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The most direct and high-signal way to support creators is to buy their art. NFTs made this experience digital. Subscriptions create an ongoing form of patronage. All of the above create a direct line of value transfer between the creator and their supporters. Coins don’t do this. Coins are traded through AMMs, and most of the value is *not* captured by the creator. Interesting experiments, but I still don’t understand how this is a better way of “supporting creators” than more direct, lindy alternatives.

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I think the solution to “attention problems” are almost purely spiritual. Attention is a form of worship, and we need to collectively build structures and economies that allow us to focus on what we want to see more of.

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You've gotta play your own game. At some point, you'll get tired of chasing the new narrative and not building anything that tells its own story. Problem is only getting worse. The antidote to 24 hour hype cycles is decades-long games that you built from the ground up.

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FOMO is kicking in. Higher.

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If someone says “I wrote it myself and used AI to edit,” that generally means AI wrote every single word and they went in and manually removed some em dashes. It’s so obvious. These people either think we’re stupid or they aren’t good enough writers to see the difference.

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Great artists steal, but you still gotta be an artist, not just a thief.

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From @vgr: “Storage is cheap and growing cheaper; compute is abundant. What remains expensive—financially, temporally, and energetically—is getting the right data to the right place in time. The shape of intelligence is ultimately constrained by this invisible economy: not the price of knowing, but the cost of remembering.”

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I wouldn’t be surprised if more tech companies lean into brick & mortar third spaces as a distribution strategy because it actually becomes cheaper than trying to compete with AI slop and sensationalism for attention online

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What does it look like to increase your surface area for luck in an age where everyone is producing content on socials, sending mass cold emails, spamming DMs, etc.? Feels like the most magical part of the internet – serendipitous connection – is dying.

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I find myself in this weird situation where many of the people who like my theses around building, intentionality, and tech are socialists and don't realize that I am, in fact, not a socialist

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I'm still a big believer in this idea that more "AI workflow/agent" companies should look less like a SaaS startup and more like consulting + media. Forward-deployed engineers that deeply understand the organization, media to find the believers, tech to deliver in promises.

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just posted on linkedin for the first time in years if yall wanna run me up ty

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STAY IN THE GAME

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It’s significantly easier to build and garner support when you believe in something bigger than yourself. Age old advice that becomes truer by the day.

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why are so many team members leaving Optimism at the same time

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any time a marketing campaign takes over the feed my instinct is to ignore the product

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Someone is gonna create "management theory" for AI knowledge work. Today, it's tacit knowledge locked inside of the most effective teams. The new MBA will be about managing parallel agents, providing them context, and figuring out the best ways to put humans in the loop.

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“If you build it they will come” is true specifically for things that people can feel included in and be a part of

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so much of success comes down to personality

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