Ed Fidgeon-Kavanagh

Hey startups 👋 when an investor says “Send me your deck” you need an amazing send-it-on* deck... 🤔 But what is the investor looking for, and why? 🤔 And what are some rules that will help you make a send-it-on deck that gets your foot in the door? A thread below 🧵💡🧵💡

Some silly stuff!

madeira island is like the european hawaii

Excited to get fired

'Canary Wharf, London' (1991) Carl Laubin carllaubin.com

@Keyes Wonder why Ireland isn't included 😔😔😔

This is neat. Not many places manage the trick of growing while keeping a lid on rents. Also bear in mind that 100m2 is an apartment big enough to raise a family in

I met someone super smart the other day. An agency Founder, says she's been training an LLM on every single email she's ever written. Uploaded every document she's ever created. Fed in transcripts of every call that she's been on lately. And she now expects 99% of her small agency CEO job to be entirely automated. All emails reply to automatically. All calendar appointments arranged automatically. All follow-up notes from meetings done All follow-ups from follow-ups done. She plans to check in on about 1% of emails to see what's happening, but not be "the human in the loop" And all I could think was, wow, in about three days time, you'll have absolutely no idea what's going on in your business. In about a month, you'll be genuinely terrible at almost every element of your job. Your brain will entirely atrophy. Let's assume it all goes extremely well, Let's assume no hallucinations. Let's assume it's all brilliant, personalized outreach and amazing client management. Let's assume that it can win new clients. Let's assume that the clients don't care that it's an AI. That still just doesn't seem like a situation that I'd want to be in. It was quite a strange boast to me.

タチウオは、まるで磨かれた銀でできているように見えます。

French Quarter, New Orleans

@SimonJohnPalmer @SamanthaTaghoy I blame Fenton for this tbh

@SamanthaTaghoy London is actually becoming very un-dog-freindly. You know can't have them off a lead in park and a restricted to unsuitable segregated areas. We left West Kensington in London because of this.

This is blatant Islamist propaganda. Britain has been dog-friendly since our ancestors domesticated them 40,000 years ago. Britain is not a Sharia state. Never has been, never will be. You won’t take our land. You won’t take our freedom. And you will NEVER take our dogs.

Other than using Otter for transcriptions (which I confirm) and basic spell check, I cannot fathom employing AI in my writing process. Research is the point. Picking the best quotes is the point. Thinking through the outline is the point. Writing a shitty 1st draft IS THE POINT.

Athens, 1900.

@tomfgoodwin @anda_winata eh, you guys are Web3 guys? I moved on to Web5 (remember that?)

@anda_winata Have fun being poor

So how Web3 is going?

Police time will no longer be wasted investigating legal social media posts, freeing up officers to patrol the streets and tackle real crime. By scrapping Non‑Crime Hate Incidents, we are balancing the protection of vulnerable communities while respecting free speech.

Writing is thinking, and people who outsource the full writing process to AI will find their screens full of words and their minds empty of thought. But also: All writing involves and has always involved “outsourcing”—reaching outside of the writer’s mind to pull in pieces of the world, before and after the work of making words. Writers draw their ideas from other people, books, articles; after writing they often rely on outside copy editors, fact checkers, transcribers. Some of this stuff is just going to be done by AI in the future, and the boundaries between “good behavior” and “bad behavior” will have some blurry lines, and we should be honest and open about the blur rather than declare everybody with an open Claude window a part of the slopclass. Anybody who says AI transcription of long interviews obliterates the identity of a writer is being a little silly. But what about copy editing? Claude is a fast and decent copy editor, but it is inhuman to rely on it for that function? Is it moral to google “Econ papers on income transfers for child poverty” but immoral to write the same thing as an AI prompt? What about throwing 500 muddled words into ChatGPT and saying “does this make any sense? what do you think I’m trying to say here?” That’s going to be useful for some people. At an aesthetic level, I don’t like copy-pasting AI paragraphs into articles and pressing publish. That feels like me cheating myself. It feels like de-skilling. But the idea that “using AI” is anathema to the identity of being a writer is, in a few years, going to sound an awful lot like claiming that “using a computer” is a violation of the craft of writing. (Which, haha, maybe it is and we should all just go back to Steinbeck and his pencils; but talk about ships that have sailed.)

@tonjkb really wish I could have those 3 minutes of my life back

Marc Andreessen explains the concept of 'Retard Maxxing' "Are you aware of the concept of the meme of retard maxing?" "A friend of mine sent me this thing and he said, 'Oh, here's your answer." "You're retard maxing.' And I said, 'I'm what?'" "And he said, 'Oh, watch these videos.'" "There's this guy on YouTube who has basically 100 videos on retard maxing." "He's like my new life coach. It's basically just like: go to work, do a good job, come home. It's fine." "Start a company, succeeds and fails, it's fine." "Have too much to eat one night, it's fine." "Ask a girl if she wants to go out with you, if she says no, it's fine." "It's the simpler form of the extreme ownership." "It's the form of it that says I don't need to take all this in on myself, I can just let it go." @pmarca @HarryStebbings @ElishaDLong @SolJakey

@alanoc8690 People only think it so great because of a severe greatness drought

@Clearpreso Ed..

There's no way it deserves those ratings

@Hadley "We can't define it, but we'll have it soon"

I’ve heard from 2 people in the last 2 days that internally Anthropic expects to have AGI in 6-12 months. That’s faster than Dario has stated publicly. Plan your business and personal finances appropriately.

It sounds like some use AI to generate an entire first draft, then light edit themselves before publishing? The thing is writing paragraph by paragraph is essential for my thinking and clarity. It enables me to build a coherent argument. I figure a lot out during the process.

I can’t get over this story. The CEO of Air Canada is leaving his job not because of the crash that killed two pilots but because he…didn’t film his condolences in French. A perfect encapsulation of how we’re living in Veep, 10/10, no notes.