.@micsolana nailed it. You can feel the soullessness of a lot of ai products. Not evil, just empty. (although i think xAI companions are evil, and plenty of applications of AI (if not AI applications) are incredible). Luckily, there are a lot of uncommonly clear discussions of material abundance and of every sci-fi moonshot on our path to Star Trekkian abundance, but i increasingly feel like those are going to succeed in spite of, not because of, soulless tech's attempts to neuter us.

"Stop pitching, start interrogating the reality your users are in" @adeets_22 dropping user research gems on DeFi founders

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

fractional COOs, CTOs, CPOs... anyone want a fractional boyfriend?

startups would (lowkey) set company milestones based on potential techcrunch headline relationship building with journalists felt as important as investors i can’t remember the last time i *thought* about contacting a journalist.

have been working on an essay on “embedded accelerators” inspired by this trend + research into developer ecosystem models done with @keikreutler. would love feedback on 1st draft when ready next monday :)

congrats to the @OffchainLabs incubator (onchain labs) for spinning out its first project! it’s great to see the rise of chain-led incubators on ethereum; the gravitational pull of @megaeth_labs mafia proves it works and is definitely worth doing. homegrown builders > mercenaries, always.

went to my first comedy cellar standup class last night and the instructor suggested using voice memos to riff on joke bits as it’ll force us to use conversational language. as a serial voice noter, i feel unleashed with superpowers

Unsolicited career advice: If you find an original thinker with a strong moral compass, do whatever it takes to work with them. Both of those things are incredibly rare standalone, even rarer when together. They are also are traits that cannot be acquired imho.

every SaaS product becomes gmail every consumer product becomes a dating app ….every AI product becomes your horoscope?