at a youth prison in West Virginia that was supposed to be better than us. He loaded us into the van one morning and we drove two hundred miles to play them. This was a maximum-security facility for juveniles, up in Salem. We had to be buzzed in through a thick steel door and then through another one and another, but they wouldn't let us into the gym. We could hear someone in there screaming. Then it was silent, and the door opened. On one end of the court, the other team was about to warm up, and on our end—where we were supposed to warm up—a kid was mopping a puddle of blood.

4mo ago
3quarksdaily.com
Business Leaders Say Adapting to AI Is Essential to Survival

As AI tools become more widely used and increasingly specialized, many business leaders are trying to think quickly and creatively about how to best utilize this technology at nearly every level of their operations.

4mo ago

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