Nick Harris

AI-native operator, shipping daily | Founder at Automatic

[Nick Harris @NickD2C]

Here are the leadership philosophies, and my ethos, I build teams around. This grouping has succeeded since 2004 in creating high-performing teams with minimal attrition. In no particular order:

#leadership

[Nick Harris @NickD2C]

@BloombergLive @Verizon @Dan_Schulman dude...

[Nick Harris @NickD2C]

Models are not close.

As a business strategy, this alarm is smart. They are currently ahead, and scaring everyone into a pause keeps them ahead.

That's all this is. They have the lead, and they want to keep it.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Anthropic has urged for a global pause in AI development as artificial-intelligence models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention, per WSJ

[Nick Harris @NickD2C]

@unusual_whales Models are not close.

As a business strategy, this alarm is smart. They are currently ahead, and scaring everyone into a pause keeps them ahead.

That's all this is. They have the lead, and they want to keep it.

[Chris Scullion @scully1888]

I have all the love in the world for @edzitron, if you aren't subscribed to his newsletter at https://t.co/YEM1RwWmAP you should really remedy this.

[🏴‍☠️Maddox🏴‍☠️ @realmaddox]

This is an insane story. The DOGE whistleblower who said that login attempts were made to the NLRB from Russian IP addresses minutes after DOGE got access had his brake lines cut and photos of him walking his dog from a drone taped to his door after Musk attacked him on Twitter

[Dave Collum @DavidBCollum]

This is the most sober and sobering analysis of AI investing that I have seen. The cannibalizing the passive flows in idices has been buzzing in my head for weeks now...

https://t.co/DNHnWSUUsr

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Needed to pull out an important part of the interview.

AI is often justified by comparing it to Amazon Web Services' ($57bn) or Uber's ($32bn) losses, when its costs/losses are hundreds of billions of dollars worse.

There'll also be little useful infrastructure left behind.

[Nick Harris @NickD2C]

@DarioCpx Brilliant.

I might be your new biggest fan, @edzitron!

[Nick Harris @NickD2C]

@RobertFreundLaw I believe they’re handling it well.

[ｔｈｅ ｍｉｄｎｉｇｈｔ @TheMidnightLA]

Merch from the recent North America tour is now available in our webstore! Get it while it lasts: https://t.co/T6tSoNnlaL

[Variety @Variety]

CBS will stand down and stop any further action on takedowns of Stephen Colbert's public access show.
https://t.co/1109nMx7rH

[ｔｈｅ ｍｉｄｎｉｇｈｔ @TheMidnightLA]

That’s a wrap! Our first North American leg of Time Machines is over. Big thanks to our friends @NCMusic420 for joining us every night. And thank you to everyone who came out to a show - you are the reason our music continues.

Photo 1 by Scott Teresi; 2-4 by James Grossi

[Nick Harris @NickD2C]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.

[The Smart Ape 🔥 @the_smart_ape]

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[The Smart Ape 🔥 @the_smart_ape]

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[Nick Harris @NickD2C]

@TheMidnightLA

[ｔｈｅ ｍｉｄｎｉｇｈｔ @TheMidnightLA]

SYNDICATE (DELUXE). OUT NOW. https://t.co/JIatqZ0DlX

Tracklist:
1. Love Is an Ocean (Chromeo Remix)
2. Runaways (Driver405 Remix)
3. Last Night in Paris (feat. Carpenter Brut)
4. Infinite (Demo)
5. Against The Dark (Demo)
6. ‘Til The Stars Come Out (Demo)

[Nick Harris @NickD2C]

Departments exist to manage risk. P&Ls exist to take calculated risk. If your departments are blocking P&Ls from moving, you've built a compliance machine not a business.

[Nick Harris @NickD2C]

CRO on a $200k daily spend brand is brutal. A 0.5% lift is $1k more per day. That's $30k monthly. Most optimization work isn't worth the complexity at that scale.

[Nick Harris @NickD2C]

At 18 to 26 people the hardest conversation is admitting your founding team can't run the next chapter. Not because they're bad. Because scaling requires different skills.

[Nick Harris @NickD2C]

First hire mistake: VP of Sales at 8 people. He built a sales org. Took 3 months to realize you don't have enough customers to sell to. You needed operations, not revenue.