Nicholas Baker

furniture and tech - npb.eth

[Nicholas Baker @nickpbaker]

we live in the future

[Nick Hallam @nhallam]

thomas bangalter (daft punk) is playing lot radio at 4pm on a Monday while trumps helicopters circle and city and the Knicks start in 4.5 hours

[Cybertruck @cybertruck]

Hey Luce

[Nicholas Baker @nickpbaker]

finally some good engagement on X

[Nicholas Baker @nickpbaker]

new Ferrari is good, you'll only understand in a decade

[Nicholas Baker @nickpbaker]

new Ferrari is good, you'll only understand in a decade

[jack @jackbutcher]

You can complain about how algorithms distribute ideas or you can post more ideas

[@levelsio @levelsio]

This is super interesting

You now have non-tech normal people outship tech people in terms of reaching revenue fast

I have lots of techy software engineer friends and they have been trying for years to get any MRR for their sideprojects and they still haven't

Here's an Indonesian girl, who's tapped into TikTok culture, knows what to ship, can't even code but ships it fast thanks to AI and gets to $800 MRR in the first month

So we're officially in a new time now: it's now literally just a competition of being as tapped into the culture as possible, to then be able spot a trend and rapidly built and launch a site/app/biz around it, and make money

There is little to any benefit being in tech now over normal people, maybe even the opposite as tech people are very up to date on tech things but often quite out of date on many non-tech cultural trends

This is a great thing, but a bitter pill to swallow: another gatekeeper wiped out and every tech builder has to now stop putting effort into tech skills, and instead put effort into understanding culture trends to see what to build next

And build it fast!

[Nicholas Baker @nickpbaker]

crazy that they are building these on pristine land

[jack @jackbutcher]

The Clouds, 2026

[Nicholas Baker @nickpbaker]

stop the data centers

[Nicholas Baker @nickpbaker]

@sterlingcrispin @VictorTaelin 😂

[Nicholas Baker @nickpbaker]

@sterlingcrispin @chaykak hahaha I remember when one of these nyc magazines said I was an “instagram designer” because I posted designs on instagram

[Nicholas Baker @nickpbaker]

@sterlingcrispin lmao

[Nicholas Baker @nickpbaker]

@SHL0MS 🫡🫡🫡

[𒐪 @SHL0MS]

i like how people keep giving me compliments as insults

oh, you think what i'm doing is nothing new because Duchamp already did it? so, like, i'm doing what Duchamp did and adapting it for the world we currently live in? idk man that sounds pretty cool

[Nicholas Baker @nickpbaker]

@jackbutcher fun!

[Nicholas Baker @nickpbaker]

@sterlingcrispin @seanbonner the future is bright knowing there's a way out

[Nicholas Baker @nickpbaker]

Reading Man nightlight

[𒐪 @SHL0MS]

i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI

please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting

[Nicholas Baker @nickpbaker]

I think this mindset is especially pertinent now with the advent of AI. There are more designers than ever creating thousands of hyper realistic concepts daily. We are going to need to shift how we view original ideas. Should it be who makes it first? Should it be who can market or sell it better? Should it be who has the best story?

[Nicholas Baker @nickpbaker]

@sterlingcrispin @urbanistvc boy dinner

[𒐪 @SHL0MS]

just found this tablet does anyone recognize this diagram