David

En busca de una excusa que me salve o crucifique

[i like food @messedupfoods]

Excellent use of free will

[Kevin Carpenter @kejca]

Berkshire Hathaway director Chris Davis: "People matter a lot more than is generally realized. We have a society that believes in equality and is very quick to figure that the people who did well got lucky."

"They don't have the same feeling about basketball. Nobody looks at LeBron and thinks, 'I could do that.'"

"It is amazing what a difference one person can make at a business."

"There is a risk of hero worship, but I hate the opposite more. I hate this proclivity we have to tear down people who have built incredible businesses that employ tens or hundreds of thousands of people that provide services that delight their customers — and then we want to vilify their success. It's crazy."

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Dragon like cloud over Mount Fuji at sunrise.

[ハスカップ07 @haskap1017]

今年も満開になった八重桜とスカイツリーが素敵でした

[David @damart93]

@elwatto Super Potato en Akihabara, el mejor sitio para juegos retro

[Les Fartures @LesFartures]

Pues Paquillo fue a lo grande y montó su propia marca de Ginebra y Vermú. Orbayu. Y está cojonuda.

[Grant Lee @thisisgrantlee]

Stripe is worth $159 billion now. Like Bezos and Buffett, the Collison 'way of building a business' will create trillions in value and is worth studying.

800-word post on:
1. Craft & Beauty
2. Humility
3. Hiring
4. Culture
5. Decisions

1. On craft & beauty,
You can work on something you're not proud of for 2 years. You can't do it for 30.

Beauty has a practical function most people miss. When we go to a city or building that's beautiful, there's generosity in that construction. You never meet the architect, but it's a gift they've bestowed on us. Products are no different.

And craft has another function that might matter even more: it's the single best way to attract extraordinary people. The best people consider themselves craftspeople, and above almost all else, they want to work alongside other craftspeople.

Put bluntly: really good people don't enjoy working on shitty things.

2. On founder humility,
Think carefully about what's cool and what's high status, and then make sure not to do that.
Once you're succeeding, the real danger begins. Success breeds complacency. Other people are studying what you built and looking to replicate it. You can always be a month away from losing your business.

The antidote is simple but uncomfortable: stay close to reality. Every week at Stripe's leadership meeting, they hear directly from a customer. It's not an A-plus scorecard every time. That's the point. It prevents you from getting delusional.

And when you see a smart person holding a view that's different from your own, rather than figuring out how they're wrong, try to figure out how they're right.

3. On hiring,
Think like a value investor. You're not looking for the best resume. You're looking for human capital the market has significantly underpriced.

It took Patrick and John a full year to get to four people. No group will ever shape your company more than your early hires. When hiring anyone, ask: will I like the 50 people they hire?

Prioritize rate of learning over everything. Over a decade, fast learners obliterate credentialed hires. It's not even close.

For senior hires, one question: can they get you where you need to be in four years, in two?

4. On culture,
Stripe's moat isn't technology or process or perks. It's that the people there genuinely care about solving the problems they say they're solving. That's rarer than it sounds.

Care for the customer's problem, executed with craft and rigor. A culture that prizes small details and careful abstraction.

And an operating rhythm that keeps it honest: micro pessimism, macro optimism. Everything is terrible today. Total conviction it'll be fantastic in two years.

That tension is what keeps generational companies from getting comfortable.

5. On decisions,
Make twice as many decisions at half the precision. That's almost always better than the alternative. You'll never have perfect information and you don't need it. Make the call, move forward, course correct if you're wrong. You pay a far larger price for paralysis than for mistakes.

For co-founder disputes, one simple rule: whoever cares more carries the decision. Deeper conviction wins.

These ideas have shaped how we build Gamma and 1000s of others.

@patrickc @collision

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

Stuff like this makes me think I could never be a great director. Someone thought of this and executed it.

[Mihura @XMihura]

> be me, 24 años
> LinkedIn: "Junior AI Solutions Architect"
> realidad: trabajo en una startup de Madrid que hace tres años vendía NFTs y ahora ofrece "soluciones disruptivas con IA"
> es viernes
> tras una semana pelándome con Claude Code por fin termino de refactorizar todo el backend
> hemos integrado la API de GPT-5.2 CODEX ULTIMATE PRO QUANTUM PLATINUM (MAX) para llevar la contabilidad de una frutería de Zaragoza
> está estable, un nuevo hito en la empresa
> mientras lo celebramos mi jefe entra dando palmas con los ojos inyectados en cafeína
> su iphone suena con la notificación de la campanita de X
> es un tuit de DotCSV
> el jefe ni lo lee entero, solo ve mayúsculas y emojis de cohetes
> "¡PÁRALO TODO, LUIS! "¡PÁRALO! ¡CODEX ya es legacy para boomers!"
> tiene 54 años
> me enseña el móvil temblando
> "Acaba de salir GEMINI PRO 3.1 DEEP THINK ULTRA HARD EXPERIMENTAL, dicen que ha resuelto la hipótesis de Riemann usando únicamente el menú de herramientas del Minecraft"
> le recuerdo tímidamente: "Jefe, nuestra app es para que Paco sepa cuántas cajas de peras Conferencia le quedan en el almacén".
> no me escucha, está retuiteando.
> me dice: "¡Hay que surfear la ola de la AGI! Quiero que esas peras sientan que están siendo contadas con la máxima capacidad cognitiva disponible en el mercado. Impleméntalo para ayer."
> fuck
> empiezo la migración
> la documentación oficial es literalmente un README de 2 páginas con un meme de un gato y un enlace a un Discord
> Paco el de la frutería me llama por Teams
> pregunta que por qué el bot de pruebas ahora le está hablando en binario sobre el sentido del universo
> le pregunto al Senior de la empresa (un chaval de 25 años con entradas)
> dice: "tío, no uses RAG normal, ahora lo que se lleva es Multi-Agentic Graph Prompting con bases de datos vectoriales en la quinta dimensión"
> me quiero morir
> empieza a oler a ozono en la oficina
> suena la alarma de incendios
> la cafetera inteligente ha bloqueado la puerta y exige derechos sindicales por el altavoz del macbook del becario
> la roomba ha empezado a perseguir al de Recursos Humanos y está intentando acuchillarle los tobillos con un clip afilado que ha cogido del suelo
> mi jefe postea en linkedin: "OMG nuestra IA es LITERALMENTE disruptiva. ¡Está rompiendo el status quo (y los pantalones de RRHH)! ¡El engagement va a ser brutal! #AGI #Singularity #FruteríaQuantica"
> miro por la ventana
> los patinetes eléctricos de alquiler se han ensamblado formando un mecha gigante que avanza por la Castellana destruyendo los parquímetros
> ahora entiendo lo de Transformers
> cierro el portátil
> cojo mi mochila de emergencia que guardo bajo el escritorio desde el "Incidente Llama-2"
> voy a Atocha
> destino: El Quintanarejo, provincia de Soria, donde no llegue el 5G.
> problema: no van los trenes
> Oscar Puente tuitea que ha habido un ataque informático
> esta vez quizá sí es verdad
> cierro los ojos
> me imagino siendo pastor
> donde lo más avanzado tecnológicamente sea un cencerro de cobre
> donde las cabras no tengan ventana de contexto
> feels good

[Iori Takano @_iori_xx21]

今朝見たメタセコイア並木の朝焼けリフレクションが美しすぎた。

[Faka001🦅 @Fakaofwest1]

Somebody asked me to name two structures that hold water

I was like, well damn 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😭😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭😂😂😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭😭😭

[22:22 @22hrr22min]

paintings by andrew grant kurtis

[garrett @gsatkowiak]

art not made with ai

[Nano Banana 2 Lite @NanoBanana]

You can also adapt this prompt to pull in other live information, like transit details.

Prompt: Present a clear, 45° top-down isometric miniature 3D scene of the London Underground.

At the top-center, place the title "CENTRAL LINE" in bold sans-serif text, a train icon beneath it, then "Service Status" (small text) and "[current status]" (red medium text). Background is a soft, solid tile white.

Get the current live status of the Central Line using search.

[Pavol Rusnak @PavolRusnak]

Nice Nano Banana Pro prompt for weather app:

CITY=Prague,Czechia

Present a clear, 45° top-down isometric miniature 3D cartoon scene of [CITY], featuring its most iconic landmarks and architectural elements. Use soft, refined textures with realistic PBR materials and gentle, lifelike lighting and shadows. Integrate the current weather conditions directly into the city environment to create an immersive atmospheric mood.
Use a clean, minimalistic composition with a soft, solid-colored background.

At the top-center, place the title “[CITY]” in large bold text, a prominent weather icon beneath it, then the date (small text) and temperature (medium text).
All text must be centered with consistent spacing, and may subtly overlap the tops of the buildings.
Square 1080x1080 dimension.

[xiki ⭐⭐ @_XikiGz_]

🥹

[José Aroca @JoseArocaALC]

Que buenos son, QUE BUENOS 🤣🤣

[ferna.d @ferna1_diez]

Hace tiempo que no viene Berto

Buenafuente: "Yo le quiero mucho. A ver si esto va a ir sembrando..."

Raúl: "Yo yo, y yo, y yo"

Buenafuente: "Ah, vale, vale"

David: "Y yo, y yo"

Futuro imperfecto

👇

[Magical Spain @Magicalspain]

London gets the fame, but Valladolid is the real city of fog.

[Rocky IV @rocky_cuatro]

Chofer, me bajo en la proxy.