Rob Salty

Internet user. YouTube one-hit wonder.

[ted @tednotlasso]

best friend is a PM and is back at work after 5 months maternity leave

she is shocked at how many coworkers / partners have outsourced critical thinking and now copy pasta claude

“feels like they’re not using their brain, very frustrating”

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane.

Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread

https://t.co/hjSAYXUuGp

[Nick #RespiratorsFilterAllPathogens😷 Anderegg @NickAnderegg]

You ever see a graph and think “wow that’s bad!”, then realize the scale is standard deviations from our modern baseline and basically shit yourself? Wanna?

Well, have I got the graph for you!

[Erik @e_cdalton]

I made this to mock the modern “bald plus beard” look, but god damnit if Costanza doesn’t look great here

[Rob Salty @robosalt]

@NoFilm_Analysis u don’t need to win ur league if u don’t pay out

[ben 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏆 @bnwkr]

imagining a 74 year old judge reading this after a long week

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

A theory I'm testing out about AI, work, and the future of companies ...

I have for months been obsessed with Alfred Chandler's The Visible Hand, a classic business-history book that argues that 19th century technology—the telegraph, train—created an explosion of real-time sales and inventory-information challenges, which required the creation of a new org charts with something called "middle managers." Thus, technology birthed managerial capitalism.

Thematically, Chandler's insight is that technology doesn't just change jobs; it changes how jobs are organized in relation to each other; which is to say, tech changes how companies are structured.

So, how might AI restructure the firm? Here's one stab at an answer: The telegraph/train created a profusion of information, which required managers. But AI's greatest skill is synthesizing information that's already been created. I think that's one reason why new companies are getting rich faster with unusually small staff. The "visible hand" of professional managers is being replaced, at the margin, by the "invisible hands" of digital platforms and AI assistants that don't so much destroy work as they allow new firms to build lean human-AI workflows that are qualitatively different than the larger bureaucracies in their industries.

[Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos]

Toddlerslop is all over TikTok https://t.co/LDzYgO2wtc

[Tom Haberstroh @tomhaberstroh]

Second-generation players in the draft outperform draft slot expectations by 26%. More here: https://t.co/mvvM86h7MV

[Mark Potash @MarkPotash]

Jalen Brunson joins Quinn Buckner as the only players to win an Illinois state title (Stevenson 2015), NCAA title (Villanova 2016, 2018) and NBA title. Buckner won with Thornridge (1971, 1972); Indiana (1976); and the Celtics (1984). He also won an Olympic gold medal (USA, 1976).

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

tired: introspection (reflect on your relationships)

wired: whooptrospection (download your wearables data, cross reference with face time for everybody in your life, give the whole thing to Claude Code, make a biometric matrix of interpersonal calmness, export to Excel, reverse rank by heart rate, “Siri ask whoever’s at the top of column C to come over for beers to watch game 4”

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

It's the phones

[Tom Zohar @TomZohar]

Hacks finale deserves an Emmy just for that transition from Paris Eiffel to Vegas Eiffel

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

Cover of The New Yorker: “Kings of New York”

[NBABase @TheNBABase]

Jared McCain carries a faded, torn-out page of the book “The Inner Game of Tennis” in his bag and reads it before every game, per @JoelXLorenzi

​The text is a passage called “the rose analogy” about blocking out doubt and trusting your potential.

​Minutes before dropping a playoff career-high 24 PTS against the Spurs last night, McCain read it again.

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

6,244 people are waiting in line at California DMVs. https://t.co/xqVWGaT3RI

[Sanny Rudravajhala @Sanny_Rudra]

ChatGPT to write the copy and half the replies are bots. Dead internet.

[Netflix @netflix]

Netflix is the new home for the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show!

Group judging and Best in Show will air LIVE on Netflix in February 2027.

[Rob Salty @robosalt]

@Lucas_Shaw @ashleyrcarman