"The Industrial Revolution triggered a sense of future shock similar to our age. When you read accounts of people’s very first railway rides, they’re psychedelic”

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This sounds very interesting, would love to see the final product

We at Benchmark are optimistic about the entrepreneurial spirit. As early stage investors, 1/3 of our investments are the initial capital and the majority of our investments are pre-revenue. Many of the best companies are built in volatile times. We’re open for business.

Reality whiplash: the brief period of disorientation felt when shifting between realities with different physics (e.g. a toddler trying to zoom a physical magazine)

Small businesses are the heartbeat of our communities. To help during this time of crisis, Facebook is offering $100M in cash grants & ad credits for up to 30k small businesses in over 30 countries where we operate. A note from our COO Sheryl Sandberg: facebook.com/sheryl/posts/1…

Sequoia seeks $7bn to invest in US and Asian start-ups on.ft.com/2UmPeGt

Creators in Rec Room built over 50k new rooms this week. That’s one new room every 12 seconds. Tons of new games, new clubhouses, new meeting rooms, new venues for events, new classrooms. Great to see people still getting together and socializing even while staying at home

That’s big. Quite a significant milestone.

How Platform Shifts Happen. Part 1: Metaphors stephenmcanearney.com/blog/2020/7/24…

Here’s some mind-blowing technology being developed by Boz and his team for our AR glasses: wrist-based sensors that let you control devices using the same electrical motor nerve signals you use to move your hands tech.fb.com/inside-faceboo…

Hypothesis: information work is overwhelmingly bottlenecked on availability of high-signal context more than by correct inference over the context. If right, implies higher ROI-per-flop of context building over pure logical inference. h/t Anand Kannappan

Have been playing around with (Jeff Dean, Fei Fei Li backed) "scouts" for about a week. Hyper-personalized newsletters are a favorite use case so far. Looking forward to proactive deep scouts in the future...

Trusting AI more means less micromanaging

Long aussie startups: #1 in $1b+ startups per dollar invested and #2 fastest growing startup ecosystem h/t: Side Stage Ventures

Superintelligent aliens after hearing about $100m offers…

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