Div

last month i decided to step away from @noicedotso and hit pause on my founder journey noice is roughly a year old but the team has been grinding together since early 2024. back then i was just happy to be working day in and day out with people i liked - i had no idea what it would turn into launching noice was the magnum opus of my professional life so far. 'noice summer' as we termed it is a time of my life that i'll never forget and it truly changed my belief in what a small team can achieve in a very small period of time we shipped something real, got backed by people we deeply respect, and went through the kind of lows and highs that permanently change how you see yourself. i'm so grateful for every bit of it but somewhere in the middle of all that, i started feeling like a new chapter was calling. not away from the work, away from the version of me that was doing it next few months i'm focused on reflecting and working on myself. sitting with the discomfort of not knowing what's next until that becomes okay meanwhile srijan, heet and the rest of the team are gonna continue steering the wheel at noice

@JackDishman miss it sm

@0xdiv castmoney was way ahead of its time

vision with castmoney was to be the gateway to trenches. trenching is a fun game you get better at, and can be an income source too but it's a minefield for new folks. everyone gets scamed. a handful of times at least. what'd trenching look like if it was purely skill based?

A zero sum way to look at degen culture is these mfers are dumb so let’s extract as much as we can from them asap. Thats how many founders and VCs been doing it. They put up a fake front but that’s how they really feel. A positive sum way to look at it is these people are learning and leveling up so let’s help them win asap.

@apex_ether so much salt on the tl

The entire Base account has been all about agents / payments for about 3 weeks now. One meme gets posted and everyone loses their shit. You can’t kill memes, you never will, they have been around for multiple cycles. Stop throwing your toys out of the pram. Yours personally, a utility coin dev.

@samhenrigold @kurissuuu that's literally what this is lol

@kurissuuu seems like a missed opportunity for suno to not go for that end as well. a freemium web-based full DAW subsidized by ai subscriptions would do gang busters. and would earn them good will from artists that (i think) they’d need to thrive

Who is making the AI-enabled DAW though? It’d be incredible to use something like Logic and just say, “make the bass drum boomier and more pronounced, here is an example track of how I want it to sound”

@an5rag @deoeven okbanger

allow @deoeven and I to introduce the future of music creation. riffle is the modern playground for anyone to make music. go try it.

Never seen so much pessimism regarding India in my twenty years of studying macro and markets. Not in 2008, 2013, 2020. AI is a positive for India. There is absolutely no sign of Indian service exports slowing down in the latest data. If a $20k guy in Pune is to be laid off, a $200k guy in Philly is even more on the chopping block. If anything giving them both the latest AI reduces any competence gap. Regarding AI supply side, Sarvam etc just received more investment and we are continuing to work on the semiconductor side. Second/third mover advantage on the cheap is not a small thing here. Actually, AI has in part negated the platform winner-takes-all economics of US Big Tech by making it capex-intensive. Of course national security considerations remain. The rupee is extremely oversold. The gold/silver import restriction moderate measures have just kicked in. Ex-gold we have been in significant trade and current account surplus for many years. US 10y is now 4.6%. Gas and mortgage rates are off the chart there. Rising long-end of the yield curve and rapidly rising AI capex theme both cannot go on together for much longer. We have to be patient: my view remains India is by far the world's greatest investment opportunity amongst the major themes available today. Of course as part of a diversified asset allocation so that we can live another day to be wrong if needed :)

@rahulbhadoriiya i hope you're letting it rip

@0xdiv Nope, I brought my kid beyblade

do kids today have anything as cool as beyblades?

a new benchmark has been set

@notmissing_ x.com/naval/status/2…

@0xdiv Do you have the clip?

charisma comes easy ever since i heard naval describe it as a combination of confidence and love

@notmissing_ x.com/naval/status/1…

@sodofi_ @binji_x @MTSlive big upsss

something new with vitalik @binji_x and i are experimenting with a better way to share important stories may 14. 10am pst. live on @MTSlive

over 600 of these dots not even on the internet dawg

nothing comes close. i'd say finding high trust people is much more important than the problem you're solving.

dwarkesh

any software company actively working on making the world softer? a common gripe with tech: we're living in the most convenient era in history, yet a huge chunk of society feels frustrated and unfulfilled. The internet plays a big role in this - it's where most of us work and spend our free time. a calming and gentle internet gotta have a +ve effect on the general populace why aren't more people rallying around solarpunk ethos?