Joey DeBruin
@joeydebruin
Helping communities build public knowledge online. Founder @withBackdrop. Past/current product/advisory roles @Benchling @ResearchGate @Forefront__ @SeedClub
Joey DeBruin
As we see base models continue to proliferate, and fine-tuned models begin to sit on top of them, our hypothesis is that these “thin layer” products should focus on having a clear opinion of how they form the output or how they shape the human to AI interaction layer. Put simply, the maximally viable product in AI is likely not where the vast... See more
Michael Dempsey • Thin Layers of AI, Thick Layers of Personality
The importance of agentic program managers to the success of the ARPA model isn’t surprising or new. The “aha” was that the only way to cut through the paradox of inconsistent process leading to consistent success was that the agentic program leader may be the only thing that’s important to get right; everything else may be cargo-culting.
Ben Reinhardt • The ARPA Model isn't what you think it is
An Idea Machine is a self-sustaining organism that contains all the parts needed to turn ideas into outcomes:- It starts with a distinct ideology, which becomes a memetic engine that drives the formation of a community- The community’s members start generating ideas amongst themselvesEventually, they form an agenda, which articulates how the... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • Idea Machines
what would federalism look like on Twitter—could the network be split into regions that have some degree of local autonomy?
every.to • Twitter as a City-State
Whoever last touched the user gets the credit. This is part of what underwrites Google’s trillion-dollar market cap: the ability to claim that everyone who bought something via a Google search bought that thing because of Google.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Attribution rules the world (and it'll rule Web3 too)
A capital allocator would need to have two things happening simultaneously.
- Limited fund size: The fund would need to be $150M or less, or otherwise, you’ll be back to being wholly subject to the power law.
- Equity optionality: Investors in a startup utilizing this product need to be able to get returns even if the outcome is smaller. That would
Evan Armstrong • Venture Capital Is Ripe for Disruption
Non consensus approaches to picking businesses
Non consensus and right
genius is about caring about something more than a reasonable person cares about anything; actualized genius is the product of obsessive patterns of thought, coupled with raw intellectual power, carried through a lifetime.