Brian McCullough

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Brian McCullough

Brian McCullough

@brianmcc

TECH BREW RIDE HOME (podcast) guy. GP: RIDE HOME FUND. Also: INTERNET HISTORY PODCAST guy (It's back!) Pick a pod and listen, or invest alongside me.

Brooklyn, NY Katılım Temmuz 2006
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Brian McCullough
Brian McCullough@brianmcc·
🧵Some personal news: After a 6 year hiatus, the Internet History Podcast is back! Yes, the original tech history podcast is back with the first three episodes below, followed by a new one every week for the foreseeable future. Search your podcast app now so you don't miss the amazing interviews we have coming! Start with this one 👇 youtu.be/sjkkdcMp2Pk
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Historic Vids
Historic Vids@historyinmemes·
The Long Island Motor Parkway in 1908. An automobile drives along one of America’s earliest highways, with the Manhattan skyline faintly visible in the distance.
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Negligible Capital
Negligible Capital@negligible_cap·
*ANTHROPIC EXPECTS REVENUE RUN RATE TO TOP $50B NEXT MONTH Jeez man. Mind-bending growth
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I Am Devloper
I Am Devloper@iamdevloper·
If Christopher Nolan has never used a smartphone then who have I been tagging in my pull requests...
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@pmarca never wrong only early
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Anything
Anything@anything·
BREAKING: Apple is no longer the final boss every app you vibe code on Anything now ships to the Play Store too
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Fuck. Arsenal won the league for the first time in 22 years. I've not said anything for weeks because I'm superstitious... but now: KJFoEUGHEOIUGHeEJBfvlieuwqbgvlieuwqhgliwehb3gluiewbnglewubgnewlaibgnewlabugfyuewrfq!
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Match of the Day
Match of the Day@BBCMOTD·
Arsenal fans certainly enjoyed that Bournemouth goal!
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ARSENAL PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 25/26
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kang@jaycaspiankang·
@RMac18 Relegation for third?
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BBC Sport Scotland@BBCSportScot·
Hearts are welcomed back to Tynecastle by a defiant support. Defeat to Celtic on the final day of the season ended their hopes of bringing home the club's first top flight title since 1960. #BBCFootball
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Packy McCormick
Packy McCormick@packyM·
It is 70 and sunny in New York City, we’re heading to a kite festival, and I haven’t heard the words “agent” or “token” once all morning. Greatest city in the world.
Deedy@deedydas

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation). Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there. Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI. As a result, 1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb. Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more. 2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future). Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire" 3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed. Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies. 4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either. No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money." I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here. Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success". Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

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