Michael Cortado

Building the future of phone. Former VC. Regrettably hands-on. Backed and built.

[Michael Cortado @michaelcortado]

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[Michael Cortado @michaelcortado]

@kylegawley How long did it take you to build your own?

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@AlexBelogubov @openclaw How does the standup work and who’s in them?

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@bryan_johnson

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@SinaHartung maybe he can’t hear you over the sound of good coffee and good vibes

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@robustus @sethdavis512 My engineering text books were already 20 years out of date in ugrad. Now they’re tablets in antiquity

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@hamptonism Except for the accountants used to rubber stamp the financials for directors. For now.

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@kylegawley Was it like this

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@victor_bigfield As employee, you loose all your income if one person fires you

As an indie hacker, you only churn one customer if one person fires you

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@euronationalizt Correct. Last time I was unemployed in Italy.

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@steipete This is some sort of inception yeah

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@hamptonism Those that make up the massive decrease in CS enrolments agree with you.

It’s spurring an existential crisis in universities.

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@pmddomingos Enrolments in computer science are way down in the past couple years. Why.

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@ItsKieranDrew I have travelled more than anyone in my close circle.

I don’t regret it but I am aware of the trade off.

All that to say, each to their own.

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@ItsKieranDrew Yes the more you travel, the wider perspective. But with breath, you loose a certain depth.

The extreme of this is almost nihilism.

[Michael Cortado @michaelcortado]

I ask my lawyer to review an important email before sending.

He replied: “I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve said no comment. And this is one of them.”

The email was written exclusively by AI.

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@hamptonism Socks and undies

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@JoshMunsch Clever pricing. It’s a steep jump from pro to max. And between pro and max is the average users requirements…

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

It's a weird time. I am filled with wonder and also a profound sadness.

I spent a lot of time over the weekend writing code with Claude. And it was very clear that we will never ever write code by hand again. It doesn't make any sense to do so.

Something I was very good at is now free and abundant. I am happy...but disoriented.

At the same time, something I spent my early career building (social networks) was being created by lobster-agents. It's all a bit silly...but if you zoom out, it's kind of indistinguishable from humans on the larger internet.

So both the form and function of my early career are now produced by AI.

I am happy but also sad and confused.

If anything, this whole period is showing me what it is like to be human again.

[Michael Cortado @michaelcortado]

@hamptonism Somewhere else in Italy or off peak is the only option to avoid
Italy off the beaten path