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CTO and Co-Founder of https://teapawt.org/t.co/iysz8ortaI (backed by Felicis, Northzone, Gradient and more), #ElixirLang programmer, Photographer, MX5/ Miata enthusiast (IRL & iRacing)

UK
Joined February 2009
Now obsessively looking for other places this phenomena might occur; restaurant occupancy by hour due to queue depth perhaps?! quantamagazine.org/in-myster…
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It's a 153 page PDF but the Opus 4.5 System Card is really interesting; assets.anthropic.com/m/64823… in particular multi agent combinations seem to be giving the types of bump we used to get from thinking tokens whereas the benefit of thinking tokens seems to be waning.
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Putting the frontline first. 80% of the workforce is deskless yet 99% of the funding goes into building tools for desk based workers. This is why we're building Sona; buff.ly/3jZ8jv8
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This really resonated; "Your real competition isn’t your competitors, it’s the status quo". buff.ly/3jYH9En
Interesting idea of businesses being a story arc from optionality to intentionality, e.g. a period of experimentation leading up to the point where you double down on a few things. Optionality is Great for Entrepreneurs, Until It Isn’t buff.ly/3AB2YAz
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First in a series of links I found interesting around the topic of optionality, the spending of optionality and decision fatigue. A Guide to Overcoming FOBO, the Fear of Better Options buff.ly/3fSriX4
So the big takeaway from this is that nearly 75% of people do actually filter through linked in connection requests to make sure that they know people before accepting them. Isn't that crazy time consuming?!
Spatial audio without any special hardware. Have a listen to this with any reasonable headphones; youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvag… absolutely mind blowing
This changelog entry in iTerm2 made my morning, thanks @gnachman
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Mind. Blown. Using space / return / other keys to wake up from sleep! Savages!! Don't you accidentally type loads of random stuff into whatever's open?!
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