Doug Maverick

I do everything I can imagine with music or find someone who can. Software developing too. Just DM or ask 👋.

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

“Live as if you are living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.”

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

Sports betting advertisements at the Savannah Bananas @TheSavBananas game marks the end of any glimmer of hope for the American family.

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

@CuriosityScott @JBONAMASSA If I’m tracking a guitar player that really likes high distortion sound, I make sure we only hear the guitar’s tone in the control room and preferably in the mix and post a (rough) mixing chain.

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

@SwipeWright @ZubyMusic The way that people read, especially nonfiction, is by speed scanning for what already aligns with their worldviews.
Then they decide how “profound” it is by whether it describes their own positions to their own satisfaction.

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

@theaceofspaeder How do you find and parse your data by the way?

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

@theaceofspaeder I like it. Been banging a similar drum for a while, i.e., that I try to get people to sanity check these things before drawing any other conclusion. I start with:

“Shouldn’t we at least assume we want our best hitter to bat as many times as possible until proven otherwise?”

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

Unless Webanyama tires unusually quickly or something, I don’t understand how Spurs are not a good 5-6 points better than Knicks

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Las Vegas Review-Journal @reviewjournal]

A driver arrested in a crash that killed a longtime special education teacher in Clark County was speeding and may have been racing another driver at the time, according to police.
STORY: https://t.co/MRQGSAdChI

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

Bravo. Give this staffer a raise.

[Tom Steyer @TomSteyer]

Good public transit is key for an affordable, walkable city. That's why I'm riding the D on election day. @metrolosangeles

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

I don’t know everything about Las Vegas residential neighborhoods, but I do know that for every four intersections you will find at least one girl with 5-inch nails, in the crosswalk, screaming into a speakerphone at her boyfriend.

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

They’re just not legally allowed to bench James Harden I guess.

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

NBA feels borderline unwatchable with the way fouls are called. Most valuable skills are (1) getting away with fouling without getting caught and (2) drawing a foul without actually getting fouled.
In that order.

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

During a gold rush, sell pickaxes and maps.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era.

Almost nobody understood what he said.

Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.”

Not tech startups.

The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees.

The businesses that actually run the physical economy.

They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it.

Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.”

Software is dead.

The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever.

AI ends the contract.

The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business.

But customized by whom.

The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is.

Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?”

That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves.

Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer.

Let them fight.

Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero.

Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built.

It collects where the brain meets the business.

Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic.

Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy.

Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates.

Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue.

That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born.

You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system.

The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in.

33 million companies are standing in the dark right now.

Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

Although we only played a handful of times and despite any differences, I’m truly saddened to hear the passing of Californian Garret Anderson. As people are saying, he now plays with the angels.

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

For the first time, X has suspended my Community Notes status…:

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

@HarmeetKDhillon Split hairs not infinitives

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

It is currently the most perfect possible temperature and time of day in the desert in Las Vegas.

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

And Teacherman goes deep to right field. @Teacherman1986

[Doug Maverick @DougMaverick]

Humans falling for this shit has put my faith in society at an all time low too.

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

He's not "reading people" to pull off his stunts. He uses gimmicks. Sleight of hand, pre-show manipulation, thumb pens, etc.