Humayun Khan

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Humayun Khan

@humayunk_

design, build, & write

Toronto, Ontario Katılım Mayıs 2010
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Humayun Khan
Humayun Khan@humayunk_·
didn’t realize how fragile the ad model supporting the entirety of the www was till finishing this book. appreciated the analogies and comparisons to the financial markets raised by author. short read, would recommend.
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Love that @replit Agent 3 asks: quick design preview or full build? Game-changer for prototyping. Experimenting with a new flow: wireframe in @excalidraw@anthropicai Claude for prompts → Agent 3 design-first mode.
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astonishing that even with humanity edging closer than ever to agi, setting up a home printer still feels like an accomplishment
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vilakshan
vilakshan@vilakshankhanna·
@humayunk_ hows your nose sniffles coming along. did you rest
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Humayun Khan@humayunk_·
built an ikea standing desk, now feel ready to start building robots
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chris
chris@chrislevan·
my goal is to have a physical space for @555mtl. a permanent space for likeminded people to work on their craft & meet new people. who is someone in montreal i should talk to to make this happen? @vilakshan_ao1 @SimonTheWang
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what do we humans do while the agent is working? @replit, I wouldn't mind some mini games
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startups that send subscription renewal reminders make me not want to cancel
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Robleh
Robleh@robjama·
Here's a just a few to get the list going @aratisharma @skanwar - Good Future, Ghlee @fahdananta - Roach capital @internetvin - Futureland, New Systems @Sirupsen - Turbo Puffer @hashemito @harrybrundage - Gadget @danielpatricio - Abra @themoridwan @nayeemzen - Pluto @michaelperry @sealabcore - Maple @CarlCasis - Casis Careers @Brentertainer @amirjaffari - Growth Crew @klprose - OpsLevel @karnsaroya + team - Re @stevenwhatevr - Super Magic Taste @drupeek - Tilt @erinechan - Rhenti @jmwind - Sea People @ZackHonarvar - Creator Now @Mark_v_Ryan - Pavlov @gautamg_ - Highbeam @cshold @paulpritchard - Archetype Themes @cpollo01 @TaylorSicard @richgilbank - Uptime @fatimayusf - Imagine Create @sylvng - Return Bear @elizcreighton - Brazen UX @davidgaylord - Bushbalm @Effielinn - Afterword @mandiramidha - Mandira Midha @llwire - Infinit @jeet25_m - Swift me + @mrkrishsatya - Boom
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Robleh@robjama·
The Shopify alumni are building incredible companies but there's no place tracking them all. Let's fix that! Drop names of Shopify Mafia (Mounties? 🇨🇦) founded startups, brands and agencies below and I'll vibe code it into an open database. Who else should be on the list?
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Satish Kanwar
Satish Kanwar@skanwar·
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Humayun Khan@humayunk_·
mindmaps are coat racks to hang entire books on
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Humayun Khan@humayunk_·
conditioned through usage to prefer google maps interface over apple maps, usage isn’t just oxygen, its also cement for neural pathways
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Humayun Khan@humayunk_·
tech friends, if you’re interested in helping fund and executive producing an indie film with an all-star team about a brown kid growing up in the projects obsessed with being the next @StephenCurry30, dm me
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production team adapting my novel for film put in a telefilms application last week for funding, if it comes through, thing goes to camera in the summer, still so surreal
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Humayun Khan@humayunk_·
need an entire book on this
Balaji@balajis

AGENCY VS NPC What are the limits of agency? 1) Until five minutes ago, the West was run by NPCs. You slotted into your role, waited decades to be president, propped up the postwar order, established the establishment. 2) Now it's run by high agency people. You can just do things people. Tech people, Trump people. Because the Internet increases variance. It means that small groups[1,2] of highly motivated individuals — as small as one, like Satoshi or Elon or Trump — can change the world. 3) But there are limits to agency. Historic forces, genetic constraints, physical limits. A high agency person can’t just grind their way into starting for the Lakers. They can’t intuit the preimage to a cryptographic hash. They can’t turn rye into wheat by pure willpower. 4) That way lies Neo-Lysenkoism. Lysenko was a communist who denied that genetic constraints existed at all — and executed Darwinists who thought they did. He believed rye could become wheat by pure willpower. 5) And, confusingly, the same NPCs that just ran the West also believe in a Neo-Lysenkoism where a Down's Syndrome patient[3] is only constrained by societal expectation rather than unfortunate chromosomal aberration. Genetics denial also underpins their insistence that XX=XY. And economics denial underpins most socialist policy. 6) So — wait. What then is the difference between the determined technocapitalist idea that “you can just do things” and the delusional communist idea that “constraints do not exist”? Does the far left also in some sense have a high agency model of the world? 7) To complicate this further, the technolibertarian view on agency often doesn't extend to the rest of the world. Deepseek can also just do things. As the military says, "the enemy also gets a vote."[4] 8) Moreover: high agency, taken to the ultra-alpha extreme, can impede large-scale cooperation. There is a reason beta cooperation arose[5]. Every man cannot be a leader on everything; indeed, he can only at most lead on one thing. 9) Steve Jobs' famous memo on how dependent he was on his species[6] acknowledged this. You are probably not leading the engineering of the screen you're looking at now. And you can't become a good leader till you've become a good follower, as you don't even know what good instructions look like. 10) As I think through this, I think the key distinction is numerical. The technocapitalist is soberly enumerating known constraints and calculating ways to solve for X=Y, while the delusional communist is simply asserting that XX=XY. And the technocapitalist also knows how to build teams, manage budgets, handle personnel, and generally acknowledge reality. 11) Or, to paraphrase Reinhold Niebuhr: may God give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what can be, and the mathematics to know the difference. We can just do things. But only if you can do the math.

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Humayun Khan
Humayun Khan@humayunk_·
the mood in tech changed pretty quick from ping pong, nap rooms & free pizza to we’re only keeping you around because there isn’t a ai agent smart enough to replace you, actually never mind, ciao
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Humayun Khan@humayunk_·
randomly thing i read long time ago that just made me chuckle is how the founder of hinge broke up a wedding and convinced his ex to take him back, there’s apps and then there’s life
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Humayun Khan@humayunk_·
@mimurchison winter runners blow my mind, great signal for high pain threshold/high agency. can’t say i am one (yet) but do i aspire to be one, heck yeah 🙌🏽
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Mike Murchison
Mike Murchison@mimurchison·
If your team is the kind of team that does 7am runs in the Canadian winter you’ve got a special kind of team. Ada Run Club!
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