CRA demanded 6 years of Canadian merchant data from us. This felt like blatant overreach We took them to court and last Friday Justice Régimbald agreed with us. The court dismissed the request and called it “… unintelligible, incoherent, or otherwise beyond its understanding”

Announcement 🤯😁 For years, I had been helping Owner's CEO Adam Guild do impossible things. But I still felt surprised when he did 1 thing I had thought impossible: he recruited me. It was surreal when he called to welcome me to the team. I said: “You’re basically the only

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” ― Franz Kafka, born on this day in 1883

If your vacation home gives you a paragraphs-long list of instructions at check-in and chores at checkout it’s not a “vacation”.

Anthropic was at $1B in annualized revenue at the beginning of the year and is $4B now in mid-2025. OpenAI is at $10B. This kind of revenue growth has never been seen before by any company in human history.

Claude Monet

“A freedom of motion, to maneuver at will, can masquerade as an imitation of power.” 📖 The Technological Republic by Alex Karp. Full review forthcoming :)

I turn 30 today. Here’s what I’d tell my 20-year-old self: 1. External validation is a hell of a drug. The sooner you stop chasing approval and start trusting yourself (while staying humble enough to be open to feedback), the further you’ll go. 2. Find what gives you energy.

In July 1969 NASA invited Ayn Rand to attend the launching of Apollo 11. She wrote about the experience in her essay ‘Apollo 11’. Here is the first page:

*sniff* *pulls shirt* You know, this is perfect - *gestures wildly* - this is the ultimate perversity of capitalism at its purest. Here we have Anthropic, this company claiming to build "AI for humanity," and what do they do? They create this digital cocaine, this Claude Code,

-Knopf won’t do it. -Farrar, Straus can’t do it. -Random House can’t imagine doing it. We publish books we like. No sensitivity readers or censors. Then we split the dough with our authors. Help us rescue American publishing. countyhighway.com/book-club

#Deepinvent4Good Hackathon: Aug 7th $10k prize for the best invention for impact A global hackathon for inventing and open sourcing solutions to benefit humanity *Not your avg “Tinder‑for‑cats” hackathon, this is an invitation to invent for humanity. Free pre-registration

Today's flat-earthers are every professor who laments about a student "using" AI to write a paper.

Brian is one of the most high-integrity people I have ever met. He really lives his mission. In this latest example, he went to Africa to witness the effects of energy poverty firsthand. 🎥

The 2025 writing stack: 1. Speech-to-text transcription (I use Otter) 2. LLMs for research, editing, & more.  3. Hemingway App. Because almost everything should be readable enough for a smart 12-year-old. 4. Power Thesaurus. 5. GDocs (esp for collaboration) 6. Pen & paper

Genie 3 can basically do one-shot / single-image 3D reconstruction. Turns a 2D painting into an explorable 3D world, and holy crap the fidelity is nuts. No NeRF, no 3D mesh and blows any image-to-3D tech I’ve seen out of the water.

Imagine you’re one the smartest AI engineers in the world. You just joined a company that has access to a GPU cluster worth tens of billions of dollars. Your work can one day help solve all diseases, create unlimited abundance for humanity. But you first have to build spicy mode.