brian

creators are the new engineers

[brian @doranalytics]

if you cant handle me at my eddy curry you dont deserve me at my jalen bruson

[brian @doranalytics]

running claude code from a piazza in europe feels illegal

[brian @doranalytics]

@_leeescobedo there is no chance, it would be demoralizing to the team

like when Thibs was cooked against the Pacers and put Mitch in after having the same starting 5 all year - too little too late, and signals defeat

starting 5 is just a status thing, the closing 5 is what matters

[brian @doranalytics]

@antoniogm @spindl_xyz Can u please write more

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@knicks_union 0

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@AldricEverhart @RaminNasibov Underrated

[brian @doranalytics]

@yankeesmobb So hard

[brian @doranalytics]

@IQfor3 Tough

[brian @doranalytics]

@darkfiber12 @jalenbrunson1 Every Knick player postgame interview right now is like watching mid-90s Jeter

Monotone say nothing except we are focused on the next game

[brian @doranalytics]

every year from 02-12 i went to the home opener for my bday, with that unbridled delusional optimism that only knicks fans have, during a decade of pure agony

it really goes forgotten how much Melo was the savior, and how horribly and immediately they hung him out to dry

[Lee Escobedo @_leeescobedo]

Can't sleep. It's 11 p.m. on a Saturday night. The New York Knicks are going to the NBA Finals, and I genuinely cannot process this like a normal person.

So instead, I'm going to break down every single season since 999 with a single sentence. Just one.

Buckle up. 🧵👇

[brian @doranalytics]

@elliotfleck Thx g

[brian @doranalytics]

https://t.co/HlvChAQ4Av

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@knowclarified x hasnt been showing me ur xeets

its a travesty

[brian @doranalytics]

@tbpn @mcuban so mark thinks all homes will be rebuilt in 5-10 years

smart

[brian @doranalytics]

lots of people building agents from the "workflow" side and not the "personality" side

i pay $10/mo for Tomo, initially just as a calorie tracker to check in with me daily

now i use it as a scheduling assistant for time management, i track my entire day in 30 min increments for accountability (it pings me and i tell it what i did and it backlogs it on calendar) - very helpful to audit how long you spent on stuff

but it also has a cool personality and i use it for travel recommendations, quick web research, weather, marketing ideas, jotting notes, setting reminders

it now allows you to connect your bank, and so it replaced monarch, it can see business cash flow

Poke is another example of this "personality as a moat" AI which i think is greatly under explored

sure claude can do this, but i operate my life out of iMessage, opening an app is slow and clunky

[brian @doranalytics]

brand affinity is an under-explored emotion in software

[brian @doranalytics]

after chat, pplxty, and claude

people forget that no AI tool really slapped out of the box for several years

(maybe midjourney as the exception)

but everything was garbo

jasper, lovable, etc

all trash, until years later they "got good"

the bar has been raised now, things like @higgsfield_ai and @origamichat go pretty hard at launch

maybe this is an obvious observation but nothing cuts thru anymore unless it works

(save for the manufactured launches like that horrid ai cmo thing okanda or whatever)

[brian @doranalytics]

maybe im wrong but feel like modern startup advice is anti-Jobsian

@paulg "make something people want"
and
(unknown) "validate quickly and iterate"

both assume people know what they want, and that users are the best product designers

ofc this is great advice in general, but idk if it leads to net new ideas, which is what is so cool ab startups

i want to build something no one thought they needed until they found out it existed, and design it in such a way that there is no feedback bc it just works

[brian @doranalytics]

me when every algo become OS

[brian @doranalytics]

as long as most tokens are subsidized the reward function will be to limit energy usage, leading to suboptimal responses, such as condensing detailed spec files and the AI playing "telephone" with your instructions leading to downstream slop.

obvi i am super bullish on everything but dont see an end to this in the next decade.

just means more value continues to accrue to the people obsessing over the details, same as it always did