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efficiency, productivity, speed
we keep worshipping these words like they are what we live for
ship faster
merge more
manage more agents
compress every loop
remove every pause
turn every hour into output
but what is the point of endless production if there is no time left to think deeply?
not react
not optimize
not summarize
not clear the queue
think
to sit with a question long enough that your real intention starts to appear
to find the purpose underneath the motion
to ask whether the thing being accelerated should exist at all
ai could be a new canvas
a way to make strange things
personal things
impossible things
tools, worlds, poems, games, interfaces, films, languages, rituals
things that let more people touch the shape of their own imagination
but instead, so much of it is becoming slop factories
more content
more funnels
more tickets
more fake work pretending to be value
you can merge 2000 prs
you can manage 500 agents
you can wake up to dashboards proving that the machine kept moving while you slept
but what is the point if you only sleep 5 hours a day?
what is the point if you stop talking to other humans?
stop learning about the past?
stop playing?
stop wandering?
stop being surprised?
what is the point if your whole life becomes optimizing the system that is consuming you?
speed is not meaning
scale is not wisdom
automation is not freedom if it only makes everyone run faster
and where are we running?
toward what?
a world where every person becomes a manager of machines, and every machine produces more things no one had the time to truly want?
the danger is not that ai makes us lazy
the danger is that ai makes us endlessly busy
that it gives us infinite production before we have found intention
infinite execution before we have developed taste
infinite motion before we have learned how to be still
maybe the real frontier is not more speed
maybe it is discernment
knowing what not to make
knowing when to stop
knowing when the most productive thing is to sleep, read history, call a friend, play with a cat, walk without tracking it, or stare at the ceiling until the false urgency dissolves
tools should give us more life
not turn life into a tool
if ai is going to matter, it should not just help us produce more
it should help us become more human
more imaginative
more free
otherwise, it’s the same old factory
just without humans
Opus 5.5 communicates more naturally, addressing some of the most common feedback we heard on Opus 5.
It puts the most important information up front and follows the writing rules you give it, which makes long sessions easier to follow.
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I had access to the new Claude Projects and was able to do some very complex work.
Here, I asked it to go through all the images, videos and records about Umberto Eco's famous 33,000 book library & try to reconstruct it, including book locations, in 3D. eco-library-map.netlify.app/
quick life update - i joined anthropic a few months ago, and i’m excited to share my first launch with you!
i use projects for everything: at work (to build projects!) but also for home automation and even financial planning.
join the waitlist for early access ↓
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🇬🇧 London designers!
Next week we’re back with an AI × Design evening, featuring @chrstnerode, Product Designer at @browsercompany, where she’s helping shape Dia—an AI-native browser that lets you work with AI across your tabs and browsing context.
Christine was previously a Staff Product Designer at @WhatsApp, @Deliveroo and @facebook, working on products used by millions of people.
She’ll give us a behind-the-scenes look at how she redesigned AI-generated documents to feel considered and human, using old-school print constraints to create a distinctive look for everyday outputs and Dia’s daily Morning Brief.
We’ll also have community demos, hands-on build time and an evening of socialising with other senior designers.
Wednesday 12 August, from 5:30pm at the @morsemoney office in Shoreditch.
Sign up: luma.com/1hpoa92v
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I get that business insurance is similar Nobel level type of pursuit as ground breaking physics and the Manhattan project. Hopefully the blast radius will be contained.
I don’t think the disagreement is whether hard problems require intensity.
The disagreement is whether intensity has to become a permanent operating model, and whether working seven days a week is the thing that compounds.
My argument is that for most startups, the real compounding advantage is not raw hours. It is clearer thinking, better judgment, learning, and a team that can sustain high-quality work for a long time. You can always spend a lot of time working, but the PMF might never arrive.
There are moments where extraordinary effort is necessary. Launches, incidents, existential deadlines, customer commitments. Those moments matter, and great teams rise to them.
But if the company requires heroics every day of the eek, that usually points to a system problem. It means the operating model depends on burning reserve capacity instead of building it. Company that is constantly on fire is company that is not operating well.
Whenever you put something out there, people will argue and people can argue the way I run Linear. The reason I comment on these things to offer some counter point.
There is a growing cliché in startup culture where founders and startups feel the need to perform intensity publicly. How hard they work, how little they sleep, how many tokens they spend, how busy they are, how much personal sacrifice they make.
You almost never see this from the most successful companies or people. Even if they work that way, they usually don’t make it the story, because they have more important things to talk about, like the product, the customers, the insight, the strategy, the quality of the work.
That’s my issue with the narrative and why I think startups shouldn't blindly follow it. Not that is bad to work hard but grindmaxxing narrative can become the greater goal and become counterproductive. The performative intensity becomes the thing, and loosing sight of what actually matters.
Lets check back in 7 years.
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I wrote this thread before ChatGPT launched, but it is even more relevant in the AI age.
Particularly, CEOs’ push for “more AI” is leading to a new kind of Optics work within companies: creating the perception of using AI, tokenmaxxing, etc. without much regard to UX or impact.
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✨ Some news: I will soon be offering 1-day workshops on
- Product Taste
- Product Strategy
- Product Creativity
- Customer Empathy
To get notified when these workshops open, let me know here:
bit.ly/shreyas-workshops
(follow this link for details on fees, format, audience, etc)
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If you notice a difference between these two examples, you will enjoy the rest of Dia as well.
So... Vertical tabs are out in @googlechrome. I thought it would make me switch back to it, I really thought it was the one thing I needed in Chrome.
I currently use @diabrowser , but here's the thing. In comparison, the implementation of vertical tabs in Chrome is just awful. It barely changed since I saw it in beta. I thought it would greatly improve during the beta phase, but it did not. So here's everything I dislike about it compared to Dia:
1. It's super laggy.
2. When collapsed, the sidebar moves down, meaning the position of the expand/collapse button shifts down too, making it much harder to find. (I ironically couldn't find the first few seconds of the video specifically because of that)
3. No keyboard shortcut to expand/collapse.
4. Collapsed doesn't move the tabs out of view, they are just tiny.
5. The amount of tabs per line in the grid of pinned tabs is not adjusted depending on the number of tabs.
6. In collapsed mode, all the pinned tabs are now in a column, which can push the actual tabs quite far down.
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It's just awful. It was built into Chrome as a way to just say "hey we also have vertical tabs!" But the UX is simply awful. This has to be the worst implementation of vertical tabs I've seen so far yet, sadly.
For comparison, I'm also showing how @diabrowser handles vertical tabs.
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✨Latest post: Why Product Sense is the only product skill that will matter in the AI age
shreyasdoshi.substack.com/p/…
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every browser is just Arc now, amazing the kind of impact it's had
We're back to shipping post holidays with a ChatGPT Atlas release last week, and another one today.
- Tab Groups (they're slick and you can use emojis)
- Updated search results layout (vertical stacked links)
- "Auto" option for your default search engine to decide between ChatGPT and Google
- Improvements to memory usage, fewer slowdowns
- Quick suggestions for the "Ask ChatGPT" sidebar
- A tremendous amount of polish fixes ranging from page zoom, sharing tabs in video calls, managing your profiles, devtools, shortcuts and more
We're working on true multiple ChatGPT login support, windows, mobile, agent updates, and much more.
Just hit "update" in the top right. chatgpt.com/atlas
i was blown away by poke app's onboaring. it negged me that i wasn't worth being a user, then i had to haggle pricing 🤯🤯🤯
unfortunately, day-to-day use is really not living up.
keeps alarming me about things i already did. unsubscribed and will try again in 3 mo.
my vibe coded "auto create + dedupe linear issues from slack" thing has grown to 5000 lines of code 😩🚀
what's the actual cheapest monthly sub for @interaction? i haggled a bunch and caved at $30 😆
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The @browsercompany just signed a merger agreement to be acquired. We will remain independent. Our focus is Dia.
I’ve written and rewritten this post more times than I’d like to admit, but what I keep coming back to is simple: the work continues, and we’re grateful for this moment.
The work continues because when I stop by the coffee shop near our office, nobody is using Dia yet. Our “internet computer” vision hasn’t been realized. Dia hasn’t yet changed how you work on a Tuesday morning. This deal is about giving us the resources, distribution, and monetization muscle to get there.
At the same time, it feels disingenuous not to pause and briefly celebrate this milestone. It reflects our team’s craftsmanship and relentlessness, the support of our coaches, board members, and advisors, and the incredible effort from our deal team: Ryan Purcell from Gunderson, Nancy Peretsman and Leah Schwartz from Allen & Co., and Clare, Abby, Eissra, Rebecca, Cory, Nash, and Hursh from The Browser Company.
Most of all, we’re grateful for what this means for Dia. It means we can hire faster, ship faster, and bring Dia to more people. We can now invest in cross-platform support and secure syncing, train custom AI models designed specifically for Dia, and turn ambitious ideas about “computer use” and “memory” into reality.
To everyone who’s filed a bug, sent feedback, or shared a kind word: thank you. We haven’t always gotten it right, but we’ve always cared deeply. That will never change.
Dia isn’t going anywhere. We’ll be here for the long haul, with the same team just a new partner helping us push further. We’ll take a breath this weekend, and then get back to work. Big launch next month.
In the meantime...