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.🧵
Grove was big on 1:1s and candid feedback. Still 100% relevant.
When an agent screws up, don't just patch the output.
Root-cause fix the process. Update instructions so it never happens again. Elicit peak performance of the system through relentless iteration.
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.
Alexander Close retweeted
Coronavirus and Credibility: paulgraham.com/cred.html
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…
Alexander Close retweeted
The path of a maturing thinker. In order to get to Grown-Up Mountain and start real learning, you have to brave the cold winds of Insecure Canyon. If you're not willing to say "I don't know" for a while, you might spend your whole life on Child’s Hill.
Can confirm. Advanced voting was wow-level easy. Thankful to those who made it that way.
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Alexander Close retweeted
Steve Jobs left us eight years ago, today.
I wrote a eulogy for him in BusinessWeek. Here is the full text: flic.kr/p/atvnG7
With his life’s song forever woven into the fabric of Apple, Jobs rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality.
