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Antoine Buteau

Antoine Buteau

Lessons from Jackson Dahl

Jackson Dahl is an entrepreneur, investor, and creator who operates at the intersection of gaming, consumer technology, and the creator economy. Best known as a founding member of 100 Thieves and a former partner at Paradigm, he now focuses on exploring human-centric technology and the philosophy of taste through his

Lessons from Soleio

Soleio Cuervo is a highly influential software designer and investor, best known as the second design hire at Facebook and the former Head of Design at Dropbox. Having designed the iconic Facebook "Like" button and later backed defining design-led companies like Figma and Vercel, his career bridges the

Lessons from Shiping Tang

Shiping Tang is a highly influential Chinese social scientist and Distinguished Professor at Fudan University, uniquely known for bridging the natural and social sciences. With a background in molecular biology, he introduced the Social Evolutionary Paradigm to international relations, fundamentally reshaping how we understand institutional change and state behavior. His

Lessons from Luke Nosek

Luke Nosek is a visionary entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of PayPal, Founders Fund, and Gigafund. Renowned for his contrarian thinking and long-term investment horizon, he has consistently backed world-changing technologies, including serving as the first venture capitalist to invest in SpaceX. His philosophy intertwines rigorous scientific realism with a profound

Lessons from Max Tegmark

Max Tegmark is a prominent physicist, cosmologist, and artificial intelligence researcher at MIT, as well as the co-founder of the Future of Life Institute. His pioneering work ranges from the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis—which posits that physical reality is fundamentally a mathematical structure—to critical advocacy for AI safety and

Daily Digest - 2026-04-13

1. Why Your “AI-First” Strategy Is Probably Wrong — Peter Pang * Why read: A stark look at how merely bolting AI onto existing engineering workflows yields marginal gains, whereas structurally redesigning your processes can collapse build times from months to hours. * Summary: Most companies add AI to their current sprint cycles

Daily Digest - 2026-04-12

1. Neural Computers, Explained — AVB * Why read: Introduces a paradigm shift where AI models learn to simulate a running computer's OS and rendering surface rather than just generating text or executing code. * Summary: Meta AI has trained a video diffusion model to simulate a computer by predicting future

Daily Digest - 2026-04-11

1. Org Design in the Age of AI — FD * Why read: A foundational reframing of how AI shouldn't just accelerate existing workflows, but fundamentally collapse the translation layers between roles. * Summary: The traditional organizational hierarchy is primarily an information-routing mechanism designed to overcome the high cost of moving
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