Cal 🧊

Building something new. past: vc, pe, startups.

[Cal 🧊 @techbycal]

In this new world of noise, the most valuable skill will be focus

[Cal 🧊 @techbycal]

What can I make with the stuff in my fridge, except the stuff is all the AI slop I've created/compiled

[Cal 🧊 @techbycal]

Me every time I give an agent access to an account:

[Cal 🧊 @techbycal]

The new spotify app icon is terrible

[Cal 🧊 @techbycal]

There’s a difference between being a great person and being a good person. It is even more evident now.

People who are meant to accomplish great things are great people. People who care about others are good people.

[thoughtlesslabs @thoughtlesslabs]

It is so over for devs and any software company. My single person setup is better than all FAANG

Agents running: 100 in parallel
Tokens daily: 3,000,000,000
Commits daily: 2,000,000
LoC daily: 55,000
Products started: 200
Products shipped: 0

This is the future.

It is

[Cal 🧊 @techbycal]

bruh.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Today, we closed our latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital at an $852B post-money valuation.

The fastest way to expand AI’s benefits is to put useful intelligence in people’s hands early and let access compound globally.

This funding gives us resources to lead at scale. https://t.co/sY7YNUPSYO

[Cal 🧊 @techbycal]

@tbpn @mcuban True, and I’ll go a day without access to my own food bc I kept postponing the House OS update

[Cal 🧊 @techbycal]

@anothercohen @twhite VC’s seeing their founders in Forbes 30u30

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

If we don’t explain science to the public, others will fill the gap with nonsense.

[Cal 🧊 @techbycal]

@fredmgrier @CityofSanDiego Moniker is my go-to in SD

[Cal 🧊 @techbycal]

Might just be me, but if @Uber ‘s recording my ride they should be able to get me my phone back

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

men, 2026 is the time to get our shit together. the modern world has made human slop of us. fertility rates are down 62%. metabolic disease afflicts 35%. obesity has hit 40%.  63% are not having sex weekly. testosterone is dropping 1% every year. 42% over forty have erectile dysfunction. sexlessness has doubled to 24%. enough. fucking enough.

reject fast food, junk food, vaping, gambling, porn, nicotine, sleep deprivation, phone addiction, and excessive scrolling. these are your enemies. this is dopamine extraction. they are mining you for profit and leaving you weak and miserable. they are predators and you are their prey.

no, not just this once. no, not in moderation. no, it’s not living life. it’s suicidal and deranged behavior.

sleep. get jacked. eat well. set limits. be consistent. build the schedule. put on autopilot. don’t let your mind rationalize. replace inner weakness with systems strength.

don’t listen to other people’s criticisms. they’re projecting their own stuff onto you. straighten up. let it roll off of you.  be great. be unabashedily you. maintain friendships with those who make you better. who inspires you to be your best self. do not continue to hang out with people who encourage debauchery.

maintain good posture. stand tall. get up from your desk and walk around, stretch, do light exercises.

do these things to reclaim your self respect. be a sovereign person. do not be owned by evil companies or influence. do not listen to the critics. build your life systems. make them habits. don’t let yourself talk you out of it. as you gain strength, it will require less energy to maintain.

[Lupin @lupinxart]

i think having small friendly interactions with strangers is so important for humanity.

[Celestara @celestaracosmos]

Never quit something with great long term potential just because you can't deal with the stress of the moment.

[jack @jack]

the act of creation is the only thing that justifies existence

[Cal 🧊 @techbycal]

When you thought you'd switched to the cheap model to do all of the easy stuff:

[Cal 🧊 @techbycal]

@bryan_johnson

[Cal 🧊 @techbycal]

@awealthofcs @twhite 4. All are necessary for widespread adoption

[Deedy @deedydas]

Being a founder used to mean something.

It meant you had an idea so bold that you had to quit your awesome job to do it. An insight so large that only a separate entity could will it into existence. An mountain so difficult to climb that you're willing to commit 7+yrs to 24/7 days to make it happen.

Today, it's not that.

1) People treat "founder" as a promotion. A status symbol. "I'm CEO bitch" energy. A career path after Stanford.
2) Founders take retirement-level secondary ($10M+) sometimes without even having PMF at Series A.
3) Acquisitions / acquihires with little to no revenue can be pretty for founders with management payouts leaving employees hanging.
4) Ex-founders who have failed can make so much in angel checks or funds they run on the side, and fail up to great roles.
5) Playbooks for fundraising are so well known that if you're in the "in" club, you can do it on vaporware. Due diligence is light. Most VCs don't / can't even check your code. And have a lot of dry powder they need to deploy.

This isn't a critique, just an observation.

In many ways, it IS the best time to be a founder. But it also makes the signal to noise ratio so low for genuinely innovative founders who don't know how to "play the game".

[Cal 🧊 @techbycal]

Can't believe I'm still paying for Midjourney when Veo is free and way better at creating videos