John Earner

I've written about this before, but it's remarkable how much older music is strangling new music. And the same is true in books, movies, video games. Older media is taking up a bigger and bigger share of the market every year.

If we’re gonna make it a blanket policy for the troops to be able to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights on base, we should also make it a blanket policy that they get to exercise their 1st Amendment rights. I look forward to service members publicly sharing their candid views.

I’m convinced 90% of the founders job is to just do 3 things: - be delusional in your optimism - push everyone to move faster - make it crystal clear what to work on

Phil Collins on how he came up with the drum solo for 'In The Air Tonight' 🥁

That's right: we're actually out a week early!!! 🥳❤️ #gamedev

Brands I love: Lego, Leuchtturm, Oxford University Press, Pentel, Schöffel, Aqualung, Paradores, Staedtler, Birkenstock, Braun, Knoll, Patagonia, Herman Miller, Iittala, L.A. Burdick, Artemide, Aman, Thames & Hudson, Yeti, Rimowa, L.L.Bean, Timbuk2, Eschenbach, Ridge, Maui Jim.

Mark Zuckerberg acquiring AI companies

a company dies once the funny people leave

There are lots of markets where incumbents will have time to catch up to AI vs. getting disrupted overnight. But equally, there are plenty of opportunities right now where if you don’t have any baggage of legacy processes and workflows, you could start a new service provider and have a huge productivity advantage today and make a serious dent in the market. This probably wasn’t the case 12 or 18 months ago, but we’ve now crossed a threshold in what agents are now capable of, or will be soon enough. The advantage an upstart has is that most legacy workflows are going to be (temporarily) held back by a lack of process documentation, data that’s fragmented between systems, change management challenges that will take time to play put and more. The play right now is to either build new companies in the spaces where agents can offer a meaningful multiple in productivity gain to offer better, faster, cheaper services to customers. You do this by starting from the ground up with the best practices to make agents effective in the workflow instead of imagining you can just drop agents easily into an existing process. You could probably do this in engineering, legal, marketing, consulting, and a few other categories. The other play is to be the individual or team in an existing company that can transform the workflows to make this happen. This opportunity exists in basically all companies today. Either way, plenty of paths forward for entrepreneurial and resourceful talent.

THIS IS THE BEST PHOTO

In the UK the only olympics on TV is curling and they dont show medal ceremonies

By studying samples analyzed by the Curiosity rover, scientists have taken another step toward understanding whether life could have ever existed on Mars. A new study suggests that non-biological sources cannot fully account for the abundance of organic compounds found in a sample collected by the rover. Dig into the details: go.nasa.gov/46AGzG5

@chongdashu Are you using seedance 2.0 and if so what is best way to access it in english?

It's crazy how much sound + music change the feel of a game. > Elevenlabs for voice and ambience > Suno for background music > Gemini 3 to help with prompts 🔊 Sound ON! Giving some serious Monkey Island point and click vibes now! The whole thing pretty much vibe coded too

the most holy roman empire content i’ve seen this week.

If you listen to VCs so much of investment now is investing in a person rather than a product. What’s obviously missing is the ability to short a person. Imagine holding mandelson puts

@davemorin Metaphorically absolutely. IRL, absolutely not

It is better to be a pirate than join the navy. 🏴‍☠️

@LFC Slot seeing Chiesa score:

if you ever meet someone who at one point was globally ranked in a video game hire them immediately

trillion dollar idea: sports bar but just for situation monitoring with live X feeds, flight radar, a bloomberg terminal, and Polymarket screens