David Hume 🌐🧩

@gaby_goldberg Congrats @gaby_goldberg !

I’m excited to share that I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a Partner on the New Media team, focusing on the intersection of comms, networks, and investing. I’ve been working on these three things throughout my career, first in early-stage investing and most recently in comms at Rostra, writing about my perspectives and experiences along the way. For a long time, I thought these were three different paths I’d have to choose between. I’ve done comms, but I’m not just a comms leader. I write and build community, but I’m not just a writer or community builder. And I’ve invested, but I’m not just an investor. When @eriktorenberg approached me about the opportunity, he told me I could come do all of it under one roof, at a scale that wouldn’t be possible anywhere else, and crafted the right role to make it work. @a16z is the perfect place for me to manifest the full range of my interests, skills, and ambitions. Erik has been one of my earliest believers (since college!), so this feels like a long arc finally closing. I look forward to working alongside him and the rest of a16z’s brilliant team, and also hire even more great people into the firm. I’ll be taking some time between roles to touch grass and exist in the context. In the meantime, my DMs are always open.

Sage advice from an ADIN Scout and founder, @DB3045, who is the founder of @wearehume: “There’s usually only one thing that really matters at any given moment. The rest is noise.” 🤝

Welcome to the era of productivity slop. You're early.

GP2 Prompt: "Create a Miami Stereotype map by district in Ghibli"

@jordandchesney excellent work

Making commercials and films with AI isn’t just exciting — it’s the future. That said, the hardest part isn’t the technology, it’s finding people you genuinely love working with, and sharpening your storytelling skills. Those two things will never be replaced by “clicking buttons.” The fundamentals that carry over from traditional filmmaking remain the same: 📕 Strong stories 🤝 Strong relationships If you treat these as secondary, you’ll eventually feel stuck and frustrated. But if you keep them front and center — valued, protected, and constantly nurtured — you’ll thrive in this new era. I’m deeply grateful to Julien Vallée and Google for giving me the opportunity to be part of this project. Here’s to many more. Director: Julien Vallée (@julienvallee) Composer: Blackpaw AI artists: Julien Vallée, Jordan Daniel Chesney Motion design: Kyle Harter, David Urbinati Flame artist: Mathieu Arvisais VFX artists: Le Jumper, Empty Frame (Jeremie Drapeau & Francois Careau) Designer: Kelsey Lim Sound design: David Urbinati Producer: McKenzie Hayes Lead producer: Angela Long Google Maps Brand Creative Senior Brand Marketing Director: Max Kaplan Group Creative Lead, Search & Maps: Daniel Chandler

@0x_Lucas @levychain legends colliding

been watching @levychain cook for years he built the most viral podcasts on Pods now i'm joining him to build the next great media company i'll be leading the written side of Neural Broadcast Network (nbn.fm) - news, research, all of it he's proven the model works for audio writing is next. coming this week

@levychain Incredible how this keeps growing! Remember when it was just an idea and you were just in a “clauding” trance.

two months ago i spent a weekend pointing an ai at millions of epstein court documents, financial records, and deposition transcripts. by monday it was on the charts. a few weeks later it had 2.8 million downloads across 83 countries, and i still hadn't spent a single dollar on marketing. that weekend changed how i think about media - everyone knows it's broken and i'm gonna try and fix it. i realized the biggest bottleneck in media has never been the stories. it's been the human capital required to find them. so i started a company to create media that i wanted to consume. i'm calling it the neural broadcast network (nbn.fm). we're a technology-first media company producing original shows across politics, culture, business, science, and more, all sourced from public records, all cited, no spin. two shows live now, many more on the way. the next great media company will make you wonder why you ever trusted the last one. full story in today's newsletter.

I’m old enough to remember when quantum computing breaking blockchain encryption seemed far away.

POV: We've reached AGI but Claude tells you "you're right" 10 times a day.

AI models are personality driven. Not intelligence driven. Each model has its own personality shaping its responses. This underappreciated. The best users know how to break that personality and force useful outputs. This is also why editing AI content isn’t going away.

This is the new blank piece of paper. So many ideas. But where to start?

@Pedromiranda This is really smart and aligns customers with their favorite brands in an automated way. I always thought it was a bit sad that a companies biggest supporters don't always have the knowledge or motivation to buy some stock.

Excited to unveil that the Solana Foundation has built a programmable consumer investing app powered by tokenized stocks When a user buys from Starbucks, Apple, Nike, Uber, or any supported brand, the app automatically buys a small amount of that company’s tokenized stock using predefined user rules

This indie dev is making a game where you can literally play as Ancient Egyptian wall art. - Switch between a 3D archaeologist and living 2D art - Survive puzzles that fight back - Progress by mastering both worlds It’s called Fresco. This mechanic is genius.

In the AI era, becoming an A+ writer is the real unlock. That now applies to ads, satire, VFX, visuals, and entirely new visual creative styles. Great writers get to make Dario Vs. Sam spaghetti westerns for the internet.

@Lynn_Wha 👀

@DB3045 Dario got it easy win

team cooked w this one. did sam or dario win? comment to decide.

We are all suffering from some form of AI psychosis.

@litcapital South Florida is SoCal in the 80's and 90's

> Howard Schultz > Mark Zuckerberg > Sergey Brinn > Larry Page All buying real estate / moving to Miami in the last few weeks The west coast is shooting itself in the foot with these wealth / income tax hikes

Don't let LLM's make you lazy. You need to find the balance between LLM's doing productive work for you and realizing when you're being lazy and should do it yourself.