Alex Komoroske @komorama Twitter profile

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

8 years

is my new favorite thing. Extremely well built, great use case for a #progressivewebapp

Boardom: Play classic board games online.

A modern way to enjoy the classics: Chess, Checkers, Reversi, Four. Invite friends or find opponents. Jump in instantly.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

3 years

Just posted a new piece on medium: . It comes complete with a handful of interactive agent-based models created with a purpose-built framework. I may have gone a bit overboard... 😬

On Schelling Points in Organizations

Tapping into the emergent undercurrents of coordination

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

15 days

I had an absolute blast talking to @lennysan about all of my favorite topics... gardening, slime molds, and magical duct tape!

Lenny Rachitsky

@lennysan

15 days

Alex Komoroske ( @komorama ) is one of the most original, articulate, and insightful thinkers I've ever come across. He spent 13 years at @Google , where he led Chrome’s Open Web Platform, spearheaded augmented reality inside Google Maps, and developed toolkits to align

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

7 months

Just published my weekly reflections: LLMs as trained circus bears. Crystallized agency. Horcruxes. Harold's purple crayon. Cousin Vinny.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

8 months

I wrote a quick strategy parable about the tension between getting things done now (builder) vs tending patiently to future possibility (gardener) and the power of discovering the acorns amongst the pebbles:

The Magic of Acorns

The way to create value in this world is to create things that are big and beautiful. The Builder and the Gardener go about this in different ways. The Builder looks around and sees rocks of…

medium.com

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

7 months

I felt such resonance with @jposhaughnessy in this conversation. We could have talked for days and not run out of things to riff on!

Jim O'Shaughnessy

@jposhaughnessy

7 months

🚨New @InfiniteL88ps is up🚨 Fantastic chat with @komorama about complex, adaptive systems, information flow, context switching and luck surface-areas, Saruman vs. Radagast magic, Schelling points and how to escape busyness + much more! 🔥🔥🔥

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

2 years

Are we too fixated on boldness? Join me in reflecting on the importance of recognizing our limitations, the resilience found in fluidity, and wisdom of the tortoise over the hare:

The Iterative Adjacent Possible

Embracing our limitations to unlock our potential

medium.com

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

2 years

The podcast episode of Clearer Thinking I recorded with @SpencrGreenberg is out! We talked about slime molds, serendipity, doorbells in the jungle... you know, the usual.

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

The podcast about ideas that matter

podcast.clearerthinking.org

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

1 year

Delighted to welcome @DanielaAmodei (back) to @Stripe for AI Day — this evening we'll be chatting about Claude 2 and her vision for Anthropic. Here's a primer: .

Daniela Amodei of Anthropic on how she keeps her head (and her principles) amid an AI media frenzy

For Daniela Amodei, cofounder and president of the generative AI company Anthropic, the sudden explosion of interest in her field has been an opportunity for reflection.

stripe.com

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

3 years

I just published , a fanciful metaphor about cultivating positive exposure to miracles in product development.

The Doorbell in the Jungle

A pattern for cultivating positive exposure to miracles

medium.com

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

8 years

Just subscribed to @washingtonpost . Now more than ever it's important to support good journalism.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

6 months

I just published this week's Bits and Bobs: Nanotech cages for circus bears. Frankenstein ecosystems. Aggregator deserts. Knowhow cauldrons. Self-ratcheting quality. Being boxed in by the Himalayas.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

1 year

Sat down with @AnthropicAI cofounder @DanielaAmodei at @Stripe AI Day: . We discuss: -Claude 2 launch -Lessons from working at Stripe -Would you rather have Isaac Newton or LLMs?

Fireside chat—Daniela Amodei (Anthropic cofounder), Alex Komoroske...

Anthropic cofounder and president Daniela Amodei sits down with Stripe head of corporate strategy Alex Komoroske at AI Day.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

2 years

Last week I had a fun conversation with @isaacmorehouse about some of the ideas in Take a look:

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

6 months

I just published my weekly reflections: Enchanted artifacts. Dandelion fields. Gilded turds. Sublime jumbles. Ecosystem surfing. Galaxy-scale intuition.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

7 months

Just published this week's bits and bobs (my personal reflections): A few of the topics this week: Names as boxes. LLM-fu. Whale falls. Engagement and co-ownership.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

5 months

I just published by weekly reflections: Slop. Continuously viable. Contextual integrity. Leaving a dot unconnected. PhD thesis rabbit holes. Miyazaki-style forest sprites. Jurassic park harmonica.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

4 months

I just published my weekly reflections: Accelerated copy paste. Fracking vs precipitating apps. Private vs Confidential Compute. Macro-Maxwell's Demon. Flood-fills of possibility. Malleable vs remixable. Swiss cheese defense. Embassies vs couch surfing.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

9 years

Wow, I haven't tweeted in, like, forever. Maybe I should start doing that again.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

6 months

I just posted my weekly reflections: The problem. 4-up evolution. Disposable software. Magic brains. Bland LLMs.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

2 years

Posted a quick piece this weekend about how EVERYTHING is a trade-off, and once you acknowledge that it opens up powerful new approaches to surf through all of the complexity.

Surfing through trade-offs

Let’s say there’s a product team that has shipped a successful product. It’s a bit janky, but customers love it, and they’re constantly…

medium.com

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

8 years

The immigration executive order has made me sick to my stomach all day. I just donated (again) to the ACLU.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

3 months

I just published my weekly reflections: Ephemeral micro-apps. Jagged intelligence. Dancing with the LLM. Tech islands. Fractal branching. Viral needle-in-the-haystack discoveries.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

1 month

I just published my weekly reflections: LLMs as compilers. Context gardening. Glop. Squish-to-fit systems. Ofuda enchantments. Hour-glass architecture. The personalization paradox. Driving a big rig like a sports car. Anxiety transmutation.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

3 years

This weekend I was inspired to write something a bit different: a story, for its own sake, about a wanderer and some seeds.

The Wanderer and the Seeds

A story for its own sake

medium.com

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

2 months

I just published my weekly reflections: Data gravity. Adopting an elephant. Stigmergy swarms. JIT schemas. The game designer mindset applied to LLM software. A whole universe of previously non-viable situated software.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

2 months

I just published my weekly reflections: Ofuda. Disposable software. Contextual flow control. Supercritical coffee shops. Primitive archeology. OODA leash.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

2 months

I just published my weekly reflections: LLMs as preternaturally patient people. Radagast inside, Saruman outside. Denaturing radioactive data. Systems on the edge of criticality. Parables and emojis in arguments.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

6 months

I just published this week's reflections: The same-origin paradigm. Confidential computing. Stars aligning. Lilliputian rope. Hyper-dimensional folds. Idea cauldrons. The heat death of a paradigm.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

5 years

I'm trying something new: developing nuggets of insight in a collection of public, inter-linked cards in a custom CMS at . This companion twitter account will tweet out a few cards a day, and is the best way to follow along!

thecompendium.cards

@CardsCompendium

5 years

Hello there! This is the companion account for , which tweets out a few cards a day. Following this account is the easiest way to dip your toes into the content without getting overwhelmed. Learn more at

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

2 months

I just published my weekly reflections: Intelligent personal data. App husbandry. LLM literacy. The Walmart of Finance. Commoditized understanding. Copernican trauma. General intelligence.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

3 months

I just published my weekly reflections: The ouija board effect. Idea labyrinths disguised as idea mazes. The coasian boundary of software. Software with a market of a single user. Wannabe aggregators. Prosuming.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

5 months

I just published my weekly reflections: . Adjacency maps. Meta-ecosystems. The quality that cannot be named. Illegible gauntlets. Safe swarm intelligence.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

5 months

I just published my weekly reflections: Lilliputian webs. Silver swarms. Hyperstition. Gauntlet communities. Anti-consensus swarms. The magic of preparation.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

6 months

I just published by weekly reflections: Machine intuition. Tabasco cake. Pocket universes. The same origin model. Positive deviance.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

3 years

@deepfates @vgr Other decks I have done (which sadly I no longer have access to) are more explicitly slime-moldy. I even built a little tool to help me build the diagrams for them!

GitHub - jkomoros/adjacent-possible-viz: Simple visualization library for creating schematic...

Simple visualization library for creating schematic adjacent possible visualizations - jkomoros/adjacent-possible-viz

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

5 years

I can't get enough of this absolutely sublime deck @dglazkov made to succinctly and intuitively explain the cynefin model of predictable and unpredictable problem spaces.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

1 month

I just published my weekly reflections: Negentropic waves. Robustly resonating ideas. Long feedback loops. Trial balloon feedback. Taste amplification. Parallel innovation tokens. Lumbering blindspot beasts. LLM agency absorption.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

2 months

I just published my weekly reflections: Required tar pits. Shower-time creativity. Herding butterflies with a screwdriver. Gilded turds. Collection as creation. Cookie monster providers. Joyful slogs.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

18 days

I just published my weekly reflections: LLMs as compilers from English to code. o1 as System 2. Enchanted data. The Coasian theory of the app. Spontaneous software. Blackboard systems. Consensus as entropy. Terraforming nerd clubs. Learning swarms.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

3 months

I just published my week reflections: Imitation intelligence. Last principles thinking. Hallucinated mini-apps. Psychological safety paradox. The "look what you made me do" dynamic. A goldrush red ocean. Faux typos for "authenticity".

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

3 years

@deepfates @vgr

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

2 years

@KaseyKlimes @callumflack @CardsCompendium Yeah agreed I’ve felt that way a number of times. The card format is nice for simplicity (limited length) but other times is too constraining.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

4 months

I just published by weekly reflections: Epicycles and curlicues. Invisible mech suits. The Minecraft punching-a-tree to redstone-computer gradient. Niches as protective caves. The peek and poach pattern. LLMs' secret lair problem.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

3 years

@ben_mathes @allafarce Just found it:

Ethan Mollick

@emollick

4 years

This paper shows that learning about how your firm works is equivalent to gaining Lovecraftian Secret Knowledge. Promising managers asked to do process redesign at their firm learn how messed up it all is, so they give up rising careers & become hermits at the edges of the firm

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

8 years

Just published a new essay on Medium about approaching complex problemspaces as constraint satisfaction problems

Dinosaur Bones and Laser Beams

Approaching complicated and complex problems as constraint satisfactions

medium.com

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

3 years

@sashadem @noampomsky from @dglazkov is a must-read on this. Also the materials from @Meaningness -- is one of my favorite jumping off points.

What the heck is Adult Development?

Visit the post for more.

glazkov.com

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

4 months

I just published my weekly reflections: Crystallized mirrors. The magic of discretionary effort. A butler's loyalty. Boring mistakes. Mimetically-fit stories. The illegibility reaper. LLM's subterranean success. LLM-induced hysteresis.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

3 years

@scottjenson @mwichary @gordonbrander @borismus I don’t know of anything but that would be amazing if there was something like that!

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

7 years

@wmginsberg @kosamari Love that! is my hobby project. Aspiration: define game rules in golang, write polymer renderer, get boardgame PWA.

GitHub - jkomoros/boardgame: An in-progress framework in golang to easily build boardgame Progres...

An in-progress framework in golang to easily build boardgame Progressive Web Apps - jkomoros/boardgame

github.com

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

4 months

I just published my weekly reflections: Filmed plays. Stigmergic foundations. Sea Shanty TikTok. Stress cases. Radioactive data. Pocket universes.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

3 years

@jonwiley @seefeld Sign me up!

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

5 months

I just published my weekly reflections: . Intelligent lorem ipsum. Surfing hidden waves. Performative cathedral playbook. Artfully half-assed. Tip of the sphere. Tangled web of tautologies. From huh? to 'duh! Horses for the mind. Chainmail feedback loops.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

8 years

Thought-provoking framing! Reminded me of some of the insights in @sapinker 's The Sense of Style.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

2 years

@ben_mathes Ah yes, I think the enlightened and defeatist stance can look superficially similar and people might fall into the latter accidentally. I also think people resist the enlightened form because they erroneously pattern match it to the latter. I added a bit to the post on this.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

3 years

@dglazkov @adambarth OMG please do!!

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

8 years

Why policies that treat "others"/"them" poorly are fundamentally terrifying. ALL humans should be in "us" group.

The dark psychology of dehumanization, explained

What’s happening to Muslims under Trump isn’t new. Humans can be wired for it.

www.vox.com

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

8 years

Just published a new post on Medium: Debate should be collaborative, not combative.

Debate should be collaborative, not combative

The title might seem ridiculously over-generalized. Debate tournaments in high school, for example, are a public battle of ideas that have…

medium.com

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

8 years

@waltmossberg Would love to chat about how Progressive Web Apps could solve your peak app problem.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

8 years

Just posted some thoughts on complexity and ambiguity in product management

Product Management and the Foggy Labyrinth

The difference between Complication and Complexity

medium.com

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

13 years

90% of the time when people use "The X is dead, long live X" they're using it wrong. The second part refers to the heir, not the original X.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

14 years

I ordered a pair of shoes on Zappos last night at ten. It's being delivered (free) this morning. How it it even possible to be that awesome?

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

15 years

Alexandria's Turkey Trot really makes me think about how much I love this community. Plus, Mark Warner, best governor ever, runs in it.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

15 years

http://popfour.komoroske.com Real-time four-in-a-row game with a twist: you can pop out tokens instead of just adding them.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

15 years

Wake Up by Arcade Fire has been used in at least six different commercials tonight.

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

9 years

This weekend I wrote up some thoughts on how to reliably grow an ecosystem.

The self-sustaining flame

The fundamental problem for ecosystems

medium.com

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

14 years

http://whatcoloristheempirestatebuilding.com/

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

8 years

Just added to my homescreen. Super smooth animations, very polished experience. A great #progressivewebapp !

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

3 years

@synfo_eth Ah, thanks for catching, updated!

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

3 years

@s0enke @RealMikeRother I have not, but it looks very interesting. Added to my list!

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

2 years

@r4isstatic @CardsCompendium Those are definitely indirect influences too although I neglected to mention them. I’d love to chat, can you email alex @komoroske .com?

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

9 years

Okay, is legitimately fascinating. Concepts that I "understood" abstractly suddenly make so much more sense!

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Alex Komoroske

@komorama

14 years