hang it in the louvre

Feedback from other people is fake. Awards are fake. Critics are fake. Real feedback comes from free markets and nature. Did your rocket launch? Did your drone fly? It’s impossible to fool Mother Nature.

Love this quote

Claude Sonnet 4.5 runs autonomously for 30+ hours of coding?! The record for GPT-5-Codex was just 7 hours. What’s Anthropic’s secret sauce?

We live in the Creativity Era. Each day, we move closer to a world where the biggest bottleneck to turning something into reality is imagination, not domain knowledge.

This from Nat Friedman's (brilliant) personal website is a great explanation for why telling founders to go slow and take their time is terrible advice. There's no tradeoff between speed and quality for startups.

Big companies are filled with people lacking intrinsic motivation so they have to quantify inputs as performance metrics: meetings attended, emails sent (preferably late at night), LOC written, tickets closed, etc.

iteration speed is a superpower

PG’s 6 principles for making new things:

there are essays, and then there are "violently shift your entire perception of reality" essays

your distribution is too complicated it can often be a single sentence not a 40 page strategy deck “calendly open source“ has done more work for us than any paid campaign could its exactly what our audience was searching for in plain english  you have to name the hole in the

Does Elon need this?

How long until a huge scandal happens with open betting markets and Polymarket/Kalshi get heavily regulated?

"So how did you calculate your MRR?" Oh, I just multiplied my last month revenue by 12

My Very First Sora 2 Short Film 🤯 100% Text to Video This is FROSTBITE Created with Sora 2 Pro Edited and Directed by Me

bad reviews are love letters from heavily invested users they care enough to spend time expressing their frustrations they went through the pain of signing up for rating sites and crafting detailed one star feedback about your product  thats emotional investment disguised as

This is going to get me piled on a bit but a video referencing the moon landing and the fall of the Berlin Wall in a post about raising capital for a prediction market encapsulates everything I hate about the tech industry

One thing I wish I learned earlier: The correct number of times to launch something isn’t once, twice, nor even three times It’s closer to 40. Just keep launching. Always be launching

2008, in retrospect it'll be obvious

Me: Can I upscale these GTA5 gifs so they look real? Wan2.2: Hold my beer Made with Wan + ComfyUI and Cseti's killer upscaling workflow 🚀