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@btal @altina Congrats, Tal! Exciting times

After two years of building quietly, I’m excited to share what I’ve been working on: a new kind of hearing eyewear, made for conversation. At @altina, we’re designing eyeglasses with AI-powered hearing enhancement to help people stay engaged, even in noisy environments. We’re collaborating with the British eyewear brand Cubitts, one of London’s most respected eyewear makers.

@krispuckett Strongly agree with this. I was left wondering who would ever want to work at a company that operated as described

It’s a bit funny. This essay misses the relational element of creating with others. 2000 words and zero thoughts about trust, relationships, humanity, and soul. I know I’m in constant danger as a middle manager. If all I’m doing is passing info back and forth, I don’t belong at that place. It’s the idea de jour that middle management should die. But great middle managers can create and shape culture, trust, speed, and safety. Maybe my role should die, maybe it will. AI can route information better than managers. It can. The question is whether the things that make teams actually work, trust, safety, someone willing to fight for your growth, can be modeled well and with a human touch. Jack wrote 2,000 words about how organizations work and never once mentioned why people do their best work. It’s never an information problem, it’s a human one.

@dadiomov Stroll down Smith or Court st for good coffee, food & shops, check out Tortelli for pasta, Books are Magic, and Brooklyn Magic Shop. Walk Brooklyn Bridge Park. Catch a show at Lunatico.

Favorite things to do in Brooklyn. Go.

@lay2000lbs Claude isn't even good at picking restaurants in Manhattan relative to GPT. The fact that this use case is much more popular/valuable for most users is all the reason OpenAI should need not to pivot into enterprise. They're training the leisure brain, Anthropic the work brain.

Had claude plan a Mexico City street food tour for me last night. Would not recommend this

@tszzl @aidan_mclau Isn’t it clearly true that parts of many jobs are not bottlenecked by tokens spent, e.g. those that involve talking to a customer? Will burning 100m tokens to prepare for my sales meeting make it go 10x better than the counterfactual where I burn 10m?

the “per seat” software sales model makes no sense in the agentic era where some people will effectively spend 10, 100, 1000x more tokens than others, and the inequalities will intensify as the technology gets better

When I enter any REI there is at least a 50% chance another customer will walk up to me with a gear question thinking I work there

@davidshor I’m curious if you’ve looked at how other outcomes like education, health, and economic well being differ between Israeli Jews and Israeli Muslims, as well as between Israeli Muslims and Muslims in neighboring countries?

Jewish/Muslim segregation in Israel is unlike anything seen anywhere in the US within living memory. Israeli Jews are ~7x more likely to have zero Muslim neighbors than white Americans are to have zero Black neighbors — for Israeli Muslims vs Black Americans, it's ~78x.

@tszzl @antoniogm which big business model rightfully feels most threatened by OpenAI Advertising? Google Search Ads. what ads product should OpenAI build? A new take on the same kind of product, native to the AI experience.

@antoniogm What would the ideal ads product look like?

I started the first programmatic ads product at Meta and was a huge champion of the technology. OpenAI considering an ad tech partner like TTD is wrongheaded, and the worst possible way to build an ads business for such a unique and intent-rich consumer experience. It’s banner and video ads powered by pixels firing on websites, the most legacy ad tech around. Assuming this is true, it means that likely there’s either no internal interest in building this properly, or an utter lack of ads vision.

@patrickc @Vernon3Austin This is a great insight.

Excellent post on the future of American manufacturing from @Vernon3Austin: austinvernon.site/blog/manufactu….

@WillManidis What if what we are seeing is not the use of a tool shaped object, but a broadly distributed search for a tool’s useful purpose? WebVan wasn’t a tool shaped object. It was a tool that turned out to be broken. Better tools came in its stead once we figured that out

being the MAG7 company with the greatest Pentagon exposure, MSFT stock falls on the news that the US will not use force to take Greenland

I've just written about my very intense relationship with my father and how running helped me both connect with him and avoid becoming him. It's also my first article ever for @TheAtlantic . My dad wrote for the magazine in 1967, and i t seems fitting that the first piece published here from my family in 58 years is about him. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

spotted at JFK: two Justin’s peanut butter cups for $9

almost 2/3 of Americans do not want this bill. it is obviously a fiscal and strategic fiasco. why are we doing it?

@elaifresh gm

Good morning

@Noahpinion It looks like Ukraine domestically manufactures them, but likely uses components made in china kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-dron…

Once again: A bunch of Chinese-made toys just destroyed a third of Russia's nuclear bombers. War has changed, and anyone who's not an idiot will be scared as hell.

@elaifresh have you gone to the doctor?

OK now I think this is a rib cartilage injury not a fracture. Incredibly frustrating injury because the pain is mysterious and non-replicable. If I lie on my back nothing hurts at all, not even to the touch, but in other postures I can’t even begin to predict what moves will hurt

This is adorable.

"republicans are the party of the working class now"