When OpenAI employees have a problem, they email this special address to see if Sam Altman will solve it immediately

Operating at AI speed is not easy. At OpenAI, a special process—and a magic word—helps employees instantly cut through layers of bureaucracy and clear bottlenecks slowing things down. It’s called “friction.” And it has the power to supersede just about anything a team is doing, often carrying the force ofContinue Reading

A new housing politics is taking shape on the left

Los Angeles offers one of the most vivid examples of our nation’s broken housing system: a quintessentially American expanse of traffic-clogged roads and single-family homes, coupled with the highest home-price-to-household-income ratio of any major city in the country. To moderate prices, LA urgently needs to build more homes by allowingContinue Reading