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Sunday, August 3, 2025
AI Is a Tool, We Still Need Humans to Think and Imagine
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Saturday, August 2, 2025
How to Delay Projects
The counter-intuitive fact is, if you want to maximize output, you shouldn't load people more than 75%.
The truth is that project execution is like driving on a highway. If the highway is filled to capacity, you have traffic jams. At 75% capacity, cars have the bandwidth to maneuver around stalled cars, sudden braking, etc.
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Friday, August 1, 2025
My Analysis of Zuckerberg's "Personal Superintelligent" AI Manifesto
Zuckerberg is ambitious and follows Andy Grove's idea of "only the paranoid survive" and wants to stay ahead of disruption. AI models are in danger of becoming commodities—users can build their applications and, through the cloud, easily switch between models.
So, to differentiate, he is leveraging the fact that Facebook is minting money (they exceeded this quarter by a lot), by throwing it at the best researchers, and is promoting this idea of "personalized super intelligence."
All the AI players are starting to think about the model being a commodity, and so Meta is not the only one trying to escape from being behind a phone or PC. While Meta is talking about AI glasses, OpenAI made the big teaser announcement that they partnered with Jony Ives (the famous Apple designer) to create their own wearable AI device (rumored to be a pendant).
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Zuckerberg's Manifesto
If you've been following AI news, Meta has been putting together a "AI super intelligence" team, and they have been hiring away the best scientists from Open AI, Google, etc. for professional athlete money ($100+ million).
Today, Zuckerberg released his manifesto (https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/).
The highlights are:
1. They have seen AI start to improve itself in the last few months, so developing super intelligence is within sight.
2. The rest of this decade will likely be decisive for determining the path forward.
3. He believes the other companies subscribe to the model of a central AI super intelligence taking all jobs and people living on the dole of it's output.
4. Meta's vision is personalized super intelligence in everyone's hands, for people to achieve their visions.
5. He feels our primary computing devices will be something like glasses that see and hear everything we do, and interact with us during the day.
Project Management
Stages of any long term project:
1. I have plenty of time.
2. Oh sh*t.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Are App Stores Shopping Malls or Liquor Stores?
I read about this analogy in Fortune magazine. It concerns possible age verification legislation.
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Can You Give Me An Example?
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