Tre Smith ✨✨✨

I build relationships 🤝 , not just music or art 🖼️ Creative Business owner / music producer / audio engineer / open format DJ / graphic designer. since 2009.

[Tre Smith ✨✨✨ @TreSmithers]

Over. I’m grabbing all of them.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Fidelity lowers the minimum account requirement for the SpaceX IPO from as high as $500,000 to just $2,000.

[Tre Smith ✨✨✨ @TreSmithers]

Getting fella hours in learning agents and Claude code and everything for the music business to benefit.

Been almost a whole year with MCP protocol already.

To have been self taught in HTML (CSS) / JS / AI and music + design?

????? It over maneeee. Lots of exciting stuff.

[Tre Smith ✨✨✨ @TreSmithers]

ai can be great, depending who the person is that’s using it and how someone uses it.

[Mel ⚡️ @melTechFlow]

Getting a high paying skill, living below your means, investing the money, and moving somewhere cheaper and warmer outside the US has always been the golden plan for me.

[Men of Purpose @Men_Of_Purpose]

“Always keep going. The storm eventually ends.”

— Kobe Bryant

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

Rich Paul:

“I got guys, 22, making $200M over the next 4 or 5 years. I'm constantly telling them that's not a lot of money based upon where you're starting, because you're starting from zero… Not to mention jeans today, the ones they want that they're buying in excess, which they probably don't really need, cost $2,000… No athlete can afford to fly private all the time, yet we see so many athletes on Instagram flying private. I fly Delta.”

(via @EarnYourLeisure, h/t @cptdankkk)

[Lizemmy @LizemmyPOP]

A hit song creates:

Streaming income
Publishing income
YouTube income
Performance royalties
Neighbouring rights
Touring
Endorsements
Licensing
Merch
Festival bookings

The song is the spark.

The ecosystem is the fire.

[2Cool2Blog @2Cool2Blog]

The founder of Mitchell & Ness speaks on supplying Supreme with jerseys & patches before they became a Billion Dollar Business via @peaks100_

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Marc Andreessen explains how AI turned the valley's best programmers into sleep-deprived "vampires":

Marc points out a counterintuitive twist in what AI coding has done to developers.

You'd expect one of two outcomes, he says.

Either coders would leave the profession entirely "because there's no point anymore," or they'd simply have better lives, working a fraction of the hours now that AI makes them so productive.

Neither happened. As Marc puts it:

"What's actually happened is virtually to a person, they're all working more hours than ever. To the point where there is a new term of art that's used in the valley called the AI vampire...You're up all night doing AI coding because you are so productive."

The reason they can't switch off is opportunity cost:

"If you go to sleep, you won't be with your 20 AI coding agents keeping them working on all the projects that you have them working on. And so people stop sleeping."

Marc describes friends, some of them famous, who look visibly worse than they did six months ago. Sleep-deprived, bags under their eyes, clearly not taking care of themselves.

And yet "they are absolutely ecstatic because they are able to produce five times, 10 times, 20 times more code per hour than they could in the past."

He shares one example, a Wall Street friend with a 35-year-old computer science degree from MIT who had long stopped coding:

"He's picked up coding with AI. He's completely reanimated his entire house."

AI jukebox, security cameras, robot pet dogs, smart fridges, every project he'd ever imagined.

In his spare time, the friend has "generated 500,000 lines of code just by working with AI."

The same thing is playing out inside companies. At leading-edge tech firms, Marc says, coders using AI are estimated to be "20 times more productive than they were before they started using AI."

So what happens when code becomes that cheap to produce?

@pmarca points to an elasticity effect:

"It turns out there's way more demand for code in the world than was ever able to be satisfied under the old economics. Every company I know has a thousand things that they've wanted to have code for that they've never been able to get to."

Now they can do all of it.

Companies are shipping products faster, adding features faster, moving into "turbo mode." Coding salaries have inflated to match.

According to Marc, the top coders in AI now make $50 million a year, because "they've got the silver bullet. They've got the philosopher's stone."

Asked whether any of this is sustainable, his answer is blunt:

"Not only is this sustainable, this is going to intensify."

[Dances @dances]

LA the legenday blog indie sleaze parties
Cinespace tuesdays (a space which space yacht actually started their first Tuesday at)
Banana Split sundays Dj AM Mike b
These are foundational edm industry things
Baby it was balls to the wall house and blog from 10pm
OPEN BAR SUNDAY

[J Michelle Michelle @jmichelle555]

“Sometimes elevation starts with identity. K Dot made great music, but Kendrick Lamar made timeless music.” ScHoolboy Q on how Kendrick fully stepping into his real name changed everything.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Steve Jobs literally gave a masterclass on how "stock options" actually work in 1983:

"If somebody came to work for your company, you could let them buy some stock. The problem is they might have to shell out $100,000. If the company went broke, they'd lose all their life savings"

"So when somebody comes to work, let's say the stock's trading at ten dollars a share, you give them the option to buy ten thousand shares at ten dollars. They have four years to exercise that option"

"If the stock goes down or stays the same, they never exercise it. They don't put up any money, they don't lose anything"

"But if it goes to a hundred dollars a share, they can borrow the money to buy it at ten because it's worth a hundred"

"In exchange, we only dole out their ability to exercise 25% a year, locking in people really for four years if the stock goes up"

"Before we went public, over 80% of Apple was owned by the employees. Right now, I'd say over 50% of Apple is owned by the employees"

"I don't think finance is what drives people at Apple. I don't think it's money. But feeling like you own a piece of the company, and this is your damn company"

"We always tell people, you work for Apple first and your boss second"

[Tre Smith ✨✨✨ @TreSmithers]

Just because someone did a project with me 10 years ago, does not mean we brothers at all.

I actually removed 85% of people bullshitting years ago. We not even associated with them.

People gotta stop trying to make a name, off my name and my work without respecting it or me.

[The Art Of Dialogue @ArtOfDialogue_]

L.A. Reid reveals his favorite album released on LaFace Records is Donell Jones album Where I Wanna Be, over other classic albums from artists like TLC, Toni Braxton, and OutKast.

(🎥 We Sound Crazy/Youtube)

[shirish @shiri_shh]

The laptop hasn't changed in 30 years. NVIDIA just changed it

RTX Spark is their first PC chip ever.

- RTX 5070 level GPU
- 128GB unified memory
- 1 petaflop of local AI
- thin, light, barely throttles unplugged

Your AI agent lives on the machine. 24/7. No cloud.

This is step one of the agentic AI PC, and everyone else is about to copy it.

[Gary Goodridge @garyhgoodridge]

Progress is progress, no matter how slow.

[flexxico @ripflexxico]

15 Years Ago Today,

Tyler, The Creator released the music video for ‘VCR’ (2010) 📀

The video omitted ‘WHEELS’ from the original Bastard track in 2009 and featured an unreleased song called ‘Lets Dance’ in the outro, according to Tyler’s YouTube description

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

YOU MUST BELIEVE YOU ARE GREAT BEFORE THERE IS EVIDENCE

[Tre Smith ✨✨✨ @TreSmithers]

ME AND WHOADIE BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND.

[Tre Smith ✨✨✨ @TreSmithers]

for my hip hop heads

produced, mixed, mastered by me.