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@douglasqian @telenardo This is awesome!

Anyone else wish you could just talk to your podcast app? Well, @telenardo and I did. So we built Orbit - the first AI podcast app you can talk to Ask follow-ups, get summaries, take notes. Hands free We don't know if it's worth pursuing yet. Please help us find out The app is in Apple review but if you comment "Orbit" I'll DM you TestFlight access as soon as it's live 👇

People at major AI labs (using internal models) 3-4 months ahead of startup silicon valley engineers SV founders/eng 3-6 months ahead of NY NY founders/eng 6-12 months ahead of rest of world Most people have no idea how fast AI shifting as 1-2 years behind SOTA "The future is here, just not equally distributed" - Robert Heinlein

It's an unimpressive-sounding word, but one of the most powerful motivations is the motivation of the hobbyist. That's what keeps successful founders working on their companies long past the point when they've made enough to quit. It's their beloved project.

Happiness is a skill

So true

You don't know how big a fish you are till you try a big pond.

The gulf in knowledge between the West Coast and East Coast is wildly broader than I’ve ever experienced, in both directions. And widening further by the day.

there are likely ~100 ppl alive today that deeply understand all of these together: product instinct, what makes good software, design, technical depth, a real model of ai, the psychology of a single user, the shape of culture, team building, the ability to motivate, & the narrative gift to make any of this actually legible to normal peeps. in consumer, where the tam is pretty much everyone, that combinatorial scarcity is the leverage. ~100 against 8 billion. pure asymmetry.

“You have to be the kind of person who can make the best out of a Tuesday. You know those people who live for the weekends? They're wishing their life away.” —Drew Marvin

Truth, love, and beauty are all pursued for their own sake, even if they make us worse off.

@HardeepSPuri Amazing

Dastar or turban is an article of faith & a symbol of pride & identity for us Sikhs. Greetings to the members of the Sangat on occasion of #SikhDastarDiwas. I still remember how I had refused to remove my Dastar or let anyone touch it at an airport in the US in 2010. This eventually led to the current practice of self-pat check by Sikhs at international airports. Years later in 2021, I was deeply blessed to receive the three Holy Swaroops of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and perform Seva when they arrived in Delhi from Kabul.

The greatest lesson I learned from going to the Gurdwara: dignity of labor. It shaped who I am.

This view just hits different 🌍 @Astro_Christina and @astro_reid take a moment to look back at Earth as they continue deep into space toward the Moon.

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A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it. It'll exist. It already exists. Small consultants and big consulting firms have made custom software for years. It almost always sucks. It’s bloated, confusing, and because the client pays, it’s built wrong in all the ways. Who’s excited about bespoke software? Software makers! Of course they're excited about building bespoke software — that's what they do. X is full of them. Your feed is full of people who love making software talking about making software. Of course they’re excited about the revolution. Echo, echo, echo... Most people don’t like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all. So when someone suggests that AI means everyone will build their own custom tools, ask who "everyone" is. The three-person accounting firm drowning in client paperwork? They want the paperwork gone, not a new system to maintain. The regional logistics company with 40 trucks? They want the routes optimized, not Joe spouting off about this new system he’s been messing around with. The law firm billing 70-hour weeks? They want leverage on their time, not a software project to design. They don’t hate technology. But building and maintaining their own critical systems isn’t their wheelhouse, regardless of how much faster and easier it’s become. It's another job on top of the job. Will these people use AI? Absolutely, for all sorts of things. Will some outliers go deep and build real custom systems? Sure, but they're almost always people who already had some pull toward software. The curiosity was already there. They were dabblers before. Giving everyone access to software building tools doesn't mean everyone becomes a builder. A powerful excavator doesn't turn a homeowner into a contractor. Most people just want the hole dug by someone else. They don’t want the responsibility either.

Coding an app is the new starting a podcast.

State of AI as of today - Building websites, apps and software has become super easy. No need to pay thousands of $$ to agencies. - It still requires a technical person or someone who understands code. Claude Code and Codex are still intimidating for non-technical people. - AI seems to have become mainstream on X but most people are using it for mundane tasks like writing emails, asking recipes etc. - ChatGPT holds the biggest mindshare in non-tech people. Claude is the biggest play in coding circles. Gemini is catching up super fast. - Wealth is being concentrated fast. If you have a growing AI startup or work at an AI lab, you're gold. - Pivots are becoming common and tougher at the same time. 3 years ago, finding a new startup idea was pretty easy. These days, you think of an idea and within a week, a new big lab update wipes away your idea. - New jobs are being created but only a fraction of people are ready for those. Layoffs in big tech are going to escalate. - AI has already taken over supposedly creative domains. Photographers, SEO experts, content writers, strategists, SMB consultants, videographers, editors and many more people are finding it tough to get new jobs. - SF Bay Area is the king when it comes to AI adoption, new products and more. No other place even comes close. - Young people and their parents are unsure what to do next. Entry level jobs in almost all domains have shifted. The optimists and plugged-in people are able to find tons of opportunities. For the rest 99.9%, it's a battle. - The widespread societal upheaval is a precursor to widespread gains in productivity. Governments might needs to intervene to ensure the shockwaves are absorbed in the right manner.

@sxmawl Awesome!!!

Going to #2 globally even after launching on the same day as Google and OpenAI is definitely very thrilling.