Here are 5 questions to ask to understand if a gen AI product will be successful: 1/ If you took the word "AI" out, is the product still solving a customer problem?
AI is a solution, not a problem.
Ask yourself:
1. What is the pain point? 2. How many users share this pain? 3. Is the pain big enough to take action? 4. Is the pain underserved by non-AI tools?
Jun 8, 2023 β’ 8 tweets β’ 4 min read
How Notion built a community of 20M+ users:
1. Have a service mindset 2. Be authentic 3. Balance user needs 4. Build a trust balance 5. Empower users to create
Let's break down each step with @akothari (Notion's co-founder and COO):
1/ I've always been fascinated by how @NotionHQ scaled through their community and built AI into their product.
Andrej Karpathy is a legendary AI researcher who helped start OpenAI.
He recently gave a talk on how to craft great GPT prompts that almost everyone missed.
I watched the 40 min talk - here's @karpathy's top 5 tips to make AI work better for you: 1/ Let's start by comparing humans to LLMs.
To arrive at the output "California's population is 53x that of Alaska", a human would:
1. Look up the populations on Wikipedia 2. Use a calculator to divide the numbers 3. Do a sanity check and craft a sentence
May 29, 2023 β’ 9 tweets β’ 3 min read
My life changed for the better when I learned about the 3 forms of leverage from @naval.
It made me set new goals and redesign my life with intention.
Maybe it'll change your life too: 1/ The 3 forms of leverage are:
1. Labor: More people. 2. Capital: More money. 3. Product: More content or code.
Let's break down each one...
May 28, 2023 β’ 11 tweets β’ 3 min read
Nvidia almost died 3 times in its 30 year history.
CEO Jensen Huang shared these near-death stories at a commencement speech last night.
Here's what he said:
1/ LESSON #1: Have the humility to confront failure and ask for help
Nvidia's first big 3D chip contract was for Sega's new game console.
From Jensen:
"After one year of development, we realized our architecture was the wrong strategy..."
May 27, 2023 β’ 7 tweets β’ 3 min read
Nvidia ($960B) is now worth more than:
- Facebook ($665B)
- Tesla ($618B)
- Netflix ($168B)
This is a company that started 30 years ago at Denny's and was for decades only a video game chip maker.
Here's why Nvidia is surging: 1/ Nvidia invented the graphics processing unit (GPU) back in 1999.
Its GeForce series was a perfect fit for PC and console games that demanded high fidelity graphics.
May 11, 2023 β’ 5 tweets β’ 2 min read
Google Workspace has 3 billion users.
Gen AI will be the biggest change to Workspace in years.
Here are the best gen AI features that Google announced today to improve productivity: 1/ Generate images from text in Google Slides
May 10, 2023 β’ 7 tweets β’ 3 min read
Trung Phan's viral threads consistently reach 20K+ likes and 5M+ views.
I asked him to explain his end to end process.
Here's how he does it in 4 steps: 1/ @TrungTPhan uses the barbell strategy of smart threads and dumb memes:
- Dumb memes are low effort and help him stay top of mind.
- Smart threads are high effort and bring in great opportunities and relationships.
So how does Trung craft smart threads?
May 6, 2023 β’ 9 tweets β’ 3 min read
7 habits that I swear by in my late 30s to feel better than ever:
1/ Have a bedtime routline
As a parent, I know it's hard to do anything well without good sleep.
Here's a routine that works for me:
- No food or water after 8 pm
- No phone in the bedroom
- Bed by 10 pm
If I have trouble falling asleep, I read my Kindle until I get tired.
Apr 24, 2023 β’ 8 tweets β’ 2 min read
Temu is the #1 shopping app in the App Store (yes, more popular than Amazon).
They're also owned by Pinduoduo which is a $87B market cap company from China.
If you thought US tech was wild, this article I read about Temu's work culture is quite eye opening: 1/ Only hierarchy matters
3 execs - Colin, Chen, and Abu - make all the decisions while the other 1,500 employees are responsible for implementation only.
Abu is proud of arriving at work at 8 am and working till midnight everyday.
Apr 15, 2023 β’ 14 tweets β’ 3 min read
12 tips for parenting young children without going crazy:
1/ Put that phone away
Give your child your full attention when you play with them.
They'll connect with you so much more if you're not distracted.
Mar 27, 2023 β’ 12 tweets β’ 3 min read
During his 11 year tenure as LinkedIn's CEO, Jeff Weiner grew the platform from:
- 33M to 690M members
- $78M to $7.9B revenue
- 338 to 16K employees
Here's how you can use his Vision to Values framework to define everything important about your product and company in one page: 1/ The Vision to Values framework has 9 core components.
Let's break down what each component means along with Jeff's examples from LinkedIn β
Mar 25, 2023 β’ 6 tweets β’ 2 min read
Microsoft and Google are betting billions that generative AI will transform search.
Maybe that'll happen, but I think there are much better use cases for this new tech.
Here's a great framework to evaluate generative AI opportunities:
1/ Plot your gen AI use case on a 2x2 grid.
For any given output:
- Fluency is how natural sounding it is
- Accuracy is how right it needs to be
LLMs are great for high fluency and low accuracy use cases (e.g., creator economy and productivity).