kyro

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bike pumping your ears before bed for 1 year will result in enough cranial vault expansion and subsequent cortical growth to improve your IQ by 5+ points

e-ink is the future you’ve all been ignoring

@yrechtman yeah i now get about a dozen pre-approved loan calls a day and can’t block unidentified numbers because some are legit.

I get 5-10 spam texts per day offering either part time WFH jobs or working capital. Always from random numbers. Nearly always SMS. I report and block each and every one. How is it possible that neither Verizon nor apple can do anything to stop the deluge.

using the monroe doctrine to justify violence and the liberation of resource-rich land from the hands of corrupt tyrants has long been my playbook to winning family monopoly

medical billers are the original vibe coders

@eddiejiao_obj very cool, exploring similar ideas. e-ink is so overlooked as an interactive surface and software design is by far the #1 thing holding it back. would love to try this on my boox & viwoods.

Monitoring the Situation from my e-ink device with a generative os

stop chasing overnight success. you have time. pascal didn’t write his first proof until he was 11. it took 8 years for king tut to be named king. mozart only started composing at 5.

@claudeai hello - i’m on a max 20x plan and claude has been unusable the past couple days. hitting limits on first prompt.

@undmiro @Polymarket @rainbowdotme beautiful work

Ending the year by sharing one of my favorite projects I got to work on: the @Polymarket integration in @rainbowdotme This project was a deep dive into color, rhythm, and motion. Prediction markets are visually complex by default. The challenge was turning that complexity into something expressive and intentional

the societal value of prediction markets is proportional to the prevalence of insider betting

entrepreneurship is a mode of therapy and should be promoted as such

some optimism for the weekend: LLMs are forcing everyone to get sharper with words. next-gen embodied models will do the same for how we think, move, and feel. each wave will raise the standard for being human.

accidentally signing off a work email with "Sensuous Love," is sooooo embarrassing

the only thing big tech can do to regain the trust of everyday americans is give us the real housewives of silicon valley

@mikedemarais to just hold or are they playable?

@kyro cryptodickbutts

what's the best/funnest way to get a 10yo into crypto? @mikedemarais

@bubs but there's no vistaprint mcp

@kyro You can just do things. :)

@sama @paulg @peterthiel we want an update @sama

bookshelf for @kyro! most books are science/tech but here is the section w/novels. I nominate @paulg and @peterthiel.

@WillManidis expertise is an exclusive asymmetry diminished with reach; trust is the exact opposite.

30 seconds of thoughts on “new media” and investing becoming a content business: sometime in the past two years it became consensus that venture investing was now a media business. this revelation, of course, was a long time coming. necessarily, as any boutique investment class gets bigger, the necessary capital inflows (endowments -> retail via RIA) and capital outflows (number of deals, size of those deals, need to provide unique platforms for those deals) both explode. you saw this happen in private credit, you saw this happen even in RIAs themselves, and now it’s happening in venture alongside of this came an explosion of interest in media assets that could drive demand/supply of investable dollars and assets and the creation of a whole new category of brands to monetize this. again, this rhymes with the RIA boom of a decade prior. now there are something like 600 new podcasts, daily shows, weekly shows, and newsletters launched by venture platforms in the last quarter. many of them have at least some people listening to them. my bet is that 99% will be massively value destructive. why? they fundamentally misunderstand the relationship between retail and how they feel about their capital, and perhaps more concerningly, misunderstand the relationship between founders and capital. on retail: it’s easy to think casting a wide net of maximum possible content with maximum possible breadth will hit the most RIAs and therefore circle the most high fee retail dollars. I think this is categorically wrong. If you are a dentist deploying your retirement, and you really care about the quality of manager you invest in— what will you think when you encounter 600 podcasts of varying quality? Will you feel safe working with that platform? any scaled impersonal media platform trends toward slop at scale on founders: founders are experts in their own domain. the odds are if you’re sourcing experts in x domain, the true 99% percentile founder will find their ideas silly, old, objectionable, or otherwise uninteresting. why work with a firm that’s saying silly things about your market when greenoaks says nothing at all, everything thinks they are brilliant (they are), and move quickly. silence is a virtue in a selectivity game. both of these end up destroying much more brand equity than they create. so what will work? personality driven media. consider @tbpn: no one, including the hosts themselves, believe they are the world expert in any topic. you aren’t coming to TBPN because Jordi can explain PIK loans better than anyone else. you’re coming to TBPN because you trust them as humans, and trust that they are interesting enough to find the best ideas and most interesting people in the world at that moment. if either of them say something silly, or wrong, or ill informed— you don’t hold it against them. you trust them as characters. there are very few venture platforms that can bring that kind of personality to the table. Patrick is doing it at ILTB, Marc is doing it at a16z, very few others have pulled it off. the vast majority of venture funds will nuke their reputations on the back of doing this poorly. the returns to doing it well will be stratospheric.

are you a tech billionaire interested in inspiring generations of kids through philanthropy? the answer is simple: bring back fry's electronics