was lucky to chat with @Forbes (Josipa isn't on this hellscape, good for her) about the latest @betaworks camp thesis and -- spoiler alert: AI agents will solve a lot and, simultaneously, create a flood of second-order problems/challenges. check it out in replies:

Thoughts: 1. I don't know how anyone hasn't done this yet (at least I haven't seen this) 2. This is obviously the ideal form factor vs external device/phone/etc. 3. Again, jaw dropped on just how obvious this is in hindsight 4. I am getting an apple watch today 5. This is genius

Granola is already an invaluable tool on my laptop for video calls. Now you can start Granola for all your other important convos on the go: the doctor’s appointment, the impromptu work chat, the brilliant idea you had on the walk to get coffee. @meetgranola now on Apple Watch:

Even when things are going great, running a $1.5 billion AI startup is a knife fight. @MeetGranola was one of the first AI apps of this generation to achieve near-ubiquitous adoption. But meeting notes are not the company’s be-all and end-all. The real battle is over owning the interface that everyone uses to get their work done in an AI-native world. I had Chris Pedregal (@cjpedregal), cofounder and CEO of Granola, back on @every’s AI & I to talk about the current state of the application layer, AI’s frontier, and the future of work. We get into: - Why meeting notes clones don’t matter. Three big companies cloned Granola’s core feature. To him, meeting notes were never the real prize. “Easy come, easy go” is his view of anyone’s lead, including his own. - How he thinks about building proactive features in AI. Granola pre-generates millions of pre-meeting briefs, which include context on the nature of the meeting and people participating, that most people never open. But when they do, they have a magical experience. - Why Granola is betting on “bring your own agent.” Chris says the API and MCP will get “a lot better” over the next few months, and we talk about their agent-native strategy and why they’ve pushed the product that way. This is a must-watch for anyone building at the application layer. Watch the episode! Timestamps Introduction: 00:00:59 Why running a company is a knife fight even when it’s working: 00:01:57 Granola’s counterintuitive view on competition: 00:04:33 Dan’s “pirate and architect” model for early-stage product teams: 00:10:44 Granola’s “shaping” and “validation” phases for building features: 00:13:09 Why Dan lives almost entirely inside Codex: 00:18:17 The case for “Codex-native apps”: 00:24:40 Granola’s “handrail” philosophy: 00:35:37 Why Granola is going all in on winning meeting-adjacent context: 00:38:12 What a transcript alone can never capture: 00:44:19

The Statue of Liberty was first designed and assembled in residential Paris, rising over rooftops and towering over daily life. I love this aesthetic: massive, inspiring statues in the midsts of ordinary, human scale environments.

when we were dogfooding follow up emails, I had to explain to @_matthewpalmer at length why i kept discarding the drafts. They'd appear after meetings where I'd said that I would "send something over," and the email would very helpfully offer to help me send that thing over - except, as it turns out, I didn't actually mean to send it over. You never want to have to say "I am not always an especially reliable person" in a meeting with your colleagues, but there is a phatic element to promises in meetings and not all of them necessitate actually doing the thing you said you were going to do. Instead of ignoring me as an imperfect user, Matt built some of that nuance into the logic that decides whether a follow-up fires at all. figuring out when and if a meeting deserves a follow up at all was a huge part of this project. I'm always so delighted now that it always appears exactly when i need it, it sounds like me, it reminds me to follow up the things that genuinely need following up. it's just one of hundreds of small slices of real, messy and complicated humanity that went into building this feature - so happy it's finally out!