It’s probably a good thing I dislike flying so much, because otherwise I’d go to Europe more often and be completely crushed by debt paying for travel.

Reading about the Anthropic IPO structure, it’s super weird. The founders retain control over the company with 50.1% of voting, and a trust controls the board, with little or no influence from shareholders. I’m sort of surprised this is allowed for a public company.

Plotting travel for 2027. Crazy plans that don’t make any sense. 🗺️

Little-known fact: Micro.blog’s Conversation.js feature works with any blog, hosted anywhere, as long as your blog is connected to Micro.blog. It’s sort of like the old Disqus in that way, but powered by Micro.blog and webmentions.

Even as the news gets worse for Jensen Huang, it seems almost impossible that he would step down. It’s hard to imagine someone else leading Nvidia right now. Unlike with companies like Apple or Microsoft, I can’t actually name another Nvidia exec. His identity is inseparable from Nvidia.

If you poke around on news.micro.blog, you’ll see that we are updating our native apps very often. Just having a suite of native apps used to be a competitive advantage, but now anyone can create an app quickly, so the advantage is app maintenance and support.

Tony Stubblebine announcing Medium’s TK writing app:

TK is a private, agentic notebook to craft writing that compounds into deep thinking, which creates influence across your entire world. What shape is that influence? We’re still figuring that out, but we know it starts with humans writing more.

It feels like a cross between Day One and a blogging app. I think there are some good ideas in here.

I’m slowly converging all the disparate Micro.blog company sites into a shared design. The news blog is the latest to update. These posts are also on @news in Micro.blog and on @micro.blog on Bluesky.

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