Brandon Kent Wang
I‘m an entrepreneur, engineering leader, and optimist.
Harvard dropout and Thiel Fellow, living in San Francisco.
More about me.
Brandon Kent Wang
I‘m an entrepreneur, engineering leader, and optimist.
Harvard dropout and Thiel Fellow, living in San Francisco.
More about me.
What I'm photographing
Arriv.ing is my experimental collection of moments & adventures, occasionally resembling a travel blog.
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Cruise on the Milford Sound
Fluorescent color, crisp air, and pensive rock faces: a photo tour of Milford Sound in New Zealand.
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Desert exploring in Joshua Tree
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Hot air ballooning at Teotihuacan
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Hiking the Hooker Valley Track
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Heli hike on the Tasman Glacier
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Exploring Point Reyes Lighthouse / Chimney Rock
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Hiking the Tomales Point Trail
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Walking the Abbotts Lagoon Trail
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Moments from Aoraki/Mt Cook
What I'm reading
The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management
Atharva Raykar / Nilenso
Raykar puts forward an analytical perspective on how constraining AI agents, “pausing and verifying”, and breaking down units of work is (for now) still a human responsibility.
Underwriting Superintelligence
Brandon Wang
Rune, Rajiv, and I write on the “incentive flywheel”: our vision for how incentives can drive the right outcomes for AI.
The Blitzhire Acquisition
Villi Iltchev
Iltchev (Category Ventures) does the best (somewhat) technical analysis of the “new acquisition”.
Fin Million Dollar Guarantee
@eoghan
Eoghan McCabe (Intercom CEO) launches the Fin Million Dollar Guarantee.
Abundance Can Be America’s Next Political Order
The Atlantic
The short-form essay of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's new book “Abundance”.
The hardest working font in Manhattan
Marcin Wichary / Aresluna
A fascinating and loving dive into Gorton, a typeface ubiquitous and little understood.
Outcome-based pricing for AI Agents
Elliot Greenwald / Sierra
A clear summary from Bret Taylor's Sierra on the strengths of outcome-based pricing within AI. See also Intercom's Fin.
Human player outwits Freysa AI agent in $47,000 crypto challenge
The Block
Via Matt Levine. A challenge to trick an AI worked with a win for the humans. The English language, as it turns out, is a confusing one.
To build a meritocracy
Max Levchin
Max Levchin (Affirm)'s bullet points on high-performance culture.
Generative AI's Act o1: The Reasoning Era Begins
Sequoia Capital
An argument for the application layer.
“Imagine you want to start a business in AI. What layer of the stack do you target? Do you want to compete on infra? Good luck beating NVIDIA and the hyperscalers. Do you want to compete on the model? Good luck beating OpenAI and Mark Zuckerberg. Do you want to compete on apps? Good luck beating corporate IT and global systems integrators. Oh. Wait. That actually sounds pretty doable!”
The Disappearance of an Internet Domain
Every
With the return of the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius, the .io domain name — a tech favorite — will likely cease to exist. The fall of domain names is a fascinating story intertwined with history, Communism, and more.
Long-distance friends: How to keep up with friends who live far away
Slate
“Which leads me to one final word of advice: Never lose your shared bit. In the absence of regular physical time together doing activities (which is really time spent acquiring primary material for future bits, isn’t it?), a successful [long distance friendship] requires an acute understanding of the location-agnostic binding glue that keeps two people interested and enthusiastic about staying in each other’s lives that isn’t just catching up over drinks until we all die.”