huge opportunity to build a Starcraft or Factorio with agents - a visual UI/UX control layer that enables normies to orchestrate a fleet of agents as easily as a swarm of zerglings

2026 AI startup filter: Can this AI product survive if base model quality improves 10x in 18 months?

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Immersion isn’t about scale or spectacle. It’s the precise orchestration of perception, attention, and emotion in a singular package. When sensory, spatial, and emotional cues align, it’s beyond eye-candy. It’s human-machine convergence. It’s meant to be experienced fully.

It's clear to me now that technology amplifies the difficulty of raising a child. As we approach the singularity, our humanity will be central to the fight. It's no longer fight or flight, it's fight or submit. Resistance may well be futile.

KENDRICK LAMAR SAID: "I BELIEVE THE REAL SECRET TO SUCCESS IS THE ABILITY TO FAIL, TO LOSE, AND TO FEEL LIKE QUITTING-YET STILL HOLD ON TO THE PASSION, HUNGER, AND DESIRE TO OVERCOME ALL THREE."

build startups for agents over the next 10 years, you'll have a market of billions of customers (agents) with millions of wallets that want to use your services go look at every saas tool you use. notion, slack, stripe etc now ask: "what's the version of this that's built

You're always "part of the family" until it's "just business."

Don’t pitch TAM. Pitch a market that doesn’t exist yet and then go build it.

If you want to be an innovator, you have to be comfortable looking stupid for a long time. You’re going to piss some people off and you’re going to get a lot of nos. That’s the only way to start having valuable breakthroughs.

The human brain isn’t designed to process all of the world’s breaking emergencies in realtime.

the next big trend is the real world digital fasts, live events, community, in person hangouts, real conversations, building shit, surfing, camping, dinner parties it's time we return to what really matters

ai is an extension of humanity’s collective intelligence

the next hype cycle after ai will also be ai… and so will the one after that

We’re gonna need to regulate AI after all

Feels like we're in the early days of an inevitable career path: the IRL creator A person who brings relevant people together, designs tasteful gatherings & curates spaces to facilitate serendipity With AI reshaping how we work and live, in-person experiences will be the last

the most important AI startups won't be the ones that replace humans... They'll be the ones that help humans figure out what to do next what will humans do next? I think we get a clue when it comes to the discussion around "taste" on one end of the spectrum and verifiability on