you will always win if you have a longer time horizon than your competition

there’s a palpable urgency in the air that if you’re ever going to chase your life’s work the time to do it is now because five years from now the way the world works may look nothing like today

sam mentioned one more fascinating thing on the pod with jack on how meta views openai as a deep competitor (not as a model provider but what its potential is). the way to think about it is… if you’re spending time talking to chatgpt, you’re not talking to people. & that’s an

The Substackers and podcasters of today will be our politicians in 10 years.

Software creates soft men Soft men create hard times Hard times create hard men Hard men create hardware Hardware creates good times Good times creates software

Tech is limited by founders. AI is limited by prompters.

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for a man, finding purpose often just means picking a metric and making the numbers go up

Will Manidis i was speaking to a teammate on this exact topic, about why everyone in her circles still wants to farm despite knowing how hard it will be in her words, "there’s some dreamer aspect about it. but there’s also a dream about how much hard work is involved in it too. and wanting

pushed grok and chatgpt to team up and come up with a scientific breakthrough. will never know if anything susbstantial was discovered. x.com/i/grok/share/g…

the big players see cluely as a collateral damage. the goal is to get all the user context across all of the devices. so let cluely go in first. let them take the heat. let them work the interface. let them figure out the vulnerabilities. what are people okay with. what’s a

“we all know the end is coming, we just can’t be sure what it is” private markets for the past two decades, have been a positive sum repeated game. all players have been incentivized to cooperate, and have been punished for betraying a set of extralegal social norms that

one-year cliffs will soon be an outdated concept

startups exploit market inefficiencies. as the window to exploit this arbitrage shrinks - they will behave less like businesses, and more like tradable assets.

new media is being built with film school misfits, directors, generational poasters, vibe coders, cracked founding engineers and interns.

comet is disrupting ten years of search patterns

our expectations from software have been blunted because instead of a malleable tool, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. "when your tools don’t work the way you need them to, you submit feedback and hope for the best." - Geoffrey Litt

Closing tabs before RAM outrage.

once you resonate deeply with one idea from a creator, you build an insane appetite to absorb their entire body of work