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Thinking about how to use technology for good. Network philosopher, systems designer, engineer, founder @TinyCloudLabs / prev @SpruceID @OpenAI.

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Many of my tweets are just koans, but there will be a essays (or vibe-essays) to follow the ideas I really care about
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[roon @tszzl]

are you prepared for the violence of everything on earth becoming legible

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@trq212 Been making readme.htmls and it’s excellent for humans and agents

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When people collaborate with agentic intermediaries, *someone*has to possess the model of what is going on. Entrusting this to agents doesn’t work well yet because agents today have very transient, mutable models. Starting now is possible if *someone* holds a model of what is being coordinated on

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my gf vibecoded a software tool to help her in her job as a film production manager (ponyfarm). it's brought her [profession] great value. she occasionally gets stuck or mired in complexity so I made

pony-help

an mcp that sends me a tg message when she is debugging, stuck, or has complex architectural decisions. My replies are to her claude instance which helps her get unstuck

1 prompt install

i've found that talking to claude directly is better than telling her what to say to claude.

it's empowering to both of us!

the beginnings of agentic collaboration

life can be a ponyfarm

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Repo link: https://t.co/6aTIyV6k9p

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I’m getting news to today is April 29… the talk is today! FYI

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Speaking at VibeCon today (April 30) at 11:45 EST! Come learn about how you can build interoperable apps and how we do so at TinyCloud. Register/stream it at the link below

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https://t.co/nECgNUmBJ6 is a online vibecoding conference with great speakers from Deepmind, Microsoft, GitHub and more. Excited to share what we’ve been thinking about at TinyCloud

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@Jason I’m in

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@StephNass VC map

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sovereignty

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

pitch me your company in 1 word.

[Gamer Pneuma @PneumaTime]

@OneArmedBoh Real ones hit up the library after school to play RuneScape and AQ on the computers with friends

[Kevin Tanaka @ItsKevinTanaka]

Comedian Pete Holmes shares the simplest mental health tool he's ever used: "Yes, thank you."

Pete was sent advance copies of his own book to send out to reviewers.

When he looked through it, he realised it was three versions old filled with notes to himself, a placeholder word ("flappy") scattered throughout, and entire chapters he'd cut.

"It was just my first book deeply disappointing."

"You feel this like black cloud. You're just sad. Then you're embarrassed. To me it's the feeling and then it's the embarrassment that you have the feeling. It's worse than the feeling."

But instead of spiralling, Pete applied the exact tool he'd written about in that very book.

He said: "Yes, thank you."

And it lifted.

Pete explains why this works and it's simpler than any therapy framework or spiritual practice:

"It just short-circuits your brain if you say yes, thank you to it. And I mean almost instantly in my experience."

Flight delayed? Yes, thank you.

Embarrassed about your own book? Yes, thank you.

He breaks down the psychology behind it:

"Everything [is] attraction and aversion. Aversion is just charging it with all of this push. Like a basketball underwater. So you're giving it all the energy."

When you resist a bad feeling, you compress it. You give it power. "Yes, thank you" does the opposite, it stops the fight.

And you don't need to make it profound:

"It can just be a clean breath and a recognition that you're alive. And maybe you see the sun coming through the window."

Most of our suffering is the layer of resistance we pile on top of it. The embarrassment about the embarrassment. The frustration about the frustration.

"Yes, thank you" collapses that second layer instantly by simply not fighting it.

"Really not debating with the bad feeling. Just saying yes, thank you to it. That's been one of the most powerful things in my life for sure."

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@tautologer This is totally possible, I've been building it. You do have the right insight that the solution is between local and cloud

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OpenClaude

[Chaofan Shou @Fried_rice]

Claude code source code has been leaked via a map file in their npm registry!

Code: https://t.co/jBiMoOzt8G

[Teja Karlapudi @teja2495]

Google could have kept this algorithm private instead of open sourcing it. But they allowed everyone, including competitors, to benefit from their research. That is why I respect Google.

If you did not know, this entire AI era became possible because Google openly published their transformer model research paper.

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@touchmoonflower @peterthiel @pmarca Yeah, its half sci-fi half politcal philosophy. Some people love it, some hate it. Recommend the audio book

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This is one of the core conflicts in the last Terra Ignota book, Perhaps the Stars, and it makes sense, @peterthiel and @pmarca would be utopians

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

Peter Thiel on how the psychedelics revolution changed introspection:

“We stopped going to outer space because we started going to inner space.”

“We landed on the Moon in July, 1969.”

“Three weeks later, Woodstock started— and that’s when the hippies took over the country.”

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Working on something ambitious is like climbing a mountain that’s covered in fog.

You can't see a clear path to the top. You have to take a few steps into the unknown to be able to see the next few steps in front of you. Inevitably, sometimes you’ll end up a local maximum and have to backtrack. That’s fine, just keep moving.