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Alex Sharp

@ajsharp

optimist, fan of the future. into infinite games. usually eating.

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linkhttps://speekapp.ai calendar_today12-12-2008 05:39:49

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Weak US leadership leads to dangerous outcomes.

The Select Committee on the CCP just released its report on China's involvement in the Fentanyl crisis; it is something of an eye opener.

Key findings are damning; the CCP is actively sponsoring criminal activity.🧵

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Is there a library that gives you a supabase or firebase like client side interface for an internal API?

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Similar outlook even a year ago wrt self driving. New Tesla FSD beta similarly breaks that model; we were much closer than it seemed remotely possible

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Recently we moved at our company to 5 days a week in-person, all day every day for everyone.

We had to 100% change out personnel on a small team. Everyone leaving had an offer to move and 90 days of severance if they didn't want to.

With nothing but gratitude to the people that

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Quietly-explosive news last week for anyone who cares about consumer privacy in digital banking and access to credit. Your help is needed! Read on:🧵1/11

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Who is building Alfred for LLMs? I basically want keyboard native templates so every time I ask ChatGPT to do a programming task I automatically have a programming template with a bunch of useful context

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Great example of distribution beats product: consuming podcasts in a Tesla.

I almost never used Spotify for podcasting until I got a Tesla — it’s an inferior podcasting product to snip, overcast, etc.

But Tesla only has Apple Podcasts and Spotify natively, and Spotify is much

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The medium is not the goal. Art is not finished because AI can generate images. We haven't solved cinema because we invented a system that creates videos.

Not all videos are cinema.
Not all images are art.
Not all sentences are poems.
Not all sounds are music.
Not all code is

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Here’s a wild pivot story: Hoover was a leather and saddle company that pivoted into vacuums as a hedge against cars replacing horses 🫠

Here’s a wild pivot story: Hoover was a leather and saddle company that pivoted into vacuums as a hedge against cars replacing horses 🫠
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The innovators dilemma is one of the few invariants in business.

Despite all the factors in google’s favor here, they STILL missed the boat on this modality. At least half of my search traffic goes to ChatGPT, and increasingly, Perplexity.

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It's funny because it's true. All the big leaps we've ever taken as a company on products or open source were done primarily by individuals. Once it was all downhill work, it can help to add more, but just about everything started with one good programmer lifting.

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