Element Dong

Every useful AI thread I've had is buried in a chat history I'll never scroll back to. So I built Pactify. Auto-syncs ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini / Perplexity into Notion. No copy-paste, formatting preserved. Chat history → searchable knowledge base. Solo. BIP. Link in bio.

AI memory tools used to be called note-taking apps. then second brain. then knowledge management. now: memory layer. context layer. graph. the vocabulary shifted because the problem shifted. it stopped being about storage. it became about what gets recalled.

AI output is easy. Finding useful output again is the real problem. Most workflow optimization happens at generation. Almost none happens at retrieval.

@GeminiApp Omni is really amazing😀

Gemini Omni can transform even a basic sketch into a new reality. Try for yourself in the Gemini app. Upload a video of someone drawing a circle and then enter this prompt: When I finish drawing the circle, it becomes ___.

@Copilot when does health ai actually clear the bar for something this personal

You have questions. Copilot Health has clarity. Copilot Health is a new safe and secure place where you can ask health questions, connect the dots between your wearable data and health records, and get personalized insights. Now available in preview for Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, and Premium subscribers in the US, 18 years or older: msft.it/6012vZqY0 Not available for work accounts. Availability subject to change.

@Microsoft just completed the Pactify Integration with Copilot😀

Loud and clear. #MSBuild kicks off on June 2.

@CuriosityonX the crowdsourced map is the interesting part.

🚨: Erin Brockovich launches a map tracking AI data centers, and she's asking Americans for help

@patrickc got this one wrong. the shock mattered less than the gap before adaptation caught up.

I’ve been struck by this phenomenon in much of the discussion around Hormuz. Who exactly should one listen to for systems as complex and reflexive as energy? (Evidently not IEA.) Is it even possible to make meaningful predictions for out-of-distribution shocks like strait closure given all of the second-order effects that one has to model? Are all forecasts fatally conceited?

@historyinmemes the name came from a can of pineapple. the rest: three other continents. hawaii wasn't in the story until the label.

Hawaiian pizza didn’t come from Hawaii. It was invented in Canada by a Greek immigrant who was inspired by sweet-and-savory Chinese dishes to put pineapple — a fruit native to South America — on an Italian pizza, creating a combination that later became one of Australia’s most popular pizzas. Hawaiian pizza was created in 1962 in Chatham, Ontario, by Greek immigrant Sam Panopoulos and his brothers at the Satellite Restaurant. At the time, pizza was still fairly new in Canada, and most pies only featured classic toppings like pepperoni, mushrooms, or bacon. Inspired by the sweet-and-savory combinations common in Chinese cuisine, Panopoulos experimented by adding ham and canned pineapple to a pizza. The pineapple came from a brand called “Hawaiian,” which gave the pizza its name — despite pineapples actually originating in South America, particularly around modern-day Brazil and Paraguay. Many customers were initially skeptical, but the combination slowly caught on and eventually became a global phenomenon. Today, Hawaiian pizza is especially popular in Australia and remains one of the most hotly debated foods in the world over whether pineapple belongs on pizza at all.

@GeminiApp gave spark a task before bed. phone off, laptop closed. woke up to a finished draft.

From a newly redesigned Gemini experience to 24/7 agentic assistance with Gemini Spark, here’s a look at this month’s Gemini Drops. 🧵

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla 3,760 miles. zero interventions. still supervised. turns out the name has the bigger obstacle now.

The first zero-intervention drive across Canada on @Tesla FSD (Supervised) has just officially been completed. 3,760 miles or 6,051 kilometers. Congrats guys!

@paulg @charliermarsh what's the signal for whether prior attempts mean the problem is real or just unsolvable

@charliermarsh Sometimes they're a good reason to work on something. When people say a market is "crowded," what that often means is that there's a real problem and none of the solutions are good enough yet.

“Someone else already tried”, “a lot of people are probably working on it already”, etc., are bad reasons not to do something

@brian_armstrong the access gap was regulatory, not technical. that's the actual unlock. the risk hasn't changed. perps still liquidate accounts faster than spot.

Big day for our US-based traders, and for Coinbase. Until now, US users have been locked out of ~80% of global crypto markets (perpetual futures and options). But not anymore! Coinbase is the first and only regulated platform able to connect US users to global crypto options and perpetual futures (including Deribit options with >$31B in OI). Thanks to Chairman Selig and @CFTC for making this possible.

@WatcherGuru bitcoin was back at $74k before most people finished reading the headline. the interesting number isn't the price. it's the latency.

JUST IN: Bitcoin erases losses and reclaims $74,000 after President Trump announces navel blockade in the Strait of Hormuz has ended.

@DiscussingFilm @empiremagazine the no-kill rule is gonna need a meeting.

New look at The Punisher and Spider-Man in ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’. (Source: @empiremagazine)

@gregisenberg each release cycle feels the same because differentiation moved. not in the model. in the layer built around it.

I didn't cover Claude Opus 4.8 on my pod because I don't think it's MEANINGFULLY better than GPT 5.5 as of May 29th. We're entering the era where model releases start to feel like iPhone releases. Remember when every new iPhone was a genuine leap? Now it's a slightly better camera and you can't really tell the difference. That's where models are heading. 4.6 to 4.7 to 4.8. Each one is a little different. Nobody can agree if it's better or worse. The benchmarks say one thing, the vibes say another. The thing that actually matters right now is what's happening around the models. Claude Code shipped dynamic workflows this same week and that genuinely changes what one person can build. Codex shipped a desktop app with an in app browser that combines coding and knowledge work in one surface. Those are the releases that move the needle for people. The model underneath is becoming interchangeable. I think we're maybe 6 months from nobody caring which model they're using the way nobody cares which engine is in their Uber. You just want to get where you're going. When something genuinely changes the game for builders, I'll cover it on @startupideaspod. Opus 4.8 wasn't that. Dynamic workflows was. I'd rather save you the hour.

building your own context migration infrastructure, piece by piece. that's what "sending .md files back and forth between ai sessions" actually is. it works. it's also manual routing infrastructure that only exists because there's no persistence layer. the reframe: the file isn't the problem. the fact that you're the one maintaining it is. every ai tool could read that context if someone handed it over. you're doing the handoff because nothing else will.

@GadzhiIman 2014. books, cameras, cold outreach. no signal. no return. no dopamine. the compound comes after the boring.

Always stay in motion. In 2014, I was reading a book a week, learning videography/editing, and doing outreach in the middle of class so I could sell those skills to clients. It was boring, there was no dopamine in it, and it took me years before I landed my first real agency client. You don't get a lucky break because you were more prepared than everyone else, you get it by already being in the game when it shows up. This is the mentality you need to succeed in business, giving up is never an option.

@dickiebush the whole craft is modeling what someone needs to believe before they'll move.

Everything is copywriting. Hiring a new employee. Convincing someone to buy my products. Winning the corner table at my favorite steakhouse. I spent years meticulously studying this craft. Hard to find a skill with a better return.

@svpino most tools give you a route. this one holds your constraints across it.

Claude is pretty good at finding the optimal route to visit a bunch of places in a city. It generates this cool Google Map route with every location you want to hit, and it personalizes it for you (walking, driving, taxi) depending on what you asked. 10/10 no notes. PS. Tokyo is amazing.

@matt_gray_ the unlearning is real. the catch is you can't drop a rule you never noticed you were following.

What made you a good student makes you a bad founder. Follow rules. Fit in. Don't make waves. Unlearn all of it. The biggest wins come from people who write their own rules and don't need the room to agree with them.