A while ago I predicted a “changing of the guard” — new subcultures, influencers, genres, etc. would emerge. Old ones would either experience deeper forms of success, go dormant, or be replaced. I think we’re in the first part of this process: we know who the winners and

The most meme-able candidate wins 🥥

Hitting Claude rate limits feels like using a 56 kbps modem in the nineties. The future is here, but it’s metered (and infuriating).

Collab lives are coming soon to a S*b$t@ck app near you.... Taylor Lorenz and Ken Klippenstein (NSPM-7 Compliant) are on right now in a Super Secret Beta Test... 🤫 open.substack.com/live-stream/22…

Very excited to see Devon ☀️'s vision come to life!

Dream election night blunt rotation

Welcome, TikTok refugees.

Maybe it’s bad for wartime companies to be outsourcing so much of our knowledge work to these pacifist LLMs 🙃

We've welcomed a lot of new creators over this year into the app-that-shall-not-be-named. We've had a "leaderboards" feature forever, which was a cool way to track the top publications in each category. But as the overall GDP of the network has continued to grow, it's been

Me: are we just falling into the same trap as the hunter-gatherers who discovered agriculture, and started working 10 hour days? Also me: staying up until 1am every night commanding armies of LLMs and doing my part to accelerate the techno-capitalism utopian future

It was only 10 months ago that I was copy and pasting buggy code 25 times a night like a turn-based strategy game.... and now Cursor agent can one-shot that whole night's worth of work in 5 mins.

We raised a hundred million dollars to build the successor to social media nytimes.com/2025/07/17/bus…

Stoked for this! Alex is the real deal.

Wealth is having options and the ability to take on risk.

Which companies have a great bespoke "internal OS"? Thinking about something like a living product that is highly customized to their way of working and helps run the company more effectively. Shopify's "Vault" comes to mind. What else?

The creator economy is shifting from labor to capital and it's about to get wild fiona.substack.com/p/the-new-foun…