Esteban

Tech and People | Ex-@0xpolygon, @opensea, @Google, and @Microsoft | Follower of Christ | views are my own

[Esteban @estebano_c]

@levelsio The only right answer is one hotel south beach

[Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️ @CoinbaseDev]

Workshop time! ⚙️

Learn how to build a fully functional onchain application using @OnchainKit—the fastest way to integrate Web3 functionality into your frontend. https://t.co/QGl3n8XPDn

[Esteban @estebano_c]

@dhh Is this 3.7?

[Esteban @estebano_c]

😴

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Steph Curry is my GOAT idc

[Esteban @estebano_c]

@levelsio @Wayfair It seems like indie hacking is still more alive than ever! I wonder what other big companies use indie hackers saas product 🤔

[Danny Postma @dannypostma]

Stop dabbling in everything and succeeding in none. Focus.

[Esteban @estebano_c]

“What is science if we do not humbly pursue the truth?”

[Martin Kulldorff @MartinKulldorff]

I am no longer a professor of medicine at @Harvard. Here is the story of my Harvard experience until I was fired for clinging to the truth.
https://t.co/zSOQlNJTY2

[Esteban @estebano_c]

@nikitabier I knew I should have bought some more jeo boden instead of BTC 🤦‍♂️

[altmain @altmaiin]

gpt 4.5 today?

[Esteban @estebano_c]

@tunguz Believe it or not, some Publix parking lots actually include all these "attractions". If you're lucky, you'll see Florida man.

[Esteban @estebano_c]

Pain.

[Miami Dolphins @MiamiDolphins]

Final.

[Cameron Winklevoss @cameron]

Today is 3,845 days in the making. Happy Bitcoin ETF Approval Day!

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

Still laughing.

[Esteban @estebano_c]

@markjenney Spend at least 3 days in Kyoto

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Step 1: Decide you might want to buy it

Step 2: Watch every YouTube video that's ever been created about it

[Esteban @estebano_c]

This is actually really good…

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Amazing text to music generations from @suno_ai_ , could easily see these taking over leaderboards.

Personal favorite: this song I fished out of their Discord a few months ago, "Return to Monkey", which has been stuck in my head since :D

[00:57]
I wanna return to monkey, I wanna be wild and free,
I wanna return to monkey, modern life is not for me.
No more emails, no more bills, no more endless strife,
Just the sound of the river, the hearbeat of life
😂

[Esteban @estebano_c]

I'm a very big fan of the @37signals team. Keep up the great work!

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

.@37signals is a very different kind of company:
→ They make tens of millions in profit each year
→ With fewer than 80 employees
→ No investors, no board
→ No growth goals
→ No experiments
→ No sales, no marketing spend
→ Teams are two max 2 people (1 eng, 1 design)
→ They prioritize gut over data
→ They prioritize profit over growth
→ They've been profitable for 24 years straight

In my conversation with @jasonfried, we explore his contrarian approach to building a company:
🔸 Prioritizing profit above all else
🔸 Why work should not feel like war
🔸 Why, and how, to foster a gut-driven culture
🔸 The “Shape Up” framework for building products
🔸 The downsides of raising VC
🔸 Advice for bootstrapping your business
🔸 A peek at Once, their new product line
🔸 Much more

[Esteban @estebano_c]

@garrytan

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

You know how image generation went from blurry 32x32 texture patches to high-resolution images that are difficult to distinguish from real in roughly a snap of a finger? The same is now happening along the time axis (extending to video) and the repercussions boggle the mind just a bit. Every human becomes a director of multi-modal dreams, like the architect in Inception.

Coming back to Earth for a second, image/video generation is a perfect match for data-hungry neural nets because data is plentiful, and the pixels of each image or video are a huge source of bits (soft constraints) on the parameters of the network. When you're training giant neural nets in supervision-rich settings, your train loss = validation loss, and life is so good.

My favorite place to keep an eye on the AI video space unfold atm is probably https://t.co/l1xRaq71C4 , or the individual Discords.