Thomas Marban

Invented your parents’ favorite news aggregator, the first Android Twitter app, and many more failures. Current: ✕ @mcuban

[Thomas Marban @thomas]

Google and Microsoft are committed to making their product names harder to understand than the products themselves.

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As long as decentralized social requires a full-time job just to understand the protocol, proprietary platforms will keep winning. Complexity is not a feature when the goal is mass adoption, and AT/Bluesky still feels more like infrastructure discourse than an appealing consumer product.

[Thomas Marban @thomas]

It's a great time to be a securities lawyer.

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[Thomas Marban @thomas]

The Ferrari Luce looks like someone designed the app first, then Jony Ive panic-wrapped a car around it.

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The Dead Internet Theory is now part of the official product roadmap.

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[Thomas Marban @thomas]

Be the slop, don’t just consume it.

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[Thomas Marban @thomas]

Easter cleaning unearthed a sealed copy of Netscape v1.2 from 1995.
Peak YesterWeb. @pmarca

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The tech industry is the most self appraising seller of hope and still manages to believe its own pitch more than anyone else.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Claire Vo's first day with @OpenClaw it deleted her family calendar.

Now she runs 9 agents across 3 Mac Minis, and said "I haven't felt like this since I was a teenager learning to code."

Her sales agent Sam does a daily CRM sweep, identifies decision-makers from new signups, and sends personalized outreach—replacing a part-time salesperson she was paying 10 hours a week.

Her home agent Finn pings her and her husband every day at 3pm: "Which of you is picking up which kids?" Then flags when the oldest's basketball conflicts with the middle kid's soccer and asks how they want to split duties.

She also has agents for podcast prep, kids' homework help, and course project management.

Claire (host of How I AI, founder of @ChatPRD) started as one of OpenClaw's most vocal skeptics. She now calls it "a ChatGPT moment."

In our in-depth conversation, she breaks down:
🔸 Her exact setup: Mac Mini, separate Gmail, dedicated local account
🔸 The progressive trust model: first calendar access, then read email, then draft, then send — just like onboarding an EA
🔸 Why one agent is a mistake—and why she thinks about it like Slack channels, not a single assistant
🔸 How to use Claude Code as a "brain surgeon" to fix and manage your OpenClaw when things break
🔸 "The yappers API" — why rambling into a voice note is the highest-bandwidth way to set up your agent
🔸 Why management skills matter more than technical skills for making this actually work

Listen now 👇
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[Thomas Marban @thomas]

Steve McQueen made Persols iconic.
You made Meta Ray-Bans a walking lawsuit.
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[Thomas Marban @thomas]

Making misinformation tradable ™ @Polymarket

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The dystopian way to career growth

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Openclaw is a clunky, janky mess. Like a hackathon project that never got cleaned up, held together with spaghetti fixes and optimism.

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It's astonishing how the media has unanimously been kissing Polymarket's ass and treating it as a source of causality.

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This is for you, AI Twitter
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Strong reminder that some people really need a hobby that involves sunlight.

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LinkedIn now issuing official douchebag certifications.
https://t.co/On5GJ0C5Bf

[Thomas Marban @thomas]

So @AnthropicAI reinvented book burning, but called it responsible AI.
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[Thomas Marban @thomas]

Remember when everyone laughed at BuzzFeed and Mahalo for being dependent on social/Google? Congrats on discovering platform risk in 2026.
CC @jason
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[Thomas Marban @thomas]

This is not going to end well.
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[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

The Dogs of 2025 ❤️ please enjoy

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