💬 Quotes
Mathew Ingram: 🔗The light - reminded me of an old limerick.
Things that go bump in the night.
Shouldn’t really give one a fright.
It’s the hole in each ear,
That lets in the fear.
That and the absence of light.
💬 Spike Milligan
🔗 ‘Anthropic’s Safety Superpower’
Apple’s is design quality and user-centricism, Microsoft’s is market share with no regard for technical or design elegance, Google’s is market share with high regard for technical elegance, and Meta’s is strip-mining the world’s social graph for profit.
💬 John Gruber
.. he is sometimes very good at getting to the nub very efficiently.
🔗 Does the Rule of 40 Work for Hardware?
I first wrote about the Rule of 40 in 2015. I’d heard a late-stage investor describe it at a board meeting - growth rate plus profit should add up to at least 40% - and the simplicity stuck with me.
💬 Brad Feld
🖋️ Is Human Agency important OUTSIDE of 'The Organisation'
Satya Nadella seems to be arguing that Human Agency is important inside the organisation and that ‘done right’ AI allows for real ‘Human Agency’. My take is that he is only talking about how humans serve the organisation. What about if you are ‘just’ a human?
Of course, we don’t have the Gemini app as our app. In fact, none of that client code is part of how we run on iOS. For these models, we use none of the models that Google deploy to their customers, nor do we use the infrastructure and means by which they deploy models to their customers. And then, when it comes to the knowledge base, we of course don’t use Google Search or anything like that as the foundation of our system. So I hope that’s clear. The amount of the Google Assistant we use is none.”
💬 Craig Federighi
🔗 Meet the System Orchestrator: Toward Intent-centric Computing
Transitioning the OS from a layer between hardware and applications to a layer between foundation models and experiences fundamentally shifts the architecture, but, in the case of Apple, it preserves its value as the agent of trust and discovery.
💬 Horace Dediu
🖋️ Do You Want To Make A Company Successful OR Work For A Successful Company?
The transition might have been the undoing of Silicon Valley.
🔗 A new home for Progress Planner, and for us.
When we started Progress Planner, the idea was simple. A website is never “done.” The work that keeps a site healthy is small, repetitive, and a little boring. Almost nobody does it, because nothing reminds them to.
💬 Joost De Valk
I know what he means - but gotta say at some point - we just have to to say - ok done. Sadly, not quite ready for that in this house.