Mine are relatively simple: a walk, some sunshine, some music, and a fresh cup of coffee or tea that I take a moment to brew (or walk to). Making sure I'm at baseline getting enough sleep, exercise, and time to read/think/just be helps as well.
Coffee! That's definitely something that should have landed on my list. Especially when the whole ceremony is considered, like smelling and then grinding the beans, brewing, waiting, and sipping.
This is a really simple yet clever system and I may have to give it a try! I've created vibes-based playlists at points-in-time but otherwise just dump everything to my "like" list on Spotify which is fairly poorly organized after so many years.
Cackling while reading this visiting my family in Northern Virginia for the holidays. Despite it being a prominent place in the history of the web, it's still the least reliable AWS region (for now).
Makes sense and appreciate the transparency. Have admired what you're building at Graphite and look forward to seeing what you build as part of the Cursor team. Congrats!
I thought this was really interesting, although I'm not sure I fully understand / agree with the three paths you described.
In some ways, I think the path that makes the most sense is not becoming an expert or decision-maker or AI operator alone, but rather embracing the empowering capabilities of AI to become an ultra-generalist capable of all of these things. That said, it's such an uncertain future and I do think today experts, decision-makers, and AI-operators are "safer" perhaps than many other roles.
Playing to win vs. playing not to lose is something I've thought a lot about in a games / sports context, but hadn't applied to company building in the same way. I thought this was an interesting piece, and had similar experiences to the author working at a startup in the early days vs. hyper-growth vs. immediately pre/post-IPO.
> "Since its inception, we’ve been committed to ensuring MCP remains open-source, community-driven and vendor-neutral. Today, we further that commitment by donating MCP to the Linux Foundation."
Interesting move by Anthropic! Seems clever although curious if MCP will succeed long-term or not given this.
If they’re “giving it away” as a public good, much better chance of it succeeding, than attempting to lock such a “protocol” away behind their own platform solely.
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