Avy Faingezicht

Once, I told a librarian that she'd be out of a job because all books would soon be on the internet. I was 8. San Francisco via Chicago via Costa Rica.

[Avy Faingezicht @avyfain]

Just posted my annual reading recap.

Traveling from SF to Mexico City, Vienna, Budapest, and South Africa, I circled one theme: ideas rewrite the world.

Standouts: Zweig on collapse, MacKenzie on financial models that shape markets.

Link to the blog below. What did you read?

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@rezendi What a great visual.

Quite aligned with my hypothesis around AI in personal finance: bots will help people clarify what they want to do with their lives, and change how they spend/save/invest based on what AI tells them.

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https://t.co/ezLT5l59G0

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An interesting side effect of working with AI agents for personal projects is they force you into professional workflows, even for solo and throwaway projects.

New blog post - link below

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@MattBruenig I’m really looking forward to trying to reproduce this one from @ernietedeschi when the new microdata dump comes out https://t.co/UhIwo9t5zA

[Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi]

Gen Z is still young, but they typically have higher inflation-adjusted net wealth (assets minus debt, including student debt) than prior generations did at their age.

Millennials, who were behind for a time due to the timing of the Great Recession, are now ahead of Boomers. /1

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@Asterion9 Tomó un par de añitos, pero llegué! Terminé leyéndolo en inglés. Me gustó. 🙏 https://t.co/Oo93Rt8lrF

[Avy Faingezicht @avyfain]

@Asterion9 Lulu tiene buena pinta! Solenoide creo que está demasiado grande para empezar por ahí…. Voy a buscarlo acá. Lo leería en español, más que todo por ser un poco más cercano al Rumano, me imagino que una mejor traducción.

Gracias por la recomendación!

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@TheAnnaGat @tomcritchlow @krishnanrohit Gotta read Solenoid https://t.co/eRfjvqEEbV

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I still read books, sometimes. https://t.co/eRfjvqEEbV

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@Noahpinion This episode of @Radiolab is worth a listen https://t.co/wDIYPvxqY2

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@kevinsimler I like that frame. This was my response, not just to the thread but more a commentary of the general vibe in SF right now https://t.co/qiS3gAZ0cT

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@can I hate the English language, where every C in Pacific Ocean has a different sound.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Bragging about how much software you’re shipping with AI is like holding down the shutter button and bragging about how many photos you took.

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Thanks @roybahat and @jamescham for hosting and fostering deep conversations!

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The fine folks at @BloombergBeta hosted @tab_delete and @add_hawk back-to-back last week, which felt like a maliciously targeted diagnosis of San Francisco's new ambition-induced AI psychosis.

New blog post: https://t.co/qiS3gAZy2r

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@HodgesSam @vouch_group @The_HedgeFund What a run! Congrats, both.

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@MikeIsaac @nicotstewart gotta get this man on Linecook

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@TheAnnaGat @visakanv Is 2026-27 the “moved to SF” era? If not, why not?

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@TheAnnaGat @feeonline @interintellect_ @krishnanrohit @typewriters @elidourado Aw man I need to pay so much more attention to @interintellect_ events! This sounds lovely.

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@pitdesi Excited to try this! Will Sam open an OpenAI RIA, though? Or will FINRA have to shut them down for giving advice to their pro users?

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@StephenPiment Means a lot coming from you!

As I was writing this, I thought back to a very good conversation we had at the Matilda 3 Caffe Macs about Coase and organizational structure. Probably a decade ago. We're due for a catch-up!

[Avy Faingezicht @avyfain]

@dskott Time flies! You put your email in there a few years back, and, well... here we are!

Safari shooting is a different beast. I'm always gonna be partial to architecture/street shots. Your photos are as awesome as they always were 🙂