Adam Ball

Product Builder working at the intersection of Sustainability and AI.

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?”

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

Something very exciting is coming on Tuesday.

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

Left Accenture last summer following three years tenure post acquisition. The whole org was trying to AI-pill itself. Seems to be going well. AI has come for its lunch.

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

Since switching to my own workout app, I’m really enjoying the pattern of usage, tweak, use more. Perfectly fitting the needs of not just logging, but having a plan I can follow, adapt and know that I’m making progress.

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

@yongfook USB-C, 4k and 34”+ - anything around that is big enough and means charging and less cable clutter.

[Scottie Pippen @ScottiePippen]

Nobody teaches you that discipline feels like punishment until the results start feeling like freedom

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

Cancelled Strong. Been dogfooding my own app to log workouts but go beyond this to have a plan I can follow, easily see progress and adapt when life gets busy (all the time)

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

It’ll be back but a lesson in the control we do not have over these powerful tools.

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

Great thread showing where we are in the token subsidy era

[SemiAnalysis @SemiAnalysis_]

Recently, we purchased one of each Anthropic/OpenAI subscription plan and randomly ran long horizon coding tasks until we exhausted the weekly limit. It's widely believed that a $200/month plan maxes out at ~$2000/month worth of tokens (assuming API pricing). However, we found that the subscriptions are actually far more generous. (2/4)

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major cheat code for life: Master the art of the fresh start. From a bad morning. From a bad interaction. From a missed workout. From a poor decision. The goal isn't to avoid the fall. It's to shorten the time between the fall and the reset. Fast recovery compounds.

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

Currently held together by creatine and caffeine.

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

After working like hell all of last week, over the weekend, until midnight last night, I was hoping to take a break this evening. Then Fable 5 launches and the token grind comes calling again.

[Naval @naval]

The product is the mission.

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

It’s become dramatically easier to generate code since December. Distribution is important and hard. But bundling a great product that people value and has great taste baked in is still vital.

[rachel @rachcorrine]

“The life they mock is the life they were meant to live.”

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

If you build it they will come. Lots of people grinding on the build of things. But lacking distribution, engagement, retention. Those that can nail this piece, or help those who need it will clean up.

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

We are here in terms of agentic capabilities. So much more to come.

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

Build build build. /goal now extending sessions to multiple hours. Still missing ability to imbue great taste without lots of intervention.

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

Beautiful. Imagine exploring data around sustainability and nature through this to tell more powerful stories. World models come to life.

[Zain Shah @zan2434]

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see.

@eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

Claude Cowork has changed my working pattern so significantly using since just after launch. Thinking, debating, doing. Agents in the terminal still rule for building software but for everything else it’s been great. Those that nail the harness for more specific activities win.

[Adam Ball @AdamJBall]

It’s a great time to be a dreamer and a builder.