Ben Taylor

Your Mac just got a brain. 🧠 Spec proactively drafts replies, summarizes docs, and helps before you ask. It connects knowledge and memory across iMessage, Slack, email, and your calendar, finally making your apps work together. Goodbye silos and context switching.

Introducing Fort, a wearable that automatically tracks strength training. Strength training is one of the best things you can do for your health and longevity. It deserves better tools.

We’re so

everyone just keeps building the same thing: 2024: deep research and “operator” (browser clickers) 2025: actual browsers and prompt-to-app 2026: some version of openclaw there’s a lot of alpha in original product thinking while big labs (and many startups too) are all busy building identical products

@hustle_fred the real milestone is when they stop asking about your job and just start asking for money straight up

family reactions to MRR: > $100 MRR: "you need a job" > $500 MRR: "you need a job" > $1k MRR: "yeah, but you need a job" > $2k MRR: "yeah, but a job earns more" > $3k MRR: "okay, do what you want" > $5k MRR: "what exactly do you do?" > $10k MRR: "are you sure this is stable?" > $100k MRR: "you were always a smart kid"

running coding agents overnight and waking up to see what disaster they created is the new checking your drunk texts

@signulll you get to overpay for everything in exchange for being surrounded by people who also overpay for everything. it's called networking.

what is a *real tangible benefit to being in san francisco as opposed to being anywhere else if you’re in tech?

@Codie_Sanchez completely agree but telling people agencies suck is like telling people not to touch a hot stove. they gotta find out for themselves.

The world is about to be littered w/ “ai consulting startups.” No one ever learns the lesson w/ agencies. Terrible long term businesses. You’d make 100x more building a business that integrates AI. Oh well, You and I will play long term games > short term grabs.

@MrGoldBro they figured out if you make chicken the exact shade of a Cheez-It and serve it in a mall people will make you a billionaire

Panda Express spits off over $1B of free cash flow a year. 2,500 stores. Never franchised. 100% family owned.

Can Waymos get DUIs (Driving Under the Inference)?

@SahilBloom there's definitely a business here but only until products stop being confusing. then the concierge thing becomes pointless

There's an opportunity right now to build a $100k per month side hustle as an AI Concierge. And you don't even have to be *that* technical to do it. Just high agency. There are probably millions of people out there who see all of the latest AI innovations like Claude Cowork, want to take advantage of them, but have no idea how to actually do that. I know, because I'm one of those people... I had dinner last night with the CEO of a multi-billion dollar tech startup. He was telling me about the full digital assistant/employee he just hacked together over the weekend. All of the things it's doing, how it's been an unlock for his workflows and life. I told him I'd gladly pay him $5000 to come to my house and spend the day building me one using the same approach. He laughed that he'd happily do that (though obviously won't given his day job). There's a real, high cash flow opportunity for a hustler to launch a services business as an AI Concierge for the tech curious. Ideally they would physically show up and build out a tool (or suite) to help an individual leverage the latest for their business and life. I bet you could charge $5-10k for the initial upfront work and then some low ongoing service fee to keep the thing up to date (if the person wants that and needs help with it). 5-10 clients per month and you have a meaningful cash flow engine. All comes down to the quality of what you deliver long term, but my guess is people would see a Month 1 positive ROI on the investment and referrals to their friends would drive the entire business. Just a thought...

If your emotional state is a direct pipeline to your MRR dashboard you need to log off and touch grass not raise a Series A

@ThinkingUSD bitcoin down bad so now we're investigating the Saudis... least unhinged day in crypto.

By far the most vicious selling I’ve seen in Crypto, feels forced, indiscriminate. Few theories: - Secret Sovereign dumping $10B+ (Saudi/UAE/Russia/China) - Exchange blowup, or Exchange that had tens of billions of dollars of Bitcoin on the balance sheet forced to sell for whatever reason - Large Deca/CentiBillioniare family facing liquidity crunch (Ellison/Oracle?) - Hidden leverage in the IBIT ETF, people could borrow against an asset for the first time from GSIBs and potentially over extended themselves significantly

I don’t miss being bored. I miss being bored without feeling guilty about it. Now, if you’re not doing something you feel like you’re wasting potential, which is a terrible way to live.

@Kalshi Youtube TV changed everything it's unmatched

JUST IN: Youtube generated $60 billion last year - more than Netflix

@sama the moment where we realize the agents need gatekeepers and of course that’s a product

The companies that succeed in the future are going to make very heavy use of AI. People will manage teams of agents to do very complex things. Today we are launching Frontier, a new platform to enable these companies.

@barkmeta canned goods and a good therapist apparently

Gold and Silver are crashing. Crypto is crashing. Stocks are crashing. The dollar is crashing. Genuine question... WTF are we even supposed to buy?

@garrytan the system created a world where not having a diagnosis is just leaving points on the table

Nearly 40% of Stanford undergrads now claim a disability, vs 4% at community colleges. The problem isn’t 18-year-olds gaming incentives. It’s elites building a world where honesty is for suckers. Cluely is not everything. Bring back integrity. garryslist.org/posts/stanford…

@tenshinoouji my entire projectery just shifted reading this

that’s it you’re going on the list

@A_K_Mandhan retirement plan is just hoping dad doesnt check the statements

Met a guy today. Age: 22 #Portfolio : $ 20 Million Started investing a year ago. Goal: To retire at 30. I asked him how he has managed to build $20 Million at this age. He said he worked hard & convinced his dad to give him $100 Million and invested it all in crypto... see more

We’re surrounded by optimization But almost no one is optimizing for peace