Founder Reality
I build in AI - and I write down what it's actually like.
Right now I'm shipping an open-weight model. This is where I think out loud about it - what I'm seeing, what I'm deciding, and what I'm getting wrong as I build.
First-hand, no script. Notes from inside the work, not commentary from outside it.
George Pu. Building an open-weight model in Toronto - no investors, no co-founders.
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What I'm thinking about right now.
I am not afraid of failure. I am afraid of becoming irrelevant.
Failure feels survivable. The harder fear is spending an important period in history building something that doesn't matter - and not knowing whether that fear comes from purpose or ego.
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The Inventory
When I was figuring out what to do after SimpleDirect, I made a list of everything I had.
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