Josh Domingues

It's harder to make a difference than it is to make a dollar.
Founder & CEO @medwalletai
Founder @Flashfoodinc

[Josh Domingues @JoshLDomingues]

@kmr_dilip If you're not openly learning more every day that dispells what you thought was true beforehand, as a founder, then you won't be one for very long.

[a16z @a16z]

Joe Liemandt of Alpha School on why AI is today's 1910 tractor moment, and why parents once again have to rethink their kids' future:

"In 1910, 90% of America had an 8th grade education. There were basically no high schools. And over 30% of America is a farmer. So everybody's on the farm, 8th grade was enough."

"Then in 1910, the Case tractor rolled up on the American farm. You can go look at the ads, it literally looks like an Anthropic ad. 'Does the work of 50 programmers. Does the work of 50 farm hands.'"

"Literally everybody in America realized 30% of the jobs are going away. That path is gone, and we have to get our kids ready for this new future. And it was that same recognition I think that parents have today."

"What America did back then... they voted to fund an education that they never experienced. They knew they had to do something different than their background, see the world differently, to get their kids ready and get them the good jobs."

"That school system became the industrial system we've had the last 100 years. It served us really well for 100 years, but now it's time for the next change."

@jliemandt

[Josh Domingues @JoshLDomingues]

@gokulr lol this is incredible. You made it!!

[Josh Domingues @JoshLDomingues]

@scottastevenson this is such a good take.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Legal immigration from Canada to the U.S. has skyrocketed +142% since Trump returned to office, as immigration from most other countries rapidly declines.

[Thierry from arvy 🇨🇭 @ThierryBorgeat]

You notice anything?

Look at what separates the two groups.

It isn't technology.
It isn't complexity.

It's one variable: how much the state is involved.

At the top, sectors that are subsidized, regulated, shielded from competition, where the state funds demand and blocks supply.

At the bottom, sectors where companies fight every single morning to serve you better and cheaper.

[Josh Domingues @JoshLDomingues]

This is so obvious to understand but it's shocking how much the world works like NASA and not like SpaceX. I think this is the main reason why now is such a great time to build something new in the world. Happy Thursday y'all (the 12 of y'all who will read this lol)

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.

At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."

He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.

Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.

He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.

He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."

The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.

[Josh Domingues @JoshLDomingues]

@kporzee you should connect with @fidjissimo she's done a lot of great work around POTS and similar chronic conditions. Best of luck.

[Josh Domingues @JoshLDomingues]

@melkuo What do you think needed to be true for your experience to have led to all the changes you thought the country needed.

[Josh Domingues @JoshLDomingues]

@CCTran1996 We’ve got an almost 5 year old, 3.5, 2 and 2 weeks. The jump from 1-2 is way harder than 2-3. Didn’t feel like life changed much from 2-3.

[Josh Domingues @JoshLDomingues]

Hopefully someone reads this and adjusts their account accordingly.

[Michael Katchen @mkatchen]

Canada invented maybe the greatest investment account in the history of money, then named it after a piggy bank.

So now roughly $350 billion is sitting in TFSAs as cash. Doing nothing. Being slowly eaten by inflation.

A small, boring policy idea that could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars: change the name. Make it the Tax-Free Investment Account.

It might sound silly, but the name matters. Nearly half of Canadians with a TFSA (sorry, TFIA) keep their savings in it as cash. At Wealthsimple, it’s 6%. Over a few decades, that gap compounds into an enormous amount of money.

One word. Let’s change it, close that investment gap, and actually help Canadians build wealth.

https://t.co/Bao3116FFL

[Josh Domingues @JoshLDomingues]

read something pretty cool today:

You cannot meditate your way into having dinner with friends.

And you cannot mindfulness your way out of being socially isolated.

[Jeff Adamson @jeffcanadamson]

Canada just announced its new National Council on Artificial Intelligence.

I'm not one to carry water for the government but take a look at the people around the table:

• @professor_ajay — U of T professor; founder of Creative Destruction Lab and NextAI.

• @Yoshua_Bengio — Turing Award winner; pioneer of deep learning; founder of Mila.

• @FidlerSanja — co-founder & CEO of Veeda AI; former VP of AI Research at NVIDIA; co-founder of Vector Institute.

• @JohnGrisham — President & CEO of CPP Investments.

• @ghadfield — Johns Hopkins professor specializing in AI alignment, governance and law.

• @JordanJacobs10 — co-founder of Radical Ventures, Vector Institute and Layer 6 AI, which was acquired by TD.

• EricLamarre — MIT lecturer; former head of McKinsey Technology & AI in North America; co-author of Rewired.

• @vpisano_mila — President & CEO of Mila, one of the world’s major AI research institutes.

• Senator @tompitfield — founder of Data Sciences; technology entrepreneur and former Principal Secretary to PM Carney.

• Jody Thomas — former National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister and former Deputy Minister of National Defence.

• Louis Vachon — former CEO of National Bank; now Operating Partner at J.C. Flowers.

• Michelle @zatlyn — co-founder & President of Cloudflare.

• Patrick Pichette — former Google CFO; now CEO of Digital Transformation Canada.

That is a very high concentration of experience across frontier AI research, commercialization, capital, financial services, technology infrastructure, government and national security.

Great to see them all stepping up for Canada.

[Suprvirat @MostlyKohli]

What actually happened with smit machchar 🚨

- A flight was coming to Dubai from Israel
- Around 2 hours after takeoff, a Muslim co pilot told Smit he is going to rest a little
- He went back and started stabbing Smit with a pocket knife
- Smit started bleeding and the plane dropped 14,000 feet in a minute
- Smit had a button to open the cockpit door beside his seat. He somehow pressed it
- Passengers saw blood coming from the cockpit
- The Muslim pilot started celebrating and shouting “Allah hu Akbar.” He thought nobody could save all of them now
- Passengers rushed to save the pilot and some of them attacked the other pilot
- A few of them were relief pilots who landed the plane safely
- One of them was a doctor who saved Smit from excessive bleeding
- Now Smit is in stable condition and all 180 passengers are safe

No words are enough to describe the bravery of Smit Machchhar and the mentality of that Muslim pilot 🙏

[Josh Domingues @JoshLDomingues]

@ZainManji this is the best tweet I've seen today.

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

The hardest lesson NFL MVP Steve Young ever had to learn.

"Fear-based thinking is a liar. I was afraid of failure, so much so that I paid this price so that I could have success. I learned as an older person, that's a fallacy. That's fraudulent."

"I'm not going to pay for success with my worry and fretting. Man, fame is a thief. Fear-based thinking is a thief. There's a lot of thieves in life."

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

one finding that comes up again and again in surveys is that people name family as one of the biggest sources of happiness and meaning in their lives

[Josh Domingues @JoshLDomingues]

The saying never be the smartest person is the room is very easy for me.

[Jew in a Canoe (Yid in a Shifele) ✡️🇨🇦 @WillieHandler]

A message posted by the wife of Constable Jeff Smith who was shot protecting the Sons of Jacob synagogue.

Hello, world.
I don’t know where to begin.
My words aren’t strong or steady yet, but I knew I needed to find them. I needed to use my voice for my dear Jeff, until he is able to use his.

From the deepest part of my heart and soul, thank you.

Thank you to this good and kind world that has surrounded Jeff and our family with more love, compassion, generosity and selflessness than I could ever put into words.

I cannot begin to express what the outpouring of love and support has meant to us. I know there are things happening every day that I don’t even know about yet. Messages being sent. Prayers being said. People checking in. Hands reaching out.
And I know that my gratitude will never be enough.

I am witnessing real-life miracles.
And so many of them have happened through human hands.

The life-saving hands of paramedics and police. The hands of an angel neurosurgeon. The steady, capable hands of trauma teams, doctors, nurses, RTs, PSWs and so many others whose names we may never know, but whose kindness and skill we will carry with us forever.
The helping hands of neighbours, friends, community members and volunteers.
And then there are the hands that held me and my sweet girls when we were living through the scariest and darkest day of our lives.

Today, I held Jeff’s hand.
And I thought about all of those hands.

All of the people who have carried him, cared for him, prayed for him, fought for him and held us up when we didn’t know how we were going to stand.

I will never forget any of it.

I also want to send my love and prayers to the Jewish community, and to every scared soul who was there on Sunday night. Please know that your love, your prayers and your support have reached us. We are deeply grateful. We love you, we see you, we pray for you.

So I am asking for one thing.
Keep it coming.
Prayer. Hope. Faith. Love. Whatever you have to give, please keep giving it. We will take every bit of it we can get.
Jeff has a very long, difficult road ahead.
But he is not walking it alone.
He has an army of love behind him.
And I know Jeff.
He is the best man I know.
He loves his family with his whole heart. He cares deeply. He gives freely. He shows up. He is a man of integrity. He is my safest place.
And right now, he is fighting.
So we will fight with him.
Thank you for loving him.
Thank you for believing in him.
Thank you for honouring him.
Thank you for holding our family up.
Our hero.
Your hero.
💙🖤

With heartfelt gratitude,
Ashley

[Josh Domingues @JoshLDomingues]

@NelsonXLee Tina is a killer and a great person. T&T is going to be big across NA.