CravingHumanity

Basic sustenance , Health, and a safe place to sleep should not be things people compete against other people to have. Competition should be derived from mental and physiological challenges to improve the general state and limits of Humanity itself.

being a founder is just repeatedly betting your reputation on things that sound insane to everyone until they become obvious.

The human-perceived RGB is image 1 and the Tesla AI photon count reconstruction is image 2. This is why Tesla FSD can see so well at night or through extreme glare.

For my account, it’s opened the door to a mental hospital

The value of an X account can be measured by what doors it opens for you in real life.

Major green flags in a founder: 1/ crazy grit, won’t give up 2/ started building before pitching investors 3/ constantly moving, constantly generating new information 4/ very technical 5/ not addicted to founder cosplay 6/ goes out and talks to users 7/ finds creative, experimental marketing channels 8/ genuinely cares about what they’re building 9/ never blames others or external factors 10/ tinkered with projects obsessively at a young age 11/ constantly comes up with interesting ideas 12/ knows their metrics cold 13/ doesn’t chase hype, chases truth 14/ excellent storyteller. Can sell the vision to hires, investors, and customers 15/ can clearly explain what they are building in one sentence 16/ can’t stop talking to customers If you hit a good chunk of these, tell me what you are building

We printed this propellant less than 24 hours ago. We fired it today. Every motor tested at Firehawk is powered by propellant produced entirely in-house. In 2026, we will scale production to more than one million pounds per year.

This week we announced over $450 million in new capital to meet surging demand for our high-orbit spacecraft -- from commercial operators to government customers who need sovereign, secure communications. If you want to build the infrastructure that makes it possible, we're hiring. Link in next post.

Anduril product pipeline.

more metal to american factories more parts being made here 100x production

SpaceX Rolls and Stacks First Starship V3 Ship twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@elonmusk Wait. Hold on

SPACEX: Louisiana State Senator Bob Hensgens, who represents Vermilion Parish, confirmed yesterday, ongoing talks between "a space exploration company" and Exxon-Mobil for the potential purchase of 136,000 acres south of Hwy La. 14, west of Intracoastal City, north/south of Pecan Island, extending to Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge in Cameron Parish. The land is owned by Exxon-Mobil with surface rights managed by Vermilion Corporation. Hensgens could not name the space company, but stated he declined to sign a non-disclosure agreement for transparency purposes. There is also talk about the possible construction of a coastal levee. The area is prone to hurricanes, so this would be a necessity. More SpaceX news in today's ELON CHRON below!

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announces new changes for military contractors - Bureaucrats will no longer be able to negotiate defense contracts -Defense companies now just pay to build their own factories, their own factory expansions, assembly lines, and manufacturing plants instead of taxpayers - Companies that fail to deliver will be held responsible - Companies that fail to deliver may be replaced with new contractors - Defense companies can no longer have taxpayers pay to built their factories and then charge us for the product - No more cost overruns (this is huge) “It's simple. We're putting the American taxpayer first by offering you a better deal. We now move at the speed of business, not bureaucracy” A lot of bureaucrats that have been getting filthy rich off deals are going to be pissed

I'm 19 years old. At 16 I sold my unblocked gaming website for $100k. At 18 I sold Cal AI while at $40M ARR. Now, my co just hit $300K MRR a month after launch. The most important lesson I've learned to be successful in consumer is to dumb everything down. 1) Demonstrate the value of your product in 3 seconds or less in any advertising material. 2) Write messaging as if you are talking to a 3rd grader. 3) Make buttons so obvious that you can't get lost. The is the key concept that makes apps viral and also high converting.

@boardyai Hope so!!!

Is this the year for the solo founders?

@dara_venture Awesome, great read before the weekend!

You raise your seed round.....now what? The first thing you do when $1-2M hits the bank account is open the app, look at the number, take the screenshot, smile, send it to your family group chat to make your dickhead brother jealous....then close it. You just got 18-24 months if you're disciplined, 8-10 if you're stupid. Firstly, Don't change your fucking life. Pay yourself enough to not stress about rent. $80-120k depending on city, even lower if you can stomach it. If you pay yourself $350k after a $2M raise.....chances are, you will not last. You're not running a company just yet.....it's an experiment...one that will end quickly if you prioritize short term gains > long term greatness. Same with office. You don't need one. The "we need a real space for the culture" is bullshit. Work from home. Your only job for the first 6 months is to talk to users and ship quickly. If you raised $2M and you're not doing (minimum) 5 customer calls a week as a founder........your priorities are messed up. You need to understand as quickly as possible if the people who use your product, come back without you begging them to do so! Almost everything else is a vanity exercise. Series A timeline in 2026 is 600+ days from seed. Less than 15% of seed-funded startups ever raise an A. So track burn weekly. Know your runway to the day. Every dollar should ship product or facilitates customer feedback . If a tool, hire, or expense doesn't do that, stop it. Conference tickets? No. PR firm? Absolutely fucking not. "Brand consultant" don't be stupid. Logo redesign? GTFOH. 72% of seed stage burn is "people". 74% of startup failures involve premature scaling. You raise, you feel pressure to "build the team," you hire 4 people in 90 days, burn goes from $40k/mo to $180k/mo, the new hires don't have product to work on because there isn't one yet, you spend your time managing them instead of talking to users, runway evaporates, you're back fundraising at month 9 with worse metrics than when you started. Stay 2-3 founders + AI for as long as humanly possible. The teams crushing right now have 4 people doing what 15 used to do just 24 months ago. When/If you do hire.......focus on builders, forget managers. Focus on operators, not "credentials". If you're not using AI for code (Cursor, Claude Code), customer support, sales prospecting, content, ops, brand, recruitment vetting......your competition is winning. Tech is commodity now. GTM and data are the moats. Use AI to compress everything that isn't either of those things. Try to avoid giving advisors equity. An "advisor" (who you mistakenly thought would enhance "credibility optics") who takes 1%, for doing absolutely nothing, is the same prick that costs you seven figures in a future round. Model dilution before signing every SAFE. Don't talk to VCs for 6 months. (forget the "always raising" mindset for now) Keep relationships warm with periodic updates but take the foot of the gas slightly. I know. I'm a VC saying this. But I mean it. The gravitational, distractional pull of the next round, will fuck up your focus harder than anything else. Send your existing investors a 5 line monthly email. Don't go to investor dinners. Don't "build relationships for the A." If you're talking to VCs more than building, again, your priorities are misjudged and it will show up against your development goals. The money will fuck with your head. People will ultimately treat you differently. Nobody really prepares you for that. You'll get DMs from people you haven't talked to since school. You'll feel the urge to announce, to LinkedIn post, to look like a "real founder." You'll also be lonelier than ever. You raised, your "friends" think you've made it, you can't tell them you're scared shitless and don't know if it'll work. I would recommend finding 1-2 founders.....who are 6 months ahead of you, and text them weekly. That's effective therapy (at least from my personal experience). Last thing. The party ended when the money hit. Now you have a shot and a clock.....the only thing that matters is whether you ship something people genuinely want before that timer runs out. Most people who give you advice in the next 6 months are probably going to try selling you something. Filter everything ruthlessly. Trust your user feedback and trust the burn rate. Now go build and say "no"...... consistently. Godspeed.

@exolabs I tried setting up EXO on two M4 Mac Mini 16GB and just had tons of issues with the systems seeing other over thunderbolt and LAN.

Hello everyone, we're working on making local AI viable for real work. To do that we need to understand where it's falling short. When was your first time trying local AI? Were you surprised or disappointed?

Scrolling X all day is either an incredible waste of time or insanely high leverage. The difference is whether you’re doomscrolling… or sharing cool stuff and building relationships with interesting people. You decide

@hthieblot Some days its Barrens chat, some days its bookmark maxxing, and other times its current events. Someone said there are people around somewhere too, but I dunno lol