my personal geriatric millennial shrine is to animal collective but the objectively correct answer in the rearview mirror here is “all my friends”

the alignment problem

if you’re on a cross-functional product team, has AI made collaboration easier or harder?

I have a hard time imagining what it would feel like to lose sight of earth

i would like to be a better person than this but it turns out I immediately think less of someone the moment I see them walk into a blank street coffee

I feel like AI-generated text+code is probably net-positive for society and AI-generated images+video is probably a net-negative

slipping this diagram into totally irrelevant discourse just to show off how big my brain is

one of my firmest beliefs about doing life well is that every few years you should do something that scares the absolute shit out of you

if you live in a city other than the one you grew up in, how do you think it has changed you?

Inquiring minds want to know.

I wish it were easier to connect with our glorious cybernetic hivemind without staring at a screen. Who’s building this??

it has come to my attention that my most persistent unconscious tick may not be normal

first up: waymo is good, actually. blocking it is dumb. yes, there are trade-offs. but jobs are fungible, lives are not. yes, dollars leave the local economy — so negotiate reinvestment on those terms, don't block it altogether.

so, what do you guys think of ai

splitting my time between twitter and bluesky so they can get my lib takes and you guys can get my conservative takes

I’m fascinated by the difference in cultural timbre of artemis II vs. spacex

ai horseshoe theory seems to me both the labs and the doomers are selling the same idea of where ai is headed

saw a bald eagle in prospect park today

build apps that bring you good news

my fiancées closest friends are all named Sarah and for some reason they refuse to refer to each other by last name

what softwares are my user research homies working with these days?

built myself an ios app with primitive that tells me whether I can walk, run, or dilly dally to make the train

a tax on QSBS is a tax on worker ownership. this NYS proposal is not the progressive move they think it is.

no really, better weather is coming 🌞and you should be the first to know🌞 Perfect Day is a weather app that emails you as soon as your perfect day is on the forecast how do you define your perfect day? with a poem, ofc perfectday.nyc

open-ended composability is the norm in advanced professional tooling and in children’s toys, but it’s rare in between

if you thought "taste" was an odd fit for silicon valley's obsession, wait until they discover that what they really want is "theory of mind"

the upcoming betaworks camp theme is the most exciting one yet—agent systems I’m grateful to be a part of the betaworks community. there is no greater center of gravity for oddball creative founders thinking at frontier of possibility

many of today’s problems with coding agents were foreseen decades ago

relistening to user study sessions > podcasts about startups

the rumors are true, hmu

I’d be very curious what the post:reply ratio is here vs twitter

Saying LLMs are worthless/pernicious because they sometimes make mistakes & is causing a general decline in reading skills (true) is like saying Google Maps is worthless/pernicous just because it sometimes gives you bad directions & has caused a general decline in human navigation skills (also true)

startups! how has AI code-gen changed your team’s approach to collaboration? how have you adapted your team workflows? what are the second order effects?

woah, bunch of new followers here all of a sudden, did I miss something? hi 👋

ngl building a company is the hardest thing I’ve ever done

I believe strongly in permissionless innovation and also that I specifically should not be allowed to code

kinda messed up that steve jobs is known for the "bicycle for the mind" metaphor when it was bill atkinson who built hypercard and steve jobs who killed it

I am building end-user programming for AI agents because limiting what gets built to the tiny group of people with technical knowledge limits us as a species.

I love the way this book vaguely feels like it was written for grade school students at the same time that it’s a universal reference point for the most intelligent people I know

the week in pictures (new york, I love you)

bsky wednesday?

how to design for emergence 1. become intimately, brutally familiar with the real world problem space—develop an in situ fingerfeel for it, dunk your whole body in it

A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.

babe wake up, bret victor dropped a video on public space (?!) youtu.be/PixPSNRDNMU?...

what if "you can just do things" was an app? Whole Earth AI is a project-based learning tool I built it to explore 2 questions: 1. what new ux patterns do LLMs enable? 2. what might the montessori method applied to software for adults look like? here's what I learned youtu.be/4F1QOPbFpzY?...

if you’re a startup founder I have a 10 minute favor to ask you (and you’ll get a peek at what i’m building) please dm 🫶

I like it over here and I don’t blame anyone for wanting to be here but i’m also not totally convinced that all the sane people cordoning themselves off in a separate smaller network is helping the insanity of our overall situation

who is exploring what end-user programming means in the AI era? I want to find the folk thinking beyond vibe coding

dogfood is great but startups that build for startups get to eat cheeseburgers

I thought this was really beautiful www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWlX...