Julie Fredrickson

Thinking about what makes me a good fit as an investor or advisor to companies and it boils down to being weird

@dylanmatt @SnehaRevanur @davidshor @katz_morris @StefFeldman @maidinoff Closer to the “you didn’t build that speech” in tone than you might wish. Worth considering from a PR perspective. Most of us obviously want the material progress to benefit all, but this language has tested poorly in the past

Very excited to launch a project I've been helping out with the last couple months.* The Center for Shared AI Prosperity is an attempt by an, other than me, very impressive team (so far including @davidshor, @katz_morris, @StefFeldman, @maidinoff, Lindsay Lamont, Jesse Stinebring, @joshhendler, @goldman, and Lilah Penner Brown) to force DC policy elites to take the impending economic impacts of advanced AI more seriously. We do not think this is a normal economic shock, though we are deeply uncertain about what kind of economic shock it will be. We could be left with a world of extreme power and wealth concentration, increasing political instability arising from that growing inequality, and deep questions about how to fund governments that have for a century-plus relied on income and payroll taxes. Our main purpose as an organization is to surface tractable ideas to reform and grow the safety net to meet the moment; to restructure the labor market so workers are still valued and fairly paid; to remake the tax code so that the gains from AI are shared widely; and to experiment with ways of giving average Americans concrete shares in the AI surplus. To that end, we're running a Request for Ideas, and we're offering $3,000 for the best proposals. Top ideas will get rigorous polling from Blue Rose Research to see how Americans feel about them. We are trying to solicit submissions from a wide pool, and purposefully don't want to just ask the usual think tanks, economists, academics, etc. (Though we want them too!) If you have ideas that you think could be useful, please don't hesitate to apply. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about the program. Read more here: csaip.org *Obligatory disclaimer: I'm doing this on my personal time, not in my capacity at Coefficient Giving. Nothing I or CSAIP say necessarily reflects CG's views.

@anistotle_ @devahaz Because he’s looking for a girl in finance

@devahaz Please, someone, anyone, plug in the phrase Private Executive Dossier into an AI music maker and crank out the millennial EDM summer banger we know it can be

“I operate at the intersection of Silicon Valley innovation and Manhattan refinement. I live a highly optimized, curated lifestyle.” Please stfu or <redacted>

@devahaz @alphaisbeta Yes and no. If you do specialty angel first check work in the trenches it’s the appropriate sized fund to produce the returns profile. But venture isn’t measured by AUM. It’s measured in DPI

@alphaisbeta No

He’s the mid tier corporate girlie of which he speaks (not that there is anything wrong with that) He's demanding a girl who is better than him across all of the metrics against which he measures himself. He isn't in the C-suite. He doesn't have the fund. He's not in the 1%. His biohacking, while a great hobby to pursue, has given him the idea somewhere that he can enforce his standards on another body rather than on himself

@devahaz I literally hate this person and the fact that he exists

@KnowledgeNewfie 5.37 years to be precise so I've got a little bit more to go to half.

@KnowledgeNewfie It's a little more than two or three years. It's actually halfway to six now.

Day 1960 is about revisiting Tufte & Norman or why we need to learn the languages of our work in order to cross the gulf of execution. Yes even in the age of AI tools. Or maybe they were never clichés. jfredrickson.com/day-1960-and-r…

@johndodds I had one of the worst "meet your heroes" experiences at a friend's wedding with a certain aerospace entrepreneur, and it was pretty rough.

@AlmostMedia Went to a Tufte talk years ago. Never meet your heroes. He didn't know how to design a presentation.

@ELWillis10 Until I've got a Sumerian death cult tablet mimetic virus, I won't be satisfied with the precursors.

@AlmostMedia also! archive.org/details/bim_ei… I like digging into the precursors

@datingbyblaine Funny he sounds like a mid level corporate girlie

Example of a matchmaking application I'll reject. It sounds like he wants a cofounder not a wife? 🤔

@sadarlo1 The Lauder family is also considering a merger with ELC and a European cosmetics house so things are a bit dicey in cosmetics land

I don’t know what to feel about this. 🫥

Ha well I’d hope any publisher would concur that a paid subscriber being unable to consistently read & access an account system is a failure to adequately manage reader friendly design. Basics matter even more when discovery is gone. For what it’s worth I’m not the lone disagreement on this thread. Anu’s other comments all lean towards my view executional distrust. Though we all hope they make it to the next era of media successfully. It’s hard to imagine a world without Vogue. Their stable of creative talent is unmatched but their capacity to invest consistently and wisely in technology has not had the track record we all would have wanted

@AlmostMedia @anuatluru and different definitions of failure too it seems!

And just like that, you go from seeing Condé Nast as prestige legacy media trying to survive to a place that gets how to win the modern game.

@_buggles In the case of working with LLMs as tools it’s literally true.

@AlmostMedia having the language of craft lets you be more precise and discerning in your creation. the language creates inherently

@Lon Tufte is actually fantastic.

@AlmostMedia I have all of these books and love them.

@loobah_l I don’t even know who spoke at my graduation. Probably a professor

this is what happens when you turn an education into a $400k purchase

@skaragiannis Well if you ever make a trip to the American frontier you’ve got a friend in Montana!

Makes sense! I only saw Montana in movies and documentaries about early American immigrants (which my spouse plays all the times) but I love the terrain! I hope to travel there some day. My spouse loves the Montana mountains and she’s always choosing movies that have been filmed on those places :)

@skaragiannis @DeFra1916 @andreasklinger @larsras Maybe if he could hold it a little further out from high heat season 🙏🏻

@jon_stokes This is @alexlmiller favorite quote on the topic

I dunno why this hasn't hit me before like it did just now, but the anti-datacenter stuff makes total sense to me now: Nobody locally knows someone who works at the new datacenter because they're mostly empty. The costs are localized, the benefits are distributed.

@SoniaBaschez I can’t explain the Caruso thing either. Thankfully I don’t have a vote in this election as I suspect I’d mark Pratt just as a protest.

@AlmostMedia 100%!!! Actually bummed Caruso didn’t try again; he could have done way better than last time. And Nithya hasn’t really followed in Mamdani’s footsteps… it’s all been super underwhelming

We realllllllly can’t underestimate Spencer Pratt

My mind isn’t sharp to me. This is what it’s like when I’m at 50th percentile for me. On bad days it is worse. It’s just that I’m sharper than average so it’s harder to tell. My mind is has also been deliberately infected w industrial grade memetics as part of my efforts to protect my informational immunity so whatever anyone may think they might install they will experience a a heck of a biological firewall built on decades of exposure

@AlmostMedia @neuralink That's amazing and bold...but your mind is sharp as a tack. Would you risk that potential interference?

In the future, there will be "augmented humans" with a @neuralink type chip that will be expansive. Comes with risks, of course, but will also come with upsides. Not sure why no one mentions this in interviews like these...but I'm right.

@tenobrus @quantian1 Yeah but that Teddy guy was right. High bar on responsibility is a stretch

oh my god they targeted pmarca so perfectly he fucking quote tweeted them like 30 times LMAO literally the definition of malding