"Am I dreaming big enough?" This video will inspire millions of builders today. x.com/i/status/18454…

Amazing energy at the xAI and Replit ⠕ hackathon last night. 7 hours, 10 finalists, 35 projects total - from agents to personalized algorithms to Twitch chat for any video. The speed at which the @xAI team is building is just astounding.

move over founder mode, founding father mode is where it's at! my friends Yuliya Bel, Shirley, and I created a fun party game for you–whatever party you are! taking preorders now: 🦅🇺🇸 democrazythegame.com

my friends Shirley, Cristina Vanko 💘 and i did a thing! a party game for party people of any party affiliation 🦅 mad libs meets snl meets the most beautiful game box design on your gaming shelf. limited edition drop here: democrazythegame dot com 🇺🇸

I'd love to invest $150K in 1-2 new startups before 2024 ends. My inbox is open to anyone. If you think I’d make a good addition to your cap table, I’d love to hear from you (DM for my email) I'll do my best to get back to you asap!

Best way to develop good product taste might be to use products and pay very close attention to how you feel while you're using them.

you should migrate to this new platform called going outside

I tried this experiment and Grok did a decent job. I've seen illustrations by humans that were further off.

Note to self: Pay attention to the problems that bother you even when you're not getting paid to solve them. Notice the conversations that energize you even when you're tired. Watch for the work that doesn't feel like work, even when it's hard.

made a map that lets you discover wikipedia pages around the world 🗺️📌

Off-grid solar microgrids have been conspicuously absent from most hyperscalers’ plans, which is surprising given their ability to achieve enormous scale very fast. We wrote a piece on how off-grid solar can power the AI race:

Wondering how to actually use AI in your day to day? Our team a16z asked some of AI's biggest names to nominate their favorite products of 2024 - this is a great starting point 👀 Here are their picks! ⬇️ For general AI assistants: - Perplexity (Perplexity) - AI search

One of the most important projects happening right now Particularly notable is Nat Friedman and team's shedding light on methodology and lab quality - a historically muddled part of food studies Highly rec reading the entire report

Every product is bad the day it is born Only through bug fixing and testing with real users does a product become great and then transcendent

there's a little-used pattern from game design where UI progressively hides itself over time as the user internalizes its meaning in my ideal future, 'generative ui' is more like this than like a fully hallucinated web app

The list is now double the size (92 companies) - and growing! AI, hardtech, crypto, enterprise, fintech, dev tools, consumer companies hiring anything from founding roles to critical eng, design, product and ops leadership and IC positions. Shout to Ben Lang and I to be

The two most important things in the world from here is no longer what school you went to or what your resume looks like It is the amount of **agency** you bring to the table, and the **taste** you have that lets you get the most out of AI Agency (prompting) and taste (evals)

If kids have mostly stopped reading now, you can gain an advantage over your peers by being one of the few who reads a lot.