CHRIS VIDAL

🙋 Dad @ Home 🎨 Creative Producer @ Work 💡 Leaving Notes on Creativity & Production 📍 ATL

[CHRIS VIDAL @CMVCREATE]

@adaptiveai Adaptative

[Adaptive @adaptiveai]

Introducing Adaptive Computer.

We put AI inside of an always-on personal computer that it uses to get work done.

Schedule agents. Create software. Automate anything.

As part of the launch, we’re giving one free month of Adaptive to users.

Retweet, like, and comment ‘Adaptive’ to get it.

[Ruben Hassid @rubenhassid]

https://t.co/dMazC9Hz56

[Mayank Vora @aiwithmayank]

OpenAI and Anthropic engineers leaked a prompting technique that separates beginners from experts.

It's called "Socratic prompting" and it's insanely simple.

Instead of telling the AI what to do, you ask it questions.

My output quality: 6.2/10 → 9.1/10

Here's how it works:

[Ivan Flugelman — VVSVS™ @_VVSVS]

https://t.co/nplrhasCWg

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/kNfAIZcqin

[Jerry Z. Muller @jerryzmuller]

"[E]ven the most well-read academics are often innocent of viewpoints that contradict their milieu. Fairly late in life, for example, the NYU psychologist Jonathan Haidt stumbled upon conservatism by accident as he was browsing in a used bookstore. He started reading Jerry Muller’s excellent introductory essay in his anthology on conservative thought. By the time he hit the third page, he had to sit down right there in the bookstore to keep reading—the experience, as Haidt puts it, “literally floored” him. “I began to see [that conservatives] had attained a crucial insight into the sociology of morality that I had never encountered before.”
Unless students are assigned more authors like Muller, public trust in the university is likely to continue its descent..." https://t.co/mt5IMVLv1q

[Mark F. Proudman @mfproudman]

@jerryzmuller “Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view" - Wm F. Buckley.

[Àgbà John Doe @jon_d_doe]

As a parent, I think this video has taught me something useful.

I recommend that you should try it on your kids, too.

I have also shared it with my wife.

Credit: joe_drummer_boy on IG.

[Brunbitty @brunbitty]

Tonight it finally clicked for me.

Neo asks her the classic question:
“If you already know what I’m going to do… do I really have a choice?”

And she hits him with the line:
“You’ve already made the choice. You’re just here to understand why.”

For years I thought this meant “there’s no free will.” But that’s not it.

Here’s the real insight:

Free will doesn’t exist in the moment.

It exists in the identity that leads to the moment.

The actions you take right now?
They’re mostly automatic - shaped by your conditioning, experiences, fears, habits, and past.

But the person you’re becoming?
That’s where your freedom actually lives.

You don’t choose the moment.
You choose the man who will meet the moment.

Or put in another way:

Determinism writes the past.

Identity writes the future.

Because when your life isn’t where you want it to be, the answer isn’t “make better choices.” The answer is: become the version of yourself who makes better choices automatically.

That’s the real red pill.

[eigenron @eigenron]

One of the best things I’ve heard @naval say and you’ve probably never heard this so I’ll just drop it here. Ties to the theory of analogy and natural philosophy.

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

This is a brilliant essay by @AndrewMayne - magician, novelist, OpenAI early employee - on why AI will not displace human beings, but amplify them.

Some neat asides, such as:

"Our economy is not a top down system designed to solve a specific goal, it’s the product of the preferences of eight billion people."

"You couldn’t ask for a lower bar than outperforming pseudoscience, yet here we are in 2025 with consumers spending billions of dollars a year on things we know don’t work. Neither psychic iPhone apps or AI-powered astrologers have dislodged humans from this questionable work. More people probably should use AI therapists, but that doesn’t mean they will."

https://t.co/EZfTf5p423

[CHRIS VIDAL @CMVCREATE]

The line between agencies and production companies are blurring together. At the end of the day, the label matters less than who can solve the problem at hand clearly and creatively.

[CHRIS VIDAL @CMVCREATE]

Culture on set is built in the first 10 minutes

[CHRIS VIDAL @CMVCREATE]

Collaboration is beautiful but dangerous. Without clarity on roles, “teamwork” often turns into chaos disguised as democracy

[CHRIS VIDAL @CMVCREATE]

Innovation isn’t about being new. It’s about being useful.

[CHRIS VIDAL @CMVCREATE]

There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to scope creep. But here’s the truth: it’s not the client’s fault. As servicer, we are the owners of the experience. How we set expectations, adapt, and communicate determines if scope creep feels like a surprise or a smooth adjustment.

[CHRIS VIDAL @CMVCREATE]

Most of the time, scope creep = unspoken expectations.

👉 A client assumes something is “included.”
👉 A team member assumes a request is “quick.”
👉 We assumes everyone is on the same page.

[CHRIS VIDAL @CMVCREATE]

The fix isn’t more rigid contracts. It’s more clarity upfront.
•Define what’s in and what’s out from the start.
•Confirm assumptions in writing.
•Build space for change, but name it when it happens.