“The most trusted way to keep moving up that value chain is to keep inv...” — Andrew Ng Quote

The most trusted way to keep moving up that value chain is to keep investing in individuals - to help them grow in knowledge and skills. Education is hard. It takes individuals to do the hard work.

The thing that really excites me today is building a new AI-powered society.

We think that many companies view Coursera as a quality, convenient, inexpensive way to continue employee development. Is there a contract with a company that might make sense? I don't have an answer to that yet.

A lot of the progress in machine learning - and this is an unpopular opinion in academia - is driven by an increase in both computing power and data. An analogy is to building a space rocket: You need a huge rocket engine, and you need a lot of fuel.

A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.

I love Whole Foods. I love the Austin-based boutique supermarket chain so much I find ways to go there almost every day.

If you're ordering chain, you're a person with poor taste. Everyone lives near a pizza place that's better than a chain. They can't stand up to a local pizzeria.

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal.