We spend so much time studying how Stripe hires, how Airbnb designs, how Meta ships, how Jobs presented... According to @joulee, the useful question probably isn't “what do the best companies do?” It's “what are we unusually good at, and what kind of company should exist around that?” Julie Zhuo spent 14 years at Facebook and eventually ran design for the Facebook app. Then she started her own company and realized she couldn't copy Facebook. Her explanation was pretty simple: “I’m not Mark.” Companies have personalities just like people do. Their strengths and weaknesses often come from the same traits, which means copying another great company’s operating system can actually make you worse. Really loved chatting with Julie on The Library of Minds. Join the conversation by chatting with her Delphi: 0:58 - Why She Refused the CEO Title 6:48 - Delete Every Meeting but One 12:19 - The Oldest Interface Always Wins 15:40 - From Intern #1# to Facebook's Design Leader 21:08 - Writing the New Manager Bible 24:45 - How to Manage Agents

We want to improve Inkling’s agentic performance. To help us understand its real-world behavior, we are making it available for free on OpenRouter (only with agentic harnesses) for the next few weeks, starting now. We’ll use the data, disassociated from accounts, to better it.

Gf yelled at me bc i went to dinner with 4 of my friends and got "literally 0 useful bits of gossip what the fuck" Like girl, we're 5 guys in finance. We're not talking about engagements or pregnancies. The entire conversation revolved around situational awareness's terrible risk management, jane street, and tax arb strategies. We had a wonderful evening.

My parents died suddenly in a car accident 25 years ago this year. I was 21, and became a guardian for my little brother and sister (10 and 12 at the time). I've spoken about the accident and its impact on a couple of podcasts, but it's fresh on my mind as my brother just shared with me a handwritten letter I sent to him at his school. He's kept it with him ever since. I've transcribed it below; he told me last night that it's helped him many times over the past two decades. Sharing it here in case what I said back then in an attempt to help a little lost boy is of assistance to anyone else. 23 July 2002 To Harry, From Freddie. 1. Don't panic. 2. You have many people watching your back. I am one of them and I am watching it very closely. 3. The accident was nobody's fault. Therefore we cannot legitimately blame anyone for it. We call it an accident for this reason. 4. We cannot bring Mummy and Daddy back – but this has important consequences: – We need to remember what they taught us. – We need to behave as they would have wanted us to. – Because they are not alive, but we are, we owe both ourselves and their memory a duty to live as well and as fully as we possibly can, not to give in, not to give up. Because of the accident we have been given a very special insight into what it means to be alive – to live as fully as we can, to consider others, to work at what we are good at, and work even harder at what is difficult. Something has been wasted, something has been lost. We must make sure that our lives are not. We shall always regret that Mummy and Daddy are not here – let us not regret anything we do, or know that we had a chance and threw it away. Whatever happens, I have got your back. Even if I do sometimes hit you with cricket balls. Run straight, look your foe in the eye, and never back down. Strength and honour! I love you very much.