Co-founder at Fourfold.co, which makes games and surprising objects. Higher ed professor. This is an adventure, so treat it like one.
Lexington, Virginia, USA
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Absolutely right.
This idea that "everyone is a builder now" and therefore all specific roles are out the window is over-blurring.
Roles follow from differences in what we can see and judge.
When one person doesn't have every single kind of judgement necessary, you are back to teamwork.
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Technological progress is never simply a technical matter. Every technology reflects, whether explicitly or implicitly, a particular understanding of the human person, of society, and of the future we wish to build. Scientific and technological advancement must therefore be accompanied by a corresponding growth in responsibility. The greater our power to transform the world, the greater must be our capacity to discern what truly serves God-given human dignity, to govern wisely, and to care for those who may bear the greatest consequences of our choices. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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If you are good at scoring on IQ tests, but not particularly imaginative, AI is in the process of making you obsolete.
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Lazy work used to mean too little output.
Now, with AI, it often means too much and more work for everyone else.
@tobi call it "slop grenades."
A "Slop Grenade" is when you let AI produce the work and pass it on without adding any value (including checking it).
Someone else has to wade through it, catch the mistakes, and clean up the mess.
You save time and look productive but someone else pays for it.
My third conversation with Shopify co-founder and CEO @tobi.
0:00 How Shopify Uses AI
7:18 River: Shopify's Internal AI
8:55 How to Encourage Osmosis Learning
10:52 AI Dreaming and Self-Reflection
11:53 How to Use AI for Strategic Decision Making
14:11 The One Thing AI Cannot Do
16:04 What AI is Making Worse at Shopify
19:46 Predictions: Where AI is Headed Next
21:55 The Future of AI-Powered Software
24:40 Will CEOs Be Replaced with AI?
27:54 Can Superintelligence Be Controlled?
31:13 Critical Skills in AI Age
34:22 Why Complex Solutions are Usually Wrong
36:33 Conditions Needed for True Intuition
38:02 The Best Path Doesn't Have Instant Feedback
44:51 How Affirmations Can Shift Your Behavior
50:44 The Inobvious Thing Hurting Companies
52:37 Relationship Between Beauty and Creation
56:23 How SpaceX Moves Forward By Subtraction
1:00:24 Why Companies Need Refounding Events
1:01:50 Books as Cheat Codes
1:02:39 Three Books to Change Your Thinking
Enjoy!
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OpenAI's own research says 80% of US GDP could be automated by agents today. So why isn't it?
@swyx joined me on Navigators to break down what's actually holding back the adoption of agents (and it's not the models).
00:41 The three acts of the AI boom, and what act we're in now
05:11 Pre-training, mid-training, post-training, explained
10:12 Agent labs vs model labs: Cursor, Sierra, and domain bets
15:01 Why 80% of GDP could be automated, and what's stopping it
16:40 The chip and memory shortage nobody's talking about
19:11 Why "diffusion is cope" split the AI industry
20:48 What's next after the AI IPOs
Watch the full conversation on Navigators, also on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
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216 million spy TVs, ACR, vulnerabilities, and the LG Smart TV problem: piped.video/watch?v=6IFVTcM2…
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The measure of your intelligence is not your ability to acquire knowledge but how you handle uncertainty and navigate through it and behave when you don't know what to do.
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This is the big chance for Linux. The desktop is up for grabs in a way it hasn’t been in decades. The agents have made the OS malleable. So the Omacom Foundation is accelerating its spending goals. Everything raised this year will be spent over the next 3. omarchy.org/news/2026/09/oma…
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RIP Wendell you beautiful beanpole of a farmer poet king.
What a great time to celebrate our nation’s greatest writer by digging into The Unsettling of America or Hannah Coulter or send some love to @Berry_Center
You know who wrote a great essay about the late Wendell Berry? @Nick_Offerman in @outsidemagazine, that's who. outsideonline.com/culture/es…
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Wendell Berry died today. One of my favorites. One of the greats, who understood the true beating heart of America. God Bless and thank you for all of your work.
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Read "Why I am Not Going to Buy A Computer" all the way through, including the replies and then his reply back. This was in Harper's many years ago. An absolute gem. tipiglen.co.uk/berrynot.html
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One of the clearest signs of what’s happening in higher ed is that 20- and 21-year-old students are increasingly bringing their parents into routine academic negotiations. We’re extending adolescence into college instead of using college to practice adulthood.
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This is part of the spirit and fun I want to bring back to computers. Those LAN parties were some of my fondest memories. Quake and Unreal deep into the night. Camaraderie. Demo scene. Hacker culture. ❤️
This is how a great weekend in the late 90s and early 2000s started.
Dude on the left is best prepared. Dude in the middle never skipped leg day. Dude on the right is playing with fire.
Yes, I know you can play everything online now. You don’t need to haul your gear halfway across the city.
But packing up your 17-inch monitor and your equally heavy tower to head over to your friend’s house and hang out all weekend… that feeling is impossible to replicate.
You had to be there. And if you were, I know you miss it.
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Selah.
In place of the weapons of war, the God of peace grants us the strength to heal, to reconcile and to build a civilization of love. In this way, we are called to safeguard the many “ecosystems” entrusted to us: the ecosystems of creation, of human relationships and of the human heart itself.
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non technical people are so incredibly cooked they are burnt thru
can u imagine covering ai with zero context, zero reasoning, zero internal world model. it must be so delightfully joyful, everything is so amazing, face value is all you need,
what a time to be alive
With Codex, @asana finished a frontend test migration from Enzyme to React Testing Library in two calendar weeks—a project expected to take five more years.
openai.com/index/asana/
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Jayson Margalus retweeted
3D printing is evolving, robots can now print complex shapes in different directions, creating parts that are stronger, lighter and use less material.
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