Angela Jiang

An unfiltered conversation about building Claude's developer platform and what builders were actually doing with it.

Talked with Dan Shipper about the primitives behind Claude's agent platform and what it took to make agents reliable in production.

Why intent tends to get distorted when it travels down an organization

Centralize, decentralize, and everything in-between

Make the invisible, visible

Don't mistake a costume for the real thing

Or how to think a little differently

How to grow your decision-making

Irreversible damage

The importance of terrain in good strategy

Top talent is the hardest group to manage

One comes before the other

Execution is an idea at its highest fidelity

How leaders can adjust organizational energy

Why user focus must be more than lip service

The hardest stage of learning

Do you actually know what you need to do?

On identifying competitive advantage and why the hardest things to do correctly are the fundamentals

Moddable Markets, Easy Science, and Minimal Knowledge Tools

How to handle change advantageously

Why you can't optimize your way to something new

The role of compression in knowledge transfer

How new skills move into and spread across professions

A toy mapping to analyze what we learn from environments