Emmett Shear: Life After Twitch, Jeff Bezos Lessons & AI Doomsday Odds

My version of this is we give the advice we need to hear ... Half the time, when you give advice, it won't actually be for you; but half the time, it is, and noticing it is so powerful. You should just check every piece of advice you give. Like, wait a second, is this advice I need to hear right now?

In AI, especially in consumer, a huge number of businesses can be conceived of as effectively being a database with a system of record that has a bunch of canonical truths about the universe, and each of them is a row.

The more pressure you put on yourself not to say dumb things, the more your inner idea generator... gets disrupted. And I say a lot of dumb things when I'm generating ideas. I mean, I put weight down on them, but most of the ideas will be bad.

Sometimes, the way to solve the problem is just like to actually try solving the problem.

For the first time in maybe 5 or 7 years, it feels like credibly trying to start a consumer Internet company... is potentially a good idea. That's because of AI. AI means there's a whole opportunity to sort of reimagine how consumer experiences can work roundup.