Just tagged and categorized 5000+ candidates against a 16 question schema. $7 and 15 mins w/ Haiku, 18 cents and 4 mins w/ JEV. Our knowledge graph is about to get a whole lot richer.

crazy that on @united you either pay $0 for super fast @Starlink wifi or you pay $8 to spend the entire flight trying (and failing) to connect to network wifi

I’m moderately optimistic that the data center backlash has peaked. A month ago there were many calls for moratoriums. The discussion feels more nuanced even in the past few weeks, changing from whether to ban to how to develop responsibly. More politicians are leaning in by directly speaking to their constituents about the issue, the concerns, and the safeguards. Developed correctly, data centers can be a benefit to a community. Sentiment on this issue spiraled so quickly with the lack of credible messengers. Communities are understandably skeptical of what the hyperscalers say. They need to hear directly from elected leaders who can acknowledge the tradeoffs, explain the protections, and make the case for responsible development. The politics remains very risky, but leaders are supposed to lead.

instinct feels like poke

we are all becoming labelers

the timing foxbusiness.com/technology/l…

What IQ will AGI have? If it’s less than 120, we are at the singularity.

haun ventures will be high quality signal for the next cycle

GLP-1

psa: the coming week is burning man are ritual of many techbro X accounts, take everything with a grain of salt. im on the way to london.

heard similar from a french founder this week

i'm doing a search for an ai-native coo for a family office, i made the candidates apply by connecting to an mcp with their agent. it's been really fun to watch. i've so many more ideas now.

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my daily reminder to try monaco

RIP Dolly

tokenization of sports teams ecosystem is on the way, like the circular $ in walmart but in communities.

in a truly abundant world does anyone have “status”

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A super smart scientist asked me last week: what's so hard about reshoring general advanced manufacturing (short of TSMC frontier precision chemistry)? Isn't the issue just labor cost? Nope. A toy example to illustrate: We're trying to build a lot of drone motors in America right now, and falling short. It's not a labor cost issue. The work instruction says: this magnet, this adhesive, cure at this temperature, wipe the rotor first. Any competent team can build the station and follow it. But in week 3, motors start failing vibration testing. Some of them, mostly night shift. Also, weirdly, whenever the careful new hire is on station. The adhesive cures differently with humidity, and the dehumidifier cycles differently at night. The new hire wipes the rotor generously, and that leaves a solvent film the adhesive doesn't like very much. Someone who has run a motor line before can figure this out in 10m. Everyone else -- struggle city. The "fix" is two lines in the work instructions: run the dehumidifier continuously, one solvent wipe per rotor. But those lines aren't in the work instruction, and they're not in anyone's! At best the fix becomes a corrective-action report in one line's files, linked to nothing and never read. A motor line rapidly may go from 5 to 40 stations, each with a dozen of these painful stories on the weekly as it grows. "What Shenzhen knows" is not written down in a book whose covers can be sliced off and ingested into a model, it's a few million humidity stories stored in people, and a pace of knowledge-rich adjustment that keeps cost down and yield high. The only way to get it back is work with people who have brought up lines, to reshore and grow the ecosystem of people who have this knowledge, and to capture that knowledge as we build. Lots of people have clever ideas about the data capture/API piece, but we think the business of manufacturing may need equal portions pain tolerance, customer commitment, and cleverness on talent. America needs to solve the other half of reshoring.

VCs with no DPI congratulating themselves on linkedin for distributing K1s on time is one of my greatest pet peeves.