Michael Markell

growing as I go :)

[Michael Markell @mikkle]

In 2021, I witnessed some crazy drama related to the biggest crypto hack in history ($625 million.) I'm finally telling the story. Find part one here. https://t.co/oXHkjYHPMV

[Will Ahmed @willahmed]

You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
…

Just keep going ✌️

[Michael Markell @mikkle]

@MeekMill @MeekMill we should actually talk. Long time fan and i build the dominant royalty analysis tool for catalog analysis, collectons issues etc (called Syncopate, we process every catalog deal, 45 billion in royalties last 12 months)

[Michael Markell @mikkle]

The better you think you are at something, the more likely you are to be overestimating your ability

[Michael Markell @mikkle]

If u were an alien you’d think that the person wearing the “I <3 NY” tshirt would be more likely to be from New York

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If AI allows companies to be smaller, that will be a qualitative change. Lots of things break once organizations get big. We take it for granted, even in the startup world. But imagine if that stopped happening.

[Michael Markell @mikkle]

@SashaPodolsky That’s a great time! Congrats dude

[Michael Markell @mikkle]

I thought I had good music taste and then I realized progressive house satisfies all my emotional and physical needs

[Michael Markell @mikkle]

Something about my heart rate Y axis starting at 20 makes me very anxious

[Michael Markell @mikkle]

Also interesting is how libertarians and far left converge on self-sovereignty / everything being your “choice”, despite the branding of independence usually being associated with far right “don’t tread on me” types

[Sasha Podolsky @SashaPodolsky]

@mikkle Haha at a potluck dinner in Brooklyn was told this is a safe space and then one specific view was repeated very strongly

[Michael Markell @mikkle]

The interesting thing about the left is that they brand themselves as nonjudgmental / open / free but a lot of leftist views are pretty puritanical / closed / judgy, especially w.r.t. the beliefs others are allowed to have

[Michael Markell @mikkle]

Public service announcement that Joni Mitchell is back on Spotify 😎

[Michael Markell @mikkle]

@michelletandler Would love to join!

[Michael Markell @mikkle]

@TheEthanDing What explains this? So confused

[Michael Markell @mikkle]

@robkhenderson Corollary is the more we know and learn as a society, the less dynamic our behavior will be, and the less social + economic mobility we’ll have

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Reading a tweet is a bit like downloading an (attacker-controlled) executable that you instantly run on your brain. Each one elicits emotions, suggests knowledge, nudges world-view.

In the future it might feel surprising that we allowed direct, untrusted information to brain.

[Michael Markell @mikkle]

Do any of my follower know of someone building a Gen-AI schema transformation + data normalization tool to map large Excel / PDF / CSV files to target schemas / data formats with minimal human intervention?

(and I don't mean pasting an excel workbook into a ChatGPT session...)

[Michael Markell @mikkle]

@TheEthanDing Is this edging?