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Since 2 people have asked, my take on the Anthropic economic index report is: next time show job postings too ... It's not a very dynamic view of the economy or skills. I can't believe I am saying that of the most amazing technology company of our time.

I just went through some of the Anthropic Academy courses. I can report that it does not rate very highly on the active primer index. Claude on the other hand, tops the charts. I think the content is solidly ... solid. Not sure it gets to the evergreen quality they're shooting for. Good start !

starting gun on illustrated primer

This is a big deal. Some American college leader feeling the pressure of this moment is going to see this RFP, partner with Woolf, and turn their institution into one of the great new colleges of the 21st century.

@alexiskold @aquavoice

What are examples of small, vertical focused models trained from scratch that aren’t based on OpenAI or Claude and work really well?

@walterwhitepill +100

There are ~4.5M 130+ IQ white people in America. Most of them sit on calls and move widgets on screens to earn government printed credits. What if instead they needed to do something real and productive around town/in the world around them? Ai brings about that possibility.

@Willob @alexisohanian @tyler_lasicki Tyler curious to learn more about get gild

@alexisohanian Talk to @tyler_lasicki

I’m desperately trying to start and fund Trade School 2.0 please DM me if you’re that cracked founder

@pzakin what is "pure software"

I'll take the other side of this bet!

@dwr @aquavoice

Superwhisper or Wispr Flow?

@alexisohanian same

@SP1NS1R there is such a longtail of idea guys with their own idea management apps (myself included) , will they / should they / could they be interoperable ?

Gradually building my dream notes app where I can drop *any resource in any format* into Telegram and it auto-magically indexes the note & artifact. Goal is to cover E2E lifecycle from artifact suggestions to idea output (eg essays): → Artifact recs → Note taking → Spaced repitition → Organize by questions I'm exploring → Write & publish

the economy is emergent & stacked and always has been; lots of the driving force of capitalism throughout history has been entrepreneurs seeking to satisfy the global rich's demand for what seemed like frivolous luxuries (eg, silk, tea). Trends suggest more global rich and a richer array of viable vectors of "frivolous luxuries" into global markets. yes, increasing benefits to scale in internet & AI world, but I think its a "big get lots" world, and it will be a golden age for small business & entrepreneurship. Plenty of work to do to build & maintain the future.

model co's are employing everyone? how do we sustain buying power/demand? what recommending reading do you have for me? steelman of the other side: automate all jobs → value accrues to owners → consumer buying power/demand collapses → deflation/contraction → redistribution, &/or revolution?

Humans don’t belong behind desks. It is not our end state to be factory workers who replaced hammers with keyboards. Everything that can be automated should be automated.

@jimfornyc Yea why would they use the navy yard for such a thing ??

This leaves me speechless. Celebrating the idea of chasing an innovative company out of Brooklyn because it sells multi-purpose drones to our . . . wait for it . . . allies?? Welcome to NYC! We can’t get basic services right. But we are the cradle of suicidal empathy. Send us your kids so we can make more protests! Make America Gripe Again!

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America is the greatest country in the world. But we need more founders working on real problems. If you are in the early stages of building something that matters, you have to be in El Segundo.🇺🇸 Apply to the Spring Cohort in bio.  Deadline February 20th.

@talraviv @WisprFlow @aquavoice

@WisprFlow tanked in quality, latency, and reliability last few weeks. It's really breaking my flow and I'm done. What are your high-performance speech-to-text mac alternatives?

@DStrachman Link or source ? Good frame

Great read by John Boyle about acceleration for children not only for the gains in their academic abilities but for the profound impact on their social emotional development: Gross mentions an interesting contrast with sports. Many educators seem to have no problem with scouting elite athletic talent and providing intensive support — one-on-one coaching, flexible schedules, advanced training opportunities. This treatment is “acceleration” by another name. So why is it different when the abilities are intellectual rather than physical? Consider the investment: $30-40 billion annually on youth travel sports. Elite club teams costing more than college tuition. Scouts evaluating middle schoolers. High schools with “recruiting coordinators” and million-dollar facilities. Families relocating for better programs. All of this to develop athletic talent is celebrated. But let a mathematically gifted child skip two grades — costing nothing — and suddenly educators worry about things like “social-emotional development.” The hypocrisy is instructive: we already know how to accelerate exceptional talent. We simply choose not to do it for the minds most likely to cure disease, design infrastructure, or advance human knowledge.

revisiting priors: behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/fighti… cc @ipeirotis

the literacy stack: letters, numbers and media

@ZoharAtkins @david_perell ask better questions @joinlightning

@david_perell “We are answer rich but question poor.”

People imagined the Internet as a utopia because it'd put all the world's information in our pocket, but instead of enjoying the great books and watching the great movies, we've become obsessed with what's happening now. The majority of what people consume online was created in the past 24 hours. It's good for business, but bad for the soul. News and gossip and your friends' Instagram stories seem important in the moment, but they're little tricksters because of how they pull our attention away from true quality. Sure, some of it is worthy. But the vast majority of it is a distraction. And this, I insist, is a root cause of the anxiety and dizziness that plagues modern life. We're stuck in a Never-Ending Now, and no matter how hard you try to resist, the Internet pulls you right back into it.