Vision Pro

Hacker News Discussion - Apple Vision Pro

I worked at Motorola when the iPhone came out. Every single engineer knew this thing would blow everything else out of the water. It was one of the largest leaps in consumer tech devices ever. I assure you the Vision Pro is nowhere close to that.

Is this the "iPhone" moment? There were reports the launch was rushed so I wonder if it'll just take a few iterations to get it right. Somewhere around iPhone 4 the technology smoothed out and developer tooling really smoothed out allowing App Developers were able to create really great apps.

I'm less interested in portability, and more interested in the ability to work or have entertainment anywhere. I assume they're going to work on collaboration/social features to sync up screens next.

On some timeline this becomes sunglasses and we're wearing them everywhere, right?

Mike Volpi

While challenging my assumptions that great technology investors would be technical a General Partner at a VC firm told me that Mike Volpi is widely considered one of the best infra/devtool/cloud investors in Silicon Valley.

I loved the bits on his flaw of falling in love with the technology, and also the casual language that 80% of his time is hitting 10-15 billion dollar IPOs for his other partners, so that he can spend 20% of his time on more futuristic things like self-driving cars.

Great interview and one that made me re-evaluate my prior assumptions.

Google Quarterly Results

Hacker News discussion

"Other Bets, which includes the Waymo self-driving car business and the Verily life sciences unit, reported revenue of $657 million, up from $226 million the year prior. Its loss narrowed to $863 million from $1.24 billion."

Focusmate

The Service That Makes Shame a Productivity Hack
Part social network and part virtual co-working space, Focusmate suggests that accountability is the most powerful motivator to get work done.
The New YorkerCondé Nast

In a post-knowledge economy, remote-only, AI-enabled era what types of workplace social interaction that would currently be considered weird, be completely normal?

It's likely in the future you won't be paid on your ability to know things, so it's more likely you'll be paid on your ability to be productive with AI.

I keep coming back to this New Yorker article on Focusmate.

How Tom Blomfield founded two billion-dollar companies

Backstory: How Tom Blomfield founded two billion-dollar companies

Y Combinator created this great video of Tom telling the story of how he started GoCardless and Monzo. Loved the bit on "circle of ambition", the reminder that doing some hard things is better for startups.

Sidenote: Was it a problem for YC that a young founder who studied CS at Stanford or Waterloo had never heard of GoCardless or Monzo? In any case, the story and reflections are fantastic.

XFaaS

XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta

I've been seeing a resurgence of popularity in the serverless model. It was a technology I fell in love with but was bitten by cold start times and deployment issues. But the simplicity for developers should be enduring. We get a glimpse of insight into how its adoption is growing at Meta.