Stu Rogers 💡

Co-founder and CEO, Spread

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

Crazy how many people are reading this article.

https://t.co/UFiOmBpJc1

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

sun valley profile in vanity fair 1994

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

📚🤯

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[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

@s8mb Oh the good old days of actual cheating.

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[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

We are all Brian Chesky now.

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[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

Every consumer founder's account creation dream. So many Elons in Nigeria though.

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

@martin_casado Gaddis The Recognitions. Authenticity and identity change as we age (not to mention art forgery as metaphor is a bit timely in our current age...).

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

Most of Silicon Valley Substack and every Cannes Lions 2026 hot take said better here:

https://t.co/uHPJs2umbv

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

Adding to the canon of SF vs. NY tech scene blather:

The biggest tell LLMs have a Californian soul is that errors are called hallucinations. ☮️

If AI had a New York soul, they’d just be called f*ck ups. 🗽

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

We are looking for journalists and other writers to write reported features for Works in Progress.

There are a lot of important stories in the world that we’d like to cover that don't work as our typical essays, because they require on-the-ground information and insights that only a reporter can uncover. Things like:

• Why has crime dropped so much in Washington, DC?
• What is really happening in Milei’s Argentina? What about Bukele's El Salvador?
• Why don't ASML and TSMC raise their prices?

The type of person we are looking for will have already published features like these at a major publication. The work will be on a freelance basis (although we may offer salaried staff writer positions in the future) and pay will be competitive with major publications.

If you’re the right person to do this, please send a hundred words on yourself and a story you'd like to cover, as well as examples of previous work, to [email protected]

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

@FiSurgi I couldn’t put it down. Prove you’re not a bot to access the full piece here: https://t.co/lmru1h3u2x

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If you haven’t read this yet…prove you’re not a bot to access here: https://t.co/aoqxc2gYLX

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

@pmarca Reading the headline only, truly a master class in shit posting.

[Andy Hall @ahall_research]

The popular conversation around AI in America looks nothing like the narratives the elites are driving.

For our new research, we analyzed 25,000 TikTok and YouTube videos about AI---and watched thousands of them ourselves---to understand how Americans are encountering AI in their everyday lives.

Despite an elite conversation focused largely on backlash, AI videos embracing AI outnumber videos about resisting AI 3 to 1.

These "adopter" videos don't focus on the things elites talk about: they talk about funny memes and effects AI can help make and ways you can use AI to help you with your job search.

There is a significant and organized social media community focused on resisting AI, but surprisingly, it's not mainly about job loss, data centers, or existential risk. Instead, it's about creative theft and the erosion of human-made art. This has all the hallmarks of a genuine movement---with organized efforts to support human artists, to report AI-generated content, and to oppose the technology in the real world.

All in all, when we look past the efforts of the labs and the media to impose a top-down narrative around job loss and existential risk, we find everyday Americans having a far different and in many ways more "normal" conversation (@random_walker)---one in which AI offers immediate and personal opportunities and challenges all at the same time.

Check out the full research piece, which is loaded with interesting real example videos, here:

https://t.co/AbFTqM4g7e

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

@ashleevance @TheAnnaGat @SpaceX @elonmusk Reading the book is a Core Memory of mine…even if I’m stuck on Earth unable to ride this IPO to the moon.

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

Is it more impressive @HunterBiden is famous on X or in The Atlantic? Right answers only.

Prove you’re human to access:

https://t.co/jKZ0mQuuAE

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

Everybody knows Anthropic Comms is good before a next fundraise..but getting the Pope involved for the Series H is next level.

[Naval @naval]

The human brain isn’t designed to process all of the world’s breaking emergencies in realtime.

[Stu Rogers 💡 @StuartRogers]

@chrisbest @pmarca I think he means it in the musical sense, as in ‘slow’ times? There is no tech innovation and things are moving slower than ever.

Which is silly and I disagree.