How William Shockley’s Ego Helped Create Silicon Valley
Shockley’s genius created the tech - his ego created Silicon Valley. Funny how that works.
William Shockley was brilliant but hard to like. He helped invent the transistor, a key piece of tech we use every day. His temper and lack of empathy made him a nightmare to work with. At Bell Labs, his team made big breakthroughs, but they often left him out of the spotlight.
Later, he started his own company, Shockley Semiconductor. His leadership style - pushed 8 of his best employees to quit. Those 8 went on to form Fairchild Semiconductor, which laid the foundation for Silicon Valley. Shockley’s company didn’t survive long, and his personal life wasn’t much better. Despite all that, his work changed the world forever.
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- 1 May 2026 Make Your Future Self Feel Real to Stop Procrastinating𝕏
- 29 Apr 2026 Do We Know What Consciousness Is or If AI Can Be It𝕏
- 27 Apr 2026 Recursive Language Models: Why Bigger Context Can Hurt AI𝕏
- 24 Apr 2026 Anterior Mid-Cingulate Cortex: Discipline as Brain Training𝕏
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- 10 Apr 2026 AI Zen Sickness: When AI Outthinks Your Ego𝕏
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- 23 Mar 2026 AI Remixing Live: How Models Distill and Route Calls𝕏
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- 18 Mar 2026 Could This Be the Last Job? AI, Identity, and Anxiety𝕏
- 16 Mar 2026 Fruit Flies as Model Organisms: Virtual Fly Brain Loop𝕏
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2025
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- 12 Dec 2025 What If AGI Never Happens: GPU Limits, Memory, Scaling Costs𝕏
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- 12 Nov 2025 Architectural debt starts outside the code𝕏
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- 9 Nov 2025 The platypus is venomous and its sting is brutal𝕏
- 7 Nov 2025 Chinese Open-Source Models Are Surging Ahead𝕏
- 7 Nov 2025 Book: The Complete Guide to Stoicism
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- 3 Nov 2025 Why busyness became a religion𝕏
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- 31 Oct 2025 Hidden value systems in AI models reveal surprising biases𝕏
- 27 Oct 2025 Artificial cognitive selection and the future of embryo IQ testing𝕏
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- 6 Oct 2025 Why China May Lead the Next AI Breakthrough𝕏
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- 1 Oct 2025 OpenAI Scores 12 of 12 at the 2025 ICPC World Finals𝕏
- 30 Sept 2025 Why ChatGPT is for rare bug fixes, not speed𝕏
- 29 Sept 2025 Google reports devs use AI for 2 hours a day𝕏
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- 22 Sept 2025 OpenAI study shows how people use ChatGPT in 2025𝕏
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- 18 Feb 2025 The E-Myth on Comfort, Growth, and Working On Your Business𝕏
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- 16 Feb 2025 Company Culture Is Trust, Not Perks𝕏
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- 9 Feb 2025 AI Startups Are Driving Series A Funding and Valuations𝕏
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- 5 Feb 2025 Why Genius Doesn’t End After 30𝕏
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- 3 Feb 2025 Customers Don’t Care About AI-Powered Branding𝕏
- 2 Feb 2025 How AI Changes Creativity and What Makes Us Human𝕏
- 1 Feb 2025 How irritation in others can reveal our own blind spots𝕏
- 31 Jan 2025 DeepSeek Is Changing AI Model Distillation𝕏
- 30 Jan 2025 DeepSeek launches Janus-Pro open-source multimodal AI model𝕏
- 29 Jan 2025 Asimov on creativity and making unexpected connections𝕏
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- 28 Jan 2025 Patience Is Built on Trust and Safety𝕏
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- 23 Jan 2025 AI tools are making programming easier than ever𝕏
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- 20 Jan 2025 Writing a blog post about sugar streaks and avoiding cake𝕏
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- 19 Jan 2025 How William Shockley’s Ego Helped Create Silicon Valley𝕏
- 18 Jan 2025 Put the Phone Down and Meet Kids at Eye Level𝕏
- 17 Jan 2025 People Care About Outcomes, Not Features𝕏
- 16 Jan 2025 ChatGPT scheduled tasks feel like Alexa on steroids𝕏
- 15 Jan 2025 Thoughts and missions need regular review𝕏
- 15 Jan 2025 Google’s Search Share Drops Below 90% as I Use LLMs More𝕏
- 14 Jan 2025 Learning Can Be an Excuse for Staying Stuck𝕏
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- 14 Jan 2025 EU Lacks a 100B Company Built From Scratch in 50 Years𝕏
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- 12 Jan 2025 Robotaxi drama and a first-date excuse𝕏
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2024
- 31 Dec 2024 AI and the risk of deeper inequality𝕏
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- 30 Dec 2024 Playing Digital Janitor While Sparking Innovation𝕏
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- 17 Dec 2024 Trusting teams helps companies move faster and innovate𝕏
- 17 Dec 2024 Why flatter company structures help individual contributors thrive𝕏
- 17 Dec 2024 Why Flat Organizations Are More Productive𝕏
- 17 Dec 2024 Margin Debt Is Back at 2021 Levels𝕏
- 17 Dec 2024 European Accelerationism and the case for EU tech reform𝕏
- 16 Dec 2024 Offered $100K for Piano Companion and ChordIQ𝕏
- 15 Dec 2024 Founder CEOs Drive Higher Unicorn Valuations𝕏
- 11 Dec 2024 Why Trust Often Comes Before Cooperation𝕏
- 10 Dec 2024 Google's Willow quantum chip raises cryptography concerns𝕏
- 10 Dec 2024 Exercise intensity, adherence, and outcomes𝕏
- 10 Dec 2024 Exercise as a treatment for major depressive disorder𝕏
- 9 Dec 2024 Why Technicians Must Learn More Than Coding𝕏
- 9 Dec 2024 Your Product Isn’t That Special𝕏
- 7 Dec 2024 Your Product Isn’t Special, and That’s Okay
- 4 Dec 2024 Let Them Face the Consequences𝕏
- 3 Dec 2024 MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin Bet and the Antifragility Question𝕏
- 2 Dec 2024 Alibaba QwQ-32B Looks Impressive and Undervalued𝕏
- 30 Nov 2024 Yann LeCun on AGI and the limits of LLMs𝕏
- 25 Nov 2024 Why I think quitting too soon to build SaaS is a mistake𝕏
- 16 Nov 2024 UBI Looks Great on Paper but Gets Messy in Practice𝕏
- 13 Nov 2024 Efficiency and Fragility as Efficiency Approaches 100%𝕏
- 11 Nov 2024 Stuck? Try Walking It Off
- 8 Nov 2024 Latvia tax rates and paying yourself dividends𝕏
- 1 Nov 2024 Are We About to Enter Another AI Winter?
- 23 Oct 2024 How Wikipedia Was Fooled by a Decade-Long Hoax𝕏
- 23 Oct 2024 Zhemao hoaxes
- 22 Oct 2024 About
- 22 Oct 2024 Supporting builders instead of roasting code drama𝕏
- 22 Oct 2024 Father of 3 on productivity and time priorities𝕏
- 21 Oct 2024 AI Is Helping the Next Generation Achieve More𝕏
- 19 Oct 2024 Luck Is Preparation Meeting Opportunity𝕏
- 19 Oct 2024 Luck is overrated
- 18 Oct 2024 Why Musk’s X acquisition is bigger than a social network𝕏
- 17 Oct 2024 Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities
- 17 Oct 2024 Today’s impossible becomes tomorrow’s achievement𝕏
- 17 Oct 2024 When loophole chasing hurts real entrepreneurs𝕏
- 16 Oct 2024 Solving Big Problems While I Sleep𝕏
- 14 Oct 2024 Drowning in options
- 14 Oct 2024 Sohu AI chip promises huge speed for transformer models𝕏
- 14 Oct 2024 Why I Prefer Classics Over New Releases𝕏
- 11 Oct 2024 Ayn Rand on the government's limited role𝕏
- 10 Oct 2024 China’s crossroads on debt and growth𝕏
- 2 Oct 2024 Learning to love intensive training over time𝕏
- 30 Sept 2024 Arabica vs Robusta: Coffee Beans and Productivity𝕏
- 28 Sept 2024 Why hostel and hostile share the same Latin root𝕏
- 28 Sept 2024 The surprising shared root of hostel and hostile𝕏
- 28 Sept 2024 Why do “hostel” and “hostile” sound so similar?
- 27 Sept 2024 Why perfection is about taking away, not adding𝕏
- 25 Sept 2024 Why understanding code matters in an AI-driven world𝕏
- 24 Sept 2024 Following the blueprint and not overthinking𝕏
- 23 Sept 2024 Binaural Beats for Calm Thinking and Creative Focus𝕏
- 23 Sept 2024 PsyTrance Puts Me in Flow When I’m Coding𝕏
- 23 Sept 2024 How music genres fit different parts of my day𝕏
- 22 Sept 2024 First successful model-stealing attack on black-box AI models𝕏
- 21 Sept 2024 MVP vs PMF: Why They’re Not the Same𝕏
- 21 Sept 2024 How Different Music Genres Power My Life
- 19 Sept 2024 ChatGPT Bias Toward 42 Changes with Temperature and Language𝕏
- 18 Sept 2024 A book about productivity
- 18 Sept 2024 A tough lesson in failing fast from a social app build𝕏
- 18 Sept 2024 How Highlight, Laser, Reflect improved my productivity𝕏
- 17 Sept 2024 Famous bad predictions about technology𝕏
- 17 Sept 2024 A Coffee Snack Combo for Steady Midday Energy𝕏
- 16 Sept 2024 Five years of meditation and the benefits of mindfulness𝕏
- 12 Sept 2024 PMF and MVP