Maitham Dib

Founder Junction (@tryvital) • YC W20/S21 • Ex-Rolls-Royce – Electrical VTOL & control systems.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

🇪🇺 Chat Control has passed 😔

They can and will now legally scan any person's messages, emails and photos you send without a warrant

The way they passed this law when the majority of the European Parliament was against it will shock you:

They waited until most EP members were on holiday so only a few were present and then created an "urgent" vote for it to pass it through

There's nothing democratic about any of it and big powerful forces are behind this that can manipulate the EU for whatever they want

Democracy in Europe died a bit today 😔

[Jay Rughani @JayRughani]

We will consume medical care like music.

Music went from “what if I don’t have to pay $15 for the album” to “what happens if $15 gets me every song in the world?” The marginal cost of distribution went to ~$0, subscription pricing enabled unlimited consumption, and listening skyrocketed.

Today, we don’t have enough capacity to provide all the care people want. So we ration healthcare with high prices, long wait times, and administrative hoops. But as AI drives down the marginal cost of medical expertise, we will no longer need to throttle access.

Like music, everyone will get infinite healthcare.

[Maitham Dib @maith_d]

@mattpavelle @doctronic Can't share exact pricing publicly, but we can do it for less. Feel free to DM me or email me maitham [at] https://t.co/pHJPvj8s3x

[Harj Taggar @harjtaggar]

The best hires are the ones you can delegate outcomes to, not tasks. Good hires come back with smart questions about the next step. Great ones just get the job done.

[Maitham Dib @maith_d]

@StuartBlitz Same goes for recruiters who present people with those headlines 😅

[Maitham Dib @maith_d]

@StuartBlitz Im dead 💀

[Maitham Dib @maith_d]

As intelligence becomes abundant, infrastructure companies will become even more important.

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

PSA: infrastructure companies should build products so that they know what infrastructure to build 😁

[Stephan J. Guyenet @sguyenet]

More evidence that the strong correlation between physical fitness and risk of death is heavily confounded by genetics and other factors.

This is a tough one for the preventive health community (including me)!

[Rohit Mittal @rohitdotmittal]

being in Europe makes it feel like they don't want to make money

they are happy with their wines and handrolled cigarettes and debate soccer teams while putting people in jail for social media posts

move out of Europe if you want to make money

[Maitham Dib @maith_d]

If you say you want to be involved in “strategy” during the interview process, you’re ngmi. Just means you have an ego, and have never done any hard work in your life. You earn this right.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Email from Fiverr CEO to his team about AI ($1b company):

[Naval @naval]

Whatever your bar is for working with people, raise it.

[Gaurav Vohra @gauravvohra]

Signing into stuff in 2025:

> Sign in
> Forgot password
> Check email
> No email
> Try Google auth
> Hooray, works
> Is this really you?
> Grab iPhone
> Open Youtube app
> Yes it's me
> Okta sign in required
> Enter passkey
> Passkey expired
> Need backup code
> Open password manager
> Signed out
> Enter password manager password
> No backup codes
> "Try another way"
> QR code
> iOS Okta app
> Sign in
> Face ID
> Is this really you?
> 2FA SMS code
> Your account needs another layer of security
> "Do this later"
> Your org admin requires Passkey
> Set up Passkey
> Sign in
> Congrats you finally got into Salesforce or some shit

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Maitham Dib @maith_d]

@levelsio I currently live in Portugal, install this filter under all your taps takes 5 mins https://t.co/NFsFf1Jjlt . I wanted a reverse osmosis system on the mains but I don’t trust any plumbers in Portugal to install it.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NEWS: Elon Musk said tonight that he expects xAI's next training cluster to have 1 million GPUs, worth about $25B-$30B, 5x more than their current 200k GPU cluster.

"We're already working on the next training cluster. We anticipate it to be roughly 5x bigger than the current cluster."

[Maitham Dib @maith_d]

Never felt more rage than standing in the Lisbon airport passport queue. 600 passengers 3 people manning the queue, 2 of them clock out. Love this country, but no one wants to work in Portugal. Hurts my soul.

[Maitham Dib @maith_d]

@julesyoo 👋