Simple and powerful way to craft a high performing team and culture.
Nik Storonsky sorts Revolut employees into 4 tiers
▫️ brilliant: they find the goal and reach it alone. "self-guided missiles"
▫️ good: give them the goal and they hit it
▫️ average: weekly iterations to get there
▫️ below average: most likely miss it anyway
his rule: minimize management time per person. Asked if he fires the average ones: "I do, yes"
Winning first. Empathy second.
via @rheacts
Elon talks about how funding for AI data centres etc is drying up.
AI leaders call to slow down the frontier, almost as if they want to milk it more whilst they can.
Anthropic is way ahead of ChatGPT just as they file for IPO, almost as if Astra was purposely nerfed during this time.
So naturally, once Anthropic IPO and people make a lot of money from that, it will swing back to OpenAI being the front runner again.
Almost as if they all know each other, and talk about these things, and have optimized for maximum value extraction for all.
Taking the tin foil hat off now.
Astra is so dumb now. I cant believe the mistakes it makes even in non code tasks. It gets side tracked, and completely loses focus on the actual outcome.
The reflection, whilst pretty, really bugs me. In the same way the YouTube app does by extending the video’s colors into the black bars. I want focus on the content.
This is so amazing, it makes you suddenly realize the issues with all of the current voice models. So excited for more breakthroughs like this, especially in local AI.
Meet Dessa, our AI model trained from scratch on nothing but speech.
We believe speech is the natural interface for technology. So we built Dessa.
And we’re inviting AI safety researchers to explore Dessa.
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So many little things here that really add up, amazing job!
Today we rolled out a refined new look for the @claudeai app! Was a blast to work on this with a few of our talented product designers, from sketch to launch in under 3 weeks with the help of Claude and our design system ✨ let us know if you have any feedback!
ALT Claude Code desktop, before
ALT Claude Code desktop, after
ALT Claude Artifacts, before
ALT Claude Artifacts, after
I’m so happy it’s a standalone app. These guys get it.
People say normies won’t build their own software with AI, well it allowed my wife to make a game she’s wanted for years!
Got bored waiting… so this 34 year old mum made her own version of bomb tag for mobile and steam. Who wants to test it? #gamedev 💣 🚗
So lately Claude seems better at listening to my voice than Wispr. Have people started making their own? Would love to know if it’s time I do the same.
Manage your iOS and Android apps in one app. As far as I know this is the ONLY app that lets you avoid the nightmare of Google Play Console.
- Easily switch between the iOS and Android store listings.
- See a notification feed of all the build, review, and release activity.
- View data from ASC and GPC that you probably haven't seen before.
shipthimble.com
Do you use the native Apple Calendar app? Well here's a free thing I made for it. calibar.app
WOW! Google Play Console just got a design refresh and it's actually much better, but still not even close to shipthimble.com. Ship your Android apps from anywhere with ease!
AI raises the floor. I don't think enough people realise just how bad the design landscape in tech is. Baseline AI slop (especially Opus 5.5) is on average much better than most tech people interact with.
Ok so I did the TV hack thing…
What started as a very conservative exploration has led to a fully custom home launcher with layouts, backgrounds, material choices and lots of customisation available.
I no longer have to deal with Samsung Smart Hub nonsense.
It's already live and working but now in a massive refinement pass thats been running while I'm in meetings.
