"Nerds are more clippable; therefore, nerds have more power."
www.a16z.news/p/why-nerds-...
Good breakdown of new media and the power of clippable content.
I'm thinking about this for my own work.
Treat software as content.
Master the art of the short-form demo.
Distribution is just as impo...
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Went on a fun sidequest last night and built something pretty cool. To really appreciate it, you'll need some background info first. It starts with this Instagram account:
www.instagram.com/basset_book_...
This is the account for my parents' dog, Ms. Lilly. My Mom managed it for about seven years, postin...
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Dwarkesh just dropped his thoughts on the state of AI for December 2025, and he’s calling the top. He’s moderately bearish. He argues that because these models can’t "learn on the job" like a human, AGI is much further away than we thought.
www.dwarkesh.com/p/thoughts-o...
He’s right but it...
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"I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto."
Brutal read. I get it.
Working in the casino is exhausting. FOMO. Analyzing charts. Creator coins, writer coins, VC coins. TGEs. Bots, farmers, and whales.
x.com/kenchangh/st...
But remember, no crying in the casino.
A system can be a casino and...
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Agree on the ceiling. Maybe we should treat mini apps more like ads instead of mobile apps?
Mini apps are the best way to launch crypto experiments, collect data, and learn something. Startups and e-commerce do this all the time with Facebook ads.
The cost to learn on Farcaster is relatively cheap because of the sma...
shorting all mini apps that believe people will open / use them 4x a day. the network's DAUs are probably 20K and you're fighting with another 200-300 active mini apps to get the attention of what? 10-12k people? if clients like base app / fc take off and have 10-15m users it would make sense to get 1% of them to use y
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How Im building with Cursor lately:
1. ask (gpt-5.1-codex) about the change I want to make
2. plan (gpt-5.1-codex) using info from 1
3. build (composer) the plan
4. quickly review the changes
5. build and test the project locally
6. get agent to review changes
I'll use opus 4.5 in steps 1 - 3 if I really think...
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Of course that’s your contention. You think AGI is just around the corner. You just finished reading 'The Bitter Lesson' by Rich Sutton probably. You’re gonna be convinced that 'scale is all you need' ‘til next month when you hit the data wall. Then you’re gonna be talkin’ about how synthetic data and 'Test Time Comput...
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