Jonathan Lewy

A lot of software is about to get a lot better, right before it becomes unnecessary.

This is the moment when @CBSNews anchor told me the news about the elimination of @khamenei_ir. This is what it looks like when a survivor hears that her oppressor is gone. And you Zohran Mamdani keep quiet and listen to Iranians.

To any future historians reading this, this era will make a lot more sense if you remember that every name is the opposite of what it really is. The antifascists are fascists, the antiracists are racists, the fact-checkers are propagandists, etc. Hopefully this has been fixed by your time.

Most people look for what’s wrong in others. The rare ones look for what’s right. That’s why they’re liked.

AI agents are killing the labor tax base. Payrolls shrink. Revenues fall. Governments face a binary choice: • Shrink the state • Tax capital, assets, and consumption harder Is there a third option?

Excited to share that @Concourse_ai has raised a $12M Series A led by @Standard_Cap with participation from @a16z, @CRV, and @ycombinator to fundamentally change how finance teams work with AI agents. Concourse builds AI agents specifically for finance teams. Instead of spending 75% of their time on manual work, teams who use Concourse now produce 6x more analysis and create presentations in minutes. Over the last 12 months we’ve grown revenue by 19x, customer logs by 13x, and are now deployed inside large enterprises like Front, Tecovas, and Palo Alto Networks. Alongside our fundraise, today we’re making Concourse available generally so teams of all sizes can connect their data and start using Concourse AI agents in minutes.

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Social Capital is the only currency that matters. Except it’s illiquid as hell. Gigi fixed that, creating a new primitive: one-click network sharing. Waitlist opening soon. Register.

Hoy en día, la mayoría de la gente se informa casi exclusivamente a través de redes sociales, donde los feeds terminan empujando la agenda política de quien paga por ella. El pensamiento crítico prácticamente ha desaparecido; la gente no busca entender, busca que le den la razón. Siguen a personas que piensan igual que ellos, se refuerzan las mismas ideas una y otra vez y se crea una burbuja. Con el tiempo, esas ideas dejan de ser opiniones y se convierten en identidad. En ese punto, dialogar se vuelve casi imposible. Y aunque en el fondo muchos saben que algo no está bien, enfrentarlo implicaría cuestionarse a sí mismos… y no todos están dispuestos a hacerlo.

Today, most people get their information almost exclusively from social media feeds, which end up serving whatever political agenda they’re paid to promote. Critical thinking has largely disappeared; people don’t seek truth, they seek validation. They follow voices that already agree with them, reinforcing the same ideas in a closed loop. Over time, those ideas stop being opinions and become identity. At that point, dialogue is nearly impossible. And even if, deep down, they sense something is wrong, confronting it would require questioning who they are—something most people simply aren’t prepared to do.

Truly inspiring how the Western left, safely tweeting from afar, knows better than Venezuelans how to survive Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship, better than Iranians how to deal with 47 years of the IRCG, and better than Israelis how to respond to Hamas terrorism. Nothing beats moral clarity when the consequences are outsourced.

@antoniogm @shaig Do you have a list of must-visit places?

@shaig Longer line when I was there!

@Gaurab Back then it may have seemed counter-intuitive to invest — but you’ve built something way bigger than anyone could have imagined. Excited and grateful to be part of this with @investovc

VCs walk around with a $1000 iPhone 17 in their pocket and say they don't like investing in hardware. YC partners told us "do not expect to raise any meaningful money. No one understands what peroxide is." Sean and I brought a running reactor to Demo Day anyway. Air compressor was so loud, they made us turn it off after 30 minutes. Raised our first round.

Over 90% of Jews are Zionists. If you hated 90% of Asians, you’d rightfully be called a racist. If you hated 90% of Black people, you’d rightfully be called a racist. But hating 90% of Jews? Somehow that’s not only acceptable but celebrated as long as you call it anti-Zionism

This was not a fun analysis to write, nevermind publish but at some point we will have to wake up to the realities of our world. forumforforeignrelations.org/blog/f/the-wea…

The “Israel is an apartheid state” narrative didn’t start in Gaza, it started in the Kremlin. After Israel sided with the West, the Soviet Union launched a propaganda war branding Zionism as racism. Fifty years later, that lie still shapes global opinion.

@NiohBerg Funny how the same people who preach open borders and “respect every culture” suddenly decide Jews should go back to where their great-great-grandparents lived. Consistency would be nice.

"Benjamin Netanyahu, if you take a DNA test you will find you're not semitic, you are actually Polish. You should take your bags and go back to Poland." Two things: 1) Jews are not European. 2) What are all these Pakistani men doing in England then? In Europe?

@Clara_Gold @wabi @ekuyda You can add your favorite investor to the list :)

Moving to SF means entering the simulation and sometimes forgetting your family exist. So I built a little Family Tracker on @wabi that reminds me to call my mom. Yes I’m 34. No, I’m not proud. But it works. Thanks @ekuyda 💜

Communism won — they just let us believe capitalism did. Today, the average French worker pays twice as much in taxes as a Soviet citizen ever did.