There are two loops in every founder's head.
The autism loop: run your own model to the floor, ignore consensus, hold a thesis when everyone says you're wrong. That makes conviction.
The empathy loop: feel what the user feels, sense what the market wants before it has words. That makes traction.
Most people crank one and starve the other. Pure conviction builds something brilliant nobody wants. Pure empathy builds consensus mush.
PG put the whole job in four words: make something people want. The autism loop makes the something. The empathy loop knows it's wanted. The founder is the bridge.
Most great founders show up dominant in the first loop. That's why they're contrarian enough to try at all. The work is grafting on the second.
There is no place in the world that helps founders make the two loops work together to make great startups than Y Combinator. It is the most gratifying part of our work.
@garrytan - what UI are you showing when showcasing GStack on your YouTube video + on token maxxing video (TMux, Zellij) or something custom? I must know! <3 all the vids, helpful to get out of a rut for any engineer. I switch bw Codex, Claude, everything you said resonates. #FAQ
GStack is still getting better daily. Just shipped v1.47
Thanks @jayzalowitz for the PR idea
Extra useful for when I need to fix GBrain issues and need to create a precise spec about the bug directly out of the OpenClaw instance that hit the issue
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
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Beware leaders who justify murdering civilians by calling them terrorists. Just as the Trump administration does in the U.S. when confronted with resistance to their fascist, authoritarian agenda, the President of the Philippines is justifying the murder of 19 unarmed land activists, researchers, and farmers — including 2 Americans — by framing them as "terrorists."
I join the global community demanding an investigation into the murders by the Philippines troops. There must be accountability.
I made a Mac video editor that auto-zooms, cleans audio, adds captions and makes UGC videos with Images 2.0, Grok Imagine and Seedance 2.0.
I've been using this for all my latest videos.
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