The reason AI coding works so well is that the source code of the median app was already slop before LLMs. - Paul Graham

I've never met a more consistently Darwinian group of people than nature guides. Supposedly rapacious business types are pollyannas by comparison.

Interesting insight from Andy Lapsa of Stoke Space: If you're running a hard tech startup, you should be able to fabricate everything you need yourself. You may choose to farm something out to a supplier, but you shouldn't need to.

It is occasionally useful to operate at the level of words rather than ideas — to literally not know what you're talking about — so long as you land back in ideas at the end of the trip.