Kapp

Culture, tech, health/fitness, nature, economics, travel and good whisky. Founder of Perspective Advisory. 🇺🇸 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇪🇺

[Kapp @richkapp_]

🇵🇹 Today is Portugal’s national day: Dia de Portugal, de Camões e das Comunidades Portuguesas.

The date honours Luís Vaz de Camões, who died on 10 June 1580. He is one of the great names of Portuguese literature, best known for Os Lusíadas, first published in 1572.

Os Lusíadas tells the story of Vasco da Gama’s sea route to India, but it became much more than a travel epic. It became one of the central works of Portuguese identity, memory and language.

Camões is so closely linked to Portuguese culture that Portuguese is still sometimes called “a língua de Camões” the language of Camões.

The day also celebrates Portuguese communities around the world. Officially, 10 June is marked both in Portugal and among Portuguese communities abroad, a nice reminder that Portugal is bigger than the map.

Feliz Dia de Portugal 🇵🇹

[Kapp @richkapp_]

@boisxyz @opensea 👀

[Kapp @richkapp_]

@Teknium it's already sold out, no? i tried like 10 min ago ....
will try again...

[Kapp @richkapp_]

@NousResearch 2nd time i missed this ^^

All good. I was in the nature with my dog for our afternoon walk. Worth it!

Maybe next time. Thanks anyways! Love Hermes agent!! Looking forward to trying the portal!

[Kapp @richkapp_]

@DerekBlueEyes @White_CJ1 @cristthian @NousResearch yeah, it's done, i just tried, too : /

[Kapp @richkapp_]

@coreyhainesco have you experimented with a revenue share model for select projects that are hesitant to put up cash before seeing results?

[0xSero @0xSero]

Best models for your hardware this week.

8-12GB

- https://t.co/5SYi6D56FR incredible model, so fast, so small

16-32GB

- latest Google model, Gemma 12B: https://t.co/TLm2x2l3lk really solid performance up neck and neck with a model 2x its size from a month ago.

Jetbrains new model, best in class on livecode bench

32-96gb

- Nex-N2-Mini GPT style postrain of Qwen-35B it seems to be its class leader caveman style reasoning https://t.co/EL1ePzwI58

- Jackrong’s Qwopus is the #1 overall Q4 of Qwen3.6-27B on our benchmark suite of 5 agent + coding benchmarks (1200 samples total) https://t.co/P1gypZwufi

192gb

- Step-3.7-Flash is hard to beat, high scores, really fast inference, vision capable, later cutoff dates https://t.co/oaVf5wMILx

384gb

- Nex-N2-Pro GPT style post train of Qwen-3.5-397B incredibly strong and #1 on deepswe if their claims are right https://t.co/LsGXZRl6nh

768gb

- very promising post-train of GLM-5.1 that wins out on 8 benchmarks https://t.co/25KElLHEos

[Kapp @richkapp_]

@MarioNawfal Amazing how your tone is so different when it’s a bunch of white dudes vs what happened in Paris.

[Kapp @richkapp_]

@thijsmakes @jackfriks i was just about to recommend this, @jackfriks . I use it often. very good

[Kapp @richkapp_]

This is why I won't live anywhere where there are earthquakes.

You know when a tornado or a hurricane is coming, but you never know when an earthquake will hit.

Hoping the Philippines gets the support it needs right now.

[Kapp @richkapp_]

@Teknium @_markstreeter @Hostinger This is crazy because I literally had issues with hosting her yesterday and decided to move all six of my projects off of their servers.

Time is blocked on my calendar this week to make the move.

I’ll check out vultr. Tx!

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

@adgirlMM Have them run the bill through Claude, or one of the LLMs and ask it what the right price for these services should be. Then reduce that amount and tell the hospital that is what he is willing to pay.

Its not foolproof, but my bet is that they will take it

[Venture Sage @TheVentureSage]

Context switching from an enterprise Product Owner and Scrum Master to a solo founder building Venture Sage has been the ultimate reality check.
​Managing specific phases of the SDLC is one thing; owning the entire lifecycle from scratch completely shifts your perspective. 👇

[Kapp @richkapp_]

@MarioNawfal why would you record that?

[Kapp @richkapp_]

Been paying for @Couchsurfing for years since they held my refrences (memories) hostage (I started in 2016).

they finally have this big new platform redesign, and it's HORRIBLE!

UX is terrible, the app is slow, it's not intuitive to navigate.

Key features are dropped like the ability to turn off ones ability to host. My inbox is full of requests for Porto even though I live 1hr and 20 m inutes away because thier new algo sucks.

dude... wtf?!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The only thing worse than having the CEO knee-deep in building stuff with AI is not having the CEO knee-deep in building stuff with AI.

[Kapp @richkapp_]

Since starting daily walking meditations, I’ve noticed considerable more focus while doing work and being present with my partner and friends.

45 minutes, focused on breath, sounds, smells, and surroundings.

Of course I still think, but when I catch myself, I smile, laugh at myself, and remind myself: this moment is to be here. To observe, to breath, to be hyper aware.

Stress reduction, memory retention, activity time contribution, the rewards go in.

[Andy Galpin, PhD @DrAndyGalpin]

Sam Harris makes a point here that's hard to dismiss: most people can't stay undistracted for 30 seconds. Not because they're lazy — because they've never built the capacity. And that's not a trivial problem.

If your emotional state is just a byproduct of whatever thought randomly surfaces next, you're not really steering anything.

The fix, according to Sam, is learning to notice thoughts as appearances in awareness rather than being identical to them — and mindfulness meditation is the most direct way to start building that skill.

[Kapp @richkapp_]

@Footballtweet Unfollowed and muted for wasting 2 min of my life.

[Kapp @richkapp_]

@PfizerSoze1 @ThePettiestLA Dude, All I was insinuating is that he doesn't flop like these guys do these days.

Not that he was this flawless player or anything.

+ I'm from Chicago. Jordan is my guy.