Adam Crouch

Really enjoyed our panel at SXSW last week -- Future of Retail: The Winning CX -- together with Melissa Minkow, @FTbram, and @EktaChopra5. Poshmark, Albertsons, & e.l.f. are all leaders in creating breakthrough retail/ecommerce experiences that grab consumer attention & loyalty, but in very different ways. I learned a lot from my fellow panelists, and had a lot of fun!

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@teortaxesTex Arms races aren't driven by excitement about what you'd do if you win. They're driven by fear of what the other guy might do if he wins.

Gwern asking some very real questions, ones I've been asking for a while too. Now of course they have answers, some very ugly ones, but I want them publicly stated without hedging language like "durable strategic advantage". If we're racing, we need to know the destination.

@alexisohanian @Shpigford Check out CollX. It’s the best and this, and has a built in marketplace

@Shpigford Ready to invest! Lemme know

Who’s built this for sports cards? I swear if you people make me build this…

@AravSrinivas @AgiMotzart @karpathy Firefox handles having a LOT of tabs open much better than Chrome does. Whatever they're doing differently, do it in Comet!

@AgiMotzart @karpathy Karpathy will have 100 tabs open on any browser. He will figure out more things to do even if AI works :-)

Browse like a Billionaire. What do you want to see in Comet ? Apart from all the usual suspect AI features like smarter Deep Research and basic agent workflows. Just the core browsing improvements that Chrome hasn’t shipped for ages. Please reply here!

@0xmetaschool I'm interested

Starting a group chat for people who want to build AI agents stuff we’ll share: - ai agent ideas - best frameworks and tools - how to launch & get users reply if you wanna join

@patrickc You'll also be able to expand books: "I wish there was a chapter on x", "update this based on recent developments", etc

Perhaps heretical, but I'm very much looking forward to AI making books elastically compressible while preserving writing style and quality. There are so many topics about which I'll happily read 100, but not 700, pages. (Of course, it's also good that the foundational 700 page version exists -- you sometimes do want the full plunge.)

@rileybrown_ai Love it -- like a new version of Nuzzel

Been doing some testing today... Does this feature sound useful? Converting Twitter Bookmarks into podcasts like NoteBookLM. You can select the bookmarks manually, and it would also send you a weekly review based on what you've saved. Would likely take 2 days to build into @yapthread and there's other things we need to do. would love honest feedback. should we ship it?

@binarybits This isn't theoretical: the 2025 Volvo EX90 has a lidar! freep.com/story/money/ca…

Tesla fans put a lot of weight on the premise that lidar is going to be expensive forever, and therefore Waymo requires "niche hardware" that can never reach a mass market. But one of the most predictable things in the universe is that electronics gets cheaper with scale.

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My 9 year old daughter is getting curious about business, entrepreneurship, and how the economic system works. What are your top recommendations for things I can share, read/watch with her, and activities we can do together? Grateful for the help.

@andrewchen It's just that handgrip strength is easy to measure in a doctor's office, so is commonly used by doctors as a simple measure of overall strength. Not anything specific to grip strength itself. Similar to how BMI is inferior to BF%, but much easier to measure, so studies use it

This graph was also in Outlive and interesting enough to share - it’s a graph of handgrip strength vs dementia rates I interpret this as saying general strength/muscle correlates with lower rates of dementia - not sure if it’s causal or if I should think of it as handgrip in general versus muscle more generally Related to the graph I posted yesterday on VO2 Max, it’s what Attia uses to argue for a more active lifestyle blending strength plus z2 cardio, to extend healthspan

@andrewchen Yes. In a world of instant machine translation, being one of the few people who can speak someone's native language with them directly will be very powerful. Builds trust and connection, conveys respect much more strongly because you do it by choice rather than necessity.

Question for the parents Should kids learn a second language at this point, knowing how real-time translation tech will likely perform in the future, when they’re adults?

@abhinavdhar Check out Rewind.AI it's created for exactly this use case

So, I realized that Gen AI's best use for me is to recall things and concepts quickly. What was a multi click distraction laden endeavor to "Google" something that I knew but forgot the specifics of is now a straight forward question to Chat GPT, ClaudeAI or Bard. FTW #GenAI

The results from Walmart and Target were very different. But they are not contradictory. They are two sides of the same coin. Target is very exposed to discretionary categories, precisely the area where consumers are cutting back. It is weaker in grocery and essentials where spend has held up well, partly thanks to inflation. Walmart has a much bigger food and essentials business, and that boosts its trade. Its non-food – the discretionary part – remains negative; people are not crossing the aisle to buy general merchandise, but this doesn’t matter so much to Walmart. Many shoppers are also trying to make their budgets stretch further. Walmart is picking up customers because of its ‘low price’ position. Target has a ‘good value’ position and that’s not quite as compelling in the current environment. Walmart’s success is not really a sign of a strong economy. It’s a sign of an economy in which consumers are feeling the pinch. And vice versa for Target. All of the other retail results tessellate around this trend. TJX is up because consumers are trading down. Tapestry saw sales plunge in North America as even middle and higher end consumers cut back on buying. The same issues afflicted Ralph Lauren and Capri. And then there’s Home Depot where momentum has gone into reverse thanks to consumers pulling back on projects and a lack of activity in the housing market which is critical driver of demand. The direction of travel is clear. Things are slowing down – not disastrously so, but visibly so – and consumers are shifting their habits and behaviors.

I'm excited by this -- it's truly new, and may create new concepts for how to visually display info and interact with a car

These are solvable problems, but they are the real barriers to getting far more Western tourists

And various smaller factors, e.g. food seems vaguely scary vs being a big selling point for traveling to Europe

This is all true, but is also not at all why China gets few Western tourists. This is obsessing over checkout page friction when you have few people even visiting your website. The real main reasons why few Westerners visit China: