Taylor Davis

Dad, chief surfer @purepavetech. Green Infrastructure for cities, permeable materials for contractors. for civil eng. Formerly @shopify

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

Scaling to save cities money and prepare for the future - reducing floods and stormwater burden

[Brad Bradford @BradMBradford]

This is a game-changer for managing stormwater floods. With 95% permeability, it's not only more effective than traditional materials but also stronger and more durable.

Excited to see how innovations like this can reshape our approach to urban planning and contribute to a more sustainable future. Thanks Taylor for stopping by!

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

@elonmusk When in Canada 🇨🇦?

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

@MuskokaTesla Absolutely 👌

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

Scaling to save cities money and prepare for the future - reducing floods and stormwater burden

[Brad Bradford @BradMBradford]

This is a game-changer for managing stormwater floods. With 95% permeability, it's not only more effective than traditional materials but also stronger and more durable.

Excited to see how innovations like this can reshape our approach to urban planning and contribute to a more sustainable future. Thanks Taylor for stopping by!

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard P. Feynman

Underrated operating principle

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I’m convinced discipline is just the highest form of self-respect. It’s choosing what you want most over what you want now. It’s keeping your word. It’s an act of service to your future self.

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

@SahilBloom Taking action even though you don’t feel like it enhances the anterior midcingulate cortex. Discipline starts to feel easier, doing hard things feels better and better. A subtle feedback loop leading to invincibility. Do the thing

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

@MichLieben Ads

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

My prediction of what's going to happen to AI Agents by the end of 2026:

- Anthropic will lock everything down under its own platform and come out with their own version of OpenClaw that will do 90% of what current OpenClaw does, but with a lot of security layers and much less true automation. It'll still be VERY capable, but will require quite a bit of baby-sitting to do truly autonomous work.

- OpenAI will come out with a model SPECIFICALLY for OpenClaw orchestration & tool execution that will make OpenClaw EXTREMELY capable at doing long-running tasks on a computer.

- xAI will come out with its own agentic solution, but it'll be proprietary to the Musk ecosystem - will only run on Tesla inference chips to start, but will eventually branch out into local inference machines tapping into Tesla's chip supply chain. People will basically be able to buy an AI4/AI5+ "computer" to plop in their homes, and that "computer" will run xAI's hyper-optimized agentic Grok that will do inference locally for as much as possible, and ping the cloud for super complex tasks. Grok 5 should make this obvious.

It's gonna be WILD.

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

Claude cowork's chrome extension is a glimpse. Feels like by year end this will be normal computing. We're paying about $50 per major task though, reloading tokens to keep working.

Can't wait to have Cowork-quality software + Opus level models running locally 247

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

PurePave Technologies is building the data-validated infrastructure layer for climate-resilient cities.
Tomorrow I'm presenting at the American Society of Civil Engineers' Low Impact Development Conference USA in Jacksonville FL.
The transformative impact of advanced permeable systems with sensors that feed ai models... actually wild. @PurePaveTech

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

The game is the reward

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

How base layer maxxing looks in 2026

>seek maxx potential
>wired contrarian optimist
>realize rate limiter = agency
>source of agency = space for thought
>space for thought = boredom
>boredom = creativity accelerator
>seek / schedule boredom
>allow writing
>enter thoughts into LLM
>analyze
>enhance, test or dismiss
>repeat

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

The rate limiter on intelligence is now agency

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

How long before governments propose payroll tax on agents?

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

Never thought I’d be itching so hard to buy a 20k computer.

One of my primary KPIs as a ceo for 2026 was artifact creation. Now I’ve built something that can truly automate every workflow in the company.

The Mac mini was a test run. Have automated SEO, GEO, media organization.

I’m convinced the maxed studio will give birth to hyperscale @PurePaveTech

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

Agency is the meta skill of the future. Even more so, with every passing day

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

@naval Agency is the meta skill of the future. Even more so, with every passing day.

[Naval @naval]

Self-directed learning through AIs is an autodidact’s paradise.

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

@newstart_2024 Have been doing this instinctively long before it was cool. Am at least half as productive otherwise

[Taylor Davis @DavisTheory]

Slope of improvement determines everything