Roote

Fellowship for ambitious frontier people. Accelerate yourself:

[Roote @roote_]

End of an era. 🫡

[Rhys @RhysLindmark]

I'm officially ending Roote!

Proud of the fellows for their relentless energy & curiosity.

Proud of myself for creating the How Everything Evolved YouTube series.

Grateful to have some time to focus on my health.

Full post below. ❤️

[Anmol Singh @AnmolShips]

day 2 YC Hackathon

Introducing Swarm

I waste 80% of my time manually doom-scrolling Instagram to find viral reel formats for my 12 marketing clients. Traditional scrapers hit CAPTCHAs and break. Single AI agents are just too slow.

So I built a self-healing, multi-agent hive mind that runs 9 concurrent browser agents across every platform.

@browser_use #browser_use

[Artem @ArtemKislukhin]

luck is just probability × proximity.

you can’t control probability. but you can engineer it through proximity.

if you feel "unlucky," you are probably just isolated. you’re the smartest person in a room that is too small.

we built null fellows to fix the density problem for European builders.

don’t leave your environment to chance. watch this.

https://t.co/T9O3aRRItU

[Roote @roote_]

Evergreen.

[Haseeb ＞|＜ @hosseeb]

One of the underappreciated secrets to winning in any new sector is: just stick around.

If you just stick around long enough, the losers blow up early. Then the winners retire early. So eventually you win by just doing the work when nobody else can or wants to.

When people ask me how we built Dragonfly to became one of the biggest VCs in crypto, this is mostly the answer. We didn’t start with a big brand or any obvious advantages. Few people in the crypto world knew who I was before Dragonfly.

But we just kept doing the work. While others got too rich and retired, or just got bored or distracted, we kept doing the work. For 7 years.

It’s kind of that simple.

(This insight shamelessly stolen from @naval)

[Roote @roote_]

Evergreen.

[George Mack @george__mack]

After 7 months of writing, I finished my essay!

I think agency might be the most important idea of the 21st century

https://t.co/6xpyWoYs6V

[Roote @roote_]

Evergreen.

[SPENCER @SP1NS1R]

.@naval's idea of "play" may be the single most important criteria for finding what you want to work on

@paulg said it similarly but more simply: "find something you have an aptitude for and great interest in"

deriving a sense of fun, joy, etc is the prerequisite

[Roots of Progress Institute @rootsofprogress]

Announcing Progress Conference 2025

Hosted by @rootsofprogress together with @abundanceinst @foresightinst @JoinFAI @HumanProgress @IFP @TheIHS and @WorksInProgMag

Speakers include @sama @tylercowen @pahlkadot @bscholl @jasoncrawford

Berkeley, CA • Oct 16-19

[Roote @roote_]

Fund a nooscope to help us understand memetics.

[❤️‍🔥 xiq @exgenesis]

my proposal is out and I'm fundraising
I love this picture

[Roote @roote_]

"This has significantly decreased the time to do my homework, which enables me to work on stuff that actually matters to me."

based

[Elliot @elliotnorrevik]

built the cursor for writing, link in comments

[Roote @roote_]

@ElliotEvNo @thehamedmp 🤝

[Roote @roote_]

Evergreen.

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”

~ Steve Martin

[Roote @roote_]

🚨 Cool opportunity alert. 🚨

Apply by Apr 28! 👇

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

Works in Progress is hosting Invisible College again this August – a residential seminar in Cambridge for people aged 18–22.

If you fit the bill & would enjoy a week about the scientific method, the history of economic growth, & similar subjects, apply!

https://t.co/sMerRzygEB

[Roote @roote_]

@peisistratus Ahhhh, this is great. Thanks for sharing it!

[Roote @roote_]

Great question from a Rootie:

"I feel like I've been outsourcing a lot of my thinking to AI, which I find quite unhealthy. I'm curious to what extent AI is present in your life & your thoughts on where it's acceptable to delegate 'thinking tasks' to AI."

Thoughts?

[Rhys @RhysLindmark]

Excellent shelling point for ambitious young Asians this summer.

15-22 yo. Apply by Mar 31. Link below.

[Roote @roote_]

My answer:

[Nick Linck @nick_linck]

get in while its hot

[Rhys @RhysLindmark]

Hehe 5min NotebookLM podcast generated from RF8 testimonials :)))

[Roote @roote_]

https://t.co/sASsNeyBPK

[Rhys @RhysLindmark]

Recursive island-hopping for impact -maxxing:

For each 4-year chapter:
-Explore 1 yr, exploit 3
-Work w/ 10 great folks, vibe w/ 100, level up

Nine chapters:
-High school (14-18)
-College (18-22)
-Job 1 (22-26)
-J2 (26-30)
-J3 & J4 (30-35, 35-40)
-J5 & J6 (40s, 50s)
-J7 (60+)

[Roote @roote_]

Evergreen.

[Sam Altman @sama]

Pattern I've noticed in very impactful people: Spend ~1 year exploring broadly, ~4 years relentless focus executing on the most interesting direction, repeat.

[Roote @roote_]

Excellent article on universal flu vaccines from Jasmin :)

[Jasmin Kaur @JasminKaur_]

Imagine a world where flu is no longer a constant, unpredictable threat.

My latest piece with @RyanDuncombe  on the quest for developing universal flu vaccines now live @AsimovPress

From the looming threat of H5N1 to the yearly burden of winter flu, why are we still stuck in a reactive cycle—hoping that the next viral mutation doesn’t trigger the pandemic?

The relentless pursuit of pan-influenza vaccines must define the next frontier in human health.