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AI B-roll for More Interesting Videos
“B-roll” is the term for video footage that you cut to during talking head footage to make your videos more visually interesting—it gets boring to just watch someone talk. I’ve been trying to get AI to make b-roll every six months for the last few years, checking to see if the models would improve enough to be…
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Intensity in Israel
In the middle of a conversation about what market they should pursue, two cofounders hit a disagreement. The discussion became more and more heated until they were screaming at each other in a full-on argument, about to come to blows. I tensed, ready to shove myself between them and break up the fight.
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Why Build When Everything Keeps Breaking?
I was flying through traffic riding shotgun with one of my students. His father was a high-ranking officer in the Colombian military, which meant he drove an official military vehicle. It had lights, the kind that flash blue and tell everyone on the road to clear a path. They exist for emergencies. His emergency was…
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The gentlest threat I ever received
A man I was about to go into business with pulled me aside to explain how he was going to cheat me. He said it calmly, without any visible discomfort, the way you’d explain a change to a dinner reservation.
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Connection Happens in the Kitchen
I spend a lot of time thinking about what holds its value as AI pervades everything. The list is short. Near the top are the people who’d pick up the phone if you called. This is a piece about how to stumble on those people, which turns out not to be the way you’d expect.
