David Oliver Sacks (born May 25, 1972)[1] is a South African-American[2] entrepreneur, author, and investor in internet technology firms. He is a general partner of Craft Ventures, a venture capital fund he co-founded in late 2017. Additionally, he is a former co-host of the All In podcast, alongside Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis and David Friedberg.[3] Previously, Sacks was the COO and product leader of PayPal,[1][4] and founder and CEO of Yammer.[5][6] In 2016, he became interim CEO of Zenefits for ten months.[7] In 2017, Sacks co-founded Craft Ventures,[8] an early-stage venture fund. His angel investments include Facebook, Uber, SpaceX, Palantir Technologies, and Airbnb.[9][10][11] In December 2024, President Donald Trump named Sacks the White House AI and crypto czar for the incoming administration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Sacks

Alexander Caedmon Karp (born October 2, 1967)[1] is an American businessman and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies. Karp began his career investing in start-up companies and stocks, and established Palantir in 2003 with Peter Thiel.[2] In 2025, Time magazine named him on the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people. In 2025, his net worth exceeded $12 billion, making him among the wealthiest 300 people in the world as reported by Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp

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Multimodal interaction provides the user with multiple modes of interacting with a system. A multimodal interface provides several distinct tools for input and output of data. Multimodal human-computer interaction (HCI) involves natural communication with virtual and physical environments. It facilitates free and natural communication between users and automated systems, allowing flexible input (speech, handwriting, gestures) and output (speech synthesis, graphics). Multimodal fusion combines inputs from different modalities, addressing ambiguities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimodal_interaction (more)

a flavor of ChatGPT

Andy Matuschak: Ratcheting progress in tools for thought. There are some people trying to develop tools for thought, but there isn’t yet a meaningful field around tools for thought. The difference is that a field is about ratcheting: developing a growing shared corpus of general knowledge and methods which allow projects to meaningfully build on each other, across researchers and across years, on and on in an upward cycle. (compounding) (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Google Gemini 2.5 Pro: From 0506 to 0605. Google recently came out with Gemini-2.5-0605, to replace Gemini-2.5-0506, because I mean at this point it has to be the companies intentionally fucking with us, right? (more)

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Unified communications (UC) is a business and marketing concept that integrates multiple enterprise communication services. These include instant messaging, presence information, IP telephony, mobility features, audio/video/web conferencing, desktop and data sharing, call control, and speech recognition. UC also links with non-real-time (async) services such as unified messaging (integrated voicemail, e-mail, SMS, and fax). UC is not necessarily a single product, but a set of products that provides a consistent unified user interface and user experience across multiple devices and media types... Unified communications is an evolving set of technologies that automates and unifies human and device communications in a common context and experience. It optimizes business processes and enhances human communications by reducing latency, managing flows, and eliminating device and media dependencies. A UC system may include features such as messaging, voice and video calls, meetings, team collaboration, file sharing, and integrated apps... The history of unified communications is tied to the evolution of the supporting technology. Originally, business telephone systems were a private branch exchange (PBX) or key telephone system provided and managed by the local phone company. These systems used the phone company's analog or digital circuits to deliver phone calls from a central office (CO) to the customer. The system —PBX or key telephone system— accepted the call and routed the call to the appropriate extension or line appearance on the phones at the customer's office... The term unified communications arose in the mid-1990s, when messaging and real-time communications began to combine. In 1993, ThinkRite (VoiceRite) developed the unified messaging system, POET, for IBM's internal use. ... Unified communications is sometimes confused with unified messaging, but it is distinct. Unified communications refers to both real-time and non-real-time delivery of communications based on the preferred method and location of the recipient; unified messaging culls messages from several sources (such as e-mail, voice mail and faxes), but holds those messages only for retrieval at a later time. Unified communications allows for an individual to check and retrieve an e-mail or voice mail from any communication device at any time. It expands beyond voice mail services to data communications and video services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_communications

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Ash Maurya: Don’t rush outside the building. "Get outside the building" is one of the battle cries of the Customer Development/Lean Startup movement. (more)

Matt Webb On Conversational Interfaces: the 2015 twist is that everything old is new again, and we're dealing not just with actionable notifications, but robot-generated text that we can have an actual conversation with. (more)

Itamar Gilad: Who Should Rule the Product? Recently the product sphere boiled-over over Airbnb’s controversial move to remove product managers from product teams and convert them to product marketing managers. The Airbnb transformation may be a one-of/One-off. (2023-09-09) Itamar Gilad On Linkedin Why Did Airbnb Kill Product Management (more)

Abductive reasoning (also called abduction,[1] abductive inference,[1] or retroduction[2]) is a form of logical inference that seeks the simplest and most likely conclusion from a set of observations. It was formulated and advanced by American philosopher and logician Charles S Peirce beginning in the latter half of the 19th century. Abductive reasoning, unlike deductive reasoning, yields a plausible conclusion but does not definitively verify it. Abductive conclusions do not eliminate uncertainty or doubt, which is expressed in terms such as "best available" or "most likely". While inductive reasoning draws general conclusions that apply to many situations, abductive conclusions are confined to the particular observations in question (context). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning

Steve Denning: Millions Of Managers Are Becoming Obsolete—By Solving The Wrong Problem. Two months ago, Harvard Business School professor Amy C. Edmondson and associate professor Michaela J. Kerrissey wrote an eloquent article in the May-June issue of Harvard Business Review., “What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety.” (more)

Organization development (OD) is the study and implementation of practices, systems, and techniques that affect organizational change. The goal of which is to modify a group's/organization's performance and/or culture. The organizational changes are typically initiated by the group's stakeholders. OD emerged from human relations studies in the 1930s, during which psychologists realized that organizational structures and processes influence worker behavior and motivation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_development

Chris Argyris (pronounced AHR-JUR-ris) (July 16, 1923 – November 16, 2013[2]) was an American business theorist and professor at Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School. Argyris, like Richard Beckhard, Edgar Schein and Warren Bennis, is known as a pioneer of organizational development,[3] and known for seminal work on learning organizations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Argyris

Cyc (pronounced /ˈsaɪk/ SYKE) is a long-term artificial intelligence (AI) project that aims to assemble a comprehensive ontology and knowledge base that spans the basic concepts and rules about how the world works. Hoping to capture common sense knowledge, Cyc focuses on implicit knowledge. The project began in July 1984 at MCC and was developed later by the Cycorp company... By 2002, Cyc was described as having "consumed $60 million and 600 person-years of effort from programmers, philosophers and others—collectively known as Cyclists—who have been codifying what Lenat calls 'consensus reality' and entering it into a massive database... The knowledge base is divided into microtheories. Unlike the knowledge base as a whole, each microtheory must be free from monotonic contradictions. Each microtheory is a first-class object in the Cyc ontology; it has a name that is a regular constant. The concept names in Cyc are CycL terms or constants... An inference engine is a computer program that tries to derive answers from a knowledge base. The Cyc inference engine performs general logical deduction.[9] It also performs inductive reasoning, statistical machine learning and symbolic machine learning, and abductive reasoning... A Semantic Web version of OpenCyc was available starting in 2008, but ending sometime after 2016... The Cyc project has been described as "one of the most controversial endeavors of the artificial intelligence history".[26] Catherine Havasi, CEO of Luminoso, says that Cyc is the predecessor project to IBM Watson.[27] Machine-learning scientist Pedro Domingos refers to the project as a "catastrophic failure" for the unending amount of data required to produce any viable results and the inability for Cyc to evolve on its own. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc (more)

The Cynefin framework (/kəˈnɛvɪn/ kuh-NEV-in)[1] is a conceptual framework used to aid decision-making.[2] Created in 1999 by Dave Snowden when he worked for IBM Global Services, it has been described as a "sense-making device".[3][4] Cynefin is a Welsh word for habitat.[5] Cynefin offers five decision-making contexts or "domains"—'clear' (known as 'simple' until 2014, then 'obvious' until being recently renamed),[6] 'complicated', 'complex', 'chaotic', and 'confusion'—that help managers to identify how they perceive situations and make sense of their own and other people's behaviour.[a] The framework draws on research into systems theory, complexity theory, network theory and learning theorys.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin (more)