Jonathan Z. White 👾

feels like a good time to seriously rethink how operating systems and user interfaces are designed (also the internet; there should be a protocol that is equally usable by people and agents)

taste is a new core skill

Work with hardcore people on hardcore things.

As a founder, you set the pace every day. And it restarts the next day.

Humanoids were long a thing of sci-fi, then they were a thing of research, but today, with the launch of NEO, humanoids become a product. NEO is the first step on a journey towards a more abundant future and we’re excited for you to join us on this journey. Order your NEO today.

Design is differentiation. @bnj and the @variantui team are proving that you can train generative models to have taste. And taste still wins.

Much to study in how Nothing earned the right to exist in their David vs Goliath battle with Apple

>OpenAI was founded in 2015. The seminal transformers paper “Attention is All You Need” wasn’t published until 2017. You have to be in the water. docs.google.com/document/d/1UB…

Hardware is the moat that buys you time to build the software castle.

The right energy

Sometimes I get asked career advice … Patience is undervalued. Too many distractions promise quick wins, especially when things are hard. They are enticing — you can justify pursuing them as a way to avoid a “local maximum.” Later you find out that they are also hard. If you’re not careful, you can find yourself always searching and jumping from one shiny object to another. It’s almost always better to just finish the job.

The future is unevenly distributed.

Simplicity for the right reasons wins

@oldbooksguy Choosing the correct direction and focus

Serious question What do the hyper-productive know that most people don't?

You can learn every single thing that made this possible.

Build the future you want to see

@BaijuBhatt Love the vision 🫡

Allow me to re-introduce myself… I’ve been passionate about space since childhood, inspired by my Dad’s career as a scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center. As a kid, I remember reading Black Holes and Time Warps, talking physics with my Dad on long drives, and imagining science fiction that could happen in the real world. All of this led me to Stanford, where I earned my Bachelor’s in Physics and Master’s in Mathematics. I thought I was going to be a physicist or mathematician, but as I left college in 2008, the financial crisis was in full swing and pulled me in. After college, my friend and I moved to New York City to start a finance company. The early years were challenging and our first companies didn’t gain traction. And then we got the idea for Robinhood. With a mission to democratize finance for all, the company we founded pioneered zero commission trading, helped millions of people access the capital markets, and today is publicly traded. I served as co-CEO until November of 2020 and left my day-to-day role in March of this year to focus on the next episode: @AetherfluxUSA. Our mission is to commercialize space solar power. If we succeed, we unlock a renewable energy source for humanity that can be delivered virtually anywhere. Space solar power can revolutionize energy distribution, especially where delivering power is expensive, challenging, or dangerous. Powering hard-to-reach places like remote military bases, islands, or areas hit by disasters unlocks new capabilities and advantages for our country. Long term, we want to deliver renewable and affordable energy, day and night, to power commercial or civilian use cases. If this sounds audacious, it’s because it is. The idea for space solar power can be traced back to 1941, in Isaac Asimov’s short story, “Reason”. The concept involves capturing the sun’s energy in space, converting it into electricity, and beaming it down for use on the ground. The sun is our greatest energy source, emitting more in an hour than Earth uses annually. In the 1970s, researchers turned to space solar power to harness this energy in a meaningful way. Sunlight in space is more powerful than incident sunlight on Earth, and collection in space is largely unaffected by day-night cycles and weather. Traditional proposals called for billion-dollar, goliath structures in Geostationary orbit, using radio waves for power transmission and requiring massive footprints on the ground. The proposals never materialized. We’re taking a different approach. We’re building a constellation of small satellites in Low Earth Orbit, working together to transmit power to many small ground stations. Instead of transmitting power through microwaves, we’ll use infrared lasers, allowing for higher power output and smaller footprints on Earth. This isn’t your grandfather’s space solar power concept. Over the years, space technology has progressed rapidly. Launch costs are lower, lasers and optics are cheaper and more efficient, and constellation management is better understood. At the same time, global energy consumption continues to skyrocket and America continues to be energy dependent. Energy needs are growing even more with the adoption of AI, global conflicts, and the electrification of seemingly everything. Making space solar power a reality won’t be easy. If you’re excited about our mission and want to solve hard technical problems, check out our open roles. Onward 🛰️ Baiju aetherflux.com

The forgotten lesson of AI is that it makes founders forget that the goal is to make great products, not just great technology (ie models).

If it's important, Do the hard thing. Even if the path is long, Even if the road is treacherous, Even if you will be misunderstood, Do the hard thing. Go all the way.

Technology getting fun again folks