For anyone building with AI agents right now, (re)read Andy Grove's High Output Management.
If agents are like a new continent spawned of intelligent minds working for cheap, effectively managing them for high output is one of the highest-leverage skills on Earth.🧵
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As agents gravitate toward the median, it's the human's job to push them to a deliberate outlier.
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Darwin said it best. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, it is the one most adaptable to change.
With a place to stand and a lever long enough, it's moving the world. The optimistic side.
The #Coronavirus is acting like an unwelcome Olympics for scientists, doctors, engineers, entrepreneurs, techies, leaders, parents, and ordinary heroes of every kind. Setting records in every event.
No one ever regrets making fast and decisive adjustments to changing circumstances. medium.com/sequoia-capital/c…
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Can confirm. Advanced voting was wow-level easy. Thankful to those who made it that way.
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Explanation plays second fiddle in mass leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world. Sometimes it catches on.
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Getting hooked on surfing is another one of those before, and after, divides.
If you read books, read William Finnegan's Barbarian Days. It's one of those rare books that divide your life into two parts: before you read it, and after. amazon.com/Barbarian-Days-Su…
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Dedicating to ownership is everything. If you think and act like an owner, it’s only a matter of time until you become an owner.
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The adjectives of “success” and “failure” detract from the benefits of experimentation. Better to use terms like iterate and double down.
Step one, work really hard to be a great person. Step two:
I wrote a book on startups.
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How to create a great product:
✓ Hire great people
How to build a great business:
✓ Hire great people
How to foster a great culture:
✓ Hire great people
How to hire great people:
✓ Hire other great people
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That’s it. That’s the book.
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