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Here is a brilliant discussion of the implications of the Fourth Turning with Grant @ttmygh Williams and Adam @menlobear Taggart. Grant: we had a great chat for two hrs on a Saturday night in '99. Due for another... https://t.co/6if5lIWGC0

Look, I can't tell why the world isn't freaking out about this right now. We're witnessing something monumental - AI hitting the top 10% of all programmers across every language out there. This isn't just another tech milestone; this is the dawn of what I call "cognitive hyper abundance." Think about it - while these models are mastering coding, t... See more

the biggest misconception i had entering the adult world was that "more money means more intelligence is going into it", often it's actually the opposite! most ventures tend to have a fixed amount of 'sensemaking' and as the money grows the 'sense per dollar' trends to zero

scale is challenging - you can do something that 95% of people like, but the remaining 5% are literally a hundred thousand people who are now *angry* - we're not evolved to process emotions at this scale (physiologically) and i see it stop many (tragically) from wanting to create

the biggest frustration of a hardcore technologist in san francisco is how many companies both tiny and gargantuan are kinda fake - investors often can't tell the difference between story and substance and armed with a billion dollars it may take a decade for it to fail. as an

in my testing, deepseek crushes western models on ancient chinese philosophy and literature, while also having a much stronger command of english than my first-hand chinese sources. it feels like communing with literary/historical/philosophical knowledge across generations that i never had access to before. it's quite emotionally moving. it makes s... See more

EASY: Broadcast Sunday services. HARD: Use online resources to grow your church. HARDEST: Use online resources to grow your church's discipleship strategy. It's not the hardest to DO ... it's just the hardest for leaders to ACCEPT.

Big thoughts from Tom. My personal takeaway is that understanding what humans want (ie, good taste) and being able to build with the latest tools will be the most important things.