Adam Del
@adam__xyz
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member of the non-technical staff @ https://t.co/rSdMZZ4YyD | creative @duolingo & @hinge | writing culture books that become canon
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Joined March 2009
Strange that the three podcast princes (Ferriss, Huberman, Friedman) who millions of young men turn to for advice on how to live and think are all single and childless, past the age of 40.
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@adam__xyz It seems like the “pro-tech” journalism people were looking for was really “anti-criticism” journalism
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Tech journalism circa 2025 Colossus: We will build a flattering statue of you for all the internet to see. Mario Gabriele: I will write an article about you that makes your wife cancel the divorce. TBPN: Come sit by the fire we won't ask you a single difficult question.
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I'd be so curious to hear @patrick_oshag or @JeremySternLA respond to this @hitsamty 's take. - Is Colossus journalism? - Should pieces like this (framed as magazine features) hold their subjects to account? - Is there any responsibility to bring up their scabs and scars, in
The team at Colossus is breaking something in magazine journalism in a fascinating way. Let me try to articulate. Even just a few years ago, if you wanted to read a beautifully written, exhaustively reported and actually interesting piece on someone shaping a corner of the
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A lot of companies treat writing like marketing, or some kind of surface layer. They should think of it like infrastructure: an investment in alignment, in collective memory, in speed. When you take time to write it down, it's not “making content.” You're figuring out the
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leave your startup. learn filmmaking and cinematography. you'll get hired in a week in sf.
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I often forget how much internet discourse is dictated by NDAs. We only ever hear from the people who are allowed to speak. The conversation in tech is shackled by compliance. And bosses who are threatened by their underlings grabbing the mic, sharing learnings, building their
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internet would be way more interesting if the employees under NDAs could write in public. tech discourse is shackled by compliance. we only ever hear from the people who are allowed to speak.
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zeitgeist these days seems to be pro-growth, pro-tech, pro-america, pro-rich, pro-exit, pro-bro, pro-AI, pro-trump, pro-agency, pro-agents, pro-Sam, pro-Zuck, pro-nicotine, pro-Founders Fund, pro-God, pro-creation, anti-DEI, anti-Hollywood, anti-Greta, anti-communist,
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my favorite uses of AI are private, whimsical, useless, for no one else. un-monetizable. they slow life down. they don't extend me, they compress me. this is "AI that doesn't scale."
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the only courageous thing left to do in tech is publicly make fun of the TBPN boys still waiting
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"speaker phone" should be disabled as a feature across all phones worldwide
If you’re an adult man at an ice cream shop, you shouldn’t be asking to try the different flavors before you order. You know what they taste like. Just pick one. You’re a man.
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before starting an engagement i require the client to listen to neutral milk hotel's "in the aeroplane over the sea" in its entirety while staring at the ocean from a high seaside cliff wearing a hand-me-down parka, wind in their hair
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this is my last nudge for $propaganda to all my friends my goal is generational wealth for all my friends tomorrow, you won't be "early early" anymore, just "early" be "early early "
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Ep. 1 of Best Post Ever: Andrew Ettinger on his viral tweet about sneaking creatine through TSA. Still experimenting with this new format. LMK what you think.
Best Post Ever, Ep. 1: Andrew Ettinger “Flying with the unmarked bag of creatine to make sure TSA is staying sharp” Guest: @ettinger Host: @adam__xyz 🎥 : Ellis Flurry Best Post Ever is a new experiment: part Internet archaeology part comedy. Most of the best ideas die in
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Trying out something new.
Launching a new experiment: interviewing my friends about their best posts ever. This series is part internet archaeology, part comedy. The idea is basically that the internet moves too fast and most of the best ideas and ideas die in the scroll (h/t @david_perell). I want to
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This was the founders fund one five years ago. At least back then, it was original. And this one is way better
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his swag avant-garde
This is what liberal cities are creating. last night this homeless guy tried to have sex w my gf. I was surprised when she said yes but I wasnt shocked. I feel sick. I want to be upset but i cant. I understand his aura is different. and his swag avant-garde
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