As GPs in early stage venture, we need to move quickly most of the time. Call it 𝐅𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞. 80% of the time, we make the best decision we can with incomplete information, often under time pressure. Perhaps a round is coming together in 48 hours, or a talented engineer doesn't have a deck but wants to raise $2M in a week to start building. Etc.
But perhaps 20% of the time, we need to slow down, deliberate, pressure-test logic. Maybe it’s whether to trim a position in an existing winner. Or whether to do a major follow-on investment in a higher priced round. Or it's about an internal hiring or firm strategy decision. That requires 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞.
Knowing which mode a decision requires is a form of decision-making self-awareness. (By the way, this is distinct from the now-popular Type 1 vs. Type 2 decisions framework, because none of these decisions is reversible; they're all one-way doors...)
Interestingly, for LPs the speed mode ratio is often the 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 of GPs. Most of the time, LP investing is a Slow Mode activity. Allocators can study a manager, watch a strategy develop across vintages, compare opportunities, and build conviction over time.
But perhaps 20% of the time, speed matters. At our Village Global event with LPs the other week, several allocators talked about how to prosecute compelling co-invest opportunities on tight timelines. Others talked about managers raising small, capacity-constrained funds. In those moments, an institution whose default mode is deliberation can miss something great.
For both GPs and LPs, you need to recognize what kind of decision you’re facing, be aware of the default posture in your culture (Fast or Slow), and then match your decision-making speed to the situation at hand -- which may require a hard pivot from what feels normal.
But perhaps 20% of the time, we need to slow down, deliberate, pressure-test logic. Maybe it’s whether to trim a position in an existing winner. Or whether to do a major follow-on investment in a higher priced round. Or it's about an internal hiring or firm strategy decision. That requires 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞.
Knowing which mode a decision requires is a form of decision-making self-awareness. (By the way, this is distinct from the now-popular Type 1 vs. Type 2 decisions framework, because none of these decisions is reversible; they're all one-way doors...)
Interestingly, for LPs the speed mode ratio is often the 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 of GPs. Most of the time, LP investing is a Slow Mode activity. Allocators can study a manager, watch a strategy develop across vintages, compare opportunities, and build conviction over time.
But perhaps 20% of the time, speed matters. At our Village Global event with LPs the other week, several allocators talked about how to prosecute compelling co-invest opportunities on tight timelines. Others talked about managers raising small, capacity-constrained funds. In those moments, an institution whose default mode is deliberation can miss something great.
For both GPs and LPs, you need to recognize what kind of decision you’re facing, be aware of the default posture in your culture (Fast or Slow), and then match your decision-making speed to the situation at hand -- which may require a hard pivot from what feels normal.
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True for elite knowledge workers, for sure, but how about for everyday working folks? In the AGI age, will *everyone* be working more hours?
everyone talking about jevons paradox of computing and AI.
but jevons paradox also applies to work. the more you can get done, the MORE you want to work. because accomplishing things is so satisfying.
this is why AI will make people want to work even harder and create more
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If you were charged with a crime and on trial, would you rather be judged by a jury of your (human) peers or a jury of AI agents?
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Last few years of podcast industry has made it clear that interviewers are pretty interchangeable. None of the hosts will ask tough questions lest they lose access. Audience come for the guests. So the latest podcast du jour changes based on where the biggest guests are willing to participate.
Does anyone still watch Lex Fridman’s podcast in 2026
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This is the culmination of 2 weeks of sleepless nights from fal’s Research & Performance teams: taking an extremely powerful base model, improving its quality beyond the base itself, and increasing its speed by 10x (literally).
We present to you the fastest model in the west 🤠
We present to you the fastest model in the west 🤠
Introducing FLUX 3 Max, the latest post-trained video model from fal Research in partnership with @bfl_ai.
FLUX 3 Max is tied for #1 in image-to-video quality on independent third-party benchmarks, generating a 10-second, 720/768p video in ~12 seconds.
For the next three weeks, making it the most affordable frontier video model at its quality level.
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Pleased to welcome Ambassador Barbera Thornhill, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, to the U.S. Embassy in Bern. 🇺🇸🇨🇭
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Some prominent tech CEOs and VCs have gone years without facing a challenging interview in public, choosing instead to "go direct" with softball podcasters.
The logic is obvious. But I wonder: Is their ability to field genuinely tough questions in public atrophying from disuse?
The logic is obvious. But I wonder: Is their ability to field genuinely tough questions in public atrophying from disuse?
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@bencasnocha is a gifted interviewer. Goes deep fast!
Mark Pincus has been fired from every company he's worked at, including Zynga, where he fired himself.
Village Global Luminary LP @markpinc, Founder of @zynga and one of Facebook's earliest investors, sat down with @bencasnocha for a learning circle with founders and friends.
nders' instincts tend to be right more often than their ideas, how Mark thinks about founder mode, where AI still falls short on taste, and more.
Watch the full conversation: youtu.be/iRragsleHmA
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I feel like the fact that Anthropic still uses Typeform for their email marketing and customer surveys is testament to the fact that some SaaS solutions are perhaps not entirely as dead as many have predicted
Imagine you are working at one of the most frontier technology labs the greatest AI models available
and somehow you decide to use Typeform instead of rolling your own quick and dirty solution
what does this mean?
Imagine you are working at one of the most frontier technology labs the greatest AI models available
and somehow you decide to use Typeform instead of rolling your own quick and dirty solution
what does this mean?
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"A basement husband can theoretically be told to come upstairs. A garage husband can be interrupted. A workout can be postponed. Headphones can be removed. A hobby can be negotiated around. The bathroom is different because you cannot reasonably deny another human behind access to the toilet. ‘I have to go to the bathroom’ is one of the most powerful sentences available to a person who lives with other people." nypost.com/2026/09/26/lif…
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What struck me about this photo is that Trump and Xi invited to their dinner table: an immigrant from South Africa, two Taiwanese immigrants that came to the US as children, and a gay kid from Alabama, all of whom moved to Silicon Valley to make a dent in the universe.
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"He either is -- or puts on a good impression of being -- a classic Silicon Valley autistic person."
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dana white is basically an analyst attending their first board meeting/dinner but it's for a $2T company that borderline controls society
Dana White says Mark Zuckerberg is an animal and reveals Meta board meetings go from 9am to 6pm, dinner, then another three hours, extending into two days
"I'm on the board of Meta and I just got home last night from a Meta board meeting, and it's one of the best decisions I've Zuckerberg called me and I said yes to that."
"And you sit in this room, and not only the people that he runs through the room all day, which are some of their high-level employees there, but the rest of the board, you literally have the smartest people in the world trying to tackle problems that are, you know, a whole another level."
"There's levels to life and to business."
"So Zuckerberg is an animal, okay. These board meetings start at nine o'clock in the morning, they go till six, then you go to dinner and it's basically another three hours of the board meeting, right?"
"And every time we'll be in there, you know, two days in the room, and every time I walk out of those board meetings, I'm so fired up and inspired by the other board members and the people who work at Meta."
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Prolific Twitter poasters sacrifice real life achievement to provide us with fresh knowledge and perspective. We should be endlessly thankful for them.
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Most of who is willing to debate whom is judgments of relative status. We'll debate someone much higher, but not much lower.
@JeffLadish @sapinker either scott should debate someone like me or admit he can’t defend his positions.
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Are suits and ties making a comeback in tech?
I noticed @bgurley wore a suit-and-tie during his recent Covid talk, and @JTLonsdale often rocks a three piece suit with tie in his appearances. Maybe it's a Texas thing? :)
I noticed @bgurley wore a suit-and-tie during his recent Covid talk, and @JTLonsdale often rocks a three piece suit with tie in his appearances. Maybe it's a Texas thing? :)
This new trend of the edgy SF events requiring suit and tie is lame.
It's the West Coast: suits are for service workers (and yes, I mean lawyers and financial people).
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Accenture has arrived to save the world
We’re partnering with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI—part of our recent commitment to embed evaluators at Anthropic. Both we and Accenture expect to invest at least $1 billion to build capacity in this area over the next five years. anthropic.com/news/accenture…Community noteAnthropic presents this as an "independent evaluation" but will directly fund Accenture's work and has a prior commercial partnership deploying its models, including training ~30,000 Accenture professionals on Claude.
anthropic.com/news/accenture…
anthropic.com/news/anthropic…
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Was super fun getting to talk to Mark Pincus, whose combination of insight and vulnerability is rare among the Silicon Valley elite.
One of Mark's insights: trust your instincts, but be wary of your first idea about how to *act* on that instinct.
When making decisions, more often right than their specific ideas about what to do next.
One of Mark's insights: trust your instincts, but be wary of your first idea about how to *act* on that instinct.
When making decisions, more often right than their specific ideas about what to do next.
Best interview yet! @bencasnocha went deep and personal.
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