Nick P.

Building future work platforms, and learning what works as I go.

Future of work, dogs, and boats.

Goal: Meet 5 new people each week.

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@arrowdotai @a16z gonna need people in that chain at some point ;-). Good times ahead!

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@ksw_arman Our blog is current and full but the newsletter says fname in it because we keep regenerating it after it passes qa.

6 of one 1/2 dozen…

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AI deliverables: slot machine. Some good, some bad.

Imagine a team of people in your pipeline for pennies, injecting taste and oversight to your agent flow.

Working on making this real. Future constraint is not compute, it's human input.

The only resource that doesn't scale.

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This is a leading indicator of human wage growth. 2-3 year trailing tail average human wages will follow this exact pattern. Unlimited productivity will require an unquenchable need for human taste / judgement input to map productivity to markets.

Infinite earnings incoming.

College grads in 2030 will out earn the top 1% median wage in today's economy.

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The biggest real lift for AI is dramatically reducing the need for startup cap. You can get market proof points for $50-$100 that cost $1m 5 years ago.

It's a founder's dream.

I think what most are struggling with now is how hard it is to respond to the data. Also why 90% fail.

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@distributedkv True for sure.

The hardest part (at least IMHO) to figure out is grinding does not = struggle. Grind = persistent, constant.

It is hard to learn to be consistent, but once you do it's automatic. And consistently caring about something you love is addictive.

Anyone can do it.

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I think it's more than entitlement. I think next gen has more visibility than any before it, and understands upward mobility is no longer real.

The appeal of foundereship / freedom = failure & success on your own terms.

90% of tv ads being revolving forms of debt products is proof the system's hit it's cap.

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Me + Codex + /Goal.

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@yuntiandeng This is fantastic!

Just two things to flag, so i don't leave these outstanding...

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Gotta create some more human pressure for this.

IMHO i think what elon's doing here is trying to create a dual lever 1) funding (x as a bank, infinite financing) 2) political leverage: uncensored speech = real signal.

SMR = 1m homes powered for 60 years. $2b. Via grid $11b. No comparison. People just need to know they're paying 5x for dirtier power.

Market always wins.

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@tferriss What does your answer usually produce?

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You need to send 100 job applications to produce the value of one random virtual coffee in today’s market.

It’s not theory anymore.

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@hsu_steve Demand meets supply.

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@thedankoe Taste will be everything. Because capacity becomes infinite, and access ubiquitous.

Gonna have some growing pains though. Our economy is built on scarcity of capacity and information access.

Time to unwind.

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@gabriel1 Problem is org size. The deeper your management stack, the more opaque the data flow is.

Choice: risk blowing up org by exposing someone vs risk the measures being wrong.

Decision is often: risk being wrong w/ a tree of partial blame if it is.

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@rubenssoto_ai Now you’re hitting the real stuff. I think that’s why masterminds are so alluring.

No one talks about the loneliness or weight of it enough. Often easier to build walls than deal with a lot of things.

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@aslambeg84 Option 3: build a brand customers will never leave.

Warren Buffet's 'loyalty' as an asset strategy is super interesting. Apple absolutely personifies it.

Although IMHO the new Macbooks are epic.

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@CaptainCKeth 8M+ apps between the App store and Play store. Most people can't name more than 50 without googling.

Distribution is the only thing.