"I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say." (Flannery O'Connor).

I still don’t know what a secular tailwind is. And at this point, I’m too afraid to ask.

It’s giving Succession but with more emotional stability and a better tech stack. Incredible what the Moment team has built and they’re just getting started! . Also excited to have my former co-worker and soulmate, @janatindex along for the journey.

“That is the quiet magnificence of our republic: prosperity has spilled so far past the castle moat that a billionaire’s Tuesday looks a lot like Tuesday everywhere else.”. Incredible perspective on the benefits of focusing on general prosperity vs relative prosperity.

RT @jestermaxxing: date: so, what do you do for work?.me (mouth full of food): robot child abuse. (swallowing) smack 'em with signs and shi….

How to spot a VC conversation too dumb to continue:. (1) The VC assumes “this doesn’t need to exist” despite having only known about it for 18 seconds. (2) The VC puts forward an alternative solution that is dumb and/or wrong despite having only thought about it for 18 seconds.

Feels like everyone is interested in EVERYTHING these days. From AI to robotics, manufacturing, semis, biotech, crypto, longevity, etc. You used to have people who only talked about / read about / wrote about one thing but, increasingly, everything feels more woven together.

Every generation needs a rallying cry.

RT @APompliano: I recently came across a father of five children who is trying to build a business using his skills as a woodsmith. He bui….

How to be happy in 2025 (apparently). Step 1: Pick a group to hate .Step 2: Decide what you think they think.Step 3: Argue with that.Step 4: Declare yourself the winner.

God Bless America.

The day the tech world stood still.

I’ve been creating slop for decades.

I’ve come to the conclusion that politicians are just grumpy people who get into office and make up laws for whatever stuff is making them grumpy. Regardless of whether it’s a problem worth the paper it’s printed on. Zero data, agenda, or plan. Just vibes. The grumpiest of vibes.

The SF homelessness problem is getting out of control.

And what I'm most excited for is how we adapt. Life will improve, outcomes will advance more quickly, we'll do more than we could have imagined. AI inspires in me a lot of feelings, but one that is critically and absolutely absent is "doom.".

But they won't change so quickly that we can't adapt.

Similarly, I think the massive web of complexity instilled in the existing operational paradigm of human labor + digital status quo will keep unwieldy overnight AI transformation at bay. That doesn't mean things won't change. They will! In both glorious and horrifying ways.

But software left a lot untouched:. - 90% of US healthcare providers still rely on fax machines.- 40% of construction firms still use paper for daily reporting.- 55% of freight brokers still coordinate shipments via phone calls. And on and on. .

Software has provided massive productivity gains to uncountable processes and improved lives in the process. AI will do the same, only exponentially more so.

Which is also something @BrendanFalk saw. The economic model of tackling massively complex interwoven enterprise system only makes sense when you have opportunities where the end user can pay a LOT.