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[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

new @Restless_Egg bizness Twitter account so I can separate takes about the nature of shapes from, like, Restless Egg events.

shoutout to the amazing Thom Waite (@tswaite) for covering our inaugural Creative Intelligence festival — read his piece linked below — and to Thomas Moynihan (@nemocentric) for his coverage of Restless Egg and London’s AI art scene (Big Think link in the reply).

seems the world could def use more Thomases. unlike Sams, right @samspike_ @samueldiamond @otherstuff_aam?

[Restless Egg @Restless_Egg]

14/14 Artists building tools, businesses and new ways to make culture. That’s what we’ll share here.

Thank you @southbankcentre, PACT, @tswaite and @Dazed.
Photography: Pete Woodhead / Dazed.

Read the full festival story:
https://t.co/7NYHmsKIfw

[Sam Spike @samspike_]

Hello everyone! I'm currently looking for more work.

I can help you turn what you're building into compelling stories, brands and products.

Ideally freelance/fractional but open to FT in the right role.

I am very: online, AI-native, creative, culturemaxxed.

A bit more about me:

I was co-founder and CEO of Fini, a virtual companions startup. Even before the LLM days, we believed that character and empathy would be pivotal to the future of human-computer interaction. I oversaw product and brand, and led partnerships with @coinbase, @Uniswap, @aave and others, generating $250k annual revenue and reaching 40,000 users.

Before that I initiated and brokered the $5.4M sale of Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web source code at Sotheby's.

I was the founding Artistic Director of Fingerprints, the first major collection of blockchain-native art, backed by a16z and USV, where I devised the collection thesis, oversaw acquisitions and curated numerous artistic projects and exhibitions.

In my early career I held curatorial positions at @metmuseum and the Fitzwilliam Museum, and earned prize-winning art history degrees from UCL and The Courtauld.

Previous clients include: Serpentine Arts Technologies, FOOD, @TonkLabs, Robot Dog Fights. Also a Venture Partner at @Restless_Egg.

Website in bio. DMs are open.

[Mikey Downs @JutlandGhost]

Tucker Carlson has officially invited Nick Land on his podcast for an interview. Will it happen? Only time will tell. The link to the full video is in the comments.

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

do not underestimate how critical this is to the resumption of the ai bull market

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

The shift away from financing GPU clusters with offtake agreements to prepayments means that OCF to EBITDA is the most important metric.

Moves the diligence burden from private credit funds evaluating the creditworthiness of offtaker to the actual customer of the GPU making the prepayment.

Dock to live and historic cluster stability levels will be the most important metrics to customers who are increasingly paying nearly 100% upfront.

Also significantly improves the payback period on GPUs.

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

@lukas_likavcan @noahrshinn @instinct also existence of a functional digital exoskeleton certainly changes stieglerian concepts about tertiary retention, no?

would be cool for someone to revisit his work on memory and retention in light of the personal agent boom

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

ppl invoke friction in appeal to IRL or human side of products but a mistake in not qualifying it further. where does friction reside?

as @lukas_likavcan and i have discussed @noahrshinn’s @instinct creates a fairly frictionless relationship between me and my digital exoskeleton.

this is perhaps good frictionlessness—i don’t want my exoskeleton to be itchy, itchy meaning filled with checking in for flights, coordinating calendars, etc.

it is incumbent or IRL-maxxers to identify and define positive frictions worth holding onto. in my mind those are limit experiences where perception is reconstituted rather than menial tasks

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

@lukas_likavcan @noahrshinn @instinct it really stuck with me!

digital exoskeleton best description of how @instinct feels to me as a power user

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

@speedrun @andrewchen @Restless_Egg thanks to @Kitty__Jenny for sending !

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

@speedrun's @andrewchen laying out the playbook for @Restless_Egg:

cultural distribution, coordination and foresight
are no longer optional ingredients, they are fundamental

[Restless Egg @Restless_Egg]

"People who would have looked like unusual or even bad founder profiles five years ago might suddenly have real advantages...when the underlying technology changes this much, the founder profiles that work should change too."

Read @andrewchen's piece https://t.co/kDge7x6KMG

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

if openai and anthropic are jaylen brown and jayson tatum, who’s who?

[S𝚈̶GNE 🪲 @patallax]

/// Cybernetics is the science of defensible metaphors.

- Gordon Pask

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

@sebkrier

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

i gave my instinct 5 years of therapy…

ai psychosis…but for the ai

@EddFornieles @richardhwrites @jennleungx #boomanddoom

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

@Anyavovaa sf meta is def tougher bcs lot of noise to cut through but @imempowa and @tiatplace are doing great work as is @GrayAreaorg

but for my money the epicenter of arts, culture, tech experimentation is currently in london (it moves!)

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

you are mistaken.

this is buying way too much into the current VC meta about who can and cannot scale.

don’t forget: it used to be a fact that an engineer or a designer couldn’t run a company and while they might make a great cto, it was known that you needed a bloomberg-esque mba in a suit to sit that position.

there are profound changes occurring especially in the london arts / tech scene that have not yet risen to broad popular awareness, but as we move from ai as a capex story towards a demand question attention will turn towards what these people are building

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

you are mistaken.

this is buying way too much into the current VC meta about who can and cannot scale.

don’t forget: it used to be a fact that an engineer or a designer couldn’t run a company and while they might make a great cto, it was known that you needed a bloomberg-esque mba in a suit to sit that position.

there are profound changes occurring especially in the london arts / tech scene that have not yet risen to broad popular awareness, but as we move from ai as a capex story towards a demand question attention will turn towards what these people are building

[Restless Egg @Restless_Egg]

1/14 First tweet from the new official Restless Egg account 🥚

Looking back at the inaugural Creative Intelligence festival at @southbankcentre, helping cement London as a global epicentre of art, technology and culture.

More on this soon. 🧵

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

Thomas Moynihan (@nemocentric) for @bigthink: “Inside London’s strange new AI art scene”

https://t.co/LNa66verB8

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

new @Restless_Egg bizness Twitter account so I can separate takes about the nature of shapes from, like, Restless Egg events.

shoutout to the amazing Thom Waite (@tswaite) for covering our inaugural Creative Intelligence festival — read his piece linked below — and to Thomas Moynihan (@nemocentric) for his coverage of Restless Egg and London’s AI art scene (Big Think link in the reply).

seems the world could def use more Thomases. unlike Sams, right @samspike_ @samueldiamond @otherstuff_aam?

[Restless Egg @Restless_Egg]

14/14 Artists building tools, businesses and new ways to make culture. That’s what we’ll share here.

Thank you @southbankcentre, PACT, @tswaite and @Dazed.
Photography: Pete Woodhead / Dazed.

Read the full festival story:
https://t.co/7NYHmsKIfw

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

@bratton @ElliotLeavy build that (ASI) wall!

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

SF has no culture.

This statement is true, but why?

By all rights there are plenty of people there who are adorning themselves and their homes with objects of high taste.

But SF really does have no culture, how can this be and why is it so?

Culture is fundamentally connected to leisure and how one chooses to waste time.

But SF has no wasted time: there is no more breakfast there is coffee chat, there is no lunch there is founder meeting, there is no supper, there’s your investor dinner followed by your next event.

So it’s simple really:
a) culture is fundamentally about leisure, waste and the non-productive ways of spending time

and

b) SF has eliminated all non-productive time

therefore

c) having no non-productive time, SF has no culture.

No amount of things acquired can change this.

Finally

d) the great irony of this syllogism is that it is precisely the moments of non-productivity that are critical for spiritual refreshment and new inspiration and so ironically, they are among the most productive.

(SF knows this and it is why they flee to burning man, but this cannot cure the city)

[William from Restless Egg 🥚 @William_at_RE]

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