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Gaming. GTA 6 is going to be fun.
For anyone still fighting the idea of an age gap relationship, note the difference between these graduating seniors. She is fully-formed. These boys are still doughy lumps of clay.
I just read @dwarkesh_sp's essay on intelligence. I think he's right, but there's an axis missing: legibility. To understand the significance of legibility when it comes to power, we have to go to @jacksondahl's @DialecticPod episode with @mollyfmielke. Molly says: "My core belief is that magnetism is a byproduct of authenticity and just living as you were intended to on the thing that you were meant for. . . There’s a version that is large-scale, which you would ascribe to the hottest startup. That is less interesting; it’s a commercial magnetism that is produced by a team. Then there’s a smaller-scale magnetism that one person has. That can either be charisma, or it can be them actually just being deeply authentic. Charisma is usually a skill and a bit more performed. Authenticity in that form of magnetism is much more durable, and it doesn’t drain a person in the same way a performance does. It’s also innately, quietly, and deeply attractive to the right people and not to the wrong ones. That’s the kind of magnetism that I’m looking for at the earliest stages." To which, @jacksondahl said: "You could imagine how a fairly introverted, nerdy person could be very magnetic in a specific way." "Exactly." said Molly "If you get them talking about their favorite part of the nerd world, people just like them start swarming. They recognize them as one of their own. Authenticity in that form of magnetism is much more durable... and deeply attractive to the right people and not to the wrong ones." In other words, communication ability is power, but not to people who are not a part of your "world"; and @mollyfmielke is saying that there is a kind of communication ability that exists outside of commercial magnetism.
1/ Today we launch the @Felicis Forecast. It's our map of the changes that defy neat categorization but matter most to what’s next. Where AI’s potential cuts across industries to collide with consumer, organizational, and socio-economic fault lines. Where the old structures have ruptured, and new ones are just coming into view. Because even to people like us – generalists who’ve spent the past 20 years studying change – this moment feels different. Everything’s up for grabs. Rules, tidy bell curves, and comfortable patterns no longer apply. So instead of following patterns, we forecast: 9 themes we just can’t get out of our heads, that seem to pop up everywhere once you notice them. ordnl.link/Vyjrzep
EXCLUSIVE: Index Ventures leads $20m round in AI inspection startup Scope. Scope, a London-based startup building an AI workflow platform for industrial inspections, has raised $20m. sifted.eu/articles/index…
Today a reset is taking place. The senior engineer making a million dollars a year in San Francisco uses the same frontier coding agent as the junior engineer in the Midwest. We talk to companies every day that are taking advantage of this reset, adopting expensive tools, putting in long hours, and still hitting a wall when AI struggles to understand their business context and intent. The real truth is somewhere between the teams’ heads and the codebase. Falconer gives everyone in the company, from engineering to sales to marketing to finance, a reliable source of truth. One that’s easy to contribute to and helps keep itself up to date. If you want to know what changed in your product last week, ask Falconer to write a changelog. If you want to understand how payment flows work for your new product, ask Falconer to create a diagram. If you want to capture the decisions in your long Slack thread, ask Falconer to turn it into a document. When the code changes, your PRDs, strategy docs, and runbooks get updated. Your employees are happy, your coding agents are happy. Falconer was built with lessons in mind from making engineers at Uber and Stripe the most productive in the industry. We built custom tools for top tier talent. The results were remarkable. But outside of these companies, no one has access to these custom tools. That’s what we had in mind when we built Falconer. The quality of information you feed yourselves and your AI tools is how you get the most out of them and separate yourselves from the competition. You can start centralizing and curating and compounding those gains over time, or you can let the bad information multiply, rot, and pollute your knowledge—severely limiting your AI leverage. Everyone wants more knowledge, and everyone has knowledge to contribute. Falconer is now available as your source of truth to achieve the productivity gains you’ve been searching for.
