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Incredible. $1.87 in USDC paid by an agentic analyst to build a world class investment committee memo on SpaceX IPO. The agentic economy has arrived.

This is super interesting You now have non-tech normal people outship tech people in terms of reaching revenue fast I have lots of techy software engineer friends and they have been trying for years to get any MRR for their sideprojects and they still haven't Here's an Indonesian girl, who's tapped into TikTok culture, knows what to ship, can't even code but ships it fast thanks to AI and gets to $800 MRR in the first month So we're officially in a new time now: it's now literally just a competition of being as tapped into the culture as possible, to then be able spot a trend and rapidly built and launch a site/app/biz around it, and make money There is little to any benefit being in tech now over normal people, maybe even the opposite as tech people are very up to date on tech things but often quite out of date on many non-tech cultural trends This is a great thing, but a bitter pill to swallow: another gatekeeper wiped out and every tech builder has to now stop putting effort into tech skills, and instead put effort into understanding culture trends to see what to build next And build it fast!

WOW! This is the first time we've ever been able to see Starship in space from another object. This view comes from modified Starlink satellite they just deployed that has a camera and a light on it. Super cool!

Can you imagine that we are about to have our first fly by Mission de Mars crewed by a bitcoin mining tycoon?

Just found out that Berkeley course staff are writing hooks inside course repos so if a student opens an assignment in Claude Code or Cursor the agent will automatically ping the staff 😵‍💫 well played

Incredible moment in history around starships 12th flight test

Lunar Starlink ftw

proposing the flag of artificial superintelligence

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. When they stop, something dangerous is nearby. When they continue, the coast is clear. This wiring predates primates. These kids are being sedated by the oldest safety signal in the mammalian nervous system. The Max Planck Institute tested this in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong reduced anxiety and paranoia with medium effect sizes. Six minutes of traffic noise increased depression by the same margin. The effect worked on people who had never left dense urban environments. Their bodies responded to a signal their conscious minds had never learned. King's College London ran a larger study. 1,292 participants, real-time mood tracking through a phone app, 26,856 assessments over three years. Hearing or seeing birds improved mental wellbeing for up to eight hours afterward. The effect held for people diagnosed with depression. Trees, plants, and waterways didn't explain it. The birds themselves were the variable. Now here's where Italy connects to Finland. 95% of parents in the Finnish city of Oulu let their babies nap outside starting at two weeks old. A 2008 study confirmed the children took longer, deeper naps outdoors. Parents reported letting them sleep in temperatures as low as -15°C. 66% said their babies were more active afterward compared to indoor naps. The practice started as a public health initiative from Nordic maternity clinics in the early 1900s and became cultural infrastructure. The Italian kindergarten in this video is running the same program the Nordic countries have been running for a century. Outdoor naps, natural soundscapes, no white noise machines, no blackout curtains. Meanwhile, American kindergartens have been eliminating nap time entirely to squeeze in more instruction. A UMass study showed that children who skipped naps forgot 12% of what they learned that morning. The nap itself was the learning. The irony is that the countries spending the least on sleep technology for children are producing the best sleep outcomes. No sound machines. No apps. Just birds.

@howietl @dunkhippo33 Congratulations!!! Very interesting- we should discuss how we can worth with this and our AI hackathons with @PeterDiamandis @bytylerd

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This is very interesting and worth paying attention to - thanks for writing this post @nanransohoff -

Reports from the frontlines of the AI data center gold rush

@bianca__martin Thank you for sharing!

I shared the following note with my colleagues today at OpenAI

@ZeMariaMacedo It’s mostly about capital access and availability - in US there are deep pockets investing in frontier concepts- in China, seed stage venture has shrunk considerably and most large infra happens from large companies, so founders have to start from immediately useful projects

A very thoughtful post about the structural reforms that can supercharge American competitiveness and also decrease cost of living.

This should get much more attention. We need better narratives for our future

This is a really useful and interesting post, thanks @addyosmani for reflecting on one of the core experiences for all those learning and working in software- how do we continue developing skills vs just produce work products?

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

@dipanshuhappy @devanshmehta Competition between blockchains is also competition of economic models- which allows for a fascinating evolutional economy process - when was the last time that you could speed run economic model comparison?

Ethereum has a dead weight loss problem. If we don't fix it, we get out competed by economies that already did. This is the premise of @devanshmehta EthPrague talk on funding public goods at the protocol level. Quick thread on it below.