Gossip is Good - by Jason Yuan - Letters from Mars

I published this today at futurelovers.com to announce my new company. Cross-posting here for those who follow along on Substack I’ve spent my career trying to figure out how computers could help humans become exponential—multiply our agency, creativity, and love—while respecting our vulnerabilities. Thanks for reading Letters from Mars! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. In 2018, I believed the bottleneck was our tools: modern computing paradigms force us to fragment our thoughts into a staccato of taps and commands, to compress our intentions within inflexible walled gardens—to think like machines. So I designed a speculative operating system—Mercury OS—around a generative interface that could fluidly adapt to the way we think. Mercury stayed speculative because of one simple reason: it was designed for a version of humanity that doesn’t exist, one where people knew who they were and what they wanted. Most people…don’t. And if we don’t know what we want, any

I published this today at futurelovers.com to announce my new company. Cross-posting here for those who follow along on Substack I’ve spent my career trying to figure out how computers could help humans become exponential—multiply our agency, creativity, and love—while respecting our vulnerabilities. Thanks for reading Letters from Mars! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. In 2018, I believed the bottleneck was our tools: modern computing paradigms force us to fragment our thoughts into a staccato of taps and commands, to compress our intentions within inflexible walle