Jacob Solano

@pumfleet 😂

you guys can not fathom the level of locked in we are rn

@JuliusYRitter @spermracing Germany can’t win World Cup, at least they can shoot in a cup

@signulll Is it worth going on threads?

the reason why zuck has to announce a new model on twitter is that ppl care about very different type of models on threads/insta.

NYC 😈

I still think about this a lot

@andruyeung U gotta try cinnamon conchas with mayerdomo hot chocolate

I have never been somewhere with a higher density of beautiful coffee shops + bakeries than CDMX. In fact I just learned that there are 5x more bakeries in Mexico than the USA despite having 1/3 of the population. This city is on a roll.

Once heard a saying on habit building: Something like most 18 year old’s lives look incredibly similar, while most 40 year old’s couldn’t be remotely close. Apply that here:

@benln In!

Rebooting my X group chat for people building projects on Sundays. One rule: you can only post on Sundays. Reply if you want in.

@jappleby Extra, extra high ceilings 🤯

It’s official. I have my own office. Future Social, How To Hoop Forever, and my to-be-announced consultancy now have a home in Williamsburg.

How many years before this is the norm???

Would be a great way to market an upcoming sequel, especially as the flag is very memeable

The forward deployed engineer role is at peak zeitgeist right now. This week Amazon committed $1B to an FDE org. OpenAI and Anthropic already did versions of the same thing. Google is hiring hundreds. Every VC-backed company looking for customer-facing engineers are hiring FDEs en masse. And while the title has lost all meaning (from its humble beginnings at Palantir) & turned into a meme in nerdy tech circles, it's worth understanding if the hype is earned. @levie has said FDEs one of the most in-demand jobs in tech, because deploying agents is far more technical than people realize. Software companies look more like service firms than ever before in order to effectively diffuse AI into a complex latticework, people, process, and system integration. @emollick says they may disappoint, because the real problem isn't technical. It's rethinking the expertise & structure of your organization around AI. I think they're both right, and the disagreement is the whole point. The work is actually two different jobs. Call them the builder and the bulldozer. The builder is the FDE. You cannot ship a good agentic solution without someone who's customer-facing, deeply understands the innards of an organization, shadows the people actually doing the work, process-maps every step, and takes the solution through the ringer before, while, and after building it. The bulldozer is the one who clears the path for adoption. Different role entirely. It's an AI/Deployment Strategist, PM, or operational leader with the political capital to persuade the bosses, whose whole job is getting people to behave in the new way the rebuilt process needs. Buy-in from the top. Alignment from the ones doing the work. And enough aperture across the org to know what's needed to make reinvention stick. Here's a live example. We're building an agentic tool for a company that staffs hourly retail workers across a lot of stores. It checks that each worker is doing their in-store steps correctly, so you get company-level quality control over a distributed workforce. The builder's (FDE) job is to shadow those workers in-store and rebuild the process to speed up every step without changing how the worker behaves. But a perfect tool drives zero value if the workers don't use it. And getting them to use it comes down to incentives, training & enablement, and what their managers police. None of that is the engineer's job. So I agree with Aaron & Ethan. FDEs are exceptionally important, and will be for years as the AI industrial complex takes hold in enterprises. AND they are but just one key ingredient as organizations try to shift their AI story from experimentation to measurable gains.

@tbpn @eglyman @karimatiyeh Creatine don’t miss

BREAKING: @eglyman & @karimatiyeh are now Co-CEOs of Ramp

Some of the best essays I read on Substack last week.

Nike has the biggest opportunity to convert NYC into the “Disneyland” of the Knicks

There's a very good reason @evanspiegel is investing so heavily in hardware. Everything Snap has built over the last 15 years has been copied. His thesis is that as AI makes writing software easier and easier, hardware will be one of the only remaining durable moats.

@benln Experiential is the key!!!

Build your own keyboard at Compile

@ali_debow @gamechangersvc @scooterbraun @guyoseary @stellation @SignalFire @MaCVentureCap Nothing stopping this team, go get em🔥

We're excited to announce a $4M Seed round led by @GameChangersVC, with support from incredible investors including @scooterbraun, @GuyOseary, @stellation, @SignalFire, @MaCVentureCap, and others. A few years ago, while hosting community events and testing early products, my co-founders @WeilynChong, @NathanAhn, and I noticed a consistent pattern. After every event, people asked the same questions: Where are the photos? Who captured that moment? How do I reconnect with the people I met? fortune.com/2026/06/16/pho…

You rarely see this in tech, but it would probably be a hit. Maybe we’ll see more as software becomes ultra personalized. Apple did this with “shot on iPhone”.

POV: you sell your 1 allocated share of spacex