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Why Never Normal? What's wrong with the default path?
There's a massive lie 👖🔥 hidden in plain sight at the heart of our education and employment systems.
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Neville is Never Normal
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Neville is Never Normal
@namehra
Make stuff on the internet and explore the 🌏. Win and help win. Currently based in 🇪🇸. Building global health insurance for nomads: https://t.co/47JfNUUzg6
#digitalnomad Katılım Nisan 2009
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@RaminNasibov Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for a business trip when the first atomic bomb dropped. He survived, went home to Nagasaki, and was in his boss's office describing the Hiroshima blast when the second bomb dropped.
He lived to be 93.
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@antoniogm There’s a micro biome joke in here somewhere but but I’ll hold my tongue
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I failed to mention the presence of The Bangalorean dinner, a confound that might have materially impacted the sleep score.
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Dinner of lamb meatballs, truffled Brillat-Savarin, handfuls of ripe cherries, and a bottle of chilled Gamay.
Take that @bryan_johnson.
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@patrickc How do you interpret that? More people starting businesses or more of them using Atlas to do it?
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Stripe Atlas just hit 100,000 all-time incorporations.
Q1 2026 is +130% Y/Y.
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AI analyzing how other AI uses your AI, but arguably that’s when it gets even more useful, because with human users, I can construct simple funnels, and watch screen recordings to understand what’s going on. With agents using your service, you’re going to need AI to understand what they’re doing.
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@james406 Great vision. But raises q: what happens to your users when their products go headless as well?
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Amazing! Looking forward to seeing everything that comes next. I was just onboarding a new Genki team member and walking her through our tools, and (while demoing PostHog) I said “this is the one built-in AI that I actually use. It’s surprisingly really good.” (as opposed to just using Claude as my universal interface and connecting to other tools by CLI or MCP).
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@toylan20 I started in my late 40s. Dont know if I qualify as ripped but it’s better than I thought I’d be at 55
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@pmarca This is why telegram is the best and worth paying for - then you can auto transcribe all the voice notes people send you, so they get to record voice and you just read text
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@pmarca Basically, the future looks like license plates in Dubai
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This is obviously correct.
Alex Imas@alexolegimas
New essay on the economics of structural change and the post-commodity future of work. 1. Almost any question about the impact of advanced AI on the economy needs to start at the same place: what is still scarce? Answer that, and the analysis becomes pretty straightforward. This essay explores what becomes scarce if AI really can replicate most of what humans do in production, and what this mean for the future of jobs. 2. My conjecture, working through the economics: labor reallocates across sectors, and the sector it reallocates to has properties that keep labor a meaningful share of the economy. Ultimately this is about the structure of demand itself. For this, we have to go back to Girard, Augustine and Rousseau: once people's base needs are met, their preferences shift to comparative motives (e.g., status, exclusivity, social desirability). This motive is inherently non-satiated. 4. The key paper is Comin, Lashkari, and Mestieri (Econometrica 2021). As people get richer, they don't buy proportionally more of everything. They shift spending toward sectors with higher income elasticity. They estimate income effects account for 75%+ of observed structural change. 5. The ironic consequence: the sector that gets automated becomes a smaller share of the economy, not a larger one. Agriculture got massively more productive and its share of employment collapsed. Manufacturing too. The "stagnant" sectors absorb the spending and the jobs. 6. So the question is: which sectors have high income elasticity in a post-AGI world? I argue it's what I call the relational sector. Categories where the human isn't just an input into production, it is part of the value. 7. Why does the relational sector have high income elasticity? Because human desire has a mimetic, relational dimension. We don't just want things for their intrinsic properties. We want what others want, and we want it more when others can't have it. Girard, Rousseau, Augustine, and Hobbes all saw this. 8. In work with Kristóf Madarász, we showed this experimentally: WTP roughly doubles when a random subset of others is excluded from the good. And in new work with Graelin Mandel, AI involvement kills the premium. Human-made art gains 44% from exclusivity; AI-made art only 21%. 9. This all comes together for the core argument. The sector that absorbs spending as AI makes commodity production cheap is one where human provenance is part of the value, and demand for it grows faster than income. Exactly the profile that keeps labor meaningful. 10. To be clear about the claim: I'm NOT saying aggregate labor share must rise. It may fall. The claim is about sectoral composition, i.e., where expenditure and employment go once commodities get cheap, and the fact that the sector that will absorb reallocated labor maps to a substantial component of human preferences and desire. 11. If you're interested in the formal model, a linked companion technical note works out all the economics. Read the essay here: aleximas.substack.com/p/what-will-be…
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The real question is where will all the business logic live?
The models themselves? The agent/harness? or in those headless back ends?
IMO “Headless backend” = relational database by another name
I think you can make a theoretical argument that some company can “make the best agent for X job by specializing in that one thing”
but anthropic seems to be eating them up on an hourly basis
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There’s $1T up for grabs for agent-first startups and this window is WIDE open. Probably 10,000+ niches.
How it plays out:
1. Every SaaS company follows salesforce and goes headless within 18 months
2. a new category of "agent-native" startups emerges that treat salesforce, HubSpot, workday etc as dumb backends. the startup IS the agent. the SaaS is just the database.
3. the entire consulting/services industry around enterprise SaaS gets compressed into software. the agent replaces the implementation team.
4. outcome-based pricing becomes default. nobody pays per seat when the "seat" is an agent making 10,000 API calls a minute. you pay when revenue hits your account.
5. the winning founders are ex-operators who understand a vertical workflow cold. the code is the easy part. knowing that a property manager spends 14 hours a week on lease renewals? that's the insight worth $100M.
6. distribution becomes the moat. when anyone can wire agents to APIs, the company with the audience and the brand wins. media + agents is the new SaaS. There’s a rush to incubate live/short form shows.
7. Silicon Valley goes all influencer. Roy lee gets this. Pat Walls gets this. Sam Parr gets this.
8. the first $1B agent-native company in each vertical will look nothing like the SaaS it replaced. smaller team, higher margins, no implementation cost, no churn from bad UX because there is no UX.
the fastest path to wealth right now: find an industry that still runs on dashboards, phone calls, and spreadsheets. build the agent-native version. charge per outcome. own the workflow end-to-end.
someone reading this right now is going to build a $100M company off this exact shift. tell me about it on the @startupideaspod when you do. Im rooting for you.
Less reading, less bookmarking, more building.
the last wave rewarded people who built pretty interfaces on top of ugly data.
I think this wave rewards people who build smart agents on top of exposed APIs.
Or who just build the APIs themselves
Here we go
Marc Benioff@Benioff
Welcome Salesforce Headless 360: No Browser Required! Our API is the UI. Entire Salesforce & Agentforce & Slack platforms are now exposed as APIs, MCP, & CLI. All AI agents can access data, workflows, and tasks directly in Slack, Voice, or anywhere else with Salesforce Headless 360. Faster builds, agentic everything. 🚀 #Salesforce #Agentforce #AI venturebeat.com/ai/salesforce-…
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Okay but let’s do this for healthcare
Pubity@pubity
One man in Ireland is trying to lower the price of a Guinness across the country. He used AI to create the "Guinndex", a map that shows the cost of a pint at almost 2000 bars. Now bars are lowering the prices of their pint to try and compete with each other.
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Minecraft? Nah
Mine cart madness
Nostalgia@nostalgiaa
‘How are you so focused under pressure?’ Me in 1995:
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@nevmed Enjoy it other Neville!
btw I’ve found that this age is a great time to travel with little ones. Their needs are fairly simple, and you’re past the very fragile/what-is-this-thing first months
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My son is a little over 4 months old now, and it's a fun phase where's he's learning a lot of new things, and definitely smiles a lot now:
- We've been taking him out a lot and he's done great.
- Sometimes it's very so we got him some baby headphones and they look hilarious 🤣
- Being able to make him laugh is really fun.
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Opportunity: There's no travel searching / booking tool that's optimized for agents (or if there is, it's not optimized for being easy to find!)
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@george__mack Russian does this using the same word сейчас for now and “soon”
The word "soon" was the anglo-saxon word for "now". But after so many generations of people saying "I'll do that soon" and not doing the thing, soon has ended up meaning what it means today.
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@davidsenra @pmarca Where does Marcus Aurelius fit in to this?
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Great men of history had little to no introspection.
The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself.
@pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about:
David: You don't have any levels of introspection?
Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible.
David: Why?
Marc: Move forward. Go!
I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home.
David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection.
Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self.
He just woke up and was like:
I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again.
Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective.
All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s.
Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff.
The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology.
And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual.
We need to criticize the individual.
The individual needs to self criticize.
The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past.
It never resonated with me.
David Senra@davidsenra
My conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder of @a16z and Netscape. 0:00 Caffeine Heart Scare 0:56 Zero Introspection Mindset 3:24 Psychedelics and Founders 4:54 Motivation Beyond Happiness 7:18 Tech as Progress Engine 10:27 Founders Versus Managers 20:01 HP Intel Founder Legacy 21:32 Why Start the Firm 24:14 Venture Barbell Theory 28:57 JP Morgan Boutique Banking 30:02 Religion Split Wall Street 30:41 Barbell of Banking 31:42 Allen & Company Model 33:16 Planning the VC Firm 33:45 CAA Playbook Lessons 36:49 First Principles vs. Status Quo 39:03 Scaling Venture Capital 40:37 Private Equity and Mad Men 42:52 Valley Shifts to Full Stack 45:59 Meeting Jim Clark 48:53 Founder vs. Manager at SGI 54:20 Recruiting Dinner Story 56:58 Starting the Next Company 57:57 Nintendo Online Gamble 58:33 Building Mosaic Browser 59:45 NSFnet Commercial Ban 1:01:28 Eternal September Shift 1:03:11 Spam and Web Controversy 1:04:49 Mosaic Tech Support Flood 1:07:49 Netscape Business Model 1:09:05 Early Internet Skepticism 1:11:15 Moral Panic Pattern 1:13:08 Bicycle Face Story 1:14:48 Music Panic Examples 1:18:12 Lessons from Jim Clark 1:19:36 Clark Versus Barksdale 1:21:22 Tesla Versus Edison 1:23:00 Edison Digression Setup 1:23:13 AI Forecasting Myths 1:23:43 Edison Phonograph Lesson 1:25:11 Netscape Two Jims 1:29:11 Bottling Innovation 1:31:44 Elon Management Code 1:32:24 IBM Big Gray Cloud 1:37:12 Engineer First Truth 1:38:28 Bottlenecks and Speed 1:42:46 Milli Elon Metric 1:47:20 Starlink Side Project 1:49:10 Closing Includes paid partnerships.
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@davidsenra @pmarca I missed the “l” the first time I read that 😅
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I love this idea from @pmarca — Charlie Munger called this “having an inner clock”
David: What are you trying to change in the world?
Marc: I'm suspicious that that's my actual underlying motivation.
David: Why?
Marc: I don't think an external impact is enough to keep people going.
I've seen way too many people who had a high level of external impact and then at some point they just stop.
The problem with external impact is it's four in the morning, you're staring at the ceiling—is that enough?
External impact is stuff that's happening to other people. What is it about you?
The story I like to tell myself is that I'm competing with myself.
The story I like to tell myself is I'm getting up in the morning because I'm trying to become a better version of myself.
I'm trying to become smarter and better informed and reach better conclusions and be better at what I do and continue to expand my skills.
David Senra@davidsenra
My conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder of @a16z and Netscape. 0:00 Caffeine Heart Scare 0:56 Zero Introspection Mindset 3:24 Psychedelics and Founders 4:54 Motivation Beyond Happiness 7:18 Tech as Progress Engine 10:27 Founders Versus Managers 20:01 HP Intel Founder Legacy 21:32 Why Start the Firm 24:14 Venture Barbell Theory 28:57 JP Morgan Boutique Banking 30:02 Religion Split Wall Street 30:41 Barbell of Banking 31:42 Allen & Company Model 33:16 Planning the VC Firm 33:45 CAA Playbook Lessons 36:49 First Principles vs. Status Quo 39:03 Scaling Venture Capital 40:37 Private Equity and Mad Men 42:52 Valley Shifts to Full Stack 45:59 Meeting Jim Clark 48:53 Founder vs. Manager at SGI 54:20 Recruiting Dinner Story 56:58 Starting the Next Company 57:57 Nintendo Online Gamble 58:33 Building Mosaic Browser 59:45 NSFnet Commercial Ban 1:01:28 Eternal September Shift 1:03:11 Spam and Web Controversy 1:04:49 Mosaic Tech Support Flood 1:07:49 Netscape Business Model 1:09:05 Early Internet Skepticism 1:11:15 Moral Panic Pattern 1:13:08 Bicycle Face Story 1:14:48 Music Panic Examples 1:18:12 Lessons from Jim Clark 1:19:36 Clark Versus Barksdale 1:21:22 Tesla Versus Edison 1:23:00 Edison Digression Setup 1:23:13 AI Forecasting Myths 1:23:43 Edison Phonograph Lesson 1:25:11 Netscape Two Jims 1:29:11 Bottling Innovation 1:31:44 Elon Management Code 1:32:24 IBM Big Gray Cloud 1:37:12 Engineer First Truth 1:38:28 Bottlenecks and Speed 1:42:46 Milli Elon Metric 1:47:20 Starlink Side Project 1:49:10 Closing Includes paid partnerships.
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@antoniogm nah, it's huge in Spain now too.
There are a bunch of trendy, one-dish-only, Basque Cheesecake specialty dessert places (think Sweetgreen or Georgetown Cupcake) that have opened recently
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Fascinating how ‘basque cheesecake’ has become this whole thing in fancy American restaurants. There isn’t basque anything else isn’t the US, and most Americans couldn’t even begin to find the Baque region on a map, but there it is on the menu: BASQUE cheesecake.
Does it blow up government buildings? Kidnap judges? Take over the old city in a mob requiring the guardia civil come in and kick them out? Form a breakaway region vs. the rest of the table? What’s Basque about it precisely?
(Sorry, lived in the liminal Basque region when ETA was still active.)
Most Spanish wouldn’t recognize it, beyond it maybe being just a ‘torta de queso’. Odd how things escape a country and assume a life beyond it.
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I've been working on this important list for a couple of years now. What am I missing?
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@neversitdull As dad, this is your chance to spend lots of time with the older kid. Involve them as much as possible with the new baby, but also carve out time to do fun stuff outside together
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