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knowing how something was made greatly appreciates the value for it. in an era where so much can be generated, i suspect we’ll get more glimpses into the craft behind seemingly innocuous moments.

Generative Fill, a new superpower integrated throughout Photoshop, launching in beta today. Powered by Firefly, our generative AI family of models, Photoshop now let’s you summon new objects and augment creations layer by layer. Saves time, increases possibility, and pretty 🤯

You know that iconic scene, at the end of The Matrix when Neo suddenly “gets it” and picks bullets out of thin air as if they are cute and curious little things? Been thinking: what’s the equivalent of “seeing the matrix” for product leaders? 10+ Realizations that come to mind:

uncomfortable realization as Quora, Notion, GitHub, and other legendary stores of content launch their own AI-powered chat experiences: in the age of AI, if you don’t own the query interface, you’re just assembling training data for those who do.

what do we have here? still digging in, but seems like a fascinating application of AI for education: start a chat with any historical figure to learn and converse based on their full history. “Historical Figures” 🤯

“how do people make money if they’re just using zoom all day?” - my 6 year old 🤷‍♂️

the best designers i've worked with go rogue at least 10% of the time in every project, and that's how the product ends up better than anyone expected.

a lot of the magic i’ve observed in teams over the years happens when the talent stack is collapsed - when a designer also codes, when an engineer has a growth hack skill set, when a product leader is great at copy.

ironic that the most critical skill of great ceos (and what I think is most highly correlated skill w/ success) is one of the least respected and glamorized: sales. they don’t even teach it in b school, yet it’s the bridge to the best hires, customers and investors.

If you want to better understand what you do and why you’re doing it, write about it. writing is such an underrated form of discovery.

only way to be an expert is to remain a student

Came across this photo of Apple launching iPhone SDK in ‘08 (Jobs, Schiller, Forstall on stage - and a ton of empty seats). Seems key moments for the future seldom have an audience. And if you’re fortunate enough to be there, don’t expect fanfare or validation...yet.

Luck favors decisiveness. When you’re decisive, people want to help you. There's a gravity to it. Dots connect faster, possibilities gain resolution, and your mental energy becomes focused on making circumstances work for you (vs. just thinking about them).

Generative Fill, a new superpower integrated throughout Photoshop, launching in beta today. Powered by Firefly, our generative AI family of models, Photoshop now let’s you summon new objects and augment creations layer by layer. Saves time, increases possibility, and pretty 🤯

I am surprised there is no single app that simply (1) collects all of your health data points - from whoop/oura data, blood tests, PDFs of lab tests you feed it, other scraped sources, AND (2) auto-generates a system prompt of sorts for any LLM when you ask any health question..?

wouldn't be surprised if the next gen, especially in their 20's, spends a decade of their lives living between a set of Airbnb's around the world, working remotely, immersing themselves in communities and cultures. a nomadic life where you feel at home everywhere.

You know that iconic scene, at the end of The Matrix when Neo suddenly “gets it” and picks bullets out of thin air as if they are cute and curious little things? Been thinking: what’s the equivalent of “seeing the matrix” for product leaders? 10+ Realizations that come to mind:

Remote working in USA up to 9% now. What’s the group of companies fueling this most? Slack, Zoom, Airtable, modern creativity/productivity tools that are collaborative by nature (Google Docs, Adobe XD 😉 ), what else?

what do we have here? still digging in, but seems like a fascinating application of AI for education: start a chat with any historical figure to learn and converse based on their full history. “Historical Figures” 🤯

taste > skills taste seems more scarce these days, and increasingly differentiating in the age of AI where so much of skills-based productivity is offloaded to compute. makes me think about the development of taste, and how we nurture taste for the next gen of humans.

the greatest loss here is not math skills, but developing the tolerance for struggle. a huge degree of homework, school...is gaining comfort with "not knowing" and committing to the struggle of learning. humanity needs to preserve friction, if only to retain our tolerance for it.

Loving, whenever in Tokyo, the sensation of so many highly crafted experiences - from eight seat restaurants and tiny bars to owl cafes and artisanal cotton candy shops. Why aren’t there 1000x more of these experiences in all societies? And especially in the USA, what prompted

a pattern we'll see with new wave of consumer AI apps: the more you use the product, the more tailor made the product becomes for you. beyond memory of past activity and stored preferences, the actual UI and defaults and functionality of the product will become more of what you want and less of what you don't. it's a new type of "conforming software" that becomes what you want it to be as you use it

maybe a dumb question, but why doesn’t Spotify have a Shazam equivalent? is it patented in some way? or am I missing something?

taste = what to build skill = how to build it the first is growing in importance, the latter…less so?