AI keeps making significant leaps, including two recent releases from Anthropic with major implications for cybersecurity and design
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NASA launched the first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years on April 1, 2026, flew four astronauts around the Moon, set a new human-distance record of about 252,756 miles from Earth, and splashed down successfully 10 days later. (Have I started using "splash down" to refer to coming home or sitting down? Yes). A few of the best photos from the mission:
A potential breakthrough in pancreatic cancer treatment. Reminds me of Morgan Housel's writing: “Medical progress is enormous, but it happens gradually, so we under-recognize it. If cancer survival rates improve by, say, 1% per year, any single year looks unimpressive. But over 30 years, that becomes extraordinary progress [1% improvement per year for 30 years = about 35% total improvement]."
Marc Andreesen did a round of podcasts recently (Lenny's podcast, 20 minute VC, conversation with Founders podcast) - here were the top few highlights for me from the co-founder of Netscape and a16z:
- "We’re living in a world where we don’t understand how good good can get cause we’ve been capped by our own biology. AI will be way better than the best human coder, doctor, lawyer, in many ways. It’s already at 130-140 IQ, humans max out around 160, and continuing to improve. The idea of human equivalency will be a quick footnote - what does the world look like when AI then becomes much better than that?"
- The craziest story: Marc was basically single handle tech support for the entire internet for 3 years in the mid 90s. Cause everyone used Netscape to use the Internet, so whenever anyone had trouble using the Internet in the early days they would send a help request and he was the one person who would answer.
- “1:1 Tutoring is the most proven way to improve education results, and now with AI everyone can have it”
- “In industry after industry there’s all these embedded assumptions that just don’t make sense anymore…these broken assumptions are where startups come from”
Shot Ready, by Steph Curry.
Steph Curry is the greatest shooter in basketball history, the only unanimous MVP in NBA history, a 4-time champion, and the leader of the winningest regular-season team ever. Curry’s ’greatness looks effortless, but Shot Ready makes it feel much more like compounding: strong foundation, tiny mechanics, daily discipline, emotional courage, and protected joy repeated for decades. A few takeaways that stuck with me:
In case you're rusty on who Curry is: one minute of him leading the US to 2024 Olympic Good Medal with four 3's to close out the finals game
1. Get the fundamentals really really consistently right. At 15, when he changed his shooting form, he spent roughly three months taking shots only from inside the paint. I’ve never heard of anyone doing anything close to this - 100 days in a row only shooting from a few feet from the basket for hours each day.
2. Details matter. Curry emphasizes getting the tiny details right. For example, when his shot hit an off spell, he realized he was putting slightly too much weight on his pinky toe which subtly affected his whole shooting motion.
(Reminiscent of 10 time coaching legend John Wooden: “I believe in the basics: attention to, and perfection of, tiny details that might be commonly overlooked. They may seem trivial, perhaps even laughable to those who don’t understand, but they aren’t. They are fundamental to your progress in basketball, business, and life. They are the difference between champions and near champions. The first thing I would show our players at our first meeting was how to take a little extra time putting on their shoes and socks properly…you must not permit your socks to have wrinkles around the little toe, or around the heels. Then hold the sock up while you put the shoe on. You tighten it up snugly by each eyelet. Then you tie it. And then you double-tie it so it won’t come undone”)
3. Daily Discipline. Curry says a key to his success has been “getting started before everyone else’s day begins”. And on how locked in you have to be all season to win a championship: “you cannot afford to let go of a regular-season game in December.”Excellence is not something you turn on only when the stakes feel obvious - Curry is great year after year because he’s committed day after day, game after game.
4. Confidence can be built. Curry remembers being too afraid to try out for varsity as a sophomore in high school, and promising himself he would not betray himself like that again. He still gets butterflies before games (“every game - preseason, regular season, Game 7”), but works through it.
5. Have fun! “Joy has stayed with me as the guiding light and motivation; but only because I’ve safeguarded it”, Curry writes as he ends the book. When you watch Curry you see him having more fun than almost anyone else. Curry emphasized multiple times in the book that this doesn’t just happen, but prioritizing it has been a key driver to his success.
Alinea in Chicago became one of the most renowned restaurants in the world over the past 20 years, including being voted by chefs at once point as the best restaurant in the world. 20 years after opening, Alinea’s chef Grant Achatz writes about what comes next for the restaurant. A much better post than I was expecting, and an interesting quick look at food, creativity, and evolution.
As a proponent of self-driving cars, I love this dashboard that shows the number preventable deaths in DC due to not adopting Waymo.
There were 36,640 traffic deaths in the U.S. in 2025. There has only be one U.S. death directly attributable to a Level 4 or Level 5 self-driving car.
5 things I took away from the Founders podcast covering Roger Federer
A core component of what made Federer so great for so long: the importance he placed on rest, work-life balance, and adjustments to enhance his sustainability when it came to tennis:
- “Even when I was at my best, it was important to me to have a rewarding life full of travel, culture, friendships, and family. These are the reasons that I never burned out.“
- Federer's fitness coach: tough consistent work was necessary, but so was rest and escape. Dedication and moderation. Fresh legs were vital, feeling fresh in the head was vital. Rest and recovery weren’t a break from training, they’re a central part of the mechanics that makes training work
- He likes to mix it up, keep himself from not getting bored. “I hadn’t been around somebody that had as much flexibility in their approach that Federer does. At Wimbledon, he’d stay in different houses. He doesn’t always need to practice in the same place, or javelin one favorite meal. Federer changed coaches even as a winner multiple times. This was a pattern throughout his career. Federer said he felt they had fallen into a routine. This was a key element in Federer’s career longevity. Too much routine can kill the joy. Too much focus can grind you down. (Of the 128 men who played singles at the 1999 French open, he was the last one still playing on tour). RF: “I never fell out of love with the sport. Never”
Federer won 80% of the matches he played, but only 54% of the points - even the best players lose almost as much as they win
- A former coach: "the gap between the best tennis player in the world and number 4 is massive. The 200th best player in the world is closer to number 4, than number 4 is to number 3."
- Federer, like Djokovic, believed that stagnation is regression. Maintaining the same level was actually losing ground
- Built a team around him that held him to high standards. “You’re gonna doubt yourself enough. You can’t have other people around you doubting you. You have to run away from your naysayers.” Federer literally switches his dentist because he didn’t want to hear any negativity
- Became great student of prior players. This is somebody who made it to Wimbledon semis in 1968. And this is somebody who won doubles in 1954
A few paintings/pictures I came across this month that I liked (paintings by Jim Musial)
AI happenings March 2026
- AI keeps making capability leaps, including in spreadsheet modeling (with major future implications for finance and accounting jobs presumably)
- Building products for AI instead of people
- Anthropic continues to win major share from OpenAI
