In 2011, a fan asked Frank Ocean on Tumblr to explain his current situation to himself from 5 years ago

midjourney video is breaking my brain

Distribution (and attention) has never been more scarce. Everyone starting a podcast or newsletter is the downstream effect.

At this pace, Western AAA game studios may never catch up to China again. A new trailer from NetEase-backed Chinese studio 24 Entertainment. Perhaps the most interesting aspect is that they didn't even attempt to localize it with English voiceovers?

the most surprising part of the Cluely discourse is thinking people who grew up watching Adin Ross and Logan Paul weren’t going to attempt to build startups that look like this. none of this is new. if anything, it was inevitable. attention *is* scarce.

Labubu & Sonny Angel blind boxes are the equivalent of opening sports or Pokémon cards. pretty jarring to see gambling and gacha enter all aspects of pop culture.

If there were a software hall of fame, Kid Pix would be a first-ballot inductee.

bryan johnson is trying to live forever. brian johnson is trying to live like it’s 10,000 BC.

managed to do the impossible today: lost a single AirPod.

Scott Alexander’s “Sort By Controversial” continues to age like fine wine, still the sharpest explainer of how algorithmic feeds run on outrage. might be the single best blog post to explain social media over the past decade.

In a sea of clickbait, seeing Andrej Karpathy’s talk already hit 1.3M views makes me hopeful for the future.

opening your DMs to message requests is one of the highest-upside, lowest-downside things you can do on this platform.

I always thank voice AI, but never thank text AI. funny how the medium flips the manners switch.

this might be the greatest hypothetical matchup of all time.

.Paul Graham on having kids

Random thoughts: - Even when I’m reading a book, I question everything the moment I see an em dash. LLMs ruined them. - I have no idea why I constantly bookmark tweets. I don't think I have ever opened the bookmark tab.

Random thoughts: – How does Apple still not let you change your alarm volume inside the Clock app…? – If you have young kids, checking luggage curbside might be better than flying first class.

Random thought: Everyone talks about China’s soft power through TikTok, but... Block Blast, a hit puzzle app from a Shanghai-based studio, continues to dominate the 2025 mobile game download charts by a mile.

the goal of life is to be excited to go to work and excited to go home