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A high signal low noise stream of thoughts from @ADYK_41 about work, startups, products, people and society at large.
Joined September 2025
People who swore by Sora 2 a few weeks back are calling OpenAI this generation's MySpace.
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Because of the way LLMs are built, today's mind-blowing model will almost surely never hold its advantage in the market for long. Whatever studio is ahead today, is surely to be back with the crowd tomorrow. We only need to think back a year or two.
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As we look to rightfully blame the poor regulation of the ultrarich for society's demise; we must not fail to point out the complicity of everyday consumerism in the equation. People don't consume in their best interest. There's power in how we consume & most people wield this
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We should absolutely do this for all companies, public and private, maybe even double this to like 20-21%, on every dollar they make
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May I fund you?
Young VCs today say itās impossible to meet founders offline. Back in my day, Iād walk up to a random person building a tech company and politely ask: āMay I deploy capital into you?ā 98% yes-rate. Manners matter. So does a fund with dry powder.
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The reason why people have a knee jerk reaction and shoot down most criticisms of capitalism is that they mistaken other concepts for capitalism. Some think buying and selling or even having money is capitalism. Some think being for-profit is what capitalism is. Some think,
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The problem with capitalism is that it's sole aim is to maximise the return of capital. This means that it will squeeze the society it operates in till there's nothing left. ESG frameworks were Big Capital's solution to this problem. But it has not worked.
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Netflix seems to have a true āgive a sh*tā product culture. One of my favourite product details is that theyāre the only streaming service with the concept of āoriginal languageā. This means that you can switch between shows and always hear the audio in the language it was
One fascinating thing about Netflix is that every. single. part. of the user experience is better than their competitors. Every click. Every pixel. Literally everything And every piece of content is worse The UX won. And it wasnāt close Thereās a lesson there
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That AI is still here is one of the reasons I'm super skeptical of most of the AI promises/features I see in product releases today. That & the fact that my team has used AI to do amazing work & we know how much human ingenuity was needed. Most AI promises today are a hoax.
@MartinGTobias Still searching for an AI EA that gets real-world workflows right. Most miss the nuance and context. Has anyone actually found one that handles the basics without constant supervision?
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On Jevon's Paradox. I hope people realize/remember that no singular concept can explain the economy.
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series a founder telling pre-seed founder how the game works
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Contrary to the way the founders in this event have behaved, effective networking is the consequence of great connection. It cannot be forced. And without first socially bonding, great connection is extremely difficult to achieve.
Go to founder events. - Everyone's pitching. - Everyone's networking. - Everyone's 'building something big.' I leave exhausted. Realized: I don't actually like most founders. I like the 5% who are honest about struggling. The rest feel like performance art.
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The emdash isnāt even the biggest AI tell. Not even close. Itās this peculiar structure: This isnāt just <x mundane phrasing >. Itās <y more hyperbolic phrasing>. This misconception isnāt just an attack on the emdash. Itās an assault on our right to punctuate freely.
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VC foolishness comes for everyone
and here we are, struggling to raise money for a product that can make chip simulations 10x faster
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For founders who want to understand VC speak, the best account to follow is @StephNass of OpenVC. He lays it out as clearly as you need.
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The reason typically early in their career founders sometimes have an entitlement issue with VCs is that VCs are not incentived to tell the truth about how their craft works. VCs signal the cute stuff (build something people want, focus on your customer) and leave out the more
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Writing as a format only thrived because it was a cheap easy way to transmit ideas. Today, video content is transmitted cheaply enough and the UX of watching someone talk beats reading words on a paper. We'll always have intellectuals but they'll switch how they communicate.
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