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AGI doesn’t need the ability to love to count as AGI

Wow! Thank you for posting on BlueSky =) I'm so happy you are here!

Of course you gravitate towards the tasks you enjoy, and are good at.

So, engineers want to build stuff, mess with infrastructure, create a cool feature.

But, is that what’s most important, right now? Will it consistently win additional customers?

You don't need to invent new ideas to make a significant impact. Consider your favorite teacher or mentor--did they invent the subject they taught? Of course not. Yet they changed your life.

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“I scratched my own itch” isn’t good enough This isn’t the humble-brag you think it is; The most common origin story is also common to startups that fail. But it’s a start.

You are not 100% correct.

You 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 you are, because “I’m my own customer.”

But you’re wrong. You’ll find out when you intersect with actual customers.

(You're not 100% wrong either, it's impossible to know which P% is wrong until you ship.)

Watched ROGUE ONE with my wife today. We had a ball. Wish I'd seen it in a theater. It has what so many action pictures lack: a beating heart.

THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF, by Evelyn Clarke: Clearly in the running for the best mystery novel of 2026 (it bows in April). A trove of tropes that mystery-lovers will love, right down to the dark and stormy night in its climax. Funny and scary. It will remind you of AND THEN THERE WERE NONE.

What if A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.

www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

This feels like a spot of good news

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Brittle Points: How to make companies robust Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for fixing Brittle Points.

How do you make a system less brittle?

Better controls? Redundancy? Process? Higher quality components?

Apply this question and answer to all areas of your business.

if you want to have a nice and relaxing sunday, do not watch the new Hulu documentary on Hurricane Katrina. if you want to shake with rage and anger over the total failure of this nation's government and media establishment, watch the Hulu documentary on Katrina (this is a recommendation)

How many views did Mr. Beast’s first video get?
How many views did Seth Godin’s first blog post get?
How many views will your first ____ get?

You aren’t defined by your first attempt.
You aren’t defined by views.

You are your body of work.

🥗 Truth. Probably need 10-20 more circles though.

Our paper with @leahbanellis.bsky.social
and @micahgallen.com was just published in Nature Mental Health! In a large neuroimaging study (n=243), we show that stronger coupling between the stomach and frontoparietal brain regions predicts poorer mental health

Productive meeting activities: Leverage the team, empower the individual Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. Here are several ways to use meeting time wisely.

As a founder, it’s easy to overshadow people in meetings.

Use these techniques to empower other people, and still contribute, without imposing your will.

Ruthless prioritization while the dog pees on the floor Because time is zero-sum, prioritization is mandatory. This is an index of purpose-built prioritization frameworks, and an overarching one to optimize your life.

Productivity → doing tasks faster, or more per day

Prioritization → doing the right tasks

The latter is obviously more important; if tasks aren’t valuable, it doesn’t matter how efficient you are.

Yet we spend most of our time on the former, because it’s easier.

Wrong.

Find out what #TheInstitute is really hiding. Stream the 2-episode premiere this Sunday on MGM+.
#WhatAreTheyHiding

Just because you're a wannabe doesn't mean you'll Neverbe. All of your favorite artists started out as wannabes. They saw and heard art, got inspired, and said "I want to do that!" Just like you.

So go make some fucking art and stop being so hard on yourself.

Every day brings 100 decisions.

If you can use rules / frameworks / strategies / habits to reduce to even 70 decisions, that’s a large time-savings and even larger energy-savings.

The rules are self-imposed; you’re still in control.

What rule will you add today?

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Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.” “Focus” requires saying “no” to most things, but there’s a way to do it that allows you to say “yes” exactly when it matters most.

Saying “yes” to things that are outside your plan and strategy means getting distracted.

Probably, just say “no,” but…

There’s also a way to say “no, unless” that might be even better:

If sadness is a negative emotion, how come so many people find pleasure in listening to sad music?

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From North Korea, a Messenger She has braved terrors to spread the word about the dark side of the peninsula.

Some of the most remarkable people you'll ever meet are North Korean defectors, or escapees. One such is Kim Yumi, whom I talked with at the Oslo Freedom Forum (‪@oslofreedomforum.com). For @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social, an article. thedispatch.com/article/nort...

Crisis Advice for Young People Planning a life through decades of planetary crisis is tough. A few suggestions for finding the right path.

New podcast!

Unfortunately, setting out in life now means plotting a life-path through a world defined by unprecedented planetary crisis.

alexsteffen.substack.com/p/crisis-adv...

From the Atlantic: Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy? By Arthur C. Brooks

Dunno if this is where Arthur was going, but I’ll say:

1. They have less rights than previous generations

2. Living through multiple once-in-a-lifetime economic crises

3. Knowing climate change apocalypse is coming, knowing no one is doing enough to stop it

4. All heroes turn out to be villains

@theatlantic.com’s writers and editors are on Bluesky. Follow us for ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling: go.bsky.app/NVbMa2Y

Who needs a Bluesky ‘Starter Pack’? The Atlantic was very helpful and put one together for us! @revdrvms.bsky.social ? @carl-leatherman-jr.bsky.social ?

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I updated the Atlantic Canada Comics folks starter pack. Added more creators/comic shop people. If you know of more, I can add em.
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What’s the hardest thing to do in startups?

I think people answer whatever the current thing is, because it’s fresh in mind, and the previous thing is now a thing they understand.

That’s why the answer is “starting” and also “getting PMF” and also “scaling humans.”