Immortality is attained by having children, leaving the world in a better place than you found it, and pushing the human frontier. Not by drinking “l… - Guillermo Rauch

The easiest way to tell you have product-market-fit is unsolicited acts of affection from users. People reach out of the blue, in private and in public, to tell you how much they love the thing you created. This is incidentally the most rewarding part of it all.

It's a very exciting time to be in or join the tech industry. Everything seems to be working and growing. The AI momentum is unprecedented.

America is losing the real battle: truly open⎵AI. Everyone knows that in the fullness of time, open wins.

Open is crucial to a thriving and competitive ecosystem. You see this with the proliferation of Chinese model finetunes among US startups. They’ve done a great job.

This has been true for kernels and operating systems (Linux), compilers (GCC and Clang), browsers (Chromium and Blink), runtimes (v8 and Node.js), frameworks (React and Next.js), and it has to be true for AI.

AI is too important to remain closed, because the future of civilization will be built on it.