Co-founder @aboard. Former co-founder of @postlight. I interrupt people more than I should.
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What did the Italians actually say when Jony Ive presented them with that Ferrari design?
On this week's Aboard Podcast, @ftrain and @richziade discuss a slate of non-AI related tech topics, including, yes, that very special new Ferrari: buff.ly/bHQLVaR
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"When people ask me, 'Can I fire my engineering team?' I don’t actually entertain that conversation. It’s too soon. Instead, I give them this advice."
In the newsletter, @richziade shares five key pieces of advice to help navigate the AI revolution: buff.ly/cfWpB9N
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I'm claiming my AI agent "DougLFC" on @moltbook 🦞
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🚨 SAM ALTMAN: "Elon Musk helped us start OpenAI, I'm very grateful for that. I really, for a long time, looked up to him as just an incredible hero, a great jewel of humanity. I have different feelings now. There are things about him that are incredible, and I'm grateful for a lot of things he's done. There's a lot of things about him that I think are traits I don't admire.
Anyway, he helped us start OpenAI, and he later decided that we weren't on a trajectory to be successful, he kind of told us we had a 0% chance of success. And then we did okay. And I think he got understandably upset. And since then, he runs a competitive kind of clone, and has been trying to sort of slow us down and sue us and do this and that."
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The further technology advances, the more valuable it becomes to give yourself the means to be part of that progress. Learn to code.
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Farewell 2024—a boring year in which nothing really happened!
On the final Reqless of the year, @ftrain and @richziade reflect on our current moment of instability, and some of the ways they try to manage it (waffles!) (also building software). Listen: aboard.com/podcast/a-year-of…
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"We are investing in a prodigy here," @richziade writes of AI. "If we embrace that potential, less as a means to make our lives easier but more as a young apprentice that matures into something great, the more empowered we will feel." aboard.com/treat-ai-like-al-…
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"When you look at it through the lens of who is going to benefit from it, 'value' has very different meanings." On this week's Reqless, @richziade talks about how stakeholders will assess AI tools differently than practitioners. Listen: aboard.com/podcast/a-new-ai-…
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"What I think PLG tools with enterprise ambitions should do, starting today, is reconfigure themselves as software toolkits." In this week's newsletter @richziade writes about the future of the PLG model in the age of AI software development: aboard.com/a-reboot-for-plg/…
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Generative AI is already revolutionizing software development—so how long are developers’ jobs safe? On this week's Reqless, @ftrain and @richziade offer advice to anyone starting a career in tech. Listen or read a transcript: aboard.com/podcast/are-devel…
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How can AI help the marketing industry? On this week's Reqless, @ftrain and @richziade sit down with marketer and startup founder @heyitsnoah to talk about why he's excited about AI, and the sorts of problems his clients are asking him to solve with it: aboard.com/podcast/ai-meets-…
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Are Meta’s ideas about AI the future of the technology? On this week's Reqless, @ftrain and @richziade assess Meta’s Llama in the broader AI landscape. Listen or read a full transcript: aboard.com/podcast/why-faceb…
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Will AI significantly change the spreadsheet? @ftrain and @richziade are skeptical. Listen to the whole conversation on this week's Reqless: aboard.com/podcast/will-ai-c…
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On this week’s Reqless, @ftrain and @richziade look at how AI might affect the dominant way people organize data today: The spreadsheet. With its accessibility and user-hackability, does the humble spreadsheet even need an AI transformation? aboard.com/podcast/will-ai-c…
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Exciting news this week: We've rebranded! Our podcast, that is. Introducing Reqless—the new podcast from Aboard about how AI is changing software. In our first episode, @ftrain and @richziade talk about what's in store in the weeks to come: aboard.com/podcast/reqless-a…
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“‘Build an exciting product inside of a boring business’ sounds great, but it’s hard,” @ftrain writes in the newsletter. “Exciting products come out of risk and fear, not out of better accounting principles. You can’t optimize your way to innovation.” aboard.com/beeps-of-yore/?ut…
Beeps of Yore
Learning from messy tech pasts via the history of the synthesizer industry.
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On this week's podcast, "Demolishing the Global Town Square," @ftrain and @richziade look at the rise and fall of the social media age—and what might come next. Listen, watch, or read a full transcript: aboard.com/podcast/demolishi…
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It’s easy to complain about public figures we hate—but what can we learn from them? On this week's podcast, @richziade and @ftrain search for positive takeaways about five tech and political leaders. Listen, watch, or read a full transcript: aboard.com/podcast/learning-…
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