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I'm convinced that as AI becomes better able to manage context/memory, there will be tremendous alpha in constructing a your own personal Library of Alexandria. Just image the possibilities—sequestering a highly curated set of knowledge/data/perspectives/etc in one place and then being able to draw from it like a well of infinite wisdom.

The currently fashionable male view of tattoos on women is a hysterical herd phenomenon, which pretends to be some kind of sophisticated anthropological "red pill"—except it's obviously wrong. The meme says "tattoo = red flag" and "no tattoo has ever made a woman more beautiful." These two observations are contradictory. What none of the Men Against Female Tattoos ever acknowledge is: Red Flags are Hot. Red flags are not predictors of stability, faithfulness, or sustainable compounding of value, but not all the attractions of human life are perfectly correlated with the preferences of uptight Anglo shopkeepers. The most sexually attractive traits are correlated with a propensity toward self-destruction: risk, recklessness, and self-endangerment, even to the point of death. Read Freud, Bataille, or even within evo-psych just look at Life History Theory. Self-destruction has always been one of the sexiest things in the world—and for good reasons, even if it cuts against long-term stability. It may be true that one tattoo rarely makes a woman more beautiful (in part because one tattoo has little signal either way), but what this popular refrain ignores is the following inconvenient fact: Many tattoos can make a woman far more attractive. If you've ever been to a bar at night (many of these men have not), the hottest woman there (according to the actual felt sense of lust averaged across all the men), will ALWAYS be the wild-looking, heavily tattooed baddie over the pristine girl in a sundress, assuming other traits are equal. If any of these anti-tattoo men were approached by one of these women below, in a bar past 11pm, they would simply wet their pants. They would not be able to handle it, and they've never had the opportunity, either. And I think they know that this is true, which is why they hysterically project against any woman with ANY SINGLE tattoo, with this weirdly intellectualized gloss that folds if you even poke it for a second. Men who love to talk about their zero-tolerance policy for tattoos on women are often just boring, fearful, cowardly men who know nothing of romance, love, sex, or death. All they care about is securing a loyal safe obedient slave who is guaranteed to never put their long-term value accretion at risk. This is also why many of them never get married at all, or stay perpetually divorced; and the ones who are married are often just uptight bores and petty tyrants over boring, lame little households. Can we also talk about how this anti-tattoo hysteria is itself a kind of inverted woke feminism—it's so prissy, so fixated on "trauma" (which is probably not real, and a left-wing bludgeon), etc. Sorry bros but the theory presented here is far more consistent with the data. It's OK to have your own preferences; you don't have to dress them up as profound social theories, which conveniently also frame yourself as a good person, and women you could never get as bad people!

@sheherenow_ If my co-founders don't react like this after a VC call, I have failed

the sf dream is coworkers who react like this when you drop a demo

@Scav Robots are hard because we are not ready for arms that reach out from walls and do what we need

A non-obvious “robots are hard” thing I learned: if you hardwire a robot to a wall, you trigger building codes. Suddenly your dishwasher bot requires an inspector, a waiting period, and who knows what else. Which plays into the cost/benefit for if you pay extra for the robot to have wheels and a battery

@the_varunrana I'm going to split the difference and listen to it on 3x that okay?

Just listen to your home boy’s voice note when you have a moment Christ man your tech startup is not that important

@jhylee95 "I want someone brilliant with high agency" is the headline and the article and the goddamn paper all at once. I'm fairly confident in arguing that the much rarer skill is folks with vision and direction

we're already seeing the harder version of this. the profiles every startup wants today are the same profiles with the lowest incentive to join one. if you can direct AI instead of just using it, you can build your own

@startupoppa The ability to articulate what you have done today is only representative of one's ability to articulate what one has done today. Nothing more nothing less.

@startupoppa I respect you a ton Alex, but this is a wildly reductive take. Most people are terrible articulators of what they have done, let alone what impact they have had. AI solves none of this.

been a product idea of mine for a while. single obsession: resumes suck. i wanna throw up every time i read one. unnecessary formality. full of bull shit. title circle jerk. cut the crap where is what you did day to day? and the impact it brought? ai can actually reimagine this space end to end.

@the_varunrana Birth of a founder

Storytelling is an insanely valuable skill until you start using it to lie to yourself 😐

@the_varunrana "I am become pride parade, the enjoyer of assless chaps" - Varun, probably

I am the entire pride parade

@brexton DM'd! Building smvn.io

If you are in SF the week of 7/6, I'm hosting a small intimate event for extremely physics/hardware/compute/AI-pilled founders Please DM me if you are!

@jhylee95 Dawg, did you tweet this at the deadmau5 concert you absolute psycho 😆

Spend a week on X and you'll have 40 opinions Spend a week on Reddit and you'll have 40 answers Spend a week on _____ and you'll have a product

@jhylee95 That deserves a slow clap, what an amazing tactic/line of thinking

The most unscalable thing we did to get our first users: I would manually sign up for other people's SaaS products, Learn how they worked, build a demo for them, and post it publicly on Reddit We did this dozens of times. It worked

@Laurennjoe Howdy -- I'm building Simovian (smvn.io) and we are raising! Let's chat.

hi, i'm lauren! still new-ish to x, so here's a proper intro. i've spent the last two years in venture capital across three different funds; writing memos, running due diligence, and figuring out what actually separates the companies that make it from the ones that don't. now, i run The Shortlist. it’s where founders get an honest, unfiltered read on their pitch before a VC ever sees it. i also started a women's health company a few years back, which is how I learned how brutal building CPG really is. on here, i post a lot about: •how I broke into VC during my freshman year of college •the non-obvious things VCs look at first •active opportunities for founders currently fundraising few things abt me: •competitive gymnast for 10 years (learned how to crash in front of crowds and get right back up) •still play piano when i need to think clearly; 10 years of playing with zero goals attached •building in public genuinely scares me, so this post is me doing it anyway i built The Shortlist because founders get told "no" a hundred times but are almost never told why. if you're a founder who wants honest eyes on your work, someone trying to break into venture, or just want to watch me build this in real time, let's talk. my DMs are open! also based in the bay area, so let’s grab coffee ☕️

Every Republican power couple is "closet case meets femcel" while every Democrat power couple is "hope fo nerds everywhere." Take note sensitive young moids.

@dbmikus Nytw.thevibepill.com

Any good NYC Tech Week events for stuff on coding agents and self-modifying codebases? There's like a bazillion events, and generally the bigger the event the less useful I find it

2 months till the pop off

Today, we’re killing the book a demo form. No more endless forms, waiting days, or sitting through discovery calls to STILL not see the product. Introducing AI Demo Agents: always-on product experts that run discovery, answer questions, and show relevant demos, decks, videos.

True leadership is asserting your memetic dominance over your co-founders

Gottem'

@perceptnet Sick idea

the five levels can really be anything but it's a nice pattern with LLMs to try to have it ascend the ladder of argument space