June 27, 2025

Episode 526: The Optimist, the Origin, and the Deck

1 hour 12 minutes

This week, we unpack The Optimist, the new Sam Altman biography; revisit OpenAI’s early days; and break down Coatue’s AI strategy deck. Plus, tips for squeezing in side projects between thought leadership presentations.

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Runner-up Titles

Flow State

Altman and AI

Day 2 Thinking

Growth Mindset

Less of you

You don't need a Harvard Business Review subscription to know that

Running unnecessary hardware in your house

Lifelong Costco member here.

Pre-populate Everything

There’s no ROI on a good hotdog

Rundown

AI Native vs. AI Add-on

AI Frenzy

The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab valued at $10bn after $2bn fundraising

ChatGPT's Enterprise Success Against Copilot Fuels OpenAI and Microsoft's Rivalry

Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued

Zuckerberg Leads AI Recruitment Blitz Armed With $100 Million Pay Packages

After trying to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32B AI startup, Meta looks to hire its CEO

Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI

Clouded Judgement 6.19.25 - The Dropping Cost of Intelligence

Coatue's 2025 EMW Keynote Replay

Slides in online PDF

Coatue’s Laffont Brothers. AI, Public & VC Mkts, Macro, US Debt, Crypto, IPO's, & more

Agents and the Web

Remote MCP support in Claude Code

Agentforce 3, it's agents all the way down.

Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation- Google Developers Blog

Linux Foundation Appoints Jonathan Bryce as Executive Director, Cloud & Infrastructure and Chris Aniszczyk as CTO, Cloud & Infrastructure to Oversee Major Open Source Initiatives

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Microsoft announces advancement in quantum error correction

Datadog DASH: A Revolving Door Of Operations And Security Announcements

the six-month recap: closing talk on AI at Web Directions, Melbourne, June 2025

Snap acquires Saturn, a social calendar app for high school and college students

Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure

Checking In on AI and the Big Five

U.S. House tells staffers not to use Meta’s WhatsApp

How AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux Have Diverged Since CentOS

AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic

10 years of platform engineering at SIXT: Lessons in scaling and innovation - Boyan Dimitrov

What Would a Kubernetes 2.0 Look Like

kubectl-ai

Nonsense

Costco Executive Members get extended hours

Listener Feedback

Warp

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