Sam Schillace
Person on 4 sites
Technologist; deputy CTO at Microsoft, earlier co-founder of Writely, which Google bought and built Google Docs on, and a Google engineering leader on Gmail,…
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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With AI, software distribution is "less than free": people can build exactly what they need instead of getting it. (opens korrents.com)
“So when I look at the ease with which I (and many, many others) are building software, I start to think that distribution is even cheaper now - “less than free”. I don’t need to go get software, I can just make it. And…”
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Value lies in what is hard and non-obvious; the obvious and easy is where low-margin crowds are. (opens korrents.com)
“Hard and non-obvious (at first) is where value lies. Obvious and easy is where low-margin crowds are.”
- Code was always just a tool; the creativity was the interesting part. (opens korrents.com)
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With AI, software distribution is "less than free": people can build exactly what they need instead of getting it. (opens korrents.com)
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4 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Invisible Cities (opens rcmnd.app)
“there's this book called Invisible Cities by Italo calino which is this very beautiful meditation on the nature of cities and the nature of Ven V and and I read it the first time I was in Italy right after college and…”
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The Wasp Factory (opens rcmnd.app)
“the other one I I recommend to people with some caution is this very intense and disturbing book called The Wasp Factory by in Banks which is um probably the creepiest and hardest book I've ever read but it's a very…”
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Where Good Ideas Come From (opens rcmnd.app)
“where good ideas come from like Stephen Johnson I really like that book”
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Invisible Cities (opens rcmnd.app)