Kate O'Neil

For a sec, the OC guy had me convinced that crypto is just a Ponzi scheme. …but then what’s a better marketing play than pro-crypto getting a b-list actor who hasn’t had a hit 20+ years to make bold anti-crypto statements that are easy to rebut? Game knows game. 🙃

@joulee @TEDTalks You are both my faves.

Ways I want to be more like Molly Graham: 1. insanely good community builder 2. straight to deep questions, no smalltalk nonsense 3. feels like she sees and gets you and makes you better every time you see her Thrilled that she's hosting a new @TEDTalks podcast (called Worklife) and that we get to talk about one of my favorite topics: the entry price to building confidence is walking through corridors of fear.

Cracked phone screen is quite effective for reducing screen time.

26-y/o me telling people how to run their social media in 2011. 😜 Millennial side part on point! Looks like a comb-over to me now, lol. 🔥

@ifandelse Well if you’re a fan, I’m a fan! I think what I take issue with is when people define ‘player coach’ as having to have the same level of productivity as ICs. It’s unsustainable. I wouldn’t have called you a PC either, I would have said, ‘he leads through pair programming.’

@kate__oneil If someone had told me that player-coaches were a bad idea while I lead the LeanKit team that way, I think I would’ve laughed. It’s none of the most effective ways to eliminate a culture of fear, to feel the necessary impact of your decisions, and prevent complacency

"No pure managers." -- Coinbase, CEO (this morning). These layoff reasons (AI + Middle management is over) are a clear pattern coming out of SF now. So, let's talk about them: Middle management is over: 5 years ago, 'player-coaches' were considered a dumb idea. It was asking people to do 2 jobs. ...How is that different now? 🤔 Better idea could be: Recognize how the job of management has changed. Nobody needs a 'supervisor' or 'evaluator' or even ‘coordinator’ anymore. People need someone who can: - Create the conditions that make high-performance possible. - Be the host of difficult truths and deep contradictions. - Make reality discussable and therefore, changeable. - Create enough trust for courage and imagination to be abundant. ...because everyone seems to forget the AI is a great equalizer so imagination / creativity in how you use it are the only differentiators now. These things have always been important for leaders do to, but they are particularly important in times of great change. Leaders are supposed to do all of this between code-deploys? Does that sound silly to anyone else? It does to me.

“We over-hired in the pandemic and the cost of money is a lot more expensive now.” ^ why can’t layoff announcements just say that? 🤪🙃

Sarah Pidgeon wins the Met Gala. Hands down.

@GeniusGTX 8 year old me was one of the smartest people in the world. Cool cool.

Marc Andreessen says AOL killed the early internet on a single day in September 1993. Before that day, the internet had maybe two million users. They were the smartest two million people in the world. Andreessen says it felt like Athens in 500 BC. "The most pure, clean, intellectual, vibrant space" since the Greeks. No advertising. No commerce. No spam. Just the smartest engineers, scientists, and academics talking to each other. Then America Online bought a connection to it. In September 1993, AOL pumped two million normal people directly onto the internet. It became known as **Eternal September**. Andreessen, who was building Mosaic at the time, watched it happen. "That's the day the internet changed." Pre-1993 internet veterans had a phrase. Every September, when the new freshmen got their college email accounts, the discussion forums would briefly drop in quality before stabilizing. After AOL connected, the September never ended. The smartest two million were swallowed by the next two million, then twenty million, then five billion. Andreessen, looking back: "I'm pro that. I'm glad that happened. But the pro and the con of that is that took the internet from this ivory tower kind of thing to this basically mainstream consumer ordinary people thing." Was AOL right to open the gates? If you're new here, @GeniusGTX is a gallery for the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. Follow along for more similar content. P.S. I made a free toolkit breaking down 100+ mental models used by history's greatest thinkers. 5,000+ downloads. 113 five-star reviews. Grab your free copy here: besuperhuman.gumroad.com/l/mentalmodels — Marc Andreessen ( @pmarca ), co-founder of a16z, on David Senra's ( @davidsenra ) podcast

So inspired by her.

I found TWO 4-leaf clovers today. 🍀🍀

When photography was first invented, people thought cameras could ‘steal the soul’. The reason most people in old photographs had serious faces is because of long exposures. They had to sit very still for minutes to get a clear photograph. It just wasn’t practical to hold a smile for that long. Back then, could anyone imagine how important photos (and then video) would become? Did anyone realize that the opposite would come true, that we’d eventually see photographs as a little glimpse into the soul? People compare the potential impact of AI to the internet or social media but I think photography is a much better comparison. I believe we are still in the ‘steal the soul, serious face’ phase of AI. Excited for the future. (Thank you, Keren Treviño for capturing me. 📸)

Resilience stops being positive when it keeps people tolerating what should be fixed.

First @Waymo ride tonight. Felt a lot safer than I thought it would be, safer than the rickety, old elevator in my hotel too.

Distribution has always been the moat.

@HarryStebbings Froze my eggs 6 years ago. They forgot to bill me my $100 / month storage for 2 of those years. They are exploding but also don’t understand subscription.

Two areas I would love to invest that are non-technical: 1. Egg freezing clinics. In 10 years, strongly believe every 21 year old will freeze their eggs and it becomes the norm. Amazing business. Insane retention numbers. Super high margin. 2. AI re-skilling facilities. Go to Canary Wharf, set up AI training centre. Partner with Goldman, JP Morgan etc etc. Sign enterprise agreement with them to train all new employees. Both absolute goldmines!

@joulee Had my shirt on inside out all day yesterday.

Most embarrassing recent memory?

@lulumeservey @AnjneyMidha @CS153Systems @ScottNolan @generalmatter …with Lisa Frank.

@AnjneyMidha @CS153Systems @ScottNolan @generalmatter When General Matter rebuilds the nuclear supply chain

in honor of this week's @CS153Systems with @ScottNolan on energy bottlenecks the world post @generalmatter h/t @lulumeservey

I’ll never understand cutting people down. Felt so sad and so good at the same time to get this note this morning.