@naveedg @davemorin ooooh -- i like the *new* thing (way more than the old one) -- congrats!
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flaneuring ✍️👉 Beigetreten Ekim 2010
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6 months in.
now a team of 4 ppl.
constantly on the ground in Shenzhen... we have built something incredible.
one you'll experience soon.
but still, no pre-orders. this will be a consumer hardware release unlike any other.
a very unique journey, that i'll be sharing soon.
naveed@naveedg
i'm building a ring to whisper thoughts to. 45 days in.
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that one made me think of you -and some of your recent comments- @PEntremont => 'Entrepreneurship And ADHD': whitman.syracuse.edu/about/newsroom…
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got asked this question almost everyday so lemme answer you once and for all: this is why i've joind @DustHQ -- nothing more, but nothing less.
collaboration is getting to a whole lotta level thanks to AI -- and that's exactly what i'm most excited about 🚀
Stanislas Polu@spolu
Most AI use out there is single agent, single player. I think this is shortsighted. Our hypothesis: collaboration is on the critical path of accelerating companies with AI. Here's why. Even if you're a single agent maximalist, as the time horizon of agents tasks increase, you will necessarily fall back to a collaborative pattern. The agent needs steering from multiple users, or needs to interact with people or other agents (with different capabilities or data access) to make progress. One person cannot steer alone a human-equivalent 3 months project. We've built collaboration in from the first days. Agents and their skills are built collaboratively. Users can share conversations for others to jump in and continue work with their own agents. As we push this further (human mentions by agents, projects where agents, humans and content converge towards a clear work objective), we see more of the hard problems ahead. What does it mean to have >1 humans steering an agent that runs for hours? Where does an agent in need of information ping a human mid-loop while running something else waiting for the answer? Concrete example. You have a project where you collaborate with others. You have access to an agent R that touches data other collaborators are not supposed to see. You want to use R to provide an answer based on that data. So far in Dust we would remove all users who lack access to agent R from the conversation. Brutal, imperfect, but rare enough. As we push collaborative surfaces further, this breaks. Intuitive fix: the agent answers privately and the user decides what to disclose to the group. But what if the answer isn't sensitive, just imperfect, and you want to iterate? Is that steering? Is that a conversation branch? Do we want conversation branches when multiple humans are in the mix? Having collaboration as a principle forces hard questions. And hard questions are... hard. The temptation to cut a single-player product to make things simpler is real, but solving the hard problems is how we'll build the best product that will enable our users not to go faster but literally bend the trajectory of their teams and hence their companies with AI. spolu.sh/notes/20260310…
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@giansegato funnily enough (and this is also prolly what makes life itself more interesting), the 'pinnacle' will vary a lot depending on one's career like:
- publish a stripe press book
- receive a Vogue cover
- exhibit at the MoMa
- gold medal
etc... etc...
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As I’ve written many times, I believe the “offline movement” will be massive in the next 10 years.
BUT it will take a lot more than vogue articles, “offline apps”, and people talking about about how “they hate social media” for it to become a reality.
Everybody loves to call TikTok “poison”. Those same people spend hours on it. It’s all virtue signalling.
Usually you can make something become widespread by making it cool. But this won’t work for the offline movement. If you are offline, who will you brag about being offline to??? What strangers will give you brownie points???
It doesn’t matter if something is cool if you can’t virtue signal it.
Instead, here’s what I think will happen:
Offline MOMENT and PLACES.
You get to enjoy purposeful offline breaks, and then put your Meta glasses back on and record a TikTok about how you are cooler than everyone else because you just had a meal without YouTube and actually looked some people in the eye.
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Adjacent to this, tightening of online social circles will continue.
Group chats have been the new feeds for a long time. This will not change. Not in a world where I can turn any photo of you into a 20 minute long g*ngbang for free.
Which will make the current division between consumers and creators even more long tailed. You’re either for the masses, or you text the same 5 people forever.
That’s the offline movement.
binji@binji_x
that was fast
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first ask yourself: "what's my build/run split?"
then: at the company level.
finally: do the exercise again with one keyword in mind 'deliberate'
the father in me thinks: "man, 'discernment' is a skill/muscle you want your kids to master. period."
Stanislas Polu@spolu
Build vs Run and zero-sumness: a simple framework to reason about how to scale teams post artificial intelligence abundance. Will AI annihilate all head-counts? I posit it's not quite the case especially for run functions that are inherently a zero-sum game in the market. dust.tt/blog/build-vs-…
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@giansegato the french way mister -- the french way. 'coffee and cigarettes' 😉
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drives me crazy to think that france has world class talent, edu and research infrastructure, widespread nuclear energy grid, a permanent seat at the UN security council, global cultural influence, de facto co-rules the EU, state sponsored strategic investments in AI and tech broadly, and yet it's slowly drifting towards irrelevance anyway
bros have been been running a degrowth money hoarding machine on a fiscal deficit for every year since 1975 straight. the state has burned and borrowed money every single year for 50 years
now good luck fixing that with a 1.66 fertility rate and 1.13 debt to gdp ratio
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was listening to @Jessicalessin & @davemorin talk about the '6-7' meme & pretty confident most Gen Alpha don't know there used to be a club (+ shisha bar) on the Champs-Elysees named 'the six seven' (used to work there -- imagine we discover the meme initially comes from there!)
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no words can describe how powerful such a thing is. just try it out. you'll see 🤯
Dust@DustHQ
Today we're introducing Frames: interactive data visualization built directly into Dust agents. Your agents now create customized content your team can explore and share, without coming back to you for every variation.
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one thing i learnt over time (and across 4 continents): life is all about trade-offs. 'ideal' changes constantly (and from one person to another). better make peace with that reality.
Kim ⚡️@0xKimberly
The ideal city: Walkable - like Europe Convenient - like Dubai Talent dense - like sf Blue oceans - like Barbados Greenery - like Brazil Spiritual- like India Kind people - like Philippines Public Infrastructure- like Denmark Who’s building this??
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The fact that labubu paid naomi osaka $100m makes me feel like these AI engineers are extremely underpaid. She is ranked 23!? wtf.
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@sariazout @antoniogm which reminds me Tyler's speech on 'perfectionism' here (starting at min. 43): youtu.be/Z90f1-zWg0c
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sublime is growing faster than ever but it still surprises me it's not much bigger given how good, useful, and unique it is
in this attention environment, great products don’t spread on their own.
i'm reminded of this from @antoniogm "if your idea is any good, it won’t get stolen you’ll have to jam it down people’s throats instead."
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@danielzarick phone not far from the ear, tattoos on, smile, only lacks the sunglasses and this is your typical headshot right ;p
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The 16th St BART station is embarrassing for San Francisco
@DanielLurie where are DPW and SFPD? This kind of neglect is unacceptable
mattparlmer 🪐 🌷@mattparlmer
16th St BART station is once again disgusting The plaza is full of open air drug and stolen goods trade and everything smells like urine and feces What’s the plan to fix this @DanielLurie? This is one of our most important transit hubs and it is being neglected
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@decisionleader couldn't agree more (just read you on subs) -- re: leaders mindset shift requirement, i think you might enjoy that one: youtu.be/oeUwwcrE6p4
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95% of organizations report no measurable ROI from GenAI.
MIT Media Lab / NANDA’s new report (300+ initiatives, 50+ org interviews, 150+ leaders surveyed) finds:
⏱️ Big firms lead in pilot volume but lag in scale-up. Successful rollouts by mid-market firms averaged 3 months; enterprises took 9+ months.
💵 The highest AI budgets were allocated to (board-friendly) marketing/sales use cases, while the best ROI came from automating back-office tasks.
🛠️ Internal builds fail at 2x the rate of external partnerships.
👻 Official LLM purchases cover only 40% of firms, yet 90% of employees use personal AI daily (“shadow AI”).
So the tech is here. The value isn’t. Why? Most leaders are still using a “one right answer” playbook for a “many right answers” technology.
Based on the report, here are 6 tips for winning at GenAI:
🔹 Keep up: Adaptive tools evolve with workflows; static ones flatline.
🔹 Go narrow: Start with a high-value, bounded use case, then expand.
🔹 Embed: Integrate into existing systems with minimal friction.
🔹 Win trust: Show deep process understanding, protect data, deliver results fast.
🔹 Show quick wins: Prove value in weeks, not quarters.
🔹 Measure usefulness: Assess contextual impact, not abstract accuracy.
💡 In my latest essay, I argue this last shift is the real leadership test and most organizations aren’t ready.
Read it here: Why GenAI Leadership Requires an Alien Mindset bit.ly/quaesita_alien
If you found this useful, a repost ♻️ makes my heart happy. And a subscription to my newsletter decision.substack.com makes my day.
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