Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

I'm excited to share that my book, Life at the Speed of Play, will be out in June. I've spent the last 5 years writing so I can share my lessons and stories around building products and scaling companies.

Have to draw the line somewhere...

I'm thinking about the hysteria about Mythos. "[It] is like a gun, and this is like handing a gun to a 12-year-old." (L.A. Times) "It's like randomly mailing automatic rifles to 5,000 addresses. I hope some crazy teen doesn't get a hold of one." (Oakland Tribune). "...even prompted one leading security expert to warn that 'we could lose control of society.'" (L.A Times Magazine). But wait. Those quotes are from 1995, about the pending release of the ominously named SATAN - "Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks". Which, of course, didn't do anything of those things. Learn from history.

I CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT CLAUDE MYTHOS

Congress has worked tirelessly to give builders the rules they need. It’s time for members of the Senate on both sides to hammer out the final details of the Clarity Act. When rules are defined, both consumers and entrepreneurs win.  The GENIUS Act unlocked stablecoin innovation. The Clarity Act can do the same across crypto.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)

I don't think there's quite a word for this, but there's a certain attitude or discursive style that hoi polloi on X dot com have, which is "everything is a lie/trick/scam" It is good to be skeptical but this stance has become a pathology for most people

We have reached an era where some people have not touched a steering wheel and have simply let their cars drive them around for a whole year, whereas others do not know this is possible at all.

BREAKING: Alyssa Liu claims her new figure skating routine is "too powerful" to be released to the public, will restrict preview access to ~40 r/goon _roulette mods.

Reminder: The US is basically the only country which changes calculation methods in ways that make our country look bad.