The sun was free. They sold you SPF 50 and a vitamin D deficiency.
Sleep was free. They sold you an app, a pill, and a wearable that tells you your sleep was bad.
Walking was free. They sold you a treadmill, a fitness tracker, and a £180 pair of trainers.
Fasting was free. They sold you meal replacement shakes and the anxiety that skipping breakfast would wreck your metabolism.
Cold water was free. They sold you a £3,000 plunge barrel and a podcast episode about it.
Silence was free. They sold you a meditation app with a premium tier.
Animal fat was cheap. They sold you seed oils, then supplements to replace what the animal fat contained.
Tallow was cheap. They sold you a seventeen-step skincare routine and a clinical trial proving your face needs ceramides.
Meat was cheap. They are currently selling you the idea that you shouldn't eat it.
The 20th century removed access to everything the body needs to function.
The 21st century is selling it back, one subscription at a time.
Your great-grandmother had none of the products.
She had all of the things.
@atShruti Check your email. Building AI that can determine crash speed, liability and injury from photos.
Already significant traction from insurance. Backed by The LegalTech Fund.
My prior startup pareIT got acquired
Still helping to consult
Wanted to modernize
Enter @Replit
Engineer estimated 2 months of work
It was done in 2.5 hours
@amasad is a wizard 🧙
@vkhosla Only @BillAckman could turn a message about standing for principles into a masterclass in negativity.
The man deserves an honorary PhD in spinning the narrative. Congrats to you 🎓
I testified in an assault case of a little boy.
One kid beat up another.
When asked why, the boy said:
“That’s what I see on the politics shows my parents watch.”
We can’t fix bullying until we fix the examples we set.
@lovedropx The half million people who liked this need to realize that AI allows every book to be at your fingertips at all times.
So this makes no sense.
Growing up in Silicon Valley, I believed tech was meant to democratize opportunity and accelerate human progress. The early ethos of the Valley wasn’t just about building profitable products, but about shifting the trajectory of lives and societies. There was idealism, for sure, but also a serious belief that technical breakthroughs should serve human success.
But somewhere along the way, parts of the industry traded vision for vanity. As capital flooded into tech, incentives shifted. Virality began to outpace value. The goalposts moved from solving hard, important problems to maximizing engagement, retention, and monetization.
Today some of the brightest minds are pulled towards optimizing ad clicks and frictionless dopamine loops. Why? (Insert disclaimer: The issue isn’t the people).
Innovation isn’t dead. (Insert disclaimer again: Many technologists are building remarkable human-centered tools.) It’s worth asking again and again: What is worth building? And who is it truly for?
I’ve been retained as an expert on 1,000+ cases
You’d be shocked how often a case is called “great” — not because of the evidence,
But because the plaintiff is pretty,
Or the jury fits a certain ethnicity
Justice shouldn’t hinge on a beauty contest
It should hinge on truth
Replit CEO @amasad: domain experts (lawyers, doctors, engineers) will monetize their expertise by bestowing agents with personal knowledge.
@kinic_app AI memory supports this by enabling personal expertise to be saved persistently and used across models and agents.