Vivaldi's “Winter,” visualized in a fascinating way, so that the auditory experience is even more intense; one can literally “see” the music, so to speak

--midjourney

Unpopular opinion: The MVP era is over. People expect your app to actually be good from day one.

photolithography. --midjourney 8.2

processing. midjounrey 8.2

One pattern I find useful for working with LLMs is a nice long ramble session. Sometimes the LLM needs more bits to understand what you're trying to achieve, but you're too lazy to type them. In these cases I like to lean back, switch to /voice and just ramble for like 10 minutes, total mess, anything goes, full stream of consciousness. Sometimes I declare it up top, something like "switching to speech recognition sorry for any typos...". Sometimes I turn it into a small interview of a few turns. But I find that the LLMs are somehow very good at reconstructing long incoherent rambles and often their echo of your own tangle of thoughts comes out quite a bit cleaner than what you started with. The result is that you improve the mind meld and have to correct things less from that point on.

I don't know how you dive into complexity theory and the math behind computation...discover the underlying unity... and not feel spiritual

The point of a startup is to make usable technology for others. When you make software, you have to watch at least 10 people use it. Sit next to them and say absolutely nothing. Force yourself to marinate in the failure of your product design. Every version 1 of any software will be absolutely destroyed by first interaction with users. You need to watch your new creation be absolutely misunderstood by users to reform version 1 into the one that actually works. There is only one path: figuring out where the sharp edges, the places people get caught, the assumptions you make as a builder that turn out to be wrong, and then relentlessly sanding it down so that anyone can use it. That is good design. That is the key to a good product. There is no shortcut for this. WATCH USERS AND CRINGE AND THEN FIX IT. SAND DOWN THE EDGES.

we're probably overdue for a rebrand of "AI" to "machine intelligence" anyway

--preview

Obsession is the only path to greatness

Amateurism is rushed, sloppy, needy and ultimately comes from spiritual lack. All things done properly are done with planning, care, seriousness, pride, diligence, thought and patience.

“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.” — Miles Davis

If you're wading in the swamp of churn prevention, it's already too late. The product sucks and you're just trying to move a few percentage points. The faster path to a high retention low churn is actually having a real awesome product. Everything else is a small side effect.

MJ 8.2 --preview techofuture-LDN

New York Magazine by Susanna Hayward.

If you might be building something in the future, and you have some time to read, read the Farnam Street Great Mental Models series; a cracked mind awaits.