An enthusiastically curious idiot.🦩
State of Miami
Joined November 2012
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Let’s bring wonder back. Stop trying to figure everything out. Let yourself be moved. The cynics are stealing your miracles and your happiness too.
Life is an experience not an exam. Nothing became something and that something is you.
Isn’t that amazing?!
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The common response is “stress free.”
Give me the opposite, please.
I am a salmon swimming upstream. I will give every ounce of my body and soul until there is nothing left to give. AND I LOVE IT.
My life has never had such clarity. I’ve never felt so fulfilled. My only regret with having kids is not having them sooner.
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Young Boys want to BE the protagonist.
Poetry is a much more appropriate literary medium than long-form.
Young boys are being discouraged from getting into reading—and it’s because more books are missing one key element, @sophiah_n reports: theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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Halloween 2026
We made the most of it. We camped in driveways to get out of the rain and made new friends.
🤖 Made with AI
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Just got back from trick or treating our own neighborhood. Better than years past but still fairly quiet.
Positive is my neighbors pretty much shoveled candy, but that’s not the point. The point is that 1 day a year we are a community.
Nearly every old person was so happy to see us and wish more families would pass by.
I’m going to fix this
It's so polarized. Some neighborhoods are completely dead while others are so overrun that little kids are getting pushed around and almost getting hit by cars
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Ok. He's not lying. This is amazing.
I recorded a video last night and gave it to Opus to edit. Below is the result.
(if possible, please ignore the corny aesthetic choices. This is purely experimental. I will not be repeating those but I did ask it to go to town to show me what it can do.)
Now this chart tells a completely different story.
WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.
then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
Dostoevsky’s Father Zossima:
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams."
Loving in the abstract is self-affirming. Whereas, loving in action is messy and imperfect but it’s fucking real.
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Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. teendrama.substack.com/p/som…
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This is how tech works. Top 10 tech companies make up 70% of all of tech’s market cap. The distributions are power-law.
“80% of spend from unprofitable VC backed companies” is a problem if there’s a future where VC stops funding unprofitable companies. The opposite is happening because the rewards are too high (and there’s so much liquidity in our system).
1% of companies represent 90% of AI spending.
Of that 90%, 80% of this spend are from unprofitable VC backed companies.
So, roughly, $0.70-75 of every dollar of AI spending right now comes from AI companies spending VC investment dollars.
As a result, the revenue quality in AI is currently poor. This happened in previous cycles as well, like cloud when early users of AWS were mostly venture backed startups.
The thing, though, is that before AWS could scale and pull thru GCP and others as legitimate cash machines, there were a few clearing events to sort out these brittle revenues.
This is the extrapolation of Ken’s point. We will need to transition from speculative AI spending to consistent, reliable spend that shows up in public market earnings reports.
This hasn’t happened yet because most of the breathtaking revenue growth comes from LPs investing in VC funds who then send it to startups.
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“With your mouth unopened, and things left undefined, you stand at the beginning of the universe.”
This has been known for quite literally thousands of years (TTC).
In startup culture, @paulg and @ycombinator “do things that don’t scale” is gospel. And you know what is the ultimate thing that can’t scale?
Meaning.
Remembering this, particularly as what it is to be human is under assault, may not lead to building a massive tech company but it will undoubtedly improve your personal experience.
As long as there is a gap between what can be measured and what can be felt, humans will thrive. And there’s good news:
Quantification, by definition, is to transition from the continuous to the discrete.
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As long as there is a gap between what can be measured and what can be felt, humans will thrive. And there’s good news:
Quantification, by definition, is to transition from the continuous to the discrete.
"To make them is not to understand them."
Emmanuel Ameisen (@mlpowered) has spent the last 3 years doing interpretability research at @AnthropicAI, looking inside LLMs like Claude to figure out what they're actually doing. As he puts it, models are "grown," not built.
We discuss:
🔸 His discovery that models plan many tokens ahead
🔸 Why anthropomorphizing AI can actually be the right approach
🔸 What the "J-space" reveals about how models think
🔸 How interpretability connects to AI alignment and safety
Listen now 👇
youtu.be/JHo-aiePjoM
