Dave Zohrob 📈

we just shipped something i'm really proud of: Nori 2.0, your personal health agent

Making a strategic acquisition as a seed-stage company was not a decision I took lightly, but so far all I'm wondering is why we didn't do this sooner. We first met the Keypo folks about 6 months ago during the YC batch, and were blown away by not only their alignment on highly complementary problems in the agent security space, but more importantly the strong common principles and values that underpin both of our companies. Behind the scenes, we've been working with Dave full-time for about a month while the acquisition was being finalized, and immediately noticed a boost in energy and productivity across our entire team. Dave's background and experience in security, authentication, AI agents, and trusted hardware is unparalleled. He's been an absolute pleasure to work with so far, and I'm so excited to share updates about what we're building together in the coming weeks and months.

many thanks to @EverywhereVC for allowing me to talk about our big plans for Nori @NoriDotAI in their newsletter this week (and my obsession with Elena Ferrante) our North Star is to add a billion healthy years of living to humanity - and we're just getting started 💚

Announcing @LeadbayAI $4.3M to kill everything you're doing with sales. Corgi, Deel, L'Oréal recently told us: "We found in 10 min on Leadbay what we couldn't in 6 months with Clay and a GTM agency." Leadbay qualifies the millions of data-signal-scarce companies nobody could find before. This is how it works:

@l2k epic

I love letting my six year old daughter create crazy cursor prompts and seeing what it spits out. If you find this summary intriguing, you can try the game at otto-game-browser.netlify.app - it did an impressive job with a tough spec

Congrats to @flickartHQ on the raise - happy to back this amazing team!

we just shipped something i'm really proud of: Nori 2.0, your personal health agent

@AanandBajaj1 not sure what you want from me here lol. i can give you reasons why but sounds like you’re already convinced! glad you’re happy with your setup.

@dzohrob I can connect Poke to any 3rd party app, including my smart ring or apple health to get steps. It proactively checks up on me for anything I want, etc. Might be marginal benefit to use Nori; it's not clear it's substantial

Many "best practices" are rightfully being questioned (from @dzohrob's re-introduction to Nori)

@AanandBajaj1 poke doesn’t do everything nori does. but if it does what you need, keep using it!

@dzohrob What's the moat here? I use Poke for this

@__dmurphy__ @NoriDotAI pumped to be working with you dan!!

Big day for @NoriDotAI 🚀

@paulodoestech thx paulo!!!

@dzohrob Lfg!! congrats guys!!

wrote up some thoughts on what we got wrong with nori 1.0 here, and why we're so excited about 2.0: nori.ai/blog/what-ever… would love to hear your feedback! sign up: nori.ai

Nori helps you get healthier, whatever it takes— using your own data, wearables, and the apps you already use. every interaction makes Nori better for you, and helps us learn what actually works for behavior change

Congrats to @rrhoover and @vedikaja_in — I'm proud to be a (small) backer of Fund III and Fund IV :)

@nbaschez 👋

Do you spend a lot of time reviewing markdown docs written by AI? Wish it were a better experience? Say hi if you wanna try a new (free, open source) thing

I'm lucky enough to have a great doctor and access to excellent Bay Area medical care. I've taken lots of standard screening tests over the years and have tried lots of "health tech" devices and tools. With all this said, by far the most useful preventative medical advice that I've ever received has come from unleashing coding agents on my genome, having them investigate my specific mutations, and having them recommend specific follow-on tests and treatments. Population averages are population averages, but we ourselves are not averages. For example, it turns out that I probably have a 30x(!) higher-than-average predisposition to melanoma. Fortunately, there are both specific supplements that help counteract the particular mutations I have, and of course I can significantly dial up my screening frequency. So, this is very useful to know. I don't know exactly how much the analysis cost, but probably less than $100. Sequencing my genome cost a few hundred dollars. (One often sees papers and articles claiming that models aren't very good at medical reasoning. These analyses are usually based on employing several-year-old models, which is a kind of ludicrous malpractice. It is true that you still have to carefully monitor the agents' reasoning, and they do on occasion jump to conclusions or skip steps, requiring some nudging and re-steering. But, overall, they are almost literally infinitely better for this kind of work than what one can otherwise obtain today.) There are still lots of questions about how this will diffuse and get adopted, but it seems very clear that medical practice is about to improve enormously. Exciting times!

@conductor_build +1 to using 4.6 with 1M context window, i'm running out of context multiple times in the middle of tasks that would've been fine before.

New in latest release: - Opus 4.7

Keynes acquired Newton's private papers and was shocked at what he found. @michael_nielsen reads the key passage in the essay Keynes published afterwards: "Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago." And as Michael jokes, what are these great scientists actually doing? Writing down squiggles on a page based on observations and these mysterious cosmic connections, then using it to accomplish miracles. Launching rockets, creating atomic bombs. "That's exactly what magicians do." Keynes was shocked to find that Newton's alchemy and theology used the same methods as his physics: "There was extreme method in his madness. All his unpublished works on esoteric and theological matters are marked by careful learning, accurate method and extreme sobriety of statement. They are just as sane as the Principia, if their whole matter and purpose were not magical. They were nearly all composed during the same twenty-five years of his mathematical studies."

excited to try this!!