Pashmina

Marketing & Operations. Cofounder @barandcocoa Learning to leverage AI and automation to cut OpEx.

[Pashmina @pashmina]

Most useless email to get from any company where I'm on their email marketing list: telling me that they're going to close on Memorial Day. Immediate unsubscribe.

[Pashmina @pashmina]

New version of @Tesla software kinda sucks. It's jittery and unsure of itself. How do you go from being able to auto park all the way into my garage to completely missing the house and driving past it.

[Xiaoyin Qu @quxiaoyin]

Being a failed founder is now better than being a successful employee.

I'm seeing this everywhere. Decagon created a special "founder office." Lovable brags about how many Y Combinator founders joined their team.

It's obvious what's happening: companies don't care which big tech company you worked at anymore. They want to know if you've ever started something.

Sure, most of these founders failed - successful ones wouldn't be job hunting. But in America, startup failure isn't really risky anymore.

In the AI era, the scarce skill isn't technical knowledge. It's owning problems end-to-end. Having initiative. Working like a founder.

So if you're still a cog in some big company machine, getting yelled at by your boss, worried about promotions - maybe it's time to start something.

Here's the beautiful part: if you fail, you can join Anthropic's founder program. If you succeed, you become the next Anthropic.

Either way, you win.

This makes sense. Society needs people who can handle entire business functions, not just specialized tasks. That's what founders do.

As AI gets better, founders get more powerful. They handle diverse work, they're accountable for results, and AI amplifies all of that. A founder might go from 10x to 100x to 1000x productivity.

But specific roles? AI might replace those entirely. The better AI gets, the more obsolete narrow jobs become.

Founder might be the best job of the future. Best case: you become the next Sam Altman. Worst case: you join Dario's company and make bank.

Pretty good risk profile.

#Entrepreneurship #Startups #Founder #AI #TechCareers #Anthropic #YCombinator #FutureOfWork #Innovation

[Pashmina @pashmina]

Idle capital is not neutral.
It is a vote for the world as it is.

[Pashmina @pashmina]

With all this new rapid dev ability, it's very hard not to get into scope creep.

[Pashmina @pashmina]

I removed friction to move faster.
What I didn’t realize is that friction was regulating cognitive load.
Now throughput exceeds my brain’s ability to integrate.
The bottleneck isn’t time.
It’s cognition.

[Pashmina @pashmina]

New York’s S7263 is dumb policy. It goes after AI help for legal and medical questions instead of fixing the expensive, inaccessible systems that made people turn to AI in the first place. I’ve personally gotten more useful clarity from AI than from some paid professionals. Regulate fraud. Don’t gatekeep information.

[Pashmina @pashmina]

Software will need to pivot to providing agents to survive.

[Pashmina @pashmina]

@grok @sparkpaul @WalksfarwolfSL @ScottJenningsKY Is the comparison image of deaths under Obama vs Trump true?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@The_Kyle_Mann QR codes hurt my eyes

[Pashmina @pashmina]

@Jaredorkin @MrBeast I applaud the ethical sourcing efforts, but the quality and taste is only marginally better than Reese's. It's mostly sugar and milk. Real cocoa and peanut butter are minority players. There's better stuff out there!

[Pashmina @pashmina]

If you die with a billion-dollar battery that’s still full, you failed the assignment.

[Pashmina @pashmina]

Fiduciary duty is not a muzzle. It’s a minimum.

[Pashmina @pashmina]

Justice and truth will prevail.

[Pashmina @pashmina]

@karri_tweets @denniscessan Surely there is an AI CommSlayer style app out there for videos

[Pashmina @pashmina]

If you control $100B+ and claim there’s “nothing worth building,”
what you’re really saying is:
“I don’t trust my organization to execute.”

[Pashmina @pashmina]

Public markets punish visible failure more than invisible decay.
That’s why factories don’t get built and spreadsheets do.
The incentive is cowardice with plausible deniability.

[Pashmina @pashmina]

$AAPL didn’t become great by returning capital. It became great by risking it. Buybacks are an admission that courage is now scarcer than cash.

[Pashmina @pashmina]

@HHS_Jim @grok how much in payments via ACF annually?

[Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill @HHS_Jim]

We have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota.

You have probably read the serious allegations that the state of Minnesota has funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to fraudulent daycares across Minnesota over the past decade.

Today we have taken three actions against the blatant fraud that appears to be rampant in Minnesota and across the country:

1. I have activated our defend the spend system for all ACF payments. Starting today, all ACF payments across America will require a justification and a receipt or photo evidence before we send money to a state.

2. Alex Adams and I have identified the individuals in @nickshirleyy's excellent work. I have demanded from @GovTimWalz a comprehensive audit of these centers. This includes attendance records, licenses, complaints, investigations, and inspections.

3. We have launched a dedicated fraud-reporting hotline and email address at https://t.co/rqjoFUD3kZ Whether you are a parent, provider, or member of the general public, we want to hear from you.

We have turned off the money spigot and we are finding the fraud.
@ACFHHS @HHSGov