Some great news in NYC during a bleak news week. Downtown is at risk of having the soul sucked out of it, but at least we get to keep Elizabeth St garden (for now). nytimes.com/2025/06/23/nyr…

A little concerned for our collective decisionmaking skills, but this is so nice.

AI is alive and very well in London. Thanks for a great event Eric Newcomer Cerebral Valley

Increasingly think this might be the most important chart in the world right now

Some pretty good advice in here. “The better the weather, the better the network. The worse the weather, the better the worker.” Hashtag long NY

Big congrats to the Verne team!

We're not far off from killing screens altogether. In the meantime, this is my favorite concept for a hybrid solution: turning your existing smartphone into a minimalist, AI-native device: vimeo.com/1055178625

"Bubbles, though, are a feature of every great wave of tech innovation, and are not necessarily to be feared. Much depends on where you sit in the cap table." open.substack.com/pub/newcomer/p…

AIR hosts the best AI events in nyc, hands down. Come check out the latest experiments (and eat some dumplings with us!) carly ayres AIR

Why bother building consumer AI if ChatGPT is just going to dominate the consumer experience? There are still major opportunities OpenAI won’t touch (and can’t win): open.substack.com/pub/sophiebaka…

Can't wait for this lunch & yap session tomorrow.

“First-time founders are obsessed with product. Second-time founders are obsessed with distribution.” -Justin Kan But not for long... I wrote about why exceptional products and user experiences (+creative reach) are coming back in vogue. open.substack.com/pub/sophiebaka…

Collaborative's first fund in now fully wrapped up. Our final exit pushed performance well north of 4x net DPI. The last position? Gumroad I met Sahil Lavingia when he posted a side project on Hacker News. No company name yet. No business plan. Just talent. We grabbed brunch at

There's a vortex of creativity x AI in Brooklyn. So inspired by everything the Danger Testing team puts out.