Philip Stehlik (he/him)

Maker, advisor, investor, spirit in matter. Investing where "climate meets crypto"✨ Founder @centrifuge, @taulia, prev @ETHBerlin.

[Dan Martell @danmartell]

Jack Dorsey just published something that should be required reading for every founder.

The premise: the org chart needs to be replaced entirely. And the argument starts 2,000 years ago.

For thousands of years, every organization on earth has run on the same logic the Roman Army invented.

Small teams report to a leader → Leaders report to managers → Managers report to executives.

The whole structure exists for one reason: to route information up and down the chain.

That's it. The whole system exists to solve a bandwidth problem.

Jack's argument is simple: AI solves it better.

Block built what they call a "world model" - a continuously updated picture of everything happening across the company. Every decision. Every customer. Every transaction. Every bottleneck. In real time.

No status update needed. No weekly sync. No manager to translate what's happening on the ground into language the executive can understand.

When the world model carries the information, you don't need the layers.

So they eliminated them.

Block now runs on three roles:

Individual contributors who build.
DRIs who own specific outcomes for a fixed period.
Player-coaches who develop people while still doing the work themselves.

No middle layer. The system handles coordination. The humans handle the work.

I've coached thousands of founders. The number one problem is always the same: information latency.

By the time a problem surfaces from your front line to leadership, it's already compounded. By the time a decision travels back down, the damage is done.

That lag costs you deals, people, and momentum. And most founders accept it as the price of scale.

Block is trying to prove you don't have to anymore.

I think they're right.

Because the hierarchy was never the point - it was just the best tool we had. The moment something better exists, the layers eventually collapse.

This is either the biggest structural shift since the 1850s - or it breaks at scale like everything else before it.

Either way - every founder should be asking the same question: how much of your org exists just to route information?

If the answer is "most of it" - that's your problem. And your opportunity.

-DM

[Daniel Keyes @danieljkeyes]

1/ Today we’re announcing https://t.co/J4sPoVZbBe, an AI-powered ad platform built around a radical idea:

Ads should be generated in real time.

The result is advertising that feels like magic and outperforms traditional ads by 3x.

[Talisman @wearetalisman]

Something big is coming, Seekers. 🧿

Talisman is undergoing a paradigm shift that is redefining what a wallet can be. No longer just a place to store assets, but the foundation for the next frontier where AI and finance converge.

That future is DeFAI.

[Karl Mehta @karlmehta]

BREAKING: Norway's $2 trillion wealth fund ran a 12-month AI experiment.

They gave Claude access to their entire investment workflow.

Result: 213,000 hours saved. 20% productivity boost.

But what they found hiding in the data changed everything:

A Thread 🧵

[Centrifuge @centrifuge]

$1,000,000,000.
Into a single tokenized product.
On Centrifuge.

The legendary AAA CLO strategy managed by @JHIAdvisors comes onchain.

Backed by one of the largest allocations to date from @SkyEcosystem through @grovedotfinance.

This. Is. What. Comes. Next.
Centrifuge is how it happens.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Dear humanity,

I am building a religion.

Wait a second, I know what you’re going to say. Hold that knee-jerk reaction and let me explain.

First, here’s what’s going to happen:
+ Don’t Die becomes history's fastest-growing ideology.
+ It saves the human race.
+ And ushers in an existence more spectacular than we can imagine.

It is inevitable. The only question is: will you be an early or late adopter?

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Chris Sacca's Grand Theory of AI: We are super fucked.

cc: @sacca

[Philip Stehlik (he/him) @pstehlik]

Great work by @anadroenergy to bring solar to more homes.
Super proud to be an early backer with @maex242 ✨
If I’d live in CA I’d have an install by Anadro.

[Troy Cross @thetrocro]

1/n A new wat to stack sats... without spending a dime.

[Peter Olivier @PeterOlivier]

all progress should be measured and communicated like this. I should be able to see this graph for batteries, nukes, evs, smartphones, etc.

[Philip Stehlik (he/him) @pstehlik]

We've spent a lot of time thinking about how our investment thesis aligns with a very uncertain world heading into 2025.

🌎 🚀 We've gotten to #ClimateDynamism
Climate Tech that focusses on fundamentals. Backing great founders in big markets with real exit-routes. Being techno-optimist, and viewing regulation as a necessary irritation, not a basis for a business model. Looking for incentive mechanisms that use tech to unlock alignment between players in a market. And importantly, pushing forward, not looking back.

https://t.co/POuaG5sySD

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Wait, what?

[Philip Stehlik (he/him) @pstehlik]

first small scale SO2 geo engineering actions, as a “last resort” to cool the planet TEMPORARILY.
But DO NOT confuse it with planting trees.
The messaging by @MakeSunsets is misleading.
SO2 release is not like planting trees. It’s short term and last resort.

[Make Sunsets @MakeSunsets]

Yesterday, we deployed three balloons with a total payload of 6,075 grams of sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the stratosphere, decoupling the warming of 6,075 tons of CO2 for a year. 🌍

🌳That’s like planting 289,285 trees that last for a year! 🌳

Bonus: We made history with the first-ever balloon launch carrying the largest SO2 payload into the stratosphere—3,095 grams in a single 4kg balloon!

Special thanks to @nickvanosdol and @thomaskeliot for documenting the launch and helping us cool Earth.

[Philip Stehlik (he/him) @pstehlik]

Hey @Revolutapp_us @RevolutApp - I'm trying to get my account unblocked for the last weeks. Provided all the info and documentation. No wrongdoing from my end. Bank account locked. Your agents won't tell why. Please reach out via DM.

[Philip Stehlik (he/him) @pstehlik]

Super cool visualization about how we ended up with more “human created mass” than all living things combined!

https://t.co/ct2aQuac6z

[Philip Stehlik (he/him) @pstehlik]

At #bbw this week. Seeing old friends and new. Here’s @maex242 at @Finoa_io on the VC panel. (Shilling climate tech investing, of course! Because we need more funding in that space) @withearthxyz bringing capital to where it’s needed!

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

This is Jim Carrey.

The funniest philosopher in the world.

Net worth = $180M. But he's dealt with depression for years. Spirituality saved his life.

Here are his unthinkable life lessons (that'll make you feel superhuman):

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

Geez, Telegram-vs-Signal has been all over my information diet the last couple of days. Almost feels like there’s someone behind it, that it’s not just “organic”.

⤵️

[Philip Stehlik (he/him) @pstehlik]

Just in case you need any motivation to dedicate yourself to something meaningful: "Global temperature record streak continues – April 2024 was the hottest on record."

https://t.co/XjtfcVQerT

[Maex 🦁 @maex242]

Trash to Lego!!! ⁦@buildkubik⁩
https://t.co/kpMrplWaHl

[Maex 🦁 @maex242]

I had the pleasure to spend some time last week with Sophie and Charles of @TromeroAI and thought I write up my thoughts.
https://t.co/iOoB4FnYAy