Weekly Brief

"a private company has made not just a rocket, but an entire spacecraft and operated and sent it to the ISS."

"SpaceX gets the contract from NASA for the ISS resupply."

"like this is the stuff that countries do, not companies. And here's SpaceX, you know, doing it. Just crazy."

"If you want a specific outcome in life, you must have the lifestyle that creates that outcome long before you reach it."

"All behavior is goal oriented. You may not even realize that sitting down on the couch to relax or doomscrolling on your phone came from a bigger goal that was injected into your mind."

"The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life."

"You turn your life into a video game because games are the poster child for obsession, enjoyment and flow states."

"That's exactly what working with agentic loops feels like."

"So, the agent fills all these gaps with assumptions, and naturally most of them are wrong."

"They actually work great when the output is binary. Think either pass or fail, no in between."

"Other than binary use cases, human in the loop is the best loop for now."

"Software engineers have been like that. But what these models represent with software is the industrialization of software at a scale that we have not seen before"

"All of those questions that required analysts to perform on your behalf right now at your fingertips."

"You pay first we recognize revenue when you and your team use Snowflake. And we'll come to this. In the world of AI that's a big deal because you only pay for what you use."

"I stress is an open culture in which things are evaluated on their merit. Where people do not have to worry about contradicting me or contradicting anyone else."