Thoughts on AI, product building, startups, and the curious journey of growing in the modern world
If you still think AI is just a browser tab you open when you need it, you're already behind. After 10 days of deep use, here's the underlying logic — and why it's unlike any AI you've seen.
Pomelli is an experimental product from Google Labs and DeepMind that analyzes your website to build a "business DNA" profile and generate on-brand social media content. Think Canva meets ChatGPT, trained on your specific brand.
The a16z report is essential reading. Software as labor is the biggest new value driver. Proprietary data is the only real moat. Business models are shifting from selling raw materials to selling finished products.
Stripe did something that looked "dumb" — they spent enormous energy not on improving their payment system, but on simplifying the developer integration experience. Behind this is a mental model I call Upstream-Downstream Thinking.
Pursuing 10x growth isn't 100x harder than pursuing 10% growth — sometimes it's actually easier. The essence of 10x isn't doing more. It's doing less, but better.
Every era is shaped by its "miracle material." Steel forged the Gilded Age, semiconductors lit the digital age, and now AI has arrived as the "Infinite Mind." History tells us: whoever masters the material defines the era.
The question isn't how to build features — it's how to front-load the risk. The definition of MVP should expand to Minimum Marketable Product: validate that the feature works and that you can actually sell it.