Aaron Pogue
@AaronPogue
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Author of Taming Fire, Surveillance, and The Arcade. Founder of https://t.co/5ACe9fHTPN.
Oklahoma City, OK
Joined January 2010
If you want to check out my books, go to Amazon (or your favorite bookstore) and search my name. Start with Taming Fire if you like books with dragons. Start with Surveillance if you're into crime and tech. Start with The Arcade if you're into code, art, or entrepreneurship.
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RT @iroasmas: (while jesus is washing the apostles’ feet). judas iscariot: we could build a large foot washing machine. it could wash 100 f….
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The most fun image & video creation tool in the world is here. Try it for free in the Grok App.
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Oh! I also got the wet wrap on the finished version of the Crooked Shepherd. You can see the stain we settled on and the cord that's still drying.
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Walked 3 miles, patched some drywall, met a poet for coffee, worked out my net worth for sad reasons, wrote a long email to my wife and mother, updated a README, and talked to a maintenence man who's going to save me $18k (maybe). Busy day. Stressful in its way, but productive.
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RT @DarbraDawn: my therapist said this to me and it hit me like a brick, “if it hadn’t been for cotton-eyed Joe, I’d been married a long ti….
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Would we ever trust Disney with The Dragonswarm?. I think they could do The Arcade. But I'll bet they'd neuter my dragons or bosswash my princess if I let them.
Leadership at Disney is pressing Hollywood creatives for movies that will bring young men (ages 13-28, aka Gen Z) back to the brand in a meaningful way, specifically original concepts. Sources say Disney has been seeking new IP and pitches such as splashy global adventures and
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Dragon Kites are go-karts in the sky! A flying car that doesn't require a pilots license! Fly from your driveway to the shops and back again, towed gently behind a steerable drone. Risks:.- Sudden, catastrophic loss of founder (but they have insurance for that).- Legal liability.
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It was my dad's goal to live his life in an A/B civilization, and he adjusted his comfort level however was necessary to make that happen.
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I spent my first six years of life in Fort Worth, TX, which was C/D in the early '80s. Everywhere I've lived since then has been A or B, with a surprising mix of rural and suburban.
simon civilization scale. A: You can leave keys in your car.B: You can leave car unlocked.C: You have to lock car.D: You have to lock car and conceal any valuables.E: You cannot keep anything in your car.F: E + and you have to leave it unlocked so they don't smash the window.
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Can confirm.
How your time as a startup founder is split up:. 90% sales.90% marketing.90% product.90% operations.90% support.90% strategy.90% recruiting.90% vibe coding.90% posting on X daily.90% everything else.
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Exelichai Game Arcade is a new game architecture, a powerful database-as-a-service, a marketplace for modular game assets and mechanics, and a catalog for gamers. It's Roblox on steroids. It's Draft2Digital for games. Risks:.- Execution (the core architecture is a novel,
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is a browser-based "Cursor for normies" with powerful Github integration behind-the-scenes but a super simple UI that offers cartoon avatars the personalize and contextualize the AI agents. Risks:.- Thin wrapper/no moat (although the character IP for the
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My primary sales technique is Own the Downside. I only really sell projects that I would have to execute, and I'm very picky about where I spend my time. By the time I'm pitching a project, the upside is an easy sell. So I go focus on the downside to see if it's worth doing.
Believe it or not, it's usually wise to walk investors through the risks involved in your startup. Investors know there's risk. If there wasn't, your valuation would be billions of dollars right now. And if you're vague about the risks you seem glib, or worse still, clueless.
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On Reformation:.
I grew up surrounded by the kind of Baptists who are disgusted by the notion of Mardi Gras or NFL cheerleaders or girls in bikinis at the beach. I read the Old Testament prophets saying, "God wanted you to delight in his Creation! He gave you celebrations, and you turned them.
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I grew up surrounded by the kind of Baptists who are disgusted by the notion of Mardi Gras or NFL cheerleaders or girls in bikinis at the beach. I read the Old Testament prophets saying, "God wanted you to delight in his Creation! He gave you celebrations, and you turned them.
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Sometimes, I say, "Everybody is allowed to be wrong.". I got this information from Jesus, who said, "Father, forgive them, because they don't know what they're doing.".
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May your name open doors today. May you find you're friends with power.
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Oops. That one's pretty sloppy. I saved a different final one for Taming Fire, but here's the sequel:
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I just uploaded my book covers to get promotional animations, so this is good news for me, but PSA:.
all your grok imagine prompts are public btw.
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