Rob Palumbo

The artificial divide we have drawn between mental and physical health is the largest mistake in medicine. Maintaining this divide creates stigma and worse care for all.

New pod: THE SMARTEST CASE AGAINST THE AI JOBS APOCALYPSE AI is the first technology that seems to automate the same cognitive sectors that absorbed work during previous waves of automation. For that reason, many people worry that it will destroy tens of millions of jobs imminently. But after I review the evidence showing that AI is not clearly destroying work today—and might even be stimulating demand for certain tech jobs— I brought on the great @alexolegimas to talk about the best reasons to doubt the doomsday narrative. We talk about all sorts of economic principles—lump of labor fallacy, income elasticity, Jevon's Paradox—but maybe his most interesting point is about the nature of desire and status. Desire is insatiable, and technology will never solve for status. Even in a world where AI can automate many tasks, status might go up rather than down or flat. And status motivates a lot of economic activity. So even in a world where AGI is very good at 99% of existing tasks is still a world where people will want to send their money to things that are perceived as "scarce" and "status-enhancing." You can create a lot of jobs on this basis alone. You could argue that this is how economic transformations have always worked. Our economy is a rough register of human desires. And in a world where artificial intelligence automates some tasks, it might not destroy work so much as it moves dollars and labor toward new desires in new sectors of the economy. The pet care economy wasn't really a thing in 1800. Now it's a >$100 billion business, made possible by the fact that a richer country moved dollars and workers from corn farms to bespoke poodle manicure spas. It is easy to imagine that AI could automate many tasks and even some jobs. What's harder to imagine is that we'll be permanently stuck in an disequilibrium where people with disposable income aren't trying to satisfy their desires and burnish their status. And in a world where AI is abundant, the question we should be asking about the future of work is: What will be scarce? What will be kind of jobs will be produced as desire and status shift, once again? open.spotify.com/episode/74OPgO…

For the first time, Canada overtook the U.S. as the most attractive destination for infrastructure investment among surveyed investors who manage about $1 trillion in investments. Capital is flowing back toward countries seen as politically stable, resource rich, energy secure, and strategically useful in a fractured world order. Canada suddenly matters again. giia.net/insights/pulse…

Canada has become most attractive market for infrastructure investors, global survey finds theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

If you’re high agency type of person who loves high performance, the only thing you can do is entrepreneurship or you’ll lose your mind. Everything else just feels like a joke. It’s the only path that lets you exploit your talents, act like a psychopath, and run things how you want without being told what to do. The more you try to continue being an employee the more depressed you become. You just know. You’ve always known. You have this fire in your eyes no one can put out and every minute you avoid it feels like death. Some of us are born to solve problems and change the world in some small way. And we must take risks to feel alive. Only entrepreneurship can give you that. There are downsides though such as uncertainty, more stress, and inconsistent income. But life is too f*cking short to work a boring job. Stop avoiding the one path that’ll make you come alive.

Finally killed Asana by rebuilding my to-do list as a live artifact in Claude then using scheduled tasks to scan my slacks, email and calendar each day to propose to-dos Infinitely, unbelievably better and more effective More and more workflows being sucked into Claude

It’s extremely important to act completely irrational about everything you’re building.

You have to practice the muscle of disappointing people. It’s the only way to win in life and not be miserable.

Agentic executions are units of work. Pricing for this labor will be margin on token cost, and creates an amazing new surface area for unit economic and business model innovation for those providing the agentic labor. Custom agent labor contracts can be code gen’d from smart contract factories for the agentic economy.

Just walked in on my wife: - pumping breastmilk - watching survivor - running claude code - managing her team in slack Unfathomable levels of locked in. Feminine cyborg

never met a founder that wanted to build in the same category as their first startup, almost always like, "man, i fucking hate that market"

“Give them a massive amount of oil, agricultural land, copper, freshwater, and every natural resource in the world. Now make them neighbors with the biggest market in the world. Great, now have them leave the resources in the ground and instead flip condos to each other”.

The best view of the game is probably from the stands. But that's not where the action is. And so you have to decide, do you want a nice view or do you want to be in the thick of it and playing the game?

The Strait of what, mate? The Islamic Republic of where? Never heard of it

A WALK-OFF GRAND SLAM! A MOMENT YOU DREAM OF AS A KID!

ruh oh

remember when deepseek?

Your Meta ads fail not because of targeting, but because they look like every other ad on the feed. Meta's latest piece (link in the first comment) on Creative Differentiation (when did we stop using diversification btw?) is actually pretty good: 📌 Be bold 📌 Be distinct 📌 Stop blending in

Great airline at juxtaposing prices to get in to World Cup games versus actually flying to country.

Meta VP of their ad tech stack just broke down Lattice, Andromeda, GEM, the adaptive ranking model, etc. The sophistication of the prediction engine is mind-boggling. Imagine turning off an ad.