So I conjured up a web app based on my Life Vision/Values Exercise in v0 during a 5min walk to campus a few weeks ago: v0-exercise-website-builder.vercel.app . And then I forgot about it because it seemed too farfetched to've actually happened. Feel free to try it and tell me what you think!

Why did a Discord group succeed where the state failed? Join Patrick McKenzie, Creator of VaccinateCA & Psychologist Dr. Gena Gorlin (Founder Coach) to investigate the moral psychology of agency. Discover what it takes to step up when systems break. interintellect.com/salons/learnin…

The builder’s mindset

Austin is building the new technological, cultural & intellectual stack. The guests, topics, & data from Austin Next this year prove it. I dove into the listener metrics to see what the founders, funders, & operators were studying deeply this year. Here is the 2025 Syllabus,

Now that I’ve got myself a vibe coding project, I don’t know how I’ll get any writing done ever again Somebody slap me before I start trying to vibe edit my book… I blame David Booth (and also thank him very much🤩🙏🏻 👩🏻‍💻) DM if you wanna beta test my AI coaching copilot, btw

Some version of the “spiraling” Brin describes is near-ubiquitous among the post-exit founders I’ve coached, and it’s worse than it sounds. The answer isn’t always to go back, nor to retire; it’s a real problem to solve, and thinking it should be easy is what compounds misery.

The timeline of life, a stop motion film by Montessorium elementary students. 8 minutes and 2400 frames, conceived, written, and produced by 5 to 12 year olds, mostly 5 to 8 year olds. I love all of it but I particularly love the emergence of humanity at the end.

.Matt Bateman, every freaking day: no throwing things! We don’t throw things in this house! We definitely don’t throw things up or down the stairs! Also Matt Bateman: I did something dumb, wanna see?

We see the harm done by fake certainty, illusions of control, neurotic perfectionism, delusions of grandeur… so we devalue the pursuit of real certainty, control, perfection, grandeur But our cure is the disease

Showed 5yo Titanic, on her insistence At first she kept grabbing onto me and crying “I don’t want Jack to die!” Then she took matters into her own hands, building herself a magna-tile Titanic and removing pieces from it as the ship sank, with the final piece representing Jack

The EOY Collective Ep on The Hope Axis - Podcast by Anna Gát: Featuring insights from: @noahpinion on the "prophecy of rabbits" & economics, Musa al-Gharbi on the political economy of knowledge, @SariAzout on replacing doomscrolling with discovery, a. natasha joukovsky on the return of "bizarre" fiction,

Agreed. This is how Matt Bateman’s brain has worked ever since he decided to become a twitter person 6 years ago, and it’s somehow made him an even better-spoken version of himself. Still trying to figure out how to incept the right form of this habit into my brain, though.

Behold, the single most valuable (whether or not strictly accurate) reply I’ve ever received on twitter Will be citing it for many dinners to come!

Hidden cost of occasionally letting 5yo use my ChatGPT account: a confounded end-of-year stylistic analysis

Christmas came early

Adam Rossi 🥲 Thank you for this!! Cherishing every sleepy moment…

Congratulations, ⁦⁦Matt Bateman⁩, you’ve successfully raised a gaggle of pyromaniacs

How cool is this??

2yo: Is it on? Matt Bateman: Yes, it’s always on 2yo: It’s not on Matt: It’s on, this is how it looks when it’s working 2yo: But 2yo: 2yo: It’s not ON His first experience with a parent with a watch that isn’t an Apple Watch