Adey

Idea in → content out. Built this feeling into a tool I call SmartReel - SmartReel.co

Action is the antidote to anxiety.

“In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn't bother you at all.” — Bill Ackman

Agentic commerce isn’t priced in yet. Machine-to-machine payments will increase demand for the digital dollar beyond current estimates. The agentic economy could be larger than the human economy. We're building the infrastructure for both at Coinbase.

A reminder from Atomic Habits by James Clear:

📄 index.html 📄 style.css 📄 script.js This is where we all started, right?

Figma CEO Dylan Field just identified the only competitive advantage that AI cannot commoditize. It isn’t your technical skill. It isn’t your speed. It isn’t your tools. Field: “If an agent can do it for you, an agent can do it for someone else.” That’s the fatal flaw in the entire AI productivity argument nobody wants to say out loud. When execution becomes free, execution becomes worthless. The moment anyone can build anything by typing a prompt, the output stops being the differentiator. What remains is taste. The one thing the agent cannot generate for you. Field: “What is different about your setup than others?” If you are typing generic prompts and accepting the first output the agent hands you, you aren’t building a product. You are retrieving a commodity. The same commodity available to every competitor on earth. Field: “You at least have to have something different there in order to not think that you’re just gonna get the same out.” But taste alone isn’t enough. The other half is exploration. Field: “The more you can sample the possibility space, it gives you something to react to.” The blank page is gone. The new constraint isn’t creation. It’s selection. The agent generates hundreds of possibilities in seconds. Your job is to go wide enough to find the best one hiding inside all of them. And then be honest enough with yourself to know when none of them are good enough. Field: “If you find areas where you’re going, ‘Hey, I don’t feel like I am liking this enough,’ then you got to keep pushing.” The creators who win this era won’t be the fastest builders. They’ll be the harshest critics. The ones who can generate the widest possibility space and identify the single best solution inside it. The ones whose taste is specific enough, developed enough, and honest enough to reject everything the agent produces until it produces something worth keeping. The AI can build anything you can describe. It cannot want anything. It cannot feel when something is wrong. It cannot tell the difference between good and extraordinary. That gap is the only moat left.

> 2022 - Student > 2023 - Developer > 2024 - Prompt Engineer > 2025 - Vibe coder > 2026 - AI agent > 2027 - Farmer

“Do more hard things everyday” is a great mantra but it should be less about ice baths and more about making that decision you’ve been putting off for three months.

when you ship your first app and realize you just trapped yourself in a marketing job

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. E.g: everyone at the start of 100m race has the same goal. To win…

The primary reason people don't achieve big goals is because they don't realize that the only source of truth is making mistakes. They soak up advice and theory, expecting it to be an exact match to their mind, experience, and situation just to fail once and give up completely.

A part of you is completely unexplored until you meet a particular person.

A winner is just a loser who kept trying.

When Kobe Bryant said his insane level of confidence came from knowing he’d done all he could to prepare, it taught me that anytime I’m nervous it means I didn’t prepare enough.

He's so bad his inverse beats actual insider trading.

“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.” — Aristotle

Oakley Meta Vanguard: peak performance AI glasses packed with technologies that will help you hit those PRs. 💪🏼

so america is now a saas subscription?

"The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore." - Rumi