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Believe when others don’t.

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

Why technologists should pick hard problems:

"Anyone thinking, I'm going to go do a thing for money and not impact — I have bad news. There's also no money there. ... Boy, just look around, we got lots of problems to work on. Just pick a hard one and get down to it."

[Thariq @trq212]

https://t.co/hPiZr1kG7r

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

The next 250 years of the American project should be unimaginably abundant, if we can keep it.

Read Scott Nolan's vision for America's Next 250 in today's Not Boring.

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

The tech industry is always making content where the hero is tech, but humans only care about stories where the hero is human

Even the best scifi stories are centered around humans. Dune isn't about stillsuits, Star Wars isn't about droids

Right now, the hero people care about about isn't the chatbot that answers medical queries, but the desperate father takes research into his own hands to figure out his kid's illness. Many other examples

Trying to make tech the hero is forced, astro-turfed, self-congratulatory. The only heroes are human

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

@ypatil125 Great conversation @ypatil125! Human capital and token capital compounding together is the entire game. This is the positive-sum future we need to build to benefit everyone.

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

"I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy."

— Terence Tao

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

Getting people to accept and adopt the technology can be harder than building the technology

If you don’t have a strategy for winning over users and regulators, it’s as bad as not having a product strategy

“If you build it, they will come” is unfortunately fiction

[Ryan Daniels @ryanjdaniels]

https://t.co/mgvDLHvu6j

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The best predictor of success for tech companies, at every stage from during the YC batch to public company with billions in revenue, is the rate of shipping new stuff.

[Ti Morse @ti_morse]

On Saturday we finish construction on Set II

For the past three months, I've been asking myself the simple question: What would Elon do?

Elon would build the rocket and put it on the launch stand before he got approval.

He would ask: "What's the biggest bottleneck to achieving my mission?"

And then go about systematically unfucking the bottlenecks until he and his team made the impossible happen (or failed knowing they burned the 3am oil and did everything they could).

"A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle."
– EM

I live by the philosophy: Put your foot on the gas and accelerate towards the cliff believing that ground will appear beneath you.

For most people, that would be incredibly stupid. But, this is also how you make impossible things happen on maximally aggressive timelines.

To be clear: there is no guarantee this works.

But, if it does, I believe this interview will have a significant positive impact on how people see the future and their place in it. And to me that's enough reason to try.

Right now, a large swath of humanity has a meaning problem. They feel uncertain about the future and are unsure whether or not they can have a real impact on shaping it for the better.

I believe they can. I am max long humanity.

"When something is important enough, you don’t worry about fear of failure.

You just say: Fuck that. We’re going to get it done."

We're building Set II so we have a full month to make this interview happen.

If it works, awesome.

If not, I'm proud of the effort my team and I put in and we will carry this same mission and urgency into everything we do moving forward.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The Gestalt Prayer by Fritz Perls

I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful; if not, it can’t be helped.

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

SpaceX has now gone through the most scrutiny any company has ever faced, needing nothing from anyone

They built a global cult over two decades by speaking directly to the believers

No dependence on gatekeepers or need for external validation

This is narrative sovereignty

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

Agents should do the thinking, code should do the doing.

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

In November 2022, @markiewagner wrote Choose Good Quests, then she went dark to work on her own.

Today, she's launching Poetic, a new class of software that's adaptive like AI, reliable like code.

This is her first public essay since CGQ, on why & how.

https://t.co/bhpxhiKjVY

[e28 @E28th_St]

Use AI as the compiler - what a genius!

[Markie Wagner @markiewagner]

Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents.

We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination.

While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy.

So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code.

When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective.

In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four.

Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99%+ quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.

[Cristin Culver @CristinCulver]

Attention Founders, Execs & anyone who cares about reputation:

What you pay your comms execs should be commiserate to what you'd pay your GC or outside counsel. The value and importance of the work is comparable.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

LinkedIn was already slop. All that's changed is that it's now AI slop.

[a16z @a16z]

.@pmarca: "The person who writes down the thing has tremendous power."

@david_perell

[Trae Stephens @traestephens]

1/ History is the record of TOP players completing GOOD quests. This is a moral imperative.

Check out the latest @PirateWires post by @markiewagner and I and ask yourself what the world would look like if our best players all took on good quests.

https://t.co/ug7p3nY4iA

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

"An external crisis is inconvenient but an internal crisis is existential."

@lulumeservey explains why internal comms is way more important than external comms, and how to not wreck your company's mission.