Lots of promising AI startups from Sweden now are gearing up for global conquest (mostly AI apps though, there are fewer foundation & AI infra startups). The success of Lovable fuels this, plus the founder Anton Osika is friends with many of the other founders, so there’s a lot of mutual supporting going on.

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The world would be a better place without this shitty company.

Personally I truly, deeply hate AI summaries and so I strongly disapprove of Google’s latest moves into this territory. I know it’s not a comment with substance, but I think the more people express their aversion to this trend, the higher the chances of it not becoming the norm.

Glad back in the days I chose Instapaper and not Readitlater/Pocket. Still using it all the time. It costs money but is worth it.

I’ve never had a reason to visit Yandex but this sounds like one. Thanks for the tip.

And the 20% tipping, please leave that at home too.

The markets, while often right after a while, can be a bit slow. I remember the weeks in February/March 2020. The writing about the upcoming global pandemic was on the wall, yet I had enough time to calmly sell all my stocks during the week before everything came crashing down.

Same slowness with the reaction to Deepseek recently.

I still appreciate TC’s coverage and style quite a lot. The level of overall enshittification in regards to quality and UX is rather moderate. For a 20 year old news outlet with various owners throughout the years, in an industry with rapid, constant changes, that’s an achievement.

Sweden’s tech startup scene is definitely seeing lots of momentum at the early stage. Basically everyone building focused on the “LLM wrappers” from the start, due to lack of critical “ingredients” for creating foundation AI companies. This initially looked like a major weakness. But now, as the market realizes that this is where value creation happens after all, seems like a fortunate outcome.

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And his Waking Up app is amazing, and life changing (if one is open to practicing seeing consciousness as it is).

I did a 30 day trial of Waking Up, gifted from a friend who also finds it life-changing.

I did my best with it, but it didn't change my life. It was fine; sitting quietly for ten minutes a day is probably a good idea.

I appreciated that he tried to avoid using woo-woo language, but I often didn't understand what he was going for. That's probably inevitable: he's trying to induce a state that you can't get a feel for until you've done it. (I'm reminded of learning to whistle. I put my lips together and blew, and kept doing that until suddenly it worked, but I could not tell anybody what made that instant different.)

I will say, though, that I often thought "If Sam Harris heard some yoga teacher say that, he'd rip them a new one."

It is entirely possible that I'd see more benefit if I continued past the 30 day trial. Clearly it works very well for some people; I'm certain that there's a "there" there. It's definitely better than trying to gaze into my soul through the backs of my eyeballs (which I did in fact hear from a yoga teacher).