New meanings of the new world!

A strong social fabric and the right tech stack will unleash a new wave of bottom-up economic experiments: interest-free P2P borrowing, anonymous lending pools, collective insurance, socialized ETFs, DAO-based freelancer unions, rotating savings schemes, revshare guilds, meme venture syndicates, crypto ponzis, exit scams, in-browser miners, upstate... See more

When we fall in love with someone’s mind, it has far less to do with what they create and more to do with what they direct their attention toward. A relationship with Claude could satisfy me for a time on the level of output––I type, Claude types. When we are not speaking, I don’t know what Claude is paying attention to. Claude doesn’t either. I... See more

f everyone becomes a manager of agents—instead of coding yourself, you could essentially supervise five coding agents—how should those agents be priced? One option is as a function of productivity relative to a full-time worker. I doubt we see parity here (if five agents 5x productivity, the company probably won’t be paying five full-time salaries)... See more

you can rest assured that whatever kaleidoscope of stimulation (or even intoxication) AI conjures, you will get bored of it; getting bored is what we do, and it turns out to be a rather profound feature of our consciousness

This ability to turn capital into compute and compute into equivalents of your top talent is a fundamental transformation

The limiting factor isn't finding or training rare talent – it's just compute.

Working alongside AI should be like driving with directions. If you’re in an unfamiliar area, it nudges you in the right direction by predicting the next sequence for whatever you’re doing, whether coding, designing, or writing. And you can choose whether to ignore the directions or not because you’re in control.

And then there’s self-driving cars.... See more

The decentralization of physical infrastructure networks offers an opportunity to leapfrog atrophying incumbent monopolies and create networks that are more robust, easier to invest in, and more transparent.

Squads will be as important as companies in the years to come. And as the micro-structure of our social and economic fabric changes, strong vibes and sustainability will become the new metric of success. Squads don't need to scale. They can just spread the big squad energy.