Mitchell Bernstein

Polsia just raised $30M at a $250M valuation. Approaching $10M annual run rate. One Founder + AI. Zero employees. Polsia runs companies autonomously. It also ran its own fundraising. I just showed up for signatures.

How do you know your agent is still running after you close the lid? I became a bit obsessed with putting some RGB LEDs for a status indicator into the SD Card slot on my MacBook Pro. I never use that slot, so it's a perfect place.

Tiny teams are the future: • Cursor: 0 to $100M ARR in 21 months w/ 20 people • Bolt: 0 to $20M ARR in 2 months w/ 15 people • Lovable: 0 to $10M ARR in 2 months w/ 15 people • Mercor: 0 to $50M ARR in 2 years w/ 30 people • ElevenLabs: 0 to $100M ARR in 2 years w/ 50 people

This has a clinical name. Revenge bedtime procrastination. And the ADHD version runs on a completely different mechanism than the neurotypical one. A neurotypical person stays up late because they want more leisure time. The ADHD brain stays up because it spent every drop of dopamine it had on executive function during the day. Sitting in meetings, managing transitions, filtering impulses, remembering the thing you were supposed to remember. That burns through dopamine the way sprinting burns through glycogen. By 10pm the tank is empty. But here's where it gets counterintuitive. The exhaustion is physical. The dopamine deficit is neurological. Those are two separate systems. Your muscles want sleep. Your prefrontal cortex is starving for the stimulation it was denied all day because it spent 14 hours on task-switching and impulse control instead of anything that actually felt rewarding. The phone at midnight is the brain trying to collect what it's owed. Low-effort, high-stimulation content. Scrolling, short videos, rabbit holes. The exact profile of activity that delivers dopamine without requiring the executive function you already depleted. The sleep researchers call this a "self-regulation failure." It's closer to a debt collection. You borrowed against your own reward system to function all day. The bill comes due at midnight. And the brain will not let you sleep until it gets paid.

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Finally got GPT-5.5 on Codex to think way harder than it normally does. As one would expect it to be 'think very hard', 'ultrathink', 'deep dive' etc - does not work. A simple 'use at least 100 (onehundred) tool calls before coming up with an answer' works really well

Many people reaching out to me that got laid off. I want to help them out. Who is hiring?