michael litman

tl;dr i wrote a book over the last year published by BCS about web3, culture, art, & digital ownership you can get a physical copy on amazon and many others internationally, kindle or audiobook on audible amzn.eu/d/dSp3m9c my son tells me it’s a very digestible read

We’re in a period where everything feels like it’s getting jumbled up across roles because AI lets you explore the adjacencies of other functions more easily. We all collectively have to figure out the new form of definition of what these jobs look like in a world of agents, and certainly many will look different from what they did before. But there are some immutable laws that will eventually re-emerge over time and become clear again. As an example, when you’re scaling, product managers should be spending an insane amount of time with customers and getting feedback on the product and thinking through what to do build next, how to design it so it’s usable, and so on. Engineers should be understanding the business objectives, and building systems that scale and are secure, even as feature velocity increases by 10X. Now both can do a bit more of the others role, and this can temporarily get conflated as doing the whole thing, but eventually the work adds up to be enough that it makes sense to specialize again. Similarly, in GTM, the product marketer can certainly generate a working design and video for a launch, but the specialist is always going to (or should) have an eye for quality that delivers a better outcome. My bet is that AI enhances specialization even further, even if a few roles collapse into each other, and the future toolchain and craft of the specialist will be much higher leverage and output far greater than anyone else as a hobbyist in that function.

It will take some time for the crowd to digest it but @SHL0MS provocation was a serious conceptual project. The reaction was the artwork. The gallery for it is a JPEG screenshot.

@venturetwins Hey Justine you might like this on the topic :) 5 minutes daily on Spotify and Apple Music using my voice - 80th episode this morning. thepattern.media

Incredible stuff happening on the AI-run radio stations

@ashleevance This was really good thanks

Meta paid $14 billion to pry Alex Wang away from Scale AI, the company he co-founded and ran. The hope - Zuck's hope - was that Wang could fix what ailed Meta's AI program. Over the past year, Meta has spent billions more pulling researchers away from other labs and has raced to create it first new model called Muse Spark under a regime led by Wang, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and Shengjia Zhao. This interview is the first time Wang has talked about all the drama of the past year and where Meta is heading with AI. The Core Memory podcast is on Apple, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms. Enjoy! Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:02 Inside Meta Superintelligence Labs 06:23 The Tahoe Conversation 12:50 How Do You Rebuild a Frontier Lab 24:35 The Soup and Being "Too Young" 32:48 MuseSpark: Appetizer, Not Entrée 48:47 Why Does Everyone Hate AI? 53:50 Open Source and the Manus Question 1:04:59 Robots and Mango 1:11:08 Sci-Fi, BCI, and Do AI Models Deserve Moral Weight?

@BAYC5511 10/10 bait @SHL0MS 👏👏

Since its been 24 hours, i can finally say, i love how SHL0MS baited everyone into responding to this, many art experts saying how badly the ai did when in reality its a cropped real monet painting they are critiquing as ai 😭

@katiewav this is so good x100

@benln London for sure!

Cafe Cursor, round two. Where should we go first? • Paris • London • New York • Bangalore • Madrid • San Francisco • Berlin • São Paulo • Bogotá

@HimothyReports @jamienffc98 👀

I can see Nottingham Forest going down. They’ve got Chelsea , Newcastle, Man United and Bournemouth. There’s a world where Spurs and West Ham stay up.

@westhamtransfer @gergmitch 👀

Not a chance he does what he done for Wolves when they went on a good win streak. Forest are doomed with this bum.

@t_blom also now quietly too

Sad to have to add "genuinely" to words that I can no longer use in written English thanks to the AI slop cannon.

@patrick_oshag You might like this - updated The Optimist's Operating System one year on from Digital Frontier. It still holds up, and has taken on an extended life since. mikelitman.me/optimists-oper…

Anyone read anything really great lately (any format)?

"Tech’s surging obsession with taste is not about aesthetics; it reflects a deep anxiety about whether economic capital can capture cultural capital at the exact moment cultural capital becomes crucial for technology’s distribution, relevance + differentiation" @khole_emily 🔥

@rileybrown mikelitman.me

What is the coolest personal website you’ve ever seen? One that’s optimized both for web and mobile?

@sarahdrinkwater @charlierward @Londonmaxxing @isnit0 @GRITCULT @pluggedfounders Was clearly a little early to the trend (by a year) but thought you might enjoy this from the since defunct digital frontier digitalfrontier.com/articles/optim…

When I first heard the phrase #Londonmaxxing I cringed But everything you want is on the other side of cringe And undeniably something magic is happening in London right now. Wrote up @londonmaxxing @charlierward @isnit0 @GRITCULT @pluggedfounders's brilliant night

@revivosupps @supraanima IYKYK

@supraanima wait till u discover taurine

Caffeine + L-theanine + magnesium glycinate might be the closest thing to the limitless pill

@FPLOlympian The Olympian curse strikes again

The state of that backline. Congrats to Chelsea attack owners. You will be feasting today.

@robsaunders1 Very jealous. What a win that from the Forest reserves.

I was at Stamford Bridge today. Wow. Wow.

@DavidEpstein Just preordered off the back of this @wolfejosh thanks

Holy cow, that is crazy praise coming from a thinker I admire 🙏

@osf_rekt @higgsfield @rektdrinks RWD HIGGSFIELD

asked my openclaw to use @higgsfield to make an ad for @rektdrinks energy and this is what it came up with absolutely insane

@DougieCritchley Enjoyed the 0-5 though cheers dougie mate

Highest net spend on transfers last 5 years (21/22-25/26) in Europe's Top 5 Leagues: 1) Man United: -€780m 2) Arsenal: -€769m 3) Chelsea: -€738m 4) Tottenham: -€670m 5) PSG: -€567m 6) Newcastle: -€492m 7) Liverpool: -€486m 8) Man City: -€459m 9) Nottingham Forest: -€379m 10) West Ham: -€368m Absolutely crazy to think that 3 of these teams are currently 16th, 17th and 18th in the Premier League. They can complain about injuries and poor managerial appointments, but they've also made some terrible transfer decisions. (All figures @Transfermarkt)