Startup Days: A Lifetime in a Few Years and Then It’s Over
Startups are short chapters, but they leave lifelong imprints.
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Adapting Foundation Models: From Prompts to Reinforcement Learning
The three levers for steering pre-trained models and the evals that guide them.
The Promptware Window
Every week I see pitches that follow a similar pattern: “X for Y, powered by AI.” I call this promptware.
The AI-Native CTO
Why technical leadership just got exponentially harder.
The DNA Test to Stop Sounding Like a Robot
One of my editors at Wired used to say, “Put a fact in every sentence.” It was a way of eliminating throat-clearing intros and excess opinion. In our era of ghostwritten gray goo, my key element of style is this: put a piece of you in every sentence.
If a line doesn’t contain your DNA, delete it.
The Work-Life Balance Secrets of NYC’s Most Successful Founder-Parents
How do ambitious founder-parents keep it together when life throws pacifiers and pitch decks at the same time?