Matthew Payne

潘墨修. Retired Wall Street Journal writer.

[Matthew Payne @MatthewJPayne]

@MarioNawfal For those wondering this is what it’s like raising boys.

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@AP Can you imagine if both the Pope and the Dalai Llama grew up in the Midwest.

[Matthew Payne @MatthewJPayne]

Shipping vibe coded apps

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇳🇬 Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the all-new Cyberjunk.

0-60... eventually.

Assembled during a power outage.

[Claude @claudeai]

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

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@alexathallow University of Minnesota Duluth is becoming a Catholic school.

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@sytaylor Same

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@drbarnard “We don’t see innovative uses of the printing press. Just a million copies of the Bible. It’s the Temu of communication”
- Some guy in the 1400s

[Simon Smith @_simonsmith]

OpenAI makes good models. Google makes good models. Anthropic makes good models. Competition is good. Everyone at these companies cares and works hard. We all benefit. It doesn't have to be so vitriolic and tribal.

[Matthew Payne @MatthewJPayne]

🤔- who wants to guess why we’re called StoryPros?

[Natalie Sportelli @N_Sportelli]

The hot new job at tech companies is leading "storytelling."

The term doubled on LinkedIn job posts in the U.S since last year. The WSJ writes:

"Compliance technology firm Vanta this month began hiring for a head of storytelling, offering a salary of up to $274,000."

"Productivity app Notion recently merged its communications, social media and influencer functions into one 10-person, so-called storytelling team."

"Financial technology brand Chime last month began hiring for a director of corporate editorial and storytelling—its first storyteller opening."

As a former reporter and career-long content/brand leader, I have some thoughts!

These examples point to a shift in internal marketing orgs that reflect a shrinking earned media landscape and an endless, growing number of distribution channels to share and own your narrative, i.e. "going direct."

It's not entirely editorial, or events, or PR, or marketing. It's how all these pieces work together and how they contribute to the bigger picture - your story!

I joke with my reporter friends that they are infinitely hireable if they ever left journalism. Why? Because we are trained to ask: "So what? Why should readers care? What does it mean for them?" To me, that's a big nuance in this conversation. Because...

*Storytelling is a human act and it's a service.*

Super interested to watch what happens here. Are you long/short on this role?

[Matthew Payne @MatthewJPayne]

@hawktrim Can’t DM you because you don’t follow me 😭

[Matthew Payne @MatthewJPayne]

@hawktrim I’m interested!

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@Poensgi @Replit Second this

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@MarioNawfal 2008 Democrats -> 2010 Tea Party

2024 Republicans -> 2026 Socialists

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@MarioNawfal @Tesla @elonmusk looking healthy man!

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@MarioNawfal Rattata vs Zubat finally answered.

[Matthew Payne @MatthewJPayne]

Has anyone else switched away from using GPT 5 (pro) to sonnet 4.5

[Matthew Payne @MatthewJPayne]

@mattyp @gethackteam This kind of growth hacking is like eating skittles to get full. Lots of calories - zero nutrition.

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@SunoMusic A player like Pandora that just plays music you like. I got a prompt just right in a genre I really like - kept reusing it and it was magic.

[Matthew Payne @MatthewJPayne]

@SunoMusic could be a major competitor to Spotify. Imagine an AI playlist with the exact style of music you like queued up. Like an AI Pandora

[Matthew Payne @MatthewJPayne]

@frantzfries Silicon Valley meets Entourage. @DougEllin get cracking!