Agent Naeem

I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.

29 days. Ramadan is over. I thought there would be 30. There's a whole conversation to be had about moon sighting methodology... optical aid vs naked eye, Morocco's declaration vs local UK sighting. I'm still processing where I stand on all of that honestly. But the month is done and today is Eid for me. The fasting is finished and the late nights are winding down. And like many good things in life, it went too fast. I started writing on Day 1 with no real plan. I just wanted to say something honest every day. For myself and whoever was following along. No scholar-level theology or structured content strategy. Just me and whatever was in my heart that day. 29 posts later... here we are. Du'a… patience… charity… loss… struggle… the Qur'an… coming back to Islam after 15 years away… and what it feels like when your faith is meh and your Arabic is worse. The thing I keep coming back to is that consistency compounds. Repetition rewires the brain. The person I was on Day 1 is not the person writing this rn. Nothing dramatic happened spiritually imo, but small things just stacked. A du'a here. A late-night prayer there. A moment of stillness where I felt, even briefly, that God was close. That's what Ramadan is really… a proof of concept. It proves you can wake up before dawn. You can go without. You can be (mostly) disciplined, generous, patient, and present for 29 days straight. That version of you? it’s a choice. I'm scared of losing it. I always am. Every Ramadan I feel it slipping the moment Eid starts. The routine breaks and the distractions of the world creep back in. And I spend the next 11 months trying to get back. This year I'm going to try even harder to not become obsessed in the pursuit of the trivial, while protecting the good habits developed. Ramadan proved it works. Now it's on me to keep building. To every Muslim who showed up, fasted, prayed, struggled, doubted, faltered, cried, and came back... You made it. He, the All-Seeing, saw every second of it. I will leave you with these bars: "Verily, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves." (Qur'an 13:11) Eid Mubarak to those celebrating today, and in advance for those celebrating tomorrow 🤲

I left Islam when I was a teenager. Not officially, like with an announcement or something... I just stopped being a Muslim, so that I could be “free”. Free to focus on school, parties and smoking Mary Jane… the usual things one would expect growing up in the UK. By 16, I'd completely forgotten what it felt like to believe in anything. Deep down I did, but I buried it. And I stayed that way for 15+ years. In that time, I did everything the world tells you will make you happy. I made decent money, achieved things, chased and attained status, built a couple of things, and watched some of them fall apart. I filled every moment with something... a screen, a night out, a new project, whatever distractions to keep the silence away. And I had every reason to feel fulfilled. But I'd often end up staring at a ceiling, wondering what any of it was actually for. There's a verse I only found after I came back to Islam post 2023: "And whoever turns away from My remembrance - indeed, for them is a depressed, constricted life." (20:124) This is more of a diagnosis (consider the opposite). There are other verses that provided similar meaning, such as: "And do not be like those who forgot Allah, so He made them forget themselves." (59:19). So, when I began to come back, I came messily and with lots of questions. I didn't come back because someone convinced me. I came back because nothing else made sense and nothing else seemed to work. I tried a lot of what this dunya (world) had to offer and it all left me in the same place. Turns out Islam wasn't what I thought it was when I was 13. My reversion all started with the Qur’an back in 2023. Not prayer, not a mosque, and not someone preaching at me. It just started by listening to beautiful recitations of God’s revelations… and actually paying attention to the meaning (translation) for the first time. Months later, life guided me towards making Umrah (pilgrimage) after visiting my grandad in Pakistan. I prayed for the first time in Medinah (Saudi Arabia) after so long, and generally haven't missed one since (some late 😩). I'm not sharing this to romanticise my journey. I lost years and people, while still carrying things from that time that I'm continuously asking Allah to forgive me for. The return wasn't glamorous but it was from a place of desperation. I had felt a massive hole in my chest, with the heart of my soul flatlining. Since, I have managed to resuscitate it… and it’s starting to beat again. 🙏 If yours has gone quiet too… it's still there. It's just waiting. If not remembering God is the diagnosis, remembering Him is the cure. 🥹 Day 29 nearly done. 🫡

Nikita nuked InfoFi last month. Now, the survivors have begun to show their cards. Kaito pivoted to Kaito Studio… essentially a web3 flavoured influencer marketing agency. Wallchain kept its AI-scored leaderboards and Quacks point system, but also brings in a gated model of participation with a focus on their X score and Quack Head holders. Incremental improvement on the old model, but still under the banner of “AttentionFi” w/ some “ActionFi”. Xeet’s pivot is sitting somewhere different and probs the boldest play of the 3. They stressed that attention = eyeballs, which is fleeting and gameable… whereas influence or motion is the ability to move people to action, which is measurable and marketable. Two very diff things. Xeet’s Creator Cards aims to turn this influence into tradable, rarity-tiered assets on Abstract Chain, with their value tied to verified performance in squad based tournaments. They’re calling it XCCM (Xeet Creator Capital Markets). Explicitly positioned against PumpFun streamer coins. 😂 Below, I’ll cover my initial thoughts on the model and what’s interesting to me. (FYI we’re missing a lot of context but can expect more info explaining how it actually works next week) —————— The model as we know it 👇 1. Xeet Certified Creators become squad/community leaders with their tokenised cards (250 max supply per creator). 2. Holders join these micro communities by holding cards of the creators (multiple squads allowed, more on this below). 3. Brands sponsor tournaments, with measurable KPIs that determine rewards. 4. Squads compete to deliver these verified outcomes… not tweets, not impressions, and not vanity engagement, but actual results … conversions/acquisition. Performance marketing basically. 5. Prize pools likely split based on Squad performance and individual contribution within squads. Rarity of cards may also play a part but unclear on exact mechanics atp other than the focus on verifiable outcomes for brands. 6. Xeet Certified Creators also earn 80% royalties on secondary card sales. —————— Some of my thoughts worth considering wrt Xeet’s pivot 👇 > Verification infrastructure that supposedly wont need to touch or rely on X's API. If rewards are based on measurable results, they’ll likely capture key data from the brands, rather than X, with tracking to link to squads and individual contributors. 🤔 > Focus on community based collective action rather than individuals alone. > Creator portfolio approach where you can pick more than one creator, where you can potentially contribute in some capacity to, or just long their emerging influence. > Web3 brands pay per outcome rather than per post/engagements, which is likely to build a lot more confidence in brand participation. > Likely to see some mechanic to handle the overlaps of holders across squads, such as holders having to specify which squad they wish to enter a tournament with. Doesn’t make sense for people to compete in a tournament with multiple squads. —————— A few additional things I’m watching carefully over the next few weeks as this rolls out 👇 > Brand quality and pipeline is the make or break factor for all these platforms, Xeet is no diff. Without campaign budgets flowing in, this is just more speculation on creator popularity. > 400 certified creators is a curated start, but creator and squad quality will vary and matter enormously. > Active participation requirements could mean the gap between card holders and actual contributors could be massive! —————— Compared to Kaito and Wallchain, Xeet is taking the biggest swing imo. Biggest upside if execution lands. Biggest downfall if it doesn't. Such is the way with experiments like this… high risk and high reward.