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amy 🦒 retweeted
there’s this vintage short essay 'i want a wife' by judy brady, a tired 1970's housewife who asks for a wife of her own to offload tedious tasks to
and it is also inadvertently one of the best product roadmaps i've seen for personal ai assistants/ home robotics
amy 🦒 retweeted
we know that the future will look like magic to today's version of us
and so if you're very ambitious you should be thinking about playing in dream time and pulling from the subconscious
this is the time to tap into our most elevated and most fantastical visions and bring them to life
out: reading High Output Management by Andy Grove
in:
people keep asking me what the optimal topology for a swarm of agents is, so we tested six in our lab. we scattered the clues to a hidden map across 50 AI agents and changed how they were organized: who can message whom, who writes roads onto the map, who answers the routes ⬇️
ALT Figure titled six ways to organize 50 agents, six network diagrams with a one-line label each. Amber dots are the agents that write roads onto the map, a teal ring marks the agent that answers the routes, lines show who can message whom. Five hubs, one writer: five teams of ten joined through their leads, one amber writer. Public board, one writer: 50 agents around one board, one amber writer. Five leads each write a region: the five leads are amber. One writes, a second does routes: one amber writer, a second agent ringed. Leads write, a second does routes: leads amber, a second agent ringed. Everyone writes: all 50 around the board are amber.
amy 🦒 retweeted
Even though we're quickly moving towards a post-literate society, you can tell that books remain sacred objects that carry enormous power and authority in our culture based on how uncomfortable they make people who don't engage with them regularly
2 types of ppl who think in frameworks:
1) loves receiving frameworks from other smart ppl. hears about a framework; superimposes it onto their reality; uses it as a "shortcut" to become v effective in well-trodden paths
2) default skeptical of established frameworks - yet compulsively finds patterns in reality and turns them into their own frameworks. appears stubbornly contrarian / slow to execute on "obvious" problems. if they're dumb, they end up unsuccessful and bitter; if smart, they become original trailblazers
amy 🦒 retweeted
one week review is considered late enough on android land for @sundarpichai himself to reply.
meanwhile apple app store:
- one week review you are lucky
- 6 weeks review is not rare
@johnternus - something has to be done about the way iOS apps get reviewed today. it is so below apple’s standard.
jokes aside, i like the idea of being "almost-vegetarian" or "best-effort pescatarian".
like it makes me sad to eat animals & try not to - but i also just don't wanna commit to picking every little bit of chicken out of my fried rice if i'm out with friends
why i think @DialecticPod has succeeded -- despite being yet another interview podcast, started by a not-well-known host:
an interview podcast is basically a marketplace. you need to align the interests of two parties:
1) the guest, who has a personal brand or story they wanna reinforce
2) the audience, who wants to hear something actually interesting
the hard part is that most guests have strong incentives to narrativize their lives. if you ask someone about their career for an hour, you often get at best a polished, abstracted spiel - and at worst, a story that's obviously engineered to be a sales pitch for whatever they’re currently building.
Dialectic gets around this by:
1) picking guests whose personal brands are built around having interesting ideas;
2) digging deep into their ideas, instead of making them narrate their lives explicitly
so the guest’s desire to reinforce their image aligns with the audience’s incentive -- and gives the guest a natural reason to distribute the episode to their existing audience
amy 🦒 retweeted
if 2017 chatbot craze (also embraced hard by zuck at the time), and the YC startup magic (SMS based human concierge) taught us anything, it's that the chat interface is not the superset, but the subset of consumer use cases.
people confuse the convenience of accessing agents through imsg as a friction-free magic, but form factor alone has never won the war.
rather than trying to boil the ocean by trying to do everything and anything for consumers, they gotta sharpen their wedge and hone in on a few potent and repeatable hero use cases.
applies for muse, dots, bots, instinct, or 32 million other agents that practically do the same thing
amy 🦒 retweeted
nyc feels safer than sf because there are always people around you. in sf, sometimes it’s 10pm and the entire street is just you and one guy with a crowbar.
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