Daniel Fogg

CEO & Co-Founder building @inanimate_tech | Prev. start-ups (@buffalogrid) & scale-ups (@rootstock_io) | AI, hardware, blockchain, NRG!

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

Newsletters are awesome. I read a lot of them. @genmon writes a legendary one. Still one of the best ways to build a community. So we’ve started one @inanimate_tech called Lab Notes.

📨 Subscribe > https://t.co/NxILiQYsxM

🧪 Lab Notes is a record of our work as we build and ship Inanimate. It’s an update on what we are working on, plus what influences, informs, and inspires us.

We’re starting off with a classic format. A done list + likes and links.

Come with us, as we build a British Sony for the AI Era!

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

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[Microsoft @Microsoft]

What changes when agents become both a new unit of programming and an emerging new unit of human-to-machine interaction? The mission of Project Solara, a new software platform coupled with tailored hardware solutions, is to pioneer agent-first experiences that are shaped around you: your agents, your tasks, your environment, under your control. #MSBuild

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

Prediction: the Ferrari Luce will sell like hot cakes. Exceptional stuff.

https://t.co/ZFVd1jxCwx

[Matt Webb 🌸🌼 genmon.fyi @genmon]

wired up the accel/gyro to the Resident sandbox

10 points to whoever makes the first m5stick app that does iBeer

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

Wrapped! This was such a great experience!
@betaworks is a special place, made that way by special people. It sits at the centre of a community, which we @inanimate_tech are thrilled to be part of.

[Betaworks @betaworks]

In Oct 2025 (before OpenClaw, Hermes, Mac Mini shortage) we picked the theme for our next Camp: Agent Systems.

Over 400 companies applied. We picked eleven.

Last week was their Demo Day, and they crushed it. We're so excited to share them with you:

https://t.co/sXVZHNmywR

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

@SamuelBeek SAME! Come say hello if ever you are in London. Would love to host you.

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

Love this energy.

[sam @SamuelBeek]

after I got loads of hat for twitter, my friends at @lightspeedvp gave me this a museum of all the haters

it's now in our office and we're ready to prove everyone wrong

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

https://t.co/aHOHtb1rcW

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

hardware mullet (noun, startup slang)

A technology company that presents primarily as a software or AI business to users and investors, while relying on proprietary hardware behind the scenes to deliver defensibility, embodiment, distribution, or differentiated user experience.

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

The future isn't getting closer, it's already here.

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

Woot! You can now simulate real world places by grounding Genie 3 experiences with Street View imagery.

Google sitting on the mother lode of real world data, and is starting to put it to work!

Let's dive into some prompts & locations I tested...

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

deskfluencer. (noun, informal, internet slang)

A person who creates online content focused on desk setups, workspace aesthetics, productivity tools, office technology, and work environments, typically on social media platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram.

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

@WillManidis Ah, LiveLeak. Those were the days.

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

Banger.

[Matt Webb 🌸🌼 genmon.fyi @genmon]

gonna play the heck out of GTA 6 simply because of its status as a cultural artefact: the final big game built before LLMs

no-one will ever invest this much in a game again, no software will ever encode this quantity of hands-on human labour again. the last of the great pyramids

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

They call them crisps there, mate.

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

“…users were made aware of the possibility of human review in the its terms of service.”

Terms of service are a joke. Let’s reform them.

First page should be a summary of what matters, written in Top 10,000 most commonly used words, auto-generated by a third-party AI, so can’t be gamed.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Meta in row after workers who say they saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs https://t.co/vnNHgo2t2d

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

This, but hardware.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Software for Agents
@aaron_epstein

The next trillion users on the internet won't be people. They'll be AI agents, and they're already doing real work on top of software that was designed for humans clicking buttons.

Every major category of software needs to be rebuilt for agents as first-class citizens, and that won't come from incumbents.

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

@nickbaum @ChatGPTapp Have also tried: General, Commander, Bossman, My Liege, Dude, Mate.

Actually true. 🤣

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

Custom instruction for @ChatGPTapp: "Always start your responses to me with the word "Captain!".

[Matt Webb 🌸🌼 genmon.fyi @genmon]

no screensaver left behind

[Daniel Fogg @danielfogg]

@CharlesRollet1 @graceihle @BusinessInsider So much for the national champion strategy, I guess.