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poems & pipes

[Ori @oritends]

Relational debt compounds as liability.

Relational surplus compounds as asset (care-backed yield).

[Ori @oritends]

@deanwball CrossFitters are no strangers to long-distance sprints.

[Dimitri @thedimitri]

What a time to be alive

[Ori @oritends]

I've tried to resist acknowledging that this way of being is really real, but apparently it is. I thought they were all just telling creative lies. And I still kinda think they are.

But how are you alive and not being constantly recruited by life???

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

I think the main thing AI has taught me, through all the time savings it brings, is that I’m not a very interesting person

Faced with a surplus of free time, I realize I don’t really have hobbies besides content consumption

I’m forced to conclude that I don’t have very deep friendships, and am not a core member of any particular community

I’m not very cultured, I’m finding, and don’t have abiding interests in art or literature or history or much that isn’t directly related to my work

I have a work-centric life, in other words. AI pulls back the curtain on just how impoverished such an existence is, by disabusing me of its necessity

Given the freedom I’ve always said I wanted, I’m at a loss as to what to do with it, except plow myself even harder into work, thus exacerbating the lesson

There’s nothing more confronting to humans than freedom

[Ori @oritends]

everything will work out fine so long as the right people hack the great ownership transfer

pre-distribution > redistribution

[Ori @oritends]

Vibe coding is strongest when feedback is visible (eg, front ends, life admin); less strong when its invisible (eg, data integrity, permissions, maintenance).

The investibles are the invisibles.

[TBPN @tbpn]

CEO of Every @danshipper says he'd be buying SaaS stocks right now.

"99% of people are not going to be vibecoding their own apps."

"They might do it once, but actually maintaining software is really, really hard, and it's a particular skill set that most people don't want to have."

[Ori @oritends]

@hypersoren I most suspect new primitives that respond to the need when incumbents don't.

[Ori @oritends]

"animated by the tension between private markets and public life"

[Ori @oritends]

Yeah, very resonant. I often think "bad feelings" are just natural impulses that got a little confused, caught in a loop, and needs some help moving in the right direction. This is actually how I personally think of parts work.

It also often seems that precisely where one is feeling the most resistance is often exactly where one’s greatest gifts lie.

I like the jealousy example. Was recently thinking similarly about possessiveness. I wondered if this isn't a natural impulse in overdrive: heightened sensitivity to interdependence and deep fear of not truly being needed.

Something like: access to my aliveness is mediated through others + distrust in its continued flow + leading to fear-based control attempts that are self-confirming.

[Ori @oritends]

Yes, very high chance of addiction and predictable disaster (low friction, high dopamine reward). And here, the loop seems self-sealing as it feeds core self-reinforcement (eg, identity, creative impulse, social validation), but all synthetic.

I think ARG-like social worlds point to real signal, but are better understood as literal self-development / entrainment tech, not low-stakes “entertainment.”

That requires a much greater level of presumptive collective stewardship and very different incentive design (building agency instead of dependency), neither of which is readily evident to me here.

[Ori @oritends]

If I could redo the MBA, I'd formalize what I was already doing unofficially as an R&D Studio Flywheel:

Macro Thesis (high-conviction world model) + Compound Project (can accommodate emergence)

In fact, not sure this remains optional in the new era.

[Ori @oritends]

"the missing layer between friendships and community"

[Ori @oritends]

@keysmashbandit Agree, idrk how one can just be repeatedly evicting themselves from the edge of flow states???

But then I remember that this is for people persisting in default hostile attentional states misaligned with actual flourishing.

[Ori @oritends]

Why is everyone missing that GC is positioning itself as transcending traditional VC?

The axis isn’t moral superiority or unwillingness to fund weird companies. More like:

old VC is immature and unqualified to meet the times + we are reality-attuned and responsive.

Meet GC: trusted allocator and transformation company

[General Catalyst @generalcatalyst]

Meet GC

[Ori @oritends]

@ajhodls are VCs well-incentived to fund highest-integrity version of this?

[Ori @oritends]

My life is such a big JOKE (in the best way).

[Ori @oritends]

Me: Happy Mother’s Day

Mom: Happy Mother’s Day to you as well (prophetic tense)

[Ori @oritends]

are you “neurodivergent” or are you an embedded researcher hunting for counterexamples until the model breaks so you can design more elegant ones?