people sometimes treat the cofounder relationship like something you can fully design upfront. decision rights, ownership areas, operating norms, conflict resolution, all of that. I understand the impulse. if you are starting a company with someone, it feels responsible to make the implicit stuff explicit. @manan and I never had any of that. when I was thinking about starting a company, the answer was obvious to me: if i'm doing this, i'm doing it with him. he posted once that he did not really want to work on this specific project at the beginning. he wanted to work with me, and because i was working on this, he ended up here too. a lot of our working relationship now is just muscle memory. some things are clearly in my domain, some clearly in his, and there's a middle layer we figure out as we go. that middle layer is where a lot of co-founder relationships probably break. for us, it has worked mostly because we had already spent years working together before starting @neynar. we have had very few moments where one of us had to say, “you need to own this” or “i need to own this.” most of the time, we just know. can't be manufactured. you can write down responsibilities, and you probably should, but the real thing comes from working closely with the right person long enough.

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operating a social network is a strange job because the feedback loop is also the product you ship something, people react, and then the reaction becomes part of what you have to work through some of it is useful. some of it is funny. some of it is people saying things because the internet rewards people saying things over time, have had to get a lot better at separating those categories in the end - good problems to have. back to shipping

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unfortunately lost every badge pretty much as soon as I got it this has been a consistent trait since childhood somehow, my teachers would always be annoyed coz we would go somewhere on a school trip and I would lose my entry badge immediately

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farcaster casting heatmap! cc: @0xhohenheim

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what will the world look like when Claude is wired into our brains with neuralink

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i'm a sucker for good farming / tractor / rock content

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April is the worst month in the North East

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AI will increase productivity by simply making you feel bad for when your agent isn't working in the background everyone will prompt more

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I think every weekend I have a moment where I am wowed all over again by where AI is today it's not like it gets smarter during the weekend or something. During the week, it's somehow become routine to use it for everything we do at work. During the weekend, I will think about doing something personal. First thought will be to use a more traditional tool and then the next second I'll be like "oh I can just give this to claude" There will soon be a generation of humans who don't know any other way the leverage : price ratio of AI is insane - probably at the level of transistors

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Seeing the 'harshest critics' as an essential ingredient for entertainment value is a great way to reframe the noise. It’s a reminder that if people aren't arguing about what you're building, you probably haven't built anything meaningful yet. Glad to be in the arena with you.

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I am sympathetic to the "man in the arena" philosophy, I like being in the arena I also agree with this take that the audience makes the arena more fun https://farcaster.xyz/bleu.eth/0x8e841b21 To add on to this, the way any new thing is built is that the creator starts with no audience. They are in an empty arena and they are working on their thing. Over time, as their output takes shape, it attracts an audience - along the full spectrum i.e. fanboys on one end (creator can do nothing wrong) and haters (creator can do nothing right) and thoughtful critics in the middle. For the _entertainment_ value of the arena to be high, you actually do need the full spectrum, like all of it. The term "entertainment" in this case doesn't apply to products of a certain type. There are fans and haters of not just sports teams but simple things like a wifi router. "Entertainment" in this case refers to the entire force field around something - could be of any type. The force field itself is a thing that can watched for _entertainment_. The creator might not like all of such entertainment, but no one is really optimizing for what the creator likes. The universe pretty much always optimizes for entertainment. If the output can create no entertainment, the arena gets no audience. If the output can create true Entertainment, the audience grows enough to become part of the output itself. It becomes an input, the full spectrum becomes part of the story. In that sense, "haters" is somewhat of a negative term from the entertainment perspective. A detached narrator would likely call them "the harshest critics" (or something similar). Obviously the creator does not like that part of the spectrum and should learn how to move past (as PG rightly says) but for optimal entertainment value, it's essential. The harshest critics fuel the fans and vice versa. If a product just has one part of the spectrum, it just hasn't become truly entertaining yet. and so here we are - Farcaster became entertaining enough that we are both the input and the output. Even the harshest critics are here because there was entertainment value enough that it makes sense to be part of the spectrum. A big difference between the audience and creator is the level of risk and sacrifice (see more on my views on sacrifice in the quoted cast below). One of the reasons it made sense for Merkle and Neynar to go through this acquisition is because outside of Merkle, the next group of people who had taken the most risk on Farcaster was the Neynar team. There's really no right or wrong, high or low status between the audience and the arena. Everyone who's "in the arena" for something is in the audience for something else e.g. every SV founder watching a sports game, etc. It's kinda useful for both parties to remind each other that. When in the arena - take the risk, make the sacrifice, create that fork When in the audience - I want to say "be kind to those in the arena" but I guess what I have to say is: help create the best entertainment (alas) ps - re: forks - one might think I am against it but quite the opposite. when goals don't align, go do your own thing. Be in the arena. Godspeed

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I know the claude desktop app improved the interface for everyone but I still love the terminal interface ever since I started using claude code in the terminal, I even ask normal questions just in the terminal interface something about keyboard first interfaces on desktop is just so much better

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it's wild that we saw programming languages go from syntactical to plain english in 2 years I needed a niche slack plugin this morning - spent 30 mins and I have it now It takes a thread and exports it to markdown so you can feed it to an agent elsewhere - useful when you talk about something on slack, have an agent running and want to give it more context while it's already working on something ps - this only works for "threads" right now https://github.com/rishavmukherji/slack-thread-export

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just set up clawdbot on an old machine and it's working well personal assistant tasks usually require little compute so didn't really feel compelled to do the new Mac Mini setup that everyone on AI Twitter is pitching using an Anthropic API key, you can get quite far on old hardware

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Fun fact got interviewed by the agent that we built ourselves (aka @neynar) thanks to @gmfarcaster might be the first of its kind

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