Month: September 2026

Written by Lincoln

momentarily useful

I’ve come up with a simple way to encapsulate the benefits of LLMs we refer to as AI: momentarily useful. To explain, let me first present my good use cases for LLMs. Then, I’ll contrast that with what they are disastrously bad at doing, and why “momentarily useful” explains the gap.

Written by Lincoln

being unbuyable

There are only two types of folks in business: Buyable or not. Founders often try to find the latter by emphasizing “mission-driven” cultures. Over the last decade, I’ve slowly realized my intuition has carved out a middle path between money and mission that defines how I hire.