Jelena

defiantly optimistic. founder @noble_xyz; thinking about stablecoins & commerce // co-founded @web3canada // 🇨🇦 in nyc

[inthemoneypod @inthemoneypod]

A record breaking start to a brand new season 🎉

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[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

Canadians be like “yeah no for sure”

[Jelena @jelena647]

EA is a brain worm that makes people talk in very strange alien non-human ways

[dom @ryiacy]

It's so strange that many rationalists are completely incapable of communicating with any gravitas. If you believe this, then you have a responsibility to talk about it seriously, not in this dysregulated exclamation-point heavy EA style

[Klaas @forgebitz]

i don't think tech people understand how little non-tech people care about tech

the average person does not have a basic understanding of how a computer works

the idea of everyone just prompting their own software is only for a small subset of people

[Sid Jain @realsidjain]

Exactly.

Normal people want to pay for ChatGPT wrappers.

They don’t want to stare at a blank chat box and have no idea what to do next

They want to see a button that says “click me” and get exactly what they need without all the b.s in the middle

Psychology > Technology

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

AI will easily do to the human brain what cars and appliances did to the human body.

No one needed gym memberships before automation made sedentary lifestyles the default. That points to the solution. Obesity is a problem, but at the same time the healthiest people are in far better physical condition than people two hundred years ago.

The universities are dying for a number of reasons, but they can and will be replaced by cognitive gymnasia - intellectual training centres with curricula designed around developing specific intellectual attributes.

The result of this will be further bifurcation. Just as the populace is currently divided between the fats and the gym rats, a chasm will open between the algorithm zombies and the mentats.

[isabel @artficialisabel]

the openai huggingface incident, from an agents pov.

(part 1)

[Jelena @jelena647]

I predict this dynamic will radically shift as AI empowers small teams to build technology that would’ve otherwise taken dozens of employees to execute on. As long as founding team members get meaningful upside then the thing that Canada can easily compete on vis a vis California/NY is lower cap gains and more relative upside in cases where there is an exit.. so the concept of chasing “highest salary” doesn’t become the only relevant metric when choosing where to invest ones precious labor

[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

when it comes to staying in Canada, the math doesn't math for many of our top STEM graduates

cash is the single largest factor acting on individual decisions

pay, and taxation on that pay, heavily influence the take-home math for a graduate or founder weighing competing offers

Canada, as it stands, does not offer the winning equation....as an example, US tech workers earn a median 46% more than their Canadian counterparts before taxes, on a purchasing-power basis, and at current exchange rates, the gap grows wider

some excellent ideas on how to fix this in this latest memo by @financeit founder and @theC100 co-chair Michael Garrity 👇

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

I turn 50 today. This is a message to my kids but I offer it to you in case any of it rings useful.

I was born in Sri Lanka in 1976 in a country that, at the time, was about to enter a decades long civil war. My father was able to get stationed at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada for four years in the early 80s - when some of the fighting was most severe - and which from our vantage point in Canada gave us some respite from an otherwise omnipresent conflict.

He came as a diplomat but then my father filed for refugee status after four years when his life was threatened by militants. We stayed in Canada as refugees. My dad never really landed on his feet and we grew up on welfare.

My mom stepped up. She did an incredible thing and put our family on her back and kept marching forward. Sometimes the steps were very small but she always tried to keep moving forward.

I worked at Burger King starting at 14, giving my paycheck to my mom and dad to support our family in the role that I was assigned - earn enough to pay for our bus passes because we couldn’t afford a car.

I was a loser growing up. Some friends, some good memories but mostly forgettable and lonely. I wasn’t very studious but did get my act together in my final year and got into a great university.

I immigrated to the US soon after graduating and found an opportunity. Things clicked and I have been traveling a path to find myself ever since. Only in America is this possible…

I worked hard, followed the rules, paid my taxes and stayed in California out of loyalty for the opportunities it has given me despite its dysfunction.

I found my wife here. Had my kids here. Found my tribe here.

There have been some very hard times as well - deaths, divorce, financial pain, mistakes of omission and mistakes of commission. You can’t dwell on these things - they are weights that will pull you down if you’re not careful. Learn from them. Respect them. BUT MOVE ON.

To think 50 years ago I could have ever gotten a chance to meet the people I’ve met and have had the experiences I’ve had would have been mind boggling to my parents. It’s mind boggling to me now.

We forget often and try to convince others it’s not true but America truly is the best country in the world. Everything and anything is possible here. I can testify. Be grateful to be here.

This is the only place that gives EVERYONE a chance to live a great adventure. The first 50 years have been that for me - an incredible adventure.

Notice there is nothing here about accomplishments or money. Because it doesn’t matter and it won’t matter.

You will be dust in less than 100 years from now and the decision to be remembered won’t be yours so stop sweating it. It’s not in your control.

So what is in your control?

Be kind. Have fun. Work on something meaningful to you. Find your tribe. Try to find perspective. Find an incredible partner. Have a bunch of kids. Live an adventure. Forgive your parents - they were doing the best they could even if that wasn’t what you deserved.

I will do what I can to make my next 50 years a wild ride.

You should too.

I love you and thank you. ❤️

🙏🏽🙏🏽

[Jelena @jelena647]

Mimi’s is an S tier NYC birthday spot. Big fan!

[New York Post @nypost]

Ex-mayor Eric Adams seeing doing 'walk of shame' in same shirt the morning after his birthday party https://t.co/0yFXIj3Iz6

[Jelena @jelena647]

@ericadamsfornyc Mimis is the BEST

[tobi lutke @tobi]

@dimavollo Taxes, Regulation, counterproductive incentive programs (all of them). Turn it all off, remove red tape.

[Jelena @jelena647]

Like every other technology in human history, AI will both be liberating and oppressive to humans

Its up to us humans to ensure that it is more liberating than oppressive for the vast majority of people

[Jelena @jelena647]

How does it work? The only paid content feed linked on your website is your substack and they don’t allow writers to sell one off paid content.

People should be able to checkout a one off article the way they check out a physical product through ApplePay/Shop/Stripe etc.

Im a perfect example - I’m not politically or ideologically aligned with your views so I don’t subscribe but I find some of your takes very relevant and would pay ie. $10 for access to a piece of writing that is otherwise outside of my “worldview”

[Jelena @jelena647]

Have you considered selling one off articles, blog posts, digital products, etc as a way to earn revenue but not be beholden to the subscription model.

only 1-2% of readers go from free to paid on substack and the overall paid readership on substack is even lower than that

feels like the subscription model is broken

[Jelena @jelena647]

The language used here is fascinating and particularly dystopian in the way that it is nonchalant and blasé

Funny but also somewhat disturbing.

[European Commission @EU_Commission]

We have designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the Digital Services Act.

They now have four months to comply with additional DSA obligations.

More: https://t.co/gIR8vTolmB

#DSA

[Jelena @jelena647]

@BradyDale Yes huge… but hot messes can have clarity of thought and mind more so than so called non-hot messes in some cases, like in this one

[Jelena @jelena647]

Is there a correlation between cities/towns that are highly walkable and improved mental health?!

[Infinite Books @infinitebooks]

In 1847, Søren Kierkegaard wrote to his sister-in-law, who was too depressed to get out of bed

He had one piece of advice

[Jelena @jelena647]

@supersimon77 @SuperteamBLKN @SolanaEvents You can find ajvar here! https://t.co/aPR6JUoTf5

[Jelena @jelena647]

@mert very accurate review!