Nathan For You level performance

Peter Teal

There is something that feels so viscerally disgusting about conducting interviews using an AI agent It’s probably the most pathetic and dehumanizing example of AI I’ve seen so far Literally everyone I’ve talked to about it has said they’d never work for a company who does it

Interesting that if you have three kids you’re probably either very rich or very poor

This Atlantic article about the quest to find the best free restaurant bread is the most enjoyable essay I have read in…I quite literally don’t know how long It is delightfully insane. And incredible writing

At a birthday party talking to a dad who works at Omnicom He said there are 4 CEOs in his chain of command!!! 9 total layers. $21B market cap. 120k employees. $165k revenue/employee Sounds like literally the dumbest company of all time. I can’t believe it

There’s a guy I work with who is obsessed with “velocity” in the AI era. He has all these little sayings about how there is no such thing as a moat anymore. He cuts people off to tell them to go faster. I think every company will have a guy like this. Everyone will hate him

If you destroy software companies the software guys will get hired at real businesses and turn everything you love into a subscription

lol

Unfortunately for the model companies this messaging is out of their hands Every AI startup company is pitching themselves as a labor replacement C Suite is salivating to rip out whole cost centers Still a better message than Dario. The actual answer, though, is not words. It’s action. You’ve raised a bajillion dollars. You should announce an X billion allocation to upskilling and university/government partnership. Lean all the way in. The world is going to look different but we are committed to getting this right Perhaps the AI winner will be the one that promises to shape the world in a better way for everyone. Or at least try their best.

A question I am thinking about a lot recently: “How do you not lose your soul as a leader in the AI era?” I won’t lie to you. I see a lot of people operating in a way that, when they look back on their life, will fill them with disgust. It fills me with disgust. People ask why I have become so negative about AI and I simply say “I am watching people in the workplace lose their humanity.” So how do you lead with dignity? The first three things that are very clear to me: 1. You owe it to your people to think very deeply about what every single role will look like 1-2 years from now. - What parts of this job are different - Where is human judgement still required? - Do I even need this job any more? - If I need a different job, can I train the people I have today to start doing the new job? 2. Clarity is kindness. Anxiety is at an all time high. Every single person is already asking themselves that question. You owe them clarity. “I don’t know” is still clarity. Perhaps they will show you the future. 3. Try to show up with kindness. At the end of the day you will be fucking dead and nobody will remember your name. Nobody will remember the work you did. It doesn’t matter. It’s not worth it to be a piece of shit, sven if you’re scared or stressed. Just try to be kind.

Can't believe people are saying JPM guy got busted cheating on his wife so he made up an erotic fanfic lawsuit as a Hail Mary. I thought we believed victims in this country! #believemen

Major career mistake I see often: Leaving a company when you have an executive *champion* Not a sponsor or a mentor. A true advocate Pro Tip: There isn’t any amount of money you leave this situation for. Your career growth with literally not compound faster anywhere else An executive champion does several things: 1. They are hunting for and securing you high-visibility, high-impact opportunities 2. They are giving you the autonomy to swing big and probably (definitely) fuck up 3. They have your back when you do inevitably fuck up 4. They help you debrief and get better Having the autonomy to take big swings and fuck up is how you learn. And how you learn is how you earn! When you find this, you must realize this is often a once in a career situation. You hang on for dear life Everyone who leaves almost always regrets it

Visa +10% When you see free money on the ground, always remember to pick it up

“Visa just reported their fastest transaction volume growth in 4 years” How can this be true? I was told all commerce was being done by agents circumventing the rails with millions of seamless algorithmic jizzcoin microtransactions

Watching people try to turn their coworkers who they think are moving too slow into Claude skills is genuinely so insane to watch Corporate hunger games are on

Why is Evan Spiegel suddenly doing the podcast circuit? There is always a reason...

Pretty crazy how risk averse and just generally slow some companies are being with AI adoption Going to get run over, and a huge disservice to their employees If you work somewhere like that you probably need to get another job tbh

And on the flip side if you work somewhere that is subsidizing tool access and tokenmaxxing then hang on for dear life and go as deep as you can and learn as much as you can