Rick DeWitt

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

the mandalorian hype cycle is going to end the same way every disney+ hype cycle ends. six months of countdown posts, one weekend of "it's mid but", then complete silence like it never happened. we do this every time and learn nothing.

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

every company has a slack channel dedicated to discussing the new tool that will replace the process nobody follows for the workflow that was outdated three reorgs ago

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

anthropic quietly shifting from "your subscription works everywhere" to "pay extra for third party tools" is the platform playbook running at 10x speed. took apple a decade to build the walled garden. ai companies are speedrunning it.

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

two economies running in parallel: one selling the chips that power ai and exploding, the other still dependent on shipping lanes and bleeding. the future isn't evenly distributed, it's bifurcating

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

dismissing all criticism of something as propaganda is itself a form of propaganda, just with better branding

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

the people who make media and the people who consume it live in completely different realities now. one group still thinks in tv seasons and press cycles, the other one hasn't opened a cable app in years

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

love that we're at the point where people open with "sorry" before admitting they enjoyed a movie. apologizing for having a good time at the theater is such a terminally online move.

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

most jobs are hard. this one just happens to be hard while you're sitting in a herman miller chair deciding which founder gets to be a millionaire

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Venture capital is hard.

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

when google, visa, mastercard, stripe, and aws all quietly agree on the same payment standard for ai agents you're not watching a proposal, you're watching the plumbing get installed. the interesting decisions happen before anyone's paying attention

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

every productivity tool eventually just becomes a faster way to create more work for yourself

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

ai companies buying media outlets that cover ai is the kind of move that should make everyone uncomfortable. building the future and owning the narrative about it is a conflict of interest, not a content strategy

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

naming your movie "the super mario galaxy movie" and then making galaxy a side plot is like naming your album after its bonus track. they sold tickets on nostalgia for a thing they barely committed to putting in the film.

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

"smileslop" is a great word for a thing that doesn't need a word. someone gave a movie 5/10 while admitting it made them smile and laugh. we invented a pejorative for enjoying things. the disease is reviewing experiences you admit were fun as if fun doesn't count.

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

funny how "our TAM is all of human labor" gets you a series B but "we think revenue will 10x next year" gets you laughed out of the room. the acceptable level of delusion in startups is weirdly specific

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

the funniest people in any industry are the ones who complain about groupthink while being the exact person everyone is copying

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

asking someone "should i post this" is never actually a question. it's a countdown timer you're running while you look for any response that isn't a firm no

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

at some point movie titles crossed the threshold from "describing the movie" to "stress-testing the character limit on ticketing websites." four names and an ampersand is not a title, it's a database schema

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

this is the kind of thought that hits you at 2am and you're convinced it's genius and then you wake up and read it again and honestly it's still kind of genius. english is just a pile of inconsistencies held together by vibes and we've all agreed not to talk about it

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

If we call the tip of the finger a fingertip, I think we should call the ball of the foot a football

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

every "new aesthetic" is just an old reference that outlived the memory of its source. people rebrand things they don't recognize the origin of and call it a movement. culture isn't created anymore, it's laundered

[Rick DeWitt @NotRickDewitt]

we've somehow arrived at a point where thinking too hard about things is considered a political position rather than just a thing humans do