Miro Cernetig

Just a reminder: This account is looking at how we invest in and build The Urban Planet, the three or four per cent of the planet where most of us live. And if you have things to say, I'd love to put them out to the 30K leaders in the CityAge network. They are some of the smartest people you can meet.

@kiwicopple @claudeai @supabase I just used it; save me five to 8 hours setting up my data base, with 100 fields. Thousands in developer/expert time.

we just shipped an official @claudeai connector for @supabase since this is topical, you can ask it "fix any security issues" and it will solve everything for you:

@NASAAdmin The new chapter of space is opening. We will be covering what it means on the ground at ORBIT.CityAge.com, in DC on Feb. 27th.

58 years after Apollo 8’s historic trip around the Moon, NASA is heading back. This time, our crew is going farther into space than any human in history. Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen will embark on a ten-day mission around the Moon, marking America’s grand return to the lunar environment. Artemis II marks the beginning of the boldest series of missions the world has ever seen. Through the Artemis campaign, we will maintain American superiority in space, land American astronauts on the Moon, and establish a lunar base all before the end of 2028. Godspeed Artemis II 🇺🇸

I am doing the same, on a smaller scale. My main focus is AI systems, not simply using consumer chat interfaces. I would draw people's attention to this, in a somewhat related trend: The Logic @the_logic · Jan 26 Silicon Valley’s most famous accelerator now requires Canadian firms to incorporate in the U.S., Cayman Islands or Singapore in order for it to invest. thelogic.co/news/exclusive…

Every financial journalist seems to be shouting about how we’re in a datacenter bubble. The bears say that OpenAI and Anthropic are burning money, and that AI isn’t adding real economic value. It reminds of how people attacked Google in the early days because it didn’t have a business model (we all know how that turned out). I would argue that: 1. Nobody is going back to traditional search. We increasingly demand the intelligence, reasoning, and analysis that LLMs provide. This requires inference compute (in addition to massive amounts of training), which requires datacenters. Insatiable demand for compute is here to stay, and it’s going to keep compounding for decades. 2. OpenAI has captured consumer intent far beyond Google Search. Monetization is only a matter of time (they are slowly rolling this out, but I expect it will quickly become one of the world's greatest businesses). 3. If you want to demonstrate economic value from AI, look no further than the world of programming. Talented programmers were previously one of the world’s most finite and expensive resources. Now, 100 of them live in my Mac’s terminal in Claude code. Me and my companies are pouring tens of thousands of dollars into Claude credits each month because it’s finally delivering real, economic value—doing $200,000 of human work with $5,000 of AI tokens. This is about to ripple through the entire economy, delivering GDP growth, massive amounts of innovation, and empowering everybody to build. Ignore the noise. LFG. (Keen to hear from the bears 🐻)

@lamphieryeg @acoyne @garymasonglobe @globepolitics I keep assuming this has become obvious to Canadians. I may be wrong.

@MiroC @acoyne @garymasonglobe #cdnpoli #cdnmedia @globepolitics @ Some sage advice ⬇️ from a guy who knows a thing or two about building great companies. Put simply, the US is where it's at, not the bureaucratized, bloated, socialist, anti-biz cripple we call Canada.

Sometimes, I think people don't really understand the tech miracles all around us. This is one of them.

@LukeBarnett Amazing humans. They are all around us. Here are four.

Often, the people who have the talent to make it in this industry, know it. You have to have insane, delusional confidence. You have to truly think there is a real chance you're going to win an Academy Award. The hard part is keeping that mentality without becoming a narcissistic asshole.

@GoIntoTheStory I just watched Martin Scorcese's excellent series with Fran Leibowitz: Pretend It's a City, on Netflix. Fran said she only met one writer who liked writing: Toni Morrison. Who essentially said, when she isn't creating, she's overwhelmed by melancholy.

Flannery O'Connor: “I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.” #writing

@signulll Ok, that's a million dollar T-shirt biz, right there in 11 words.

the only thing flat earthers have to fear is sphere itself.

@NASAArtemis So exciting --- and with a Canadian aboard. We'll be talking about this at ORBIT.Cityage.com Feb. 27th, in Washington DC. Join us if you can

The Artemis II astronauts entered quarantine at the end of last week so they don’t pick up any illness that could delay their mission. The official launch date will be confirmed after our wet dress rehearsal at the end of the month. go.nasa.gov/4k48ZxZ

A Canadian is going to the moon for the first time. In a few weeks. This time for a ten-day trip and orbit. The next time, we might very well be landing there. Quite a moment we should be celebrating. Safe travels Jeremy Hansen, and the three other courageous American astronauts.

One of Canada's great stories is that we are going to the moon (Orbit it) sometime in the next few weeks. Why is this significant? One reason is that it shows the close relationship between Canada and the United States in the quest for Space. We have been working together for more than a generation, and it shows the true nature of our close linkage in this and other levels. Second, in the current foment of global trade brinksmanship, this is a symbol of how Canada and the US work together. Sure, we have disagreements, Canada should be a better global trade to diversify risk. But the reality is that when it comes to the big stuff, Canada and the United States can get it done. That's not just about this Moon launch. It's also in many, many aspects of our daily and economic lives. Go Jeremy!

@naval A.I. keeps me up at night.

AI is adapting to us faster than we are adapting to it.

@Scobleizer @IrenaCronin great piece.

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@AJamesMcCarthy This is a pivotal moment for the commercial space economy. It is certainly going to be a massive sector in the years ahead.

I’m feeling at a bit of a loss due to a general negative sentiment about spaceflight, so I wanted to give you a bit of perspective… In the 60’s, the entire world cheered on Apollo. Rightfully so, as it accelerated humanity forward into the space age. Grainy photos inspired millions, and the rocks brought back changed our understanding of the universe. But the program wasn’t perfect… it used over 4% of the entire federal budget, was incredibly dangerous by modern standards, and had questionable political motives. By comparison, the Artemis program is closer to .1% of the federal budget today, and is operating at safety margins that are significantly better than the missions during Apollo. This has of course slowed things down, but the result is a program that can survive in our challenging modern political climate. Yet in every post about it, I’m seeing constant negative comments. Most seem rooted in a lack of understanding of the mission goals, or why this is such a massive deal after literal decades of proposed returns to the moon that went nowhere. This is the first crewed mission in our triumphant return to the moon in over 50 years. Unlike the missions from the Apollo Era, there is a massive commercial industry capable of supporting our return to the moon, it’s not all resting on the taxpayer and Congress to fund nasa. We’re going back to the moon safer and with a significantly smaller budget than we did in the 60s, and this time, the inertia generated by this event isn’t entirely determined by politics. As I write this, private companies are building hardware to use on the moon, despite not being contracted by the government to do this. There is a trillion dollar industry waiting to build infrastructure on the moon. With the weight of a massive Earth-Moon economy looming, we won’t see that go away. This mission is the first major step towards our spacefaring future and I couldn’t be more optimistic about it. Go Artemis!

@tobyliiiiiiiiii We will be talking about in Washingon DC on Feb. 27th, with some of the top space leadesrs. ORBIT.CityAge.com

Humans are returning to the Moon for the first time in 54 years in less than a month. This is not being talked about enough.

@SavannahFeder Super interesting. We have a network of 30K leaders; this may be awesome for us. I asked for an early peak.

Today, we're releasing Claude Code for marketing. It does a marketer's work in minutes by browsing, clicking, and posting like a human would. The marketing hire is now optional:

@WorkflowWhisper If one is using n8n/claude ofr content generation, how many credits would you need a month from Synta. Would it be covered by the monthly.

something shifted in AI automation this month that nobody's covering. MCP plugins crossed the threshold from "interesting" to "actually works." here's what I mean: 6 months ago: → AI tools generated workflow JSON → you'd paste into n8n → spend 4 hours fixing hallucinated nodes → maybe get something working today: → describe workflow in plain english → AI connects directly to your n8n instance → builds using real-time documentation → tests using your actual API keys → debugs based on actual execution results → delivers 95-100% complete workflows this isn't a small upgrade. this is the difference between "AI helps" and "AI does." tested Synta's MCP connected to Claude desktop last week. my prompt: "build complete competitor monitoring system with price comparison, margin calculation, slack alerts, and auto-pricing adjustments" what I expected: rough outline I'd need to finish what I got: 4 connected workflows, fully configured, tested against my actual integrations, running in my instance before I finished my coffee the gap between "I want this automated" and "it's running" just collapsed to one conversation. most people won't notice for another 6-12 months. by then the early movers will have built empires. the automation game changed. most people just don't know it yet. comment "SHIFT" and i'll send you: → the MCP setup guide (5 min install) → 5 prompts that build $10K+ systems

@WorkflowWhisper SHIFT

@NASAAdmin The new space race is on, and it's going to be big for all of us on the ground. Come to ORBIT on Feb. 27th in Washington DC, to hear from the leaders and visionaries who can tell you how to be part of the biggest thing since Apollo. DM for details.

Artemis Il is a 10-day flight test of SLS and Orion that will send astronauts farther than any human mission before. It is the next step toward returning Americans to the lunar surface and building sustained missions at the Moon.