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Free agency

Business

Unrestricted free choice is a myth.

There are always boundaries and trade-offs.

But being fully stuck is also a myth. We might not like the trade offs, but we also have a choice.

Since we always live in between, the work isn’t waiting until we have free agency. The work is deciding and acting when we think that we don’t.

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Anthropic spent millions on Super Bowl ads to roast OpenAI

Business


Everyone knows Super Bowl commercials are expensive, bombastic, and designed to be talked about. What we didn’texpect was an AI startup using the biggest ad stage of the year to throw shade at a rival’s advertising strategy. That’s exactly what Anthropic has done. The company bought Super Bowl airtime to broadcast a simple message: “Ads are coming to AI, but not to Claude.” Its ads depict a chatbot spitting product pitches mid-conversation, ending with a clear contrast to its own ad-free promise. Even ads these days aren’t what they used to be. Video: Can I get a six pack quickly?, uploaded…

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Vessel size

Business

“May your cup runneth over…”

This begs the question: how big a cup?

The logistics of vessel size determine how much money we need to raise, how big a team we need, how many customers are necessary to break even. When we’re on the hook to fill an Airbus transatlantic flight with passengers, the business is fundamentally different from a small commuter airline in Rhode Island.

And it’s not simply the financial and organizational mechanics that matter.

We can’t help but compare.

Is a million dollar sale a big deal? Not if your organization was counting on something ten times as big.

It turns out that the absolute size of our cup isn’t nearly as important as getting the relative inputs and outputs in sync.

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