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BREAKING: Trump says the US will 'obliterate' Iranian power plants if the Strait of Hormuz is not open within 48 hours
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Adversity for antifragile.
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your users stare at loading screens more than you think.
make it worth their time.
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wip 👀 new thing cooking. more soon.
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Here are 5 major upgrades to help you create, iterate and collaborate:
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The absence of adversity ≠ life's joy
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People who exercise even when they don't feel like it, what's your trick?
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When people have a good relationship with their leaders, they’re more likely to go the extra mile. When people don’t get along with their leaders, they tend to retaliate against them and the organization. But what about when people feel ambivalent about their leaders? s.hbr.org/2LsC0HP
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🔥 BREAKING: Bitcoin has now crossed 20,000,000 $BTC mined.
The final 1M $BTC will take another 114 years to mine.
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What we learn from here
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we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack
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I am the lead engineer at ai.com.
We had $78 million to work with.
$70 million went to the domain.
$8 million went to the Super Bowl ad.
I got the rest.
"The rest" was $500 and a Cloudflare free tier.
This ratio -- 156,000 to 1, marketing to engineering -- is not a bug. It is the business model of the entire artificial intelligence industry in 2026.
You do not need a product. You need a name. Preferably two letters. Preferably letters that made investors lose bladder control in 2024.
I built the website in a weekend. I didn't build it, actually.
I described it to OpenClaw (previosely Moltbook), (previously, reviously Clawdbot) and the AI built it.
We are, after all, an AI company. Using AI to build the website felt appropriate.
The AI charged us nothing. We are charging users $20 a month. This is called "margin."
We have a free tier and a paid tier. The free tier gives you access to a product that doesn't exist. The paid tier gives you access to the same product that doesn't exist, but with more input tokens.
No one has asked "input tokens for what." This is the kind of question that delays launches.
Nobody checked if it worked.
Nobody checked if it scaled.
Nobody checked if it did anything at all.
We were too busy approving the logo.
The logo is a planet with a ring around it. Someone said it looked like the old Saturn car logo. Saturn went bankrupt in 2010. But the logo was free and our design budget went to the domain, so here we are, orbiting a dead brand at $70 million per revolution.
Our product is an "autonomous AI agent" that "organizes work, sends messages, and executes actions across apps."
Which actions. Which apps. At what cost.
In the AI industry, these are called "implementation details." Implementation details are beneath us. We are a vision company. The vision cost $70 million. The implementation cost $500.
The gap between the two is where shareholder value lives.
Our press release promises the agent will "trade stocks, automate workflows, and update your online dating profile."
We are building artificial general intelligence so it can fix your Hinge bio.
This is on the roadmap. The roadmap is longer than the codebase.
Our marketing says you can create an AI agent in 60 seconds. This is technically true. You type a username. You click "generate." You receive a loading spinner. Sixty seconds.
What you do not receive is an AI agent. But the experience of waiting for one is, I'm told, "the product."
Our press release describes a "decentralized network of billions of agents." We used the word "decentralized" because our CEO comes from crypto. In crypto, "decentralized" means "we haven't decided how it works yet." We have not changed the definition.
This is not unique to us.
OpenAI has raised $40 billion. Their product loses money on every user.
Anthropic has raised $15 billion. Their stated goal is to build something they believe might destroy humanity, and investors are fighting to give them more.
Microsoft has committed $80 billion to AI infrastructure this year. Their Copilot product tells people to put glue on pizza. The entire industry is a $300 billion screensaver with a loading spinner.
We fit right in.
Our CEO is the Crypto.com guy.
He previously spent $700 million to rename a basketball arena and hired Matt Damon to tell America "fortune favors the brave" six months before crypto lost 70% of its value.
He paid for our domain in cryptocurrency. I am told this was "tax efficient." I have learned not to ask follow-up questions about things that are "tax efficient."
He is now pivoting from crypto to AI. In the industry, we don't call this "pivoting." We call it "convergence." Convergence means the last bubble popped so you inflate the next one using the same PowerPoint deck with different nouns.
The Super Bowl ad ran during the fourth quarter. Thirty seconds. It told 130 million Americans to visit our website.
The ad was thirty seconds. That's $266,666 per second. Each second of airtime cost more than our entire engineering budget.
Second fourteen showed the logo. Second fourteen cost more than the website.
They did visit. All of them, apparently, at once.
The website went down.
"Prepared for scale, but not for THIS," our CEO tweeted, adding three fire emojis.
The fire emojis were load-bearing. They were doing more work than our infrastructure. The entire site was hosted on Cloudflare's basic tier, which is designed for food blogs and wedding photographers, not for absorbing the combined curiosity of a nation told to visit a two-letter domain during the biggest television event on earth.
But the crash was, in a way, perfect. It is the most honest thing the AI industry has produced. A $78 million promise that, when 130 million people showed up to collect, returned a loading spinner and the words "please refresh and try again."
Every AI company should adopt this as their mission statement.
The previous owner of ai.com was OpenAI. They used it to redirect to ChatGPT -- a product that exists, built by thousands of engineers who were paid more than $500, running on billions of dollars of compute. We bought the domain from them to redirect to a page that asks you to pick a username.
OpenAI also ran a Super Bowl ad this year. They sold us the domain, then bought ad time in the same broadcast to promote the product they used to host on it.
We are now competing with the company that built the thing we may or may not be reselling. During the same commercial break. On the same channel. For the same audience.
The AI industry is a snake eating its own tail, except the tail cost $70 million and the snake can't stay online.
That's the product. A username. For an AI agent that doesn't exist yet. On a website that couldn't survive its own launch. Sold by a crypto CEO during a crypto winter. Wearing the logo of a bankrupt car company.
Twenty-three percent of Super Bowl ads this year were AI companies. That's 15 out of 66.
In 2000, it was dot-coms. Pets.com ran a Super Bowl ad. They went bankrupt nine months later.
Their sock puppet mascot outlived the company. I'm not saying history repeats. I'm saying it rhymes, and the rhyme scheme is expensive.
But none of that matters. What matters is the domain. Two letters. Seventy million dollars. The most expensive thing we own is our name. The least expensive thing we own is everything the name is supposed to represent.
In the AI industry, this is called "brand-first development."
In every other industry, it's called something else.
Anyway, we're hiring.
Backend engineers preferred.
Budget: whatever's left.
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Someone has sent 2.56 Bitcoin (worth more than $180k) to Satoshi’s address. Why?
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“Without data you're just another person with an opinion.”
-- W. Edwards Deming
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Most people don’t know this, but Bitcoin has a hidden message that can never be deleted
Bitcoin block 666,666 was mined on January 18, 2021
It contains a message permanently written into the blockchain
Using Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN, the miner embedded a Bible verse directly into the block’s data
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Romans 12:21
To make it happen, they paid over 5x the normal fee just to guarantee inclusion in that exact block
The transaction is linked to wallets named “GoD” and “BibLE”, verifiable on any public block explorer
Once it’s there, it can never be removed
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Nvidia CEO: “you cannot show me a task that is beneath me.”
The enemy of continuous progress and growth is arrogance, zero sum mindset and sense of entitlement.
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