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Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell
Listen now | The creator of iPod, iPhone, and Nest on opinion vs. data decisions, why marketing matters, the "three generations" rule behind everything he's shipped, and why AI will still need screens
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
Kelsey Hightower reflects on his journey from self-taught technician to Google Distinguished Engineer, sharing lessons on open source, Kubernetes, AI, and building technology that serves people.
How much more software do we really need?
Probably a lot, but not necessarily the kinds people have made money on so far.
The War on Waymo
The autonomous vehicle rollout is about to get a lot more complicated
A fire was in my head
Numb in Northern Ireland
🎙️ How I AI: Gemini Omni: Clone yourself with AI in under 15 minutes & Shopping with Claude
Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network
Your company needs agency, not agents.
So maybe try actually trusting your employees a bit?
The triumph of capital
It’s been a great generation to have started out rich.
I'm kind of over the whole "Anti-monopoly" movement
The struggle against excessive corporate power needs better standard-bearers.
Do Not Resign From Life
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No.
The sample efficiency black hole
"We see these AIs as a galaxy glittering with capabilities, but at their center, invisible to the naked eye, holding all the constellations together, is an unimaginably massive black hole of data."
Roundup #83: I told you so!
Piketty gets wacky; Tokenmaxxing fails; Trump, drones, and Ukraine; Tariffs on China, again; India's growth; Borjas again
Why Europe should put up trade barriers against Chinese goods
There are benefits far beyond protectionism.
How OpenAI Built Its Data Agent
The hardest part of data analysis isn’t writing SQL. It’s finding the right tables to use in the first place and understanding semantically how to use data.
📊 PRO: This Week in Visuals
AVGO HPE VEEV IOT RBRK LULU GTLB
Sir Demis Hassabis vs Sir Demis Hassabis
Two AI Timelines
Christians and Technology
Do we see ourselves as creatures living in a world we did not create or as the lords of the world? The answer to that question will dictate much of how we order our lives.
Building Interactive Learning with ChatGPT: Arkapravo Sarkar’s Approach at Suffolk University
How custom GPTs, real-world simulations, and hands-on projects are transforming business education
The blood cancer that became solvable
Multiple myeloma is brutal. We may finally have a cure, but American regulatory inertia means that it was discovered abroad.
Party Pooper
The balloons are always the first to go.
LifeNotes | Ali Abdaal
As part of my new focus on work-life balance and all that stuff, I’ve (a) had pretty close to 100% sleep scores in the past few weeks, and (b) been playing more Playstation. Today’s email is a point related to the Playstation thing. Firstly, why have I been playing more Playstation? I sort of feel […]
The Data Center Backlash: Is It Justified?
The most hated buildings in America.
I Gave Claude David Ogilvy's Writing Rules And Built A Legendary AI Writing Coach
Download the Claude Skill
Limbic Capitalism Has Been Driving Addiction for Hundreds of Years
Historian David Courtwright helps us understand how we got here and what’s likely to come in this chapter from The Age of Addiction.
No, Anthropic did not call for a pause on AI development
Not really
Import AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racing
When will markets price the singularity?
The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence
Recently, the Vatican and Anthropic have shown a united front on artificial intelligence. But are they actually aligned?
No need to panic about Anthropic’s new blog, and some more good news
The twitterverse is all verklempt with Anthropic’s latest blog.
EP217: Latency vs Throughput vs Bandwidth
Latency, throughput, and bandwidth often get used interchangeably, but each one tells a different story about performance.
Google Just Raised $85 Billion — The Biggest Stock Sale Ever
Plus, what we learned from the Prof G Markets tour
The origins of horseshoe politics
Plus my charity dreams, some oyster salesman, and the use and misuse of political capital
Why can’t California count?
The Golden State needs to bring its vote counting into the 21st century.
Token Spend Out of Control? The Case for Smarter Routing
To understand how teams keep this under control in production, we sat down with Scott Breitenother and Sid Sijbrandij, co-founders of Kilo, an open-source coding agent that runs through a lot of these loops every day.
AI’s Black Friday
Some thoughts on what just happened
How Professor Michael Atkinson Used ChatGPT to Deepen Student Engagement
Personalized communication, AI as a thought partner, and the power of connection in the classroom
OptimusDelta (@OptimusDelta) on X
$EOS.AX - The German thesis just got a lot more interesting Deep dive SS article on some fresh intel I've dug up. Don't think anyone has made this link yet, and it materially increases my bullishness on the Germany > wider Europe pathway. Hope you enjoy! 🫦
Trading Post June 8, 2026
Buying a Long-Term Compounder on a Simple Rule
Can You Run the Music Industry without Musicians?
We will now find out
How Dr. Nydia Cappas Uses AI to Transform Clinical Psychology Education
Custom GPT Patient Simulators, Skill-Based Assessments, and a New Era of Student Engagement
Trading Post June 5, 2026
lululemon athletica's (LULU) Earnings Call & Trades
LLM-Native Medicine: Redefining Healthcare with Generative AI
How Dr. Joaquín Fernández Sande is empowering doctors to build and use AI tools for safer, more humane medicine
Slop, productivity, and why the AI-fueled world is going nowhere mighty fast
Just saw a graph at the FT from John Burn-Murdoch that really distills something I have been trying to articulate.
Help Me Create the Ultimate Playlist of Songs about American Life
Today is Open Mic Day at The Honest Broker
🔐 Cybersecurity's AI Moment
Palo Alto & CrowdStrike make their AI pitch
From Technology-First to AI-First: How Dr. Robert Voss is Transforming History Education
At a rural public university, Dr. Robert Voss uses AI to empower undergraduates, faculty, and educators with advanced research and planning capabilities—no big budgets required.
🧠 Community Wisdom: Bootstrapping vs. raising funding, building the roadmap of your vibe-coded app, AI agents and data integrity, your first project as an APM, and more
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