Alex "Have a crazy day!" Bleau

"Export as context" should already be a button or feature in most tools and products. Native. Like one-finger double-tap zoom in Google Maps. "Export as context" might become the GenAI equivalent to "save as PDF". How much time do you spend on context smithing external files?

Everything is a wrapper A restaurant is a wrapper of a butcher which is a wrapper of a cow which is a wrapper of grass which is a wrapper of photosynthesis which is a wrapper of the sun

We have three cool announcements today: (1) @OpenAI is launching commerce in ChatGPT. Their new Instant Checkout is powered by @stripe. (2) We're releasing the Agentic Commerce Protocol, codeveloped by Stripe and OpenAI. (3) @stripe is launching an API for agentic payments, called Shared Payment Tokens. It's clear that internet purchasing modalities are going to change a lot, and we're excited to start to lay some of the foundations. Links below!

Turning a sphere into a flat map always means distortion, just in different ways. (Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Greg Shirah)

Looking for a CEO. With 30+ customers and $100K in ARR, Flexile needs someone who enjoys doing sales and marketing on top of shipping product. Send me an email if you’re interested - sahil@gumroad.com (We’d spin out an LLC, invest $1m, and you’d have majority equity ownership.)

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Google Gemini Head of Product: AI has a UX problem

One LLM's output is another LLM's context. Context is king and one way that I am usually getting better results with @ChatGPTapp or @GeminiApp is to first use @perplexity_ai to run research on the topic, then feed it as context in the initial prompt. #GenAI

Doing Nothing Still Better Than Stressing About Doing Everything linkedin.com/pulse/doing-no… #AI #FOMO

@domenicopanacea We had to launch with certain limitations in EU. We’re working on removing these restrictions as soon as we can

Amazing. First really useful AI integration by Google.

Your culture is defined by the worst behavior you're willing to tolerate. Not your values on the wall. Not your mission statement. Not your good intentions. It's the small compromises. The little rationalizations. The "just this one time" that becomes every time.

junior pm: only 12% adoption after 3 months. senior pm: what are the 88% doing instead? junior pm: using the old workflow. senior pm: why? junior pm: it's inefficient. takes 5x longer. senior pm: according to your measurements. junior pm: time is objective. senior pm: value isn't. junior pm: they value inefficiency? senior pm: they value what you're destroying. junior pm: which is? senior pm: that's your real job. finding out. junior pm: we did user research. senior pm: you did usability testing. junior pm: same thing. senior pm: usability asks "can they?" research asks "will they?" junior pm: they can use it. we tested that. senior pm: & yet 88% won't. junior pm: because they don't understand the value. senior pm: prove that's why. junior pm: our survey says— senior pm: 3% response rate. you're optimizing for the vocal minority. junior pm: better than nothing. senior pm: worse actually. false confidence kills products. junior pm: so what do i do? senior pm: shadow 10 users through their actual workflow. junior pm: that's expensive. senior pm: cheaper than 88% failure. junior pm: what will i find? senior pm: the old way gives them control. predictability. cover-your-ass documentation. junior pm: those aren't in our value prop. senior pm: exactly. junior pm: we solved the wrong problem? senior pm: you solved your problem. not theirs. junior pm: but stakeholders approved— senior pm: based on your framing. junior pm: which was wrong. senior pm: incomplete. there's a difference. junior pm: what difference? senior pm: wrong means tested & failed. incomplete means never really tested. junior pm: harsh. senior pm: here's harsher: you're optimizing to be right about failure instead of wrong about success. junior pm: meaning? senior pm: you'd rather explain the 88% than convert them. junior pm: i'm trying to understand— senior pm: you're trying to confirm what you already believe. junior pm: which is? senior pm: that users are the problem. junior pm: they are if they don't adopt. senior pm: features don't have adoption problems. they have job-to-be-done problems. junior pm: our feature does the job faster. senior pm: speed wasn't the job. junior pm: then what was? senior pm: that's what the 88% are screaming at you. junior pm: they're not screaming. they're silent. senior pm: silence is the loudest feedback. junior pm: so how do i listen to silence? senior pm: watch what they do. not what they say. junior pm: behavioral data? senior pm: actual recordings. unfiltered reality. junior pm: of the 88%? senior pm: especially the ones who tried it once & never returned. junior pm: that's most of them. senior pm: those are your teachers. junior pm: what will they teach me? senior pm: that your feature asks them to give up something valuable. junior pm: like what? senior pm: control. flexibility. the ability to blame the old system. junior pm: we can't solve those. senior pm: then you can't solve adoption. junior pm: that's depressing. senior pm: freeing actually. now you can build something real. junior pm: by admitting failure? senior pm: by graduating from feature factory to problem solver. junior pm: this changes everything. senior pm: only if you stop defending & start discovering. junior pm: discovering what exactly? senior pm: why 88% of people actively choose inferior tools. junior pm: because people are irrational? senior pm: because you're measuring the wrong definition of "better." junior pm: there's only one definition. senior pm: yours. theirs. & reality. three different things. junior pm: my head hurts. senior pm: good. comfort built your 12% feature. junior pm: discomfort builds what? senior pm: products people actually use.

Automaticity is necessary for creativity.

Read that again.

Finally - a good video to video model Great for restyling an entire video in a certain way

AI doesn’t do it end-to-end. It does it middle-to-middle. The new bottlenecks are prompting and verifying.

Check out my latest article: Sometimes, Leadership Just Means Making Time linkedin.com/pulse/sometime… #leadership #LeadershipMatters #time

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OH in San Francisco Child: “What’s an Uber?” Adult: “It’s like a Waymo, but with a driver”