Dave Kim

Applied AI | Formerly @IDEOVC @gatesfoundation @whatifglobal. Views are my own.

[Dave Kim @iodave]

@eastdakota Oof

[Dave Kim @iodave]

@beh_zod @wwwjim @CascadiaJS That’s right!

[Dave Kim @iodave]

Having the right language to describe what you want - in animation or beyond - is critical to going from “anyone could do this” to something special.

Curious to see how long this edge will last.

[Emil Kowalski @emilkowalski]

To get good animations from an AI you need to get good at telling it what you want:

- "stagger this list of items"
- "make this animation direction-aware"
- "spacial consistency", "crossfade", "layout animation",

I made a motion vocabulary for this:
https://t.co/ExAxpr31no

[Dave Kim @iodave]

The venn diagram of people who can imagine boldly, operate excellently, and build with community might be small, but it's that much more important to find them.

Move quickly, but don't speedrun through decades of experience and ignore the hard lessons learned.

[Nan Ransohoff @nanransohoff]

New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy

Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history.

How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today?

I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it.

This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it.

(Link to full post in reply)

[Dave Kim @iodave]

@drewcoffman I really wanted a Fwb-specific list of fav restaurants, bars, stores per city

[Mike Bodge @mikebodge]

Send me a push notification when @clonefyi hits 400,000 visitors

[Dave Kim @iodave]

@mikebodge @obsessedapp Found it! USER ERROR

[Mike Bodge @mikebodge]

Once you build your internet stack on @obsessedapp it scans everything and gives you a brief of what's important. Obviously, I had to add a shader animation.

[Dave Kim @iodave]

I was shut out of Claude for a few minutes... and it was so cold.

[Dave Kim @iodave]

Inevitable. What a sneaky, dangerous word.

It closes off the possibility space and points to a specific (person’s, group’s, ideology’s) version of the future as the only one possible.

[Dave Kim @iodave]

@regyperlera Yes!!!

[Dave Kim @iodave]

@asallen Gotta love Jazzkeys: https://t.co/vtyY79ZqYu

[Dave Kim @iodave]

@Ryan__Stephen Oh I love this so much!

[Dave Kim @iodave]

@trq212 @matt_slotnick oh i love this

[Dave Kim @iodave]

@Wattenberger I agree with the broader points. Implement is rarely just implement and where we spend our time is shifting. However, what happens when you switch from this linear view to a loop? Yes we should plan (and think!) more, but aren’t we now having more frequent and faster loops?

[Dave Kim @iodave]

@whatdotcd Looks awesome. Count me in.

[Dave Kim @iodave]

@0xCharlota WHAT A STAR!

[Dave Kim @iodave]

@timourxyz oof

[Dave Kim @iodave]

@drewcoffman @a16zcrypto There we go!