Ben Colley

[Ben Colley @BJColley]

Here for this content at midnight on a Friday.

[Founders Fund @foundersfund]

MAFIA EP 001

[Ben Colley @BJColley]

South Australia getting on the AI infrastructure 🚂…

“@IREN_Ltd – a specialist in industrial-scale data centres and AI – announced overnight that it planned to build its 800MW data centre… 75 km north-east of Adelaide”

https://t.co/gNW0mIXRaH

[Ben Colley @BJColley]

A misspent youth on PS2/3 racing my ghost of Gran Turismo makes me ache with joy for this…

[Stijn Spanhove @stspanho]

🏃‍♂️ I've gamified my own run so I can race my own ghost with the Meta Ray-Ban Display.

I built a web app for the glasses, loaded a previous GPX from Strava, and dropped game mechanics on top.

Pick up coins when you keep pace, sprint zones reward extra points if you push, and a mini leaderboard on the lens shows how you're tracking against your past self in real time.

Best part: it actually works. Seeing your ghost 20 m ahead is a way stronger nudge than any number on a watch. 😅

[Stijn Spanhove @stspanho]

🏃‍♂️ I've gamified my own run so I can race my own ghost with the Meta Ray-Ban Display.

I built a web app for the glasses, loaded a previous GPX from Strava, and dropped game mechanics on top.

Pick up coins when you keep pace, sprint zones reward extra points if you push, and a mini leaderboard on the lens shows how you're tracking against your past self in real time.

Best part: it actually works. Seeing your ghost 20 m ahead is a way stronger nudge than any number on a watch. 😅

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

My strategy to bury “Abundance” by loudly praising it upon publication seems to have worked.

[Teddy @WarnerTeddy]

i mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to listen for any birds passing by and built a site to collage them as they're heard

[Ben Colley @BJColley]

This is looks exquisite.

@RickRubin has been influencing my life before I even knew who Rick Rubin was...

[David Senra @davidsenra]

This conversation with @RickRubin is special. Here's a 2 minute preview that I’ve watched 15 times.

The episode will be out tomorrow:

[Ashlee Vance @ashleevance]

this is absurdly good

[Niki Scevak @nikiscevak]

"the moral suspicion of ambition itself"

So beautifully said

[Ben Colley @BJColley]

@matthewclifford @bendrury Deeply appreciated & rated in our household in Adelaide, Australia 🇦🇺

[Ben Colley @BJColley]

Forward deployed minister 👏🏻

[geoff @GeoffreyHuntley]

let’s compare two governments side by side

singapore gov (this post)
australia gov (tweet below)

tired: albo 🇦🇺
wired: forward deployed minister 🇸🇬

[Ben Colley @BJColley]

@thinkwithmark How do you want an 🇦🇺 to get involved at this stage?

[Ben Colley @BJColley]

🤣

[Jediwolf @Jediwolf]

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

[Bray Falls @astrofalls]

Since a lot of people are confused about what this is, every telescope here is owned by a person. Each person can log in remotely to use their telescope to capture photos of space from our dark skies!

[Ben Colley @BJColley]

Great question.

“… if markets are so efficient, why do we keep building Little Islands of central planning, inside markets?“

[John Collison @collision]

We've been thinking a lot at Stripe about the Coasean lens on AI:

- The obvious near-term effect is reduced transaction costs within companies: shared context, systems of record, aligned incentives etc.
- But inter-company transaction costs also reduce sharply: agents are great at discovery, make it trivially easy to integrate; make contracting much more straightforward; agent-to-agent commerce.
- On net, we think second effect bigger in medium term: fewer people per firm, more output per firm, just more firms, and more coordination happening through market-like mechanisms

[Ben Colley @BJColley]

First @build_aus . Now Latitude 37.

Australian Ambition is bubbling to the surface…

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

https://t.co/9BoHGGDQAH

[Ben Colley @BJColley]

Lots of @build_aus 💜 (and interest) from the @stoneandchalk Founder community in Adelaide...

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Whoah, self-driving cars compete with airlines. I never considered that till now.

[Ben Colley @BJColley]

@rootsofprogress @jasoncrawford @HalcyonFutures @jasoncrawford Check-out @build_aus - I think you’ll appreciate the ambition and the aesthetic…

[Ben Colley @BJColley]

I’m in.

[Gearside @gearside]

australia's renaissance will be an aesthetic one