Colin Johnson

Building @dreamworkhq | Ex  |

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

@DarioAmodei The risk window for rioting is the gap between 40% of jobs being subsumed and biomedical research actually providing net benefit to society.

Reducing FDA approval times by 10x would give AI a chance to redeem itself.

Great piece.

[Yan Liberman @YanLiberman]

Piers compresses the entire sector into one variable: $/kg to orbit. Each price threshold unlocks entirely new possibilities. $500/kg opens orbital compute. $200 opens manufacturing. $50 opens the Moon.

In hindsight, price per kg to orbit will be one of the defining numbers of the century. This is the clearest map of it I've read.

[Dreamwork @dreamworkhq]

Indeed just told everyone why their matches feel terrible.

Visibility now goes to whoever pays. You're not the customer. You're the traffic being sold to employers.

They don't profit when you land your dream job. They profit by pushing one million people to the same promoted job.

Dreamwork works the other way around. Best matches first, always. Zero promoted jobs. Only your best shot at success and free to use.

Link in 🧵

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

@bl0ckjames @iptsai Drop your resume in! Guarantee you’ll get a bunch of marketing matches
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https://t.co/XaZlxm3lPK

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

@patye91 @dreamworkhq Thanks :)

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

Okay here’s a fun one.

My pregnant wife got laid off by Indeed back in December.

So (out of spite), I spent a few months building @dreamworkhq on the side: a job search platform for tech workers that does the right AI stuff at the right time, and doesn’t butcher your chances.

I posted the vengeance story on Reddit and it got 90,000 views in 48 hours.

The biggest feedback was simple: people are hurting, and paid job search tools are hard to justify right now.

So I made the standard plan free.

Side project built out of spite. Now we’re going to have our team actually focus on it.

Strange times.

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

@tednotlasso @dreamworkhq Thanks! She’s an absolute dream

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

@tednotlasso @dreamworkhq The baby had arrived :) she’s 4 months!

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

@yasu0x1 @dreamworkhq The people want vengeance 😈

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

You can try it here (it’s free)

https://t.co/D4W72wQCXP

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

@ilan_wurman Hey @grok how many law professors argue the opposite?

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

@PolyEdge_bot Sounds like yes

[CG @cgtwts]

Let me explain what just happened, because I don’t think people realize how INSANE this is.

> Cortical Labs put 200,000 real human brain cells onto a silicon chip and trained them to play Doom in just one week.

> Each CL1 system costs $35,000.

> A rack of 30 units consumes only 850–1,000 watts combined.

> The human brain operates on 20 watts.

> Large AI training clusters burn through megawatts.

>Backed by In-Q-Tel.
115 units began shipping in 2025.

> Cortical Labs is selling “Wetware as a Service” through Cortical Cloud, letting developers deploy code remotely to living human neurons with no lab required,

> priced like a software subscription but powered by real brain cells grown from adult skin and blood samples.

> it isn’t about gaming, it’s about biological computing that could eventually outperform traditional silicon in energy efficiency and adaptability.

This is getting really scary and we’re still at the very beginning.

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

Claude: if we start now we can finish in 2 weeks

Claude 15 minutes later: Hey I built you @stripe

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

It's gotta be at least day 2 now, right?

[jacob @js_horne]

We've launched our major upgrade of @zora and are introducing the world's attention market.

The core iteration is going from Creators → Trends. We still use our pairing model, but instead of only allowing the creator to pair, we open it up to the entire market.

Trends are paired with $zora and can create new pairs under a trend.

Memecoins are proving to be an incredible realtime aggregator of what's happening in the world, we are putting forward this new structure to see if we can unlock trading of longer term trends and use the market to aggregate what is happening on a particular trend instead of constantly PVPing.

Other notable details:
1. Trend tickers are protocol enforced unique to provide more structure and reduce PVP at this level.

2. Trends cost 1 SOL to deploy to disincentivize spam and have 0 creator rewards.

3. Pairs do have creator rewards and creating a new one is as simple as pasting a link.

4. This is launched on our own vertically integrated dex on Solana so we can continue to iterate at speed and create the most efficient attention markets in the world.

5. The existing creators product still operates and will continue to operate.

New era unlocked and excited to keep iterating and learning.

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

@rbthreek Huh

[Base App @baseapp]

We're making the Base app the best place to trade onchain. 

Starting today, the feed will focus entirely on tradable assets. This means we're removing the Talk feed in favor of a feed of onchain activity.

As part of this shift, we're also sunsetting Creator Rewards. In the last six months, we've paid out over $450k to 17k creators. The program will wrap on Feb 15th, with final payouts on Feb 18th. We're grateful for all the creators who helped us build so far, and will be sharing new ways we'll reward the Base App community soon.

We're just getting started building the best trading experience onchain.

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

@dwr @tempo @matthuang @gakonst Amazing place to be, congrats!

[Dan Romero @dwr]

I'm thrilled to announce that I'm joining @tempo!

Stablecoins are a generational opportunity and I'm excited to work with @matthuang, @gakonst and the rest of the team to make them mainstream.

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

@elonmusk This is why you shoot for the stars - if you fail, you still land on the moon.

[Colin Johnson @colindotj]

@nikitabier Time to implement Thrust notifications