1/ Braintrust 🧠 is a freelancer marketplace focused on servicing the knowledge-driven gig economy, connecting big companies with technical specialists. They aim to grow by leveraging their incentive alignment structure and offering better pricing for clients seeking talent.

Is Web3 trending towards Web2 economically motivations?

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NFTs are among the most flexible data structures in crypto, with use cases ranging from in-game assets to financial contracts and everything in between.

Hilarious. Sundar Pichai finally responds to SA

gm, I built a tool to help people detect metamorphic smart contracts. What’s a metamorphic smart contract? Why is detecting them important? And how does the tool work? A thread 🧵 a16zcrypto.com/metamorphic-sm…

the real walk of shame is walking into the office the day after taking down prod with a bad config file

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Ravi Tanuku may have had to reconsider after the Bud fiasco, no?

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balaji srinivasan on coming up with good startup ideas

Neuralink update!

Au revoir talent

A short summary: axios.com/2024/06/23/leo… Leopold Aschenbrenner — formerly of OpenAI's Superalignment team, now founder of an investment firm focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI) — has posted a massive, provocative essay putting a long lens on AI's future. Why it

90% of folks in life play defense. Other people make decisions and they react. They are totally out of control. They complain, blame others and continue to react to their surroundings. The key to life is playing offense and taking control of your surroundings.

AI agents are now treated like teammates, not tools

Everyone thinks Claude Code is just for engineers. The truth is it’s one of the most underrated tools for product managers. It’s basically a cheat code for anyone buried in ops grind and endless analysis. Here’s how I use it day-to-day 🧵

Getting in shape is a psychological process disguised as a physical one.

I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. The route just changes.