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When the first voice-activated speakers were released—products like Google Home, Amazon Echo, and Apple HomePod—I asked a friend what he liked about the product he had purchased. He said it was just easier to say “Play some country music” than to pull out his phone, open the music app, and pick a playlist. Of course, just a few years earlier, having unlimited access to music in your pocket was a remarkably frictionless behavior compared to driving to the store and buying a CD. Business is a never-ending quest to deliver the same result in an easier fashion.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Most people know that AI has made unbelievable progress over the last fifteen years– especially in the last five. It might feel like that progress is **inevitable** – although large paradigm-shift-level breakthroughs are uncommon, we march on anyway through a stream of slow & steady progress. In fact, some researchers have recently declared a [“Moore’s Law for AI”](https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/) where the computer’s ability to do certain things (in this case, certain types of coding tasks) increases exponentially with time:
There Are No New Ideas in AI… Only New Datasets
Jack Morris
The ultimate success metric is whether you get what you want out of life. But that’s harder than it sounds because it’s easy to try to copy someone who wants something you don’t.
Your Way Is the Only Way
Collab Fund
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