“Those who believe in American democracy, who want equality, must no longer allow those who have undermined the idea of colorblindness to define the terms… Race-based affirmative action has died. The fight for racial justice need not. It cannot.”

"The real value of GenAI is when companies start thinking about how many business decisions we make every day. We’ve never had anything like this in computing that could help leaders make better decisions, faster." - Jules White for Coursera coursera.org/enterprise/art…

I just completed my first course on DeepLearning.AI and plan to continue learning with them 🤖 The format worked well for my learning style, and the material is highly relevant and approachable, emphasizing using AI responsibly. deeplearning.ai

"Not all promotional content is spam, and not all AI-generated content is slop. But if it’s mindlessly generated and thrust upon someone who didn’t ask for it, slop is the perfect term for it." Simon Willison and deepfates's term for AI-generated junk simonwillison.net/2024/May/8/slo…

Interesting take from Akash Kanojia on macroeconomic trends (of inflationary and deflationary varieties) ahead for us all in the next 40 years. akashkanojia.com/7-macro-trends…

Interested in exploring how greater emotional awareness can lead to sound long-term financial decision-making? Join me at this online workshop (on May 28) hosted by my pals, Akash Kanojia and Michael Tennant Here's a 20% coupon to attend: eventbrite.com/e/money-empath…

Nice! Stanford Graduate School of Education + Stanford HAI have a whole bunch of new and improved AI literacy resources intended for classroom educators in CRAFT. Highly recommend it as a tool for developing curriculums meant to get learners actively involved. craft.stanford.edu/resources/

Me: make two images of robots playing connect four Gemini: ... Me: In brief, what is happening in the two images you created? Gemini: In both images, two robots are playing connect four. The red robot is about to drop a yellow piece into the grid in the first image.

Just dove into this new book from Salman Khan and already enjoying swimming around at the intersection of education and technology 🙌🏼

When you ask where the training data comes from

Do you remember when you joined X? I don't! Because I never joined X, I joined Twitter, and therefore, it's not #MyXAnniversary but #MyTwitterAnniversary

Short and thought-provoking interview with 'Bowling Alone' author Robert D. Putnam in NYT Magazine. nytimes.com/2024/07/13/mag… For anyone working on community-building, 'Bowling Alone' is a must-read. Thank you to Andrew SB for getting me to read it way back when. 🙏

"And so if one account ... is that we are drowning in A.I. "pollution," another perspective is that plenty of good news from A.I. is being drowned out by it, too." A brief yet reasoned take on the state of AI hype by David Wallace-Wells for NYT Magazine nytimes.com/2024/07/24/opi…

What do these platforms now all have in common? They're not gaming platforms, but they have games. LinkedIn - social The New York Times - media Netflix - streaming Why? One reason is that games make apps more sticky. Finding this shift really interesting. Anyone else have thoughts?

The story behind the iconic 'Harlem, 1958' photograph of jazz greats captured by Art Kane on East 126th Street youtube.com/watch?v=M00N9a…

"You’re always working toward a state where the market, the company, and your customer are in broad agreement about what you are and why you matter." - Julie Supan on positioning and identifying your high expectation customer (HXC) in First Round Review review.firstround.com/what-i-learned…

AI feels like a gold rush. Everyone’s panning for quick wins. A minority are building mines that create long-term value. With Max AI, PostHog is aiming to create that long-term value for users. Here are 9 lessons we've learned about building AI-powered features so you can too

This happens when a hedgehog and a goose meet: they throw an MCP Builder Breakfast and bring tools and toast to the table Daniel Zaltsman, thanks for initiating and planning this together! It was an insightful morning all about MCP with @PostHog & Fiberplane dev.to/fiberplane/mcp…