Jacob Alexander

@gather_do amazingg dudes

We are sending out about 100 TestFlight invites a week. Thank you to all the people that are supporting us and became Partners of Gather this week!

@willob lol love this

Ulysses will own the ocean.

The best interfaces are invisible... until they're not. I've been concepting a design principle for a while - Make an experience feel minimal and focused, while packing in the same or more features. It hides chaos in plain sight, while making the experience improved. I call it Seamless Focus Architecture. Article with detail in the comments, and repo if you want to play with it

@AlchemyAmerican This was awesome. Great work Jesse

Treat AI as a cost-cutter and you'll save pennies Everybody talking about AI is trapped in a box. Trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. Trying to put new world tech on old world problems. The ROI is real. I see it every day, it's a nice win. But there is more value to extract from the most advanced technology on earth than 90% reduction in time to quote, zero-touch book keeping, and 30% reductions in opex. Using AI for incremental efficiency is scratching the surface — those fixes will be commoditized quickly. We treat the challenges and opportunities of today as the only ones that exist. Yes, launching an accounting firm in 2025 is like opening a pager shop with neon signage. That ship has sailed, and the jobs with it. New world tech, unlocks new world opportunities. Few people recognize this. Their frames are set in stone. They're focused on current world problems. But we're switching from one level to the next. There's a new map being exposed. The basic rules of the game haven't changed: find pain, solve pain, profit. The pain simply shifted latitudes. New opportunities are different - bigger, different, more grand: Restoration of seagrass meadows by underwater drones - @ulyssesinc Micro nuclear fabs are being built - @valaratomics The first in a class of new opportunities surfacing with solutions enabled by AI. If you’re: – sweating that jobs are vanishing – convinced every business problem is already licked you gotta update your map. Opportunity shifted coordinates. This is a renaissance. Treat AI as a cost-cutter and you save pennies; treat it as a compass and you discover continents.

@ajaysabs Thank u homie

@jacob_OS1 Reading this gave me the tingles. Gonna go listen to What a Wonderful World now.

We Need More Solar Punks Conversations with friends and colleagues over the last few months invariably lead to AI doomerism. Podcasts and Internet forums proliferate the same sentiment. There is a general anxiety about what the future might look like in the near and distant term. No one knows how bad the consequences of AI will be, or how good they could be. The descriptions are fuzzy. My perception of the doomerism take is that we cannot imagine our future with a clear enough lens. Like being overwhelmed and unable to step back to think in steps. It’s been more and more obvious to me that our limiting factor as humans has always been, and increasingly is, creativity. Humans have the unique predisposition to imagine, then built. Jules Verne imagined inventions like submarines and space travel long before they became reality. Marshall McLuhan foresaw concepts like the "global village," predicting our connected digital world. Where did our creativity go? We’ve lost it. Few possess the free thinking to clearly articulate a beautiful future. But that is the antidote to the current doomerism: Define the future that you want to see. Make it vivid. Imagining the future is how we’ve built our current reality. I don’t see why it would be different now (at least in the short term, pre-singularity). Imagining a beautiful future also has a knock-on effect: Creating more content about an ideal future makes for good training data. Model training, at least part of it, incorporates human data. Generating more idyllic content embeds future models with ideas of what we (as humans) want our future to look like. This, in turn, contributes to AI safety guardrails if there is a consensus around the vision. Of course, there are caveats. We're talking pre-singularity here —- before AI potentially surpasses human control in ways we can't yet fathom. And in the short term, there will inevitably be a lot of displacement. I get it. These challenges are real and shouldn't be dismissed. But acknowledging them doesn't mean they should suck the oxygen out of the room. It means channeling our energy into creative visions that address them head-on. This is why we need more Solar Punk thinking. A movement that reimagines our future. Rather than a dystopian nightmare, think a harmonious blend of technology, nature, and community. It's a deliberate counter to cyberpunk's gritty fatalism. It emphasizes hope, DIY innovation, and balance. This is a reminder -- the future isn't predetermined. It's shaped by the stories humans tell and the worlds we dare to dream. It's not ignoring the shadows; it's lighting them up with imaginative light. Break free from the doom loop. Vividly imagine a beautiful future with endless possibilities.

@adcock_brett We need more solar punk dreamers

We're running out of sci-fi movies from which to build startups

Long Honda

@AlchemyAmerican Wild

This is nuts

@AlchemyAmerican Oh shitttt

Live now

@steven_yuen @hussamfyi Slickkk

Gather - we’ll soon be releasing some updates to the Library that automatically detect text and objects in your media so they are easier to search for. all of this will be done locally and offline on your device.

@bryan_johnson Dope brand

Dear humanity, I am building a religion. Wait a second, I know what you’re going to say. Hold that knee-jerk reaction and let me explain. First, here’s what’s going to happen: + Don’t Die becomes history's fastest-growing ideology. + It saves the human race. + And ushers in an existence more spectacular than we can imagine. It is inevitable. The only question is: will you be an early or late adopter?

@amasad Agreed. It’s weirdly better than any other model for coding

It’s amazing that no model has caught up with Claude on coding. Even if they look good on benchmark they’re still not as good at generating working good looking modern web apps. Whatever magic Anthropic did seems very durable.

@AravSrinivas Is this available through the api?

DeepSeek R1 + FactSet = Financial Research on Steroids

@IterIntellectus This is insane

“homeschooling doesn’t work and teachers know better” advocates in shambles six WEEKS of personalized AI tutoring gave students the same gains of 2 years of learning

@steven_yuen So dope

Collections for your media coming to Gather this week.

@thesamparr Rad

Bryan Johnson came on Moneywise! Reveals entire net worth and his spend. That’s cool. But a bigger takeaway: his reason for doing this entire thing is to be remembered in 2500. I think having a mission like that outside of money - so good. Also…this is the first time on Moneywise that we did video. Some stuff from the pod: Most people know him for selling Braintree for $800M and starting Blueprint, his longevity protocol where he’s trying to reverse his age. But here's the surprising thing - from age 21, his only goal was to earn the respect of the 25th century. He wants to be one of the 10 people from our era that future generations actually remember. Money was only ever a tool. His view is simple: in 500 years, no one will care how rich you were. Don't Die (his current project) isn't about fear of death - he's actually at peace with dying. It's about creating what he believes will be one of humanity's most important ideological shifts, right up there with the printing press and industrial revolution. In this episode, he breaks down the real numbers: how he deployed his wealth, what he keeps liquid vs illiquid, and why he passed up easier paths to billions to pursue something he thinks will actually matter centuries from now. Check it out on YouTube and let me know what you think.