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@vanrensbird @MarcJBrooker I have following some writers for years. They have experimented, they have evolved. But I know it’s them when I read them. A kernel of their personality persists. For me, that weird familiarity is authenticity. Wish I could better explain it!

@ranbirnxt @MarcJBrooker What do you mean by “authentically”?

Is my blog written by AI? Do I use AI to write documents for human readers at work? No. I do a lot with AI every day, but I believe that passing off AI writing as my own is disrespectful to the people who I'm asking to read it. More on my blog.

@stevesi I suspect it’s the Mamdani effect. Mamdani’s endorsements wining primaries recently makes Dems think their constituency has swung far left. Newsom is course-correcting. Or it’s just his true color finally in full technicolor display.

A month ago he was against the California version of this. What does he want really?

@satnam6502 Lovely! Rare to see such nice okras in a local farmer market! Especially here in PNW.

I walked to the farmers' market today to source ingredients for the 2026 FSD dinner this Saturday. I bought both locally caught king salmon (currently in peak season) and Arctic salmon, to be served with oyster mayonnaise and pickled cucumber (a taste comparison test). I also found tart super-soft peaches to make roasted peaches with a peach lavender coulis. I scored a couple of bunches of dandelion greens which I will serve with a lemon-anchovy dressing. I picked up some lovely looking okra which I will lightly spice and cook until crispy and crunchy to be served with lamb chops that have been overnight marinaded in a black salt spice rub (to be served with a peanut, coconut and coriander sauce). The okra should satisfy Derek Dreyer @HerrDreyer who has specifically asked for "vegetables" or something "green", concerned that I might not serve any. I have already secured sweetbreads which I will serve with morels cooked in butter and parsley. The planning continues and anything may change before Saturday when the guests arrive.

@HarryStebbings @typesfast I mostly agree with @typesfast on this, but I suspect remote work and it’s success depends on built-in company culture, org design, and the internal wiring of the leadership team and how they implement that wiring across their org. Some are naturals. Some find it alien.

Why Remote Work is White Collar Fraud. "I have a three-year-old and a five-year-old. The idea that I could do any work at my house is like a total fantasy. The kids come home at 3pm, your work day needs to keep going. I'm highly against it." @typesfast

@IsForAt Congratulations!! Wishing you the very best!

Umm, some personal news? interesting timing for me to become CMO of Mistral this week. They make AI, it is not from the US, and it is open weights (among other things). The kinda stuff companies and governments will find really interesting to bet on right now... more info over on linkedin: linkedin.com/posts/brhall_h…

@VicVijayakumar Oh boy! That skin looks crispy! Yum

It’s a great day in North Carolina

@BernieSanders Why not make taxation more robust? Why not raise the hourly rate? Why not practice prudent and common sensical fiscal policy that balances social largess with incentivizing business? I love you Bernie, but are you making these mad proposals for clicks and eyeballs only?

I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America. This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.

Most people thought flat data center networks would never work at hyperscale. The @awscloud team figured it out. Resilient Network Graphs are a completely new network architecture, now live. 33% better throughput, 40% less network power. aboutamazon.com/stories/aws-ra…

@IsForAt I am biased, but Massie is in the mold of a Ben Franklin, Paine, Jefferson - our founding fathers, who were curious, life long tinkerers, inventors, and perhaps early libertarians.

This is a baller...

@DanFriedman81 Linear TV is no longer the only channel. The late night shows have sizable YouTube subscribers and audiences. Colbert ~11m with the two Jimmy’s having 20+ millions. How does that stack against the Mr Beast on YouTube? No comparison. 400+m for Mr Beast!

The budget for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” was $100 million per year. It had a full time staff of 200 people, and was reaching just 2.7 million viewers on an average night during the show’s final quarter on the air. Colbert was the most-watched late night host. Jimmy Kimmel has a linear audience of 2 million, while Jimmy Fallon draws about 1.3 million. Jon Stewart on The Daily Show reaches 900k to 1 million, which more than doubles the 400k that watched when Trevor Noah was the host. Kimmel earns $16 million, Fallon earns $16 million, and Stewart makes $25 million. They had to pay him that to salvage the show after Noah, who was earning $16 million per year, lost more than two-thirds of his audience. None of the math for any of these shows works.

@DJ_CURFEW Keeping your message to those who were impacted as a standalone tweet would have been more respectful. Disclaimer: I don’t have any insider details.

@DJ_CURFEW @DJ_CURFEW - downsizing headcount is a difficult task for a CEO. Glad you worked out a solid deal for the impacted folks. And your vision for future makes sense - especially the Design-Product convergence. My only $.02, wish the vision section was a separate tweet.

Today we reduced headcount by 22%. The business is the strongest it's ever been. So I think it's important to be direct about what I'm seeing and why. First, I made this decision and I own it. I did it because the way to operate at the highest level of productivity is changing, and to win the future, ClickUp needs to change with it. Second, this wasn't about cutting costs. Most savings from this change will flow directly back into the people who stay. We'll be introducing million-dollar salary bands. If you create outsized impact using AI, you'll be paid outside of traditional bands. Most importantly, I have the deepest gratitude for those affected. We're doing this from a position of strength specifically so we can take care of people properly. Everyone affected receives a package aimed at honoring their contributions and easing the transition. I only see two options: wait for this to play out gradually in the market or be honest about what I'm seeing and act proactively. THE 100X ORGANIZATION The primary change is that we're restructuring around what I call 100x org. The goal is 100x output. The roles required to build at the highest level are fundamentally different than they were a year ago. Incremental improvements to existing systems won't get us there. We need new ones. That means creating enough disruption to rebuild rather than iterate on what's already broken. The common narrative is that AI makes everyone more productive. It doesn't. Many of the workflows of today, if left unchanged, create bottlenecks in AI systems. These roles will evolve. But waiting for that to happen naturally means falling behind now. The 100x org is actually heavily dependent on people - infinitely more than today. This is only possible with 10x people that have embraced and adopted new ways of working. THE BUILDERS, AGENT MANAGERS, AND FRONT-LINERS — THE BUILDERS: 10X ENGINEERS I don't think most companies have internalized what's actually happening with AI in engineering. The common narrative is that AI makes all engineers more productive. That may be true in isolation, but at an organization level - that is the farthest thing from reality. Here's what we've validated recently at ClickUp: the great engineers, the ones who can orchestrate, architect, and review, are becoming 100x engineers. They're not writing code. They're directing agents that write code. The skill is judgment. AI makes the best engineers wildly more productive, and everyone else using AI slows these engineers down. Think about it - the bottlenecks are (1) orchestration - telling AI what to do, and (2) reviewing - what AI did. Everything is leapfrogged and no longer needed. So who do you want orchestrating and reviewing code? And how do you want your best engineers to spend their time? If your best engineers are spending time reviewing other people's code, then this is inherently an inefficient bottleneck. These engineers can review their agent's code much faster than reviewing human code. The new world is about enabling your 10x engineers to become 100x. The wrong strategy is to push every engineer to use infinite tokens. Companies doing this are celebrating 500% more pull requests. But customer outcomes don't match the volume of code being generated. I call this the great reckoning of AI coding, and every company will face this soon if not already. More code is just another bottleneck to the best engineers, and ultimately to your company's impact as well. — THE BUILDERS: 10X PRODUCT MANAGERS Product management and design roles are merging. Designers that have customer focus, become more like product managers. And product managers that have intuition for UX become more like designers. The bottleneck of user research is gone. It takes us just one mention of an agent to kickoff research and analyze results. The bottleneck of product <> design iteration is also gone. The product builder iterates on their own, along with agents and skills that ensure alignment with quality and strategy. Also controversial today - I believe that the wrong strategy is to have your PMs shipping code - that just introduces another bottleneck that the best engineers will waste their time on. To be clear, PMs should be coding but they should do this in a playground to iterate, validate, and scope. That code should not go to production. Everything outside of managing systems, orchestrating AI, and reviewing output becomes a bottleneck. That's why the other roles that are critical along with these are the systems managers (to reduce bottlenecks) along with a bottleneck you can't replace - customer meeting time. — THE SYSTEM MANAGERS Ironically, the people that automate their jobs with AI will always have a job. They become owners of the AI systems - agent managers. We have many examples of these people at ClickUp. The underlying systems in which we operate are absolutely critical to get right. I think most companies are delusional to think they can iterate on existing systems and compete in this new world. You must create enough disruption so that old systems are deprecated entirely. If there's any definition for 'AI native' that's what it is. — THE FRONT-LINERS In a world that will become saturated with AI communication, the human touch will matter more than anything to customers. This is a bottleneck that you shouldn't replace - even when agents are high enough quality to do video meetings. One-on-one meeting time with customers is something that shouldn't be automated. The systems around the meetings should be - so that front-liners spend nearly 100% of their time with customers. REWARDING 100X IMPACT In a world where companies are able to do so much more with less, where does that excess money go? In our case, much of the savings in this new operating model will flow directly back to those that enabled it. We must reward people that create productivity accordingly. This aligns incentives on both sides. Plus, in a world where your best people create 100x impact, you can't afford to lose them. You should aim to retain these employees for decades. The context they have and their ability to efficiently orchestrate and review will be nearly impossible to replace. Compensation bands of today should be thrown out the door. We're introducing $1 million cash/year salary bands with a path available to nearly everyone in the company if they produce 100x impact by creating or managing AI systems. THE FUTURE Nearly every company will make changes like these. The ones that do it proactively will define what comes next. The future is not fewer people. It's different work, new roles, and better rewards for those who embrace it. We're already seeing entirely new roles emerge, like Agent Managers, that didn't exist a year ago. ClickUp is positioning to lead this shift, not just internally, but for our customers too. I've never been more certain about where we're headed.

@nikitabier Trader Joe tote

Next week I’m headed to Tokyo to meet with the X Japan team. What is the most American thing I can bring them?

What a win for @AnthropicAI and for the world of AI! @karpathy is such a fantastic teacher and I suspect he will teach more than the AI models and extend his advocacy and tutorship of all things AI to the broader population. Love it.

@rseroter If it makes you feel better, I heard someone say, “as cool as a Pacifica”.

As soon as I start to feel the tiniest bit cool because I work at Google, I get a minivan as my rental car. Well played, universe.

@QuinnyPig My chatbotulism moment was asking ChatGPT during a Japan trip if eating ramen 3 times a day is okay…

“How long is it safe to keep this garlic infused oil?” I ask ChatGPT, preparing to give myself chatbotulism…

@elonmusk @SawyerMerritt Is @jimcramer aware of the reverse recommendation effect and in true 7-d chess move, recommends opposite of the perfect recommendation? I want to believe that theory.

@SawyerMerritt Phew 😅

We're cleared for liftoff. Thanks Jim!

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@sarahookr Not sure if you noticed it, but their cabin crew is autonomous, politely assertive. They don’t wait for permission from passengers to act on low-mid friction points. I found that very efficient compared to many airlines that wait on passenger approval before acting.

Singapore airlines takes safety very seriously.