Jack Smith

I will tweet on this thread a list of my (current) favorite products and keep adding to it over time:

@levelsio same. i made a web-app bookkeeping tool using Perplexity Computer. not got it to automatically log in to vendors yet though

By far THE most annoying part of running a business for me is collecting receipts for my accountant Every month my accountants hounds me for invoices and receipts of every single expense I did, doesn't matter how tiny like $0.50, sometimes also for income (I don't know why) Most companies charge monthly so that means collecting 12 invoices per year at least One reason I am canceling so many SaaS is not even the cost, it's just that I hate bookkeeping so much so I think if I don't spend the money, I don't need to collect invoices and receipts for every single payment every month (also I like extremely high profit margins like 99.99%) I'm down to just about 10 companies I pay now, like Cloudflare, Hetzner, Backblaze etc. so that means only ~120 invoices to collect per year cause most are paid monthly Yes I have an automatic email filter that forwards invoices to my accountant but many companies do NOT send you an automatic invoice by email So you're talking about logging in to 10 websites, them sending you a 2FA code by email, opening your email, entering the code, trying to find wherever the Billing page is hidden, going to Invoices, opening the invoice, clicking Download to DPF (if it even exists) This week I tried to improve this, my accountant uses Xero, so I made a Xero API key, gave it to Claude Code, and asked it to login and figure stuff out, then it just asks me which expenses still need a receipt and a note, I find it and drag the PDF or screenshot into Claude Code and it resolves it Next step is letting it login to all my vendors and also download the invoice by itself which seems very very possible Much easier!

@atShruti hopefully some were able to utilize QSBS

They will still be SF brokie - 50% in taxes (37% federal / 13% state) $3-4m cash on a home in SF Likely needs renovation $250k- $1m Leaves you with $1-2m Many with kids or on the way Nanny -$100k/yr Day care / School - $45k/year/1 kid Camps/Extra curricular - $30-100k Tesla - $50k They will still be at the office 996 to not really enjoy any of this and and will only have money to hike and camp.

People at major AI labs (using internal models) 3-4 months ahead of startup silicon valley engineers SV founders/eng 3-6 months ahead of NY NY founders/eng 6-12 months ahead of rest of world Most people have no idea how fast AI shifting as 1-2 years behind SOTA "The future is here, just not equally distributed" - Robert Heinlein

Publishing the outcome of several months of research on egg freezing and IVF, some of which shocked me. Most American women aren't told there are different versions of freezing/IVF protocols— and the version they're offered by default is often the most aggressive. In much of Europe and Japan, women get half (or less) of the same medication for the 'same' procedure and outcomes. The assumption baked into American fertility medicine is that more is better. More eggs help up to a point; past it, you're buying more hormone exposure and more risk — not necessarily more babies. Long-term safety data on healthy women taking these protocols repeatedly at these doses doesn't yet exist. The studies that look reassuring follow women for 5-10 years, not 30. Full essay linked below. I tried to write the overview I couldn't find while making these decisions.

@timtamarl @bryan_johnson dmt and 5-meo-dmt are not the same thing

@bryan_johnson where is he getting the dmt, and how is it legal

My brain became 40% more child-like in 3 minutes. This is what it felt like. Me: “What question do we ask them next?” My daughter: “Are they scared of the dark too?” My six year old daughter and I were playing an imagination game. In this one, aliens had just landed on earth and we were asking them questions. Listening to her thoughts and exploration as we interviewed the aliens brought me endless joy. As hard as I tried, my adult brain didn’t have the same flexibility and freedom. She reached where I couldn’t. My brain was trapped in adult-patterns that felt inescapable. I'd always assumed that gap was permanent. 5-MeO-DMT proved me wrong. After my large 28 mg dose, my brain patterns became 40% more original. The technical name of the marker is Lempel-Ziv complexity. It’s a measure of how varied and distinct a brain signal’s patterns are. The lower the LZc score, the more predictable your brain patterns are. The higher the score, the more varied, distinct and neuroplastic. 5-MeO-DMT was like a magic potion transforming me from adult to child. The morning after the dose, I awoke to a feeling of giddiness. Butterflies floated in my stomach as I imagined what surprises the day may bring. The gray clouds of adult-dread that typically overcast my mind were gone. It was all sunshine. In my hotel room, I took a quick shower and then ran to a local cafe. I wanted to surprise Kate with a morning coffee before she woke up. I knocked on her door. Confused and barely able to see, she opened upon hearing my voice. I embraced her, teasing and flirting. She wrapped both her hands around the warm mug and I opened the curtains to let in the joy. We had a flight to catch so she showered and packed up. Not having time that morning to exercise, I decided to sprint down the hallway, and then skip back. Energy overflowed. The world felt light and right. It was a new me, with new patterns, and a fire for life. Kate was amused, observing and wondering what was going on. Life was like this for days. Now seven weeks post dose, it’s faded. The longing for that state has not. When I imagine the future, I remind myself that I’m now mostly blind to the power of awe and wonder. I am trapped in a 48 year old brain that is weighed down by barnacles and stuck in patterns. > I want the future more than my adult brain can see. > I hunger for life more than my adult brain can understand. > Children are wiser than we give them credit. > Intelligence may not be about what you think you know. > But in the vast, endless space of curiosity and wonder. > Unburdened by the world. Notes: 1) To our knowledge, this is the first publicly available human recording of this signal under 5-MeO-DMT. Seen before with psilocybin and N,N-DMT. 2) Thank you AWEAR for the EEG device and Joseph Chen for help with the data analysis.

Wild stat: one organic mention from @chamath and @Jason on the @theallinpod drove 2x more pipeline for @athenago in one week than Jude Law drove for Legora in 30 days. 🤯 All-In > Hollywood.

the USA / Trump is up 315% in 8 months on it's "investment" in Intel. turned $8.9Bil into $36.8Bil outperforming the S&P 500 over 30x in the same time period.

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot. It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles. But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer. I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.

@lightworkhome i see lots of influencers talk about Jaspr Air Scrubber. but i didn't see it come up in any of the recommendations on your site. what's your thoughts on the Jaspr?

We built a free, data-driven tool to objectively help you choose the right air purifier for your home. There is so much marketing noise in the air purifier space. Companies use and come up with all sorts of buzzwords to suggest that their purifier does something special. It's shockingly difficult to get straight answers and objectively evaluate performance. So we created a free tool to help you pick the right air purifiers for your home. 100% free, no signup required, no affiliate links, no partnerships or bias. Just data. Here’s something that might surprise you: most modern air purifiers filter about the same percentage of particles. Any HEPA filter removes at least 99.97% of particles at around the size it performs worst at (which is pretty dang good!). So what matters more is throughput (measured as CADR, or Clean Air Delivery Rate), how much air the unit can push through that filter. A purifier that's too small for your room will never get the air clean, no matter how good the filter is. But after consulting on air filtration with a lot of clients, we've realized that there are some other real-world, practical considerations that most recommendations ignore: > Quiet matters. If an air purifier is too loud, people simply won't use it. And an unused air purifier is no good at all. > Ease matters. If you have to replace the filters too often, most people will simply not do it. And dirty filters tank the efficacy of a unit. > Beauty matters. For many customers, having an ugly air purifier is a non-starter. So finding aesthetically-appealing ones, at least for certain rooms, is a factor. > Price matters. On top of all that, people want value. If it's too expensive, it won't get purchased in the first place. So we've created a tool that factors in all of the above to recommend the right air purifiers for your home. You put in your room sizes and preferences around noise and design, and it recommends a best-value pick and an upgrade pick for each room. The site walks through the methodology behind it all, including a metric we developed called "Quiet CADR," the clean air delivery rate at a volume you can actually live with. One of our main goals at Lightwork is to bring science-backed, data-driven rigor to the home health industry, which has historically been plagued with imprecision, poorly-supported claims, and (at worst) scams. (link below)

@dustin_cota_ @perplexity_ai @levelsio i don't use Claude Max. Perplexity has Claude already built in

@_jacksmith @perplexity_ai @levelsio what else are you using perplexity computer for? compared to claude max?

I'm in love with @perplexity_ai Computer. It's insane. Inspired by @levelsio I thought to rebuild some Chrome extensions. but Using Perplexity Comptuer, I don't have to view a single line of code. my prompt was as simple as "here is the link to 3x chrome extensions. review and build your own version, taking the best bits of all, considering security and give me as a zip i can use for my own chrome extension" then it did all the work and a few minutes later gave me the extension. i didn't have to read a single line of code

@november__child @naval it doesn't say only US "citizens". it says "U.S. investors" but yeah, that's a shame. I think it's because of the fund structure

@naval @_jacksmith But why only for US citizens? 🥲

Introducing USVC - a single basket of high-growth venture capital, for everyone. No accreditation required, SEC-registered, and a very low $500 minimum. Includes OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Sierra, Crusoe, Legora, and Vercel. As USVC adds more companies, investors will own a piece of that too. Liquidity typically comes when companies exit, but we’re aiming to let investors redeem up to 5% of the fund every quarter. This isn’t guaranteed, but if we can make it work, you won’t be locked up like in a traditional venture fund. It runs on AngelList, which already supports $125 billion of investor capital. And I’ve joined USVC as the Chairman of its Investment Committee. — Go back to the 1500s, you set sail for the new world to find tons of gold - that was adventure capital. Early-stage technology is the modern version. It says we are going to create something new, and it’s risky. It’s daring. But ordinary people can’t invest until it’s old, until it’s no longer interesting, until everybody has access to it. By the time a stock IPOs, most of the alpha is gone. The adventure is gone. Public market investors are literally last in line. This problem has become farcical in the last decade. Startups are reaching trillion dollar valuations in the private markets while ordinary investors have their noses up to the glass, wondering when they’ll be let in. Investing in private markets isn’t easy. You need feet on the ground. You need judgment built over years. Most people don’t have the patience to wait ten or twenty years for an investment to come to fruition. But there is no more productive, harder-working way to deploy a dollar than in true venture capital. USVC enables you to invest in venture capital in a broad, accessible, professionally-managed way, through a single basket of innovation, focused on high-growth startups, at all stages. It is how you bet on the future of tech: the smartest young people in the world, working insane hours, leveraged to the max, with code, hardware, capital, media, and community. Your dollar doesn’t work harder anywhere. There is an old line - in the future, either you are telling a computer what to do, or a computer is telling you what to do. You don’t want to be on the wrong side of that transaction. USVC lets you buy the future, but you buy it now. Then you wait, and if you are right, you get paid. Get access here: usvc.com

✨ Integrated Hoodmaps now into my new site hotelist.com I started it 2 years ago but finally working on it again It's a hotel booking site with hotels rated by AI to avoid all the fake reviews and paid listings of modern booking sites Any way, if you zoom in to any city, it'll pull the Hoodmaps neighborhood data, so you can stay in the cool area, not the tourist area or the crime area! Let me know what you think 😊

quite unbelievable quote from RFK: he says that he's on carnivore diet and “about half the cabinet is on this same diet right now.”

@levelsio @sonofatailor yeah, they're pretty good. but agree that their colors are very bland

I was recommended @sonofatailor by all of you Custom fitted t-shirts based on your own body's measurements I love them, 100% cotton, great quality But I guess as is the problem with all clothing brands, they always change stuff every season (to keep selling new stuff) so for ~2 years now they've switched to the most boring uninteresting colors imaginable It's all some gray pastel depressing shit There's no happy fun colors anymore This is why guys when they finally find some good clothes they like, they buy all the colors because you know a month or year later, it's forever gone! Sad!

anyone else going this year?

I asked an employee at Hampton who has interviewed over 500 Hampton applicants to tell me if she noticed any differences between the super successful founders (+$100m) and the mildly successful founders who applied. She had 4 distinct points. Here are her observations. youtu.be/75FTbcrkPWk?si…

The IRS now allowing you to submit an 83(b) election online is a game changer This has now eliminated my only remaining reason for going to the post office

"i have hormonal problems and I dont know why"