chris muscarella

Intersections: stablecoins, emerging markets, credit, and AI. Art of being human + the art of craft.

Double Sharp, founder/ceo; Field Co, ironman / founder

[chris muscarella @cm]

@amamujee I started doing this with rambling voice notes a few years ago for the same reason and it’s also been very valuable

[chris muscarella @cm]

@signulll Nolan is singular as an artist and his command of tools is specific. I didn’t understand that fully until a friend dragged me to see Interstellar in a full imax setup.

[chris muscarella @cm]

@WillManidis in an age of fragmented attention / media... what is the actual equivalent?

[chris muscarella @cm]

Beautiful.

[Lionel Mora @lionel_mora]

Following the amazing reaction to the Marble Curriculum yesterday, we've decided to make it open source 🛰️👇

Everything a child learns in primary school. 1,590 concepts. 3,221 connections across 8 subjects, from Math and Science to Computing and Life Skills. Anchored in the US and UK curriculums, standard by standard (NGSS, Common Core, DfE).

What you will find in the repo: every concept as structured JSON with its age band and the evidence a child must show to master it. Every prerequisite link marked hard or soft, with a written rationale. It's a true DAG you can compute learning paths on. Open license, you can build whatever you want with it.

Now is a unique time in history to be building in education. Getting AI and kids education right is likely one of the hardest and most important problems to crack over the next decade and we need as many smart and creative minds behind it.

We think a common solid basis, accessible to all and that can be built upon, is critical to move fast. That's why we're making this curriculum open source.

It's not perfect but we know it's a robust basis, and we believe that sharing it openly is the fastest way to progress in this field. If you're building in education, share this around you and tell us in comments if you find this useful and if you want to contribute.

We'll keep working and investing on it @withmarbleapp. Credit goes to @guillaume_boni for building this. I just made it look pretty.

Links below 👇

[chris muscarella @cm]

@realEstateTrent Small things here can go a long way... Example: going Haidt style and no mobile phones for kids but landlines in the community means getting used to calling and not knowing who will answer / having to ask for a friend from a parent / etc.

[chris muscarella @cm]

A milestone on a long journey down—for posterity here. Temperamentally I don't really celebrate wins, the upside to that is non-fatal losses are also taken in stride. Onward.

[chris muscarella @cm]

But let us not forget: parlay time is dangerous

https://t.co/YVuztq6F1d

[chris muscarella @cm]

Proposition people. The only way you find your humans that are game for the most absurd adventures is to parlay.

[Raphaël Doan @raphaeldoan]

Le mathématicien Daniel Litt sur le problème d'Erdős récemment résolu par GPT-5.5 :

"Une autre explication est que la solution exigeait des idées venues de domaines que la plupart des chercheurs travaillant sur ce problème ne connaissaient pas. Si elles sont justes, ces explications devraient nous mettre mal à l’aise. Elles suggèrent que les incitations à la spécialisation et au cloisonnement, si compréhensibles soient-elles, nous ont privés de travaux scientifiques de grande qualité."

Le retour des polymathes à la Leibniz à travers les LLM ? Ce serait une bonne nouvelle.

[chris muscarella @cm]

@tjparker @AeroPress I’m a fan of the AeroPress product. The drops / not being able to ship on time / months delayed / bunch of infrastructure choices… are just dumb for a company that isn’t fashion and is itself “infrastructure”. Probably 30% drop in my NPS since they were acquired…

[chris muscarella @cm]

@pitdesi Sheel, that’s the real world. Brian’s on record saying to dollarize countries / future vision is everyone has a non-custodial wallet and it’s extremely high utility everywhere.

[chris muscarella @cm]

@richardchen39 KYC / AML issues. And tax issues broadly (not triggering / evasion / etc)

[Brent Beshore @BrentBeshore]

"The interviewer, @DouthatNYT, broke down crying during the conversation. And when he did, Sasse laughed. Not unkindly, but the way a man laughs when the heaviness and the lightness of something are both true at the same time and he’s decided not to pretend otherwise."

[chris muscarella @cm]

@karsenthil I would be absolutely delighted!

[Philip Rosedale @philiprosedale]

This is so beautiful. And so important to study. This phenomena (emergent coherence) is central to much of life, and most people don't even imagine it could happen.

[chris muscarella @cm]

@Hadley Same with things like chat. As a small team we're dumping WhatsApp logs into CRM / ML loops and kind of waiting for agent native things like Ando before just jumping into Slack

[chris muscarella @cm]

@Hadley One of the funny things about evaluating tools for teams these days... sometimes helpful to vibe code something over a couple of weeks just to get a better sense of what you actually want before choosing a 3rd party system... we're doing that with our CRM

[chris muscarella @cm]

@Hadley @mszepien @Benioff Also interesting that CRM as system of record (when good) is less about screen interfaces than most other SaaS applications I can think of—and you see people like @markitecht pushing that hard at Day AI

[chris muscarella @cm]

@Hadley @mszepien @Benioff The slightly less salty version of this is something like: would be willing to bet most usage / most revenue at Salesforce is tied to highly customized versions with their own UI / almost no one uses the default