Early 2026 AI Notes
Over the past few weeks, I read through the best end-of-year and early 2026 AI posts to get a sense of where things are headed. Here are my favorites with tldr notes, tools, and takes.
Early 2026 AI Notes
Over the past few weeks, I read through the best end-of-year and early 2026 AI posts to get a sense of where things are headed. Here are my favorites with tldr notes, tools, and takes.
Make More Than You Take
Last week, I saw a video clip of an Elon Musk interview where he talked about making more than you take. I've been thinking about it ever since.I'm a big fan of anyone who wants to build. Anyone who wants to make more than they take has my respect. That's the main thing you should aim for. To make more than you take. Be a net contributor to society. If you want to create something valuable financially, you don't pursue that. It's best to pursue providing useful products and services. If you d...
Make More Than You Take
Last week, I saw a video clip of an Elon Musk interview where he talked about making more than you take. I've been thinking about it ever since.I'm a big fan of anyone who wants to build. Anyone who wants to make more than they take has my respect. That's the main thing you should aim for. To make more than you take. Be a net contributor to society. If you want to create something valuable financially, you don't pursue that. It's best to pursue providing useful products and services. If you d...
AI Applications Are Marketplaces
Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, I’ve used AI every day, and for the past year, I’ve been building AI applications full-time. One thing I’ve noticed is that AI applications are a lot like marketplaces. There’s a clear demand side, a supply side, and an interface connecting the two. The demand side are the end-users of AI applications. For Cursor, its developers. For Granola, notetakers. For Notebook LM, researchers. For Particle, newsreaders. The supply side for AI applications are ...
AI Applications Are Marketplaces
Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, I’ve used AI every day, and for the past year, I’ve been building AI applications full-time. One thing I’ve noticed is that AI applications are a lot like marketplaces. There’s a clear demand side, a supply side, and an interface connecting the two. The demand side are the end-users of AI applications. For Cursor, its developers. For Granola, notetakers. For Notebook LM, researchers. For Particle, newsreaders. The supply side for AI applications are ...
What’s Your Question?
If you work in tech, you’ve probably heard the famous Peter Thiel question: “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?” More people should have questions they live by. It’s a good way to direct one’s life, and it positively impacts the world by making others more curious. Imagine if every person had a question. The world would undoubtedly be a more curious and interesting place. Thiel isn’t the only one with a question. Other famous examples include:Can machines think? — Alan...
What’s Your Question?
If you work in tech, you’ve probably heard the famous Peter Thiel question: “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?” More people should have questions they live by. It’s a good way to direct one’s life, and it positively impacts the world by making others more curious. Imagine if every person had a question. The world would undoubtedly be a more curious and interesting place. Thiel isn’t the only one with a question. Other famous examples include:Can machines think? — Alan...
Market Matters Most
After years of hard work, every entrepreneur, investor, or creative, including myself, usually comes to the same painful lesson: The market matters most. For whatever it is that you’re creating, a product, song, book, podcast, restaurant, the number of people who want that thing today and in the future dictates your success more than anything else. Here are some timeless quotes and links on this subject.Personally, I’ll take the third position—I’ll assert that market is the most important fac...
Market Matters Most
After years of hard work, every entrepreneur, investor, or creative, including myself, usually comes to the same painful lesson: The market matters most. For whatever it is that you’re creating, a product, song, book, podcast, restaurant, the number of people who want that thing today and in the future dictates your success more than anything else. Here are some timeless quotes and links on this subject.Personally, I’ll take the third position—I’ll assert that market is the most important fac...
Web3 Virginity
Like many of you, I grew up on the internet. My playground was AOL, Homestar Runner, Netscape, Coffee break arcade, Slime volleyball, Limewire, Dreamweaver and so many other random websites.Despite spending my entire youth creating and interacting on the internet, domain names were the only thing I could own. And I owned A LOT of them. Some of them were pretty good but most of them were terrible. That part of the internet always felt a little weird. You never really owned your identity, the c...
Web3 Virginity
Like many of you, I grew up on the internet. My playground was AOL, Homestar Runner, Netscape, Coffee break arcade, Slime volleyball, Limewire, Dreamweaver and so many other random websites.Despite spending my entire youth creating and interacting on the internet, domain names were the only thing I could own. And I owned A LOT of them. Some of them were pretty good but most of them were terrible. That part of the internet always felt a little weird. You never really owned your identity, the c...
Sweetheartz, a Valentine's Day NFT
We made a little NFT for Valentine's Day 💝 Sweetheartz is an NFT that’s designed to be gifted vs. just collected10K hearts with lovable Web3 messagesMint to your Valentine’s ENS name / ETH wallet or your ownFirst 100 mints we’re free — .014 ETH after that (in honor of Valentine’s Day)Each heart is unique and come in over 100 Web3 messages, 45 heart colors, 40 backgrounds and 11 different rare accessories. Every color is named after one of our favorite NFT projects / Web3 startups includ...
Sweetheartz, a Valentine's Day NFT
We made a little NFT for Valentine's Day 💝 Sweetheartz is an NFT that’s designed to be gifted vs. just collected10K hearts with lovable Web3 messagesMint to your Valentine’s ENS name / ETH wallet or your ownFirst 100 mints we’re free — .014 ETH after that (in honor of Valentine’s Day)Each heart is unique and come in over 100 Web3 messages, 45 heart colors, 40 backgrounds and 11 different rare accessories. Every color is named after one of our favorite NFT projects / Web3 startups includ...
