start again today no. 96
text to workflow, spreadsheets, taste, patterns, floating, enterprise
What I read this week
🤖 from text to AI task completion - Jiquan Ngiam, Lutra.ai
Lutra generates workflows by transforming your English instructions into code, orchestrating apps to efficiently complete tasks for you.
💡 navigating fintech and crypto investments - Turpentine VC, Frank Rottman, QED
The concept of business is to have this magical, mystical spreadsheet that over time you refine you’re assumptions and over time, if you’re right, you build this incredible cash mashine. venture capital was meant to take those assumptions and put a learning agenda in place and turn them over one at a time.
🛠️ optimizing for taste - David Cramer, Cofounder and CTO, Sentry
Data is not a substitute for critical thinking.
What drives taste?
“Turn off the computer. Go live in the world of objects. Go to the stores in your city or town. Touch things. Try them on. Sit on them. Peer, leer, jeer!”
Then you must synthesize your findings; develop an intimate understanding of why certain objects resonate with you. Explore, ask questions, sit in wonder, and repeat, until you can uncover patterns and build frameworks around your findings.
🎨 floating vs working against gravity - Henri Pierre-Jacques, Founder and Managing Partner, Harlem Capital
20-30% of your body’s energy is used against gravity. When you’re standing, 30% of your energy is used just trying to keep me up. The whole belief is if you’re floating, you have 30% of energy you’ve never used before to use on your mind. When I’m in a white environment, 30% of my energy is used on being Black.
💡 enterprise is dead - David Cramer, Cofounder and CTO, Sentry
instead of investing 25% of our headcount in SDRs (the role which generally does cold outbound sales), we spend our time on community presence, on field marketing (events), on brand plays (thought leadership in some circles). 70% of Sentry’s revenue comes from self-serve customers.
🎥 the most populous cities in the world from 3000 BCE to today
I see you, I love you, hello from Tokyo,
H