Peter

If the grass is greener on the other side, try watering your own lawn.

This looks like a lovely marriage of analog reading (yay physical books!) and AI, in an additive, unobtrusive way. Great launch video, too.

@pitdesi This is incredible news!

omg Nonstop flights from SFO to Hokkaido. Niseko as a weekend trip: Friday: SFO 10:30am → CTS 2:15pm Saturday. onsen + dinner that night Sunday: full day of skiing Monday: morning ski, 4:15pm flight home, land SFO 8:25am, go straight to work

@yrechtman NFX is a great firm. Congrats on the promotion.

Snatching defeat from the jaws of relevance

your AI and my AI are not the same

Anthropic with Software engineers:

@saadenam @alfongj 1. If machines could solve for trust, we wouldn’t have such fraud problems in crypto. Trust is built slowly over time & lost in an instant. I’d love to see better federated trust/machine-identity innovations at scale. 2. Visa doesn’t take 2%. The banks do. Visa takes ~10-12 bps

@peter @alfongj Visa solved the trust problem in human to human payments. Machines will solve for trust algorithmically. i.e. Micro test payments + multiple points of confirmation could be achieved for a lot less than 2%

0 out of 4 in this exchange understand what's coming with agentic payments

I doubt he remembers, but we hung out a few times back in the JustinTV days. Ah, how times have changed!

Kudos to rando twitch guy @eshear for his sense of humor. 🫡

The current state of the economy

at dinner in SF and a founder at the table next to me is explaining his health research on menopause to a VC, who responded “what is menopause?”

What a wild world we live in when a 38 year old public company does 41.7x in a year. 🤯

@DamiDina Turns out there's still a market for good taste & product design!

@peter Sounds like we went backwards imo

Every past era of web & UX design had its identifying trends (skeuomorphism, minimalism, flat design, gradients, blinky text, etc.) Now there's a new aesthetic that's instantly recognizable as having been vibe coded with Claude. I call it: "Claude-sque"

@RunningReyes @BrianRoemmele that's the point. MJ stole from Bob

@peter @BrianRoemmele Bob Fosse is a great artist. He neither copied nor stole. He created.

Bob Fosse in Little Prince movie, 1974 had a massive influence on Michael Jackson.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

@RakeshSFNYC great callout. I haven't seen many lately, but I did a double-take the first time I read one with "universal" IP rights. 😵‍💫

@peter I like the ones that have gone from worldwide to universe.

Kinda wild how every liability waiver now basically boils down to: "you agree to waive all claims to everything forever, no matter what, even if we are incompetent fools."