Bobby Stapleton

Striking detail in the big NYT piece on Taiwanese families adjusting to working at the huge new TSMC chip plant in Arizona: their surprise at the lack of rigor in US schools.

Having a train that takes you directly to the airport is genuinely one of the top 10 things a city can offer. No expensive taxis, no sitting in traffic, no begging someone to drop you off. Just get on the train and arrive at the airport. Every major city should have this.

So between me sleeping and waking up we’ve had flying cars come to life

Here is official trailer, You Can See Everything

I was asked about by a pro-life student why he should support me…

Did you make it to booth #101 at @Dreamforce? Here’s Bobby Stapleton giving the tour: we’ve got coffee to keep you going, merch that you’ll actually want to wear, and demos of the highest performing Customer Agent on the market. We’re here all day Wednesday and Thursday so come and meet the team and see what Fin is all about.

All signs point to this doc topping it, but Finding Frances is a masterpiece and the first time you really see how far Nathan can go. The trajectory from ep1 Nathan for you, to this, to the rehearsal has me legit scared for this new documentary

Steve Kerr says Roger Federer taught his Warriors team the secret to sustained success wasn’t outworking everyone, it was building a life around your craft you never want to escape from “I’ll tell you a great story about Roger Federer. We were playing in China with the Warriors in 2017. Roger was in Shanghai for the Masters tournament, so we invited him to come speak to the team.” “Draymond Green asked him, ‘How do you sustain success? How have you managed to win majors 20 years after you first won one?’ Everyone was expecting him to say, ‘I work harder than everybody,’ the will, all the clichés.” “Roger Federer says, ‘I get up every morning and I make breakfast for my kids. Then I take them to school and drop them off. Then I go practice tennis for about two hours, and I’ve figured out a really good routine where I don’t destroy my body, but I can get all the work in I need.” “‘Then I go have lunch with my wife. In the evening, we cook dinner together. The kids are all home from school. We ask them about school. There’s so much joy in the house. We put them to bed, and then I put my head on the pillow and go, “Man, that was just a great day.” And I’ve been doing that for 20 years.’” “And it was like, yes. That’s it. That’s the formula. That’s what leads to sustained success. He loves tennis. He loves his family. He loves life. It’s not outworking everybody and banging your head against the wall, ‘I’m going to be better than everybody.’ It’s allowing your natural talent to shine through with a work ethic, with a great family life, with perspective, with peace, with mindfulness.” “It’s perspective. It’s joy. It’s passion. It’s mindfulness. It’s an awareness that we are truly lucky. To get the most out of ourselves, it’s our daily rituals and experiences and love and joy.”

James Dyson is 79 and still finding ways to apply hardcore engineering to random consumer products. He was in fine form pitching Dyson’s new $499 CameraJet toothbrush: “The first toothbrush with a camera. The first toothbrush with a jet. The first toothbrush to find the space between the teeth and floss while you brush.” Dyson says it created an ML algorithm trained on 470,000 mouth images to recognize the gaps to clean with water flossing.

Apple has published a behind the scenes look at how the M6 Mac mini video was made

Increasingly convinced that using AI well is a management skill: holding high standards, knowing which details to sweat, choosing focus ... I guess we'll see who has it.