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<h1>The better technology</h1> <p>This summer I did 3 months residency in Berlin. I attended the program called <a href="https://sandbox.techeurope.io">The Sandbox</a>.</p>

<h1>San Francisco Mindset</h1> <p>I’m now in London after a 6 weeks trip to New York and San Francisco.</p> <p>It’s been almost 7 months since I started my sabbatical and I wanted to reflect a bit on technology, mindset, building products.</p> <p>I want to write about San Francisco a bit and what makes it different. I will use San Francisco as the label for a specific mindset. That mindset can exist (and exists!) everywhere else, just with a different density.</p> <p>I lived and worked in the…

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<h1>Gatekeepers</h1> <p>6 months ago I wrote on [[Tools, thinking and people]] where I explored how interacting with AI is a bit similar to interacting with Google Search 20 years ago.</p> <p>Today I want to talk about a different thing that bothers me in the tech industry.</p> <p>Recently Sunil wrote this longer <a href="https://x.com/threepointone/status/2090397096176177397">tweet</a> - exploring how some senior tech people were publicly skeptical of AI and how after AI improved dramatically…

Tools, thinking and people September 2007. I'm still a student but got my first job as junior software engineer working 30 hours a week after my classes. As a junior person I was assigned a mentor. His name is Vitalik. He is kind and extremely smart. He is well respected and works on important projects. I got lucky, he was a catch and other people got matched with way less brilliant engineers. I sit next to Vitalik. He is older, but we can chat casually and I can ask him questions. I work on...