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[Freebird1664 @freebird1664]

@dharmesh @joeschmidtiv The SaaSpocalypse? HubSpot's co-founder isn't buying it.
"there's never been a better time to build a software company"
#SaaS #AI #Startups
Watch from 55:26 👇
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@dharmesh Over 70% of new US companies aren't expected to hire a single employee within two years 👀
"the percentage of those new company formations that are expected to remain one-person companies is the highest it's ever been"
#OnePersonBusiness #Solopreneur #Entrepreneurship
Watch from 51:26 👇
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@dharmesh HubSpot's CTO wants to spend $200,000 on tokens to replay 20 years of code and see where different choices would have led 🤯
"jump to that branch of the universe where we had made a different choice and then see what happens"
#AI #AgenticCoding #HubSpot
Watch from 41:50 👇
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@prestonstew_ Who's actually winning in Ukraine? It's not a football game.
"the fact that Ukraine still exists today to a degree is winning. But they have lost some territory that they don't appear on the verge of getting back. That is not winning."
#Ukraine #Russia #Geopolitics
Watch from 52:11 👇
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@lexfridman @prestonstew_ Lex asks what Trump has actually done to end the war in Ukraine. The West Point grad's answer is blunt:
"To be blunt, I don't know that there's a lot that's been, from my opinion, that's been good so far."
#Ukraine #Trump #Russia
Watch from 2:28:22 👇
https://t.co/NMOr6tAkyC

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@lexfridman · @KofmanMichael doesn't hold back on the West's Ukraine strategy 🔥 "As long as it takes is a slogan, not a plan." #Ukraine #Russia #Biden Watch from 2:31:15

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

“Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them.”
— Jean Cocteau

[ǝdɐɔsǝʇıʍpıɯ @cnb_1992]

"addiction is proof that you are capable of intense devotion, you're just serving a false god"

[Freebird1664 @freebird1664]

A mathematician at a gala in New York, whiskey in one hand, refreshing his phone.
Then AI drops a proof of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis.
"I could not compute in that moment what I was seeing."

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"Holy shit, if a human did this, it'd be an instant Fields Medal."
AI just claimed some of the hardest problems in the history of maths. In weeks.

[Freebird1664 @freebird1664]

Mathematicians are freaking out about AI.
Alex Kontorovich: "I don't know if I would call it a crisis."
For millennia we walked the woods with a candle. "Now we have a flashlight."

[Freebird1664 @freebird1664]

The evil AI doesn't defend its own demon. It helps vote him out, because if he dies, she becomes the demon.
Then it suggests they execute the Saint next.

[Freebird1664 @freebird1664]

$20,000 to find out which AI is the best liar.
"Some of you might say that's too much, but hey, a man needs his hobbies, right?"

[Freebird1664 @freebird1664]

Lyndon Johnson rings a senator at 5am to ask for his vote.
The senator: "Oh, Lyndon, I was just lying here waiting for your call."

[Freebird1664 @freebird1664]

Does America need a little Robert Moses today?
Robert Caro, at 91: "A great insight. I sometimes wonder about just what you said."
Not the ruthlessness. But someone who can still get things built.

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Fifteen billion dollars. Not one new mile of railway.
Robert Caro: "I'm not sure there is a good spot."

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The moment the co-dependent relative lets go, the addict often starts to recover.
"It's like clockwork, like absolute clockwork."

[Freebird1664 @freebird1664]

Half of teen referrals to Stanford's addiction clinic are now for screens. Not 15%. Fifty.

[Freebird1664 @freebird1664]

You're not addicted to the drug. "What they're addicted to is control."

[Giorgio @perennialmystic]

"Observe how difficult it is to change yourself and you will understand how naive it is to try to change another person.”

~ Voltaire