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...carpet is easy. Taking spilled wine and putting it back in the cup, clean, is a magic trick. It requires running the universe against its normal gradient and plucking something novel and new out of the opportunity space. That magic trick is ...
Compelling demos are magic tricks. The demoer has to really sweat the details to create a compelling illusion. Like any good magic trick, it has the Pledge, the Turn, and the Prestig...
...ng is easy. Merging is hard. Everything diverges by default. Entropy, baby! The magic trick is creating something that converges by default.
.... Then, once it's done, the scaffolding is removed… and it stands on its own! A magic trick. An app store is a load-bearing part of the app model. It could also be temporary scaffolding to get a new negative-friction distribution model going...
If you can see and navigate a dimension others can't see, you can literally do magic tricks. Disappear, teleport, reappear.
...to the audience, but not to you." The "new to the audience, but not you" is the magic trick.
...f you don't know how much effort went into the cherrypick, it could be like the magic trick where the magician just puts orders of magnitude more effort into it than you thought would be reasonable. "Wow, the demos are so good, this system m...
The best magic tricks get even more impressive when you know how they work.
...ng intentional, precisely controlled steps the whole time. A perfectly executed magic trick. Every seemingly random movement was dialed in to call the magical result into being. You have an 'aha' moment, as the bisociation collapses. You go ...
When wizards prompt an LLM, it's like a magic trick. People watch the results and they look like magic. But then you show them the prompt you used to do it, and the onlooker goes, "... oh, that's it?" ...
Here's a magic trick to demonstrate Saruman magic in an organization. This works for situations where it's unclear which direction the group should go. Talk to everyone i...
A magic trick for keeping things feeling organic: have a secret plan that you don't share. When something happens according to plan, the vibe is "What a crazy rand...
The secret to most magic tricks: preparation that is significantly above what the audience thinks a reasonable person would do. Often the preparation includes an extremely intricat...
...puting will be available everywhere. Confidential computing also allows another magic trick: remote attestation. It's possible for a service to remotely verify that another remote service is running a particular VM with a particular SHA. For...
A magic trick of foresight in organizations using techniques of cold reading. Form a hypothesis about a thing that might happen "this team will not like working wi...