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Chief engineer at Honda,
84 years old.
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The claim Shotaro Odate is 84 is a viral myth. He joined Honda in 2003 after Tokyo Tech. Sources state born 1978 (~48). He is a real Honda ADAS chief engineer with over 250 patents.
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Fun to look back at Spellbook's original website from 2022. It was a tiny side project that we launched in 2 weeks. It was the first commercial GenAI product for lawyers... And generated a 30,000 lawyer waitlist in a couple months.
2 weeks of inspo changed our company forever
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Claude is intoxicating because creativity itself is intoxicating. You can spend hours writing prompt and think you've come up with something genius, only for someone else to immediately consider it slop.
But this happens in all kinds of writing, music production etc. Every music producer knows the feeling of being up 2am finishing a song they love, then listening to it the next day and realizing, with distance, that it is utter crap.
The entire population is now getting to understand this feeling--how when you get "too close to the work" you lose judgement and taste.
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One of the incredible things you learn at a small startup is: making anything actually work is ridiculously hard
When the company is small, you have no one to blame but yourself and the difficulty of the task at hand.
Without that learning, many people bounce from big company to big company with failed projects, constantly blaming the failure on other people (or, incorrectly attributing success to their own actions, and believing things were much easier than they actually were)
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Biebs reviewing his contracts with AI to see if he is allowed to play his music library on stage via youtube
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Anson Lo’s 1st solo album
《KINGDOM》 (CD) [Version A & B]
4.12.2025 11:00
MIRROR SHOP official website, CD Warehouse, Tom Lee Music, YesAsia.com, The Club and record stores
🔗: instagram.com/p/DRzO7izE3mx/
#盧瀚霆 #AnsonLo
#KINGDOM
#MIRRORweare
Jacob Critch retweeted
you can just send emails
i forget i can just send emails sometimes, but then i send email, and thing happen
thing maybe not happen, thats ok, but sometimes, thing happen
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Long ago I assumed the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) was a crown corp that got privatized at some point
Hilariously, it was just some guys with a small bank in Halifax that wanted to rebrand and expand nationally. They literally ordained themselves as the "royal" bank of Canada.
This is my go to Canadian example of "you can just do things"
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seeing a tbpn post of @scottastevenson is hilarious, we've hit the big leagues ⚾ 😂
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Replying to @Fityeth
When Reed asked me to step down as CEO, it was tough but likely one of the best decisions. I loved the chaos of building from scratch, but Reed thrived on structure and discipline.
I’ll never forget him opening his laptop and saying: “Marc, I’ve been thinking a lot about the future. And I’m worried. … I’m worried about us. Actually, I’m worried about you. About your judgment.” Hearing that stung.
Handing over the reins hurt my ego (for a moment), but it saved the company. If I’d held on, Netflix might never have grown past those early years.
































