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danaher had this meme that he believes anyone can dramatically improve themselves into a top (5%?) - I forget the exact percentage - operator in a given field in 5 years time
some fields are harder than others sure but seems a solid meme upon reflection. with ai it’s probably going to shrink
https://youtu.be/2qdzjmW_Qy0?si=UuwVdLR0V0sFKgj1
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Dan hated product people, and I imagine his experience is accurate in a lot of them probably sucking
yet maybe they could have used one in hindsight after seeing more of his post-exit thoughts.
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One of the craziest things pre agentic coding was having to hop on calls with devs, pitch an idea, and then compromise on all the things you know mattered for network, marketing, comms, visual, etc
Then you both would decide it wasn’t worth it or they wanted to be paid way more to scope it to your og idea (that they initially say is easy af to do) and then you had to watch them go ship hand crafted slop.
Good riddance. Be blessed (real)
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Since pre time off I was experimenting with punctuation on twitter to see if there were discernible patterns in user reaction.
Do believe that due to the sheer volume and frequency of post content, the later in the day the more uppercase starting posts become taxing (relative) and skipped over more naturally.
Lowercase starting posts do seem to offer less mental lift but to the degree the trade off matters still unknown.
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Question I posed to jesse at variant for his upcoming block works podcast (in case it doesn’t get answered and I need to refer to it):
Any mental models on distributed funding philosophies?
(ie. how commodified can an investment philosophy be and can it be packaged into a trust-minimized subagent program)
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“Ah let’s see how it goes.” “Let’s monitor the situation.” “Maybe, let me think about it a little.”
Cool story bro. Oh wait, absolute no story.
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The Middleware of Posting Online:
Posting is serious business, and if you consider Mr. Beast not as the final boss but the first final boss, you can see how posting is only going to become more and more valuable. Then consider things like artificial intelligence and the phenomenon described as slop.
Think about your favorite poster. The handful of posters that make you think different, reveal interesting new threads to pull, or bring a sense of brevity to your day-to-day that you would sorely miss. Could they be automated to the point of slop? Probably not. Meaning their value will not remain stagnant. With some outperformed by automation and others never in competition with it.
Whom I'm speaking to in this essay are the latter: the software and/or media creatives who have unique visions and the will to see them through. The millennials and zoomers who did not get swept up in the system and, thanks to the internet, have developed into just the kind of demographic needed in the coming economic era.
My current framework is calling this demographic "posters." Simply derived from the first principles of data availability in that you either are posting data or calling data, and a software or media creative is posting. Posting so much that it changes their lives and potentially others.
We do not truly know the positive externalities of posting. It is still a relatively new concept within the relatively new concept of creator economy. The behavior less so, but the network effects certainly.
And as a poster myself, I feel relatively comfortable in saying that media repositories are not very much aligned with the divergence of a seemingly illogical creative mind. Even the best media caches, Pinterest, X, Instagram, have become eroded with overzealous advertising models. They still work phenomenally for posting data, but they are not very good at the steps leading up to the post.
To me and to other creatives I know, this is a seemingly insignificant axis that leads to what I believe will be significant product divergence.
I do not believe we are in the time where legacy social platforms are out-competed. Instead, I believe that a middleware layer, thanks to agentic coding and a dramatic price decrease in computational resources, is now open for engagement with the very necessary software and media creative demographics entering the economy.
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Going from years of Muay Thai, less years of bjj, and now just working on boxing feels both exhausting and ‘easy’ in an available paths you need to think of.
Keep wanting to throw an elbow in clinch.
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