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All of my agency hacks are kind of like this—seeking out big, glaring edges that most people might rather ignore.

In a sign of stranger times to come, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen funded a semi-autonomous AI bot on X with $50,000 in bitcoin, which later pumped a meme-based cryptocurrency called Goatseus Maximus to a market cap that at one point surpassed $1 billion.

Google also (separately?) released Deep Research, which is a truly useful agentic AI tool. Give it a research topic, and it'll spider through hundreds of websites, refining its search based on what it learns, before delivering a comprehensive report with citations.

Ask for things that feel unreasonable, to make sure your intuitions about what’s reasonable are accurate (try not to be a jerk in the process). If you’re only asking for things you get, you’re not aiming high enough. Jobs are a great example: Especially if you’re early in your career, you should aim to get rejected from most things you apply for.

Townie has attracted a new breed of non-technical programmers to Val Town.

Stop trying so hard. Last week I discovered life's greatest irony in a coffee shop at 2 p.m., over-caffeinated and buzzing with excitement about a book titled Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, a treatise on living a life without objectives. What happened next honestly felt like a cosmic joke. My unfiltered brain dump about this book on X—this... See more

As Varoufakis points out in Technofeudalism , one of the paradoxes of capitalism is that when you as a worker are hired somewhere, there are two kinds of value being exchanged. There’s your ‘exchange value’, or how much money your time is worth in the free market. And then there’s your ‘experiential value’, the value of your qualities as a human... See more

sBTC: a more secure Bitcoin bridge

In the next couple weeks, Stacks will release sBTC, a non-custodial 1:1 Bitcoin-backed asset that operates as an open-network, decentralized 2-way peg solution to bring Bitcoin into Stacks with as little counterparty risk as possible. This has been a vision for years, and you’ve probably heard something about it... See more