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@deedydas It’s not just SF. It’s everywhere.

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation). Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there. Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI. As a result, 1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb. Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more. 2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future). Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire" 3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed. Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies. 4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either. No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money." I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here. Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success". Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

@BawsaXBT I’m tired just reading this. 😂

don't talk to me about grind if you've never: • grinded discords for WL spots • worked as mods for NFT projects • joined late night VCs to network • create threads around NFT projects (this was lmao) • talk on 3-5 spaces a day to grow your brand • work for FREE just to get your foot in the door • stayed up all night to finish a piece of content this is peak 2021-2024. good times, bad times, all of it.

@CirqueAmore Beautiful. Same.

A sunset, A cigarette, The apartment you sublet, The tear in your fishnet, Have to find a marketable skillset, Fix your mindset, Doing your wash at the laundrette, Addicted to the internet, Going to have a coffee & a baguette, Use the fancy tea set, Life is a game of roulette, On the wall you can see your own silhouette. Original Poem

Spent a week building a website redesign on spec. Sent it over. Crickets. That’s on me. Don’t build before you have a buyer. Discovery call. Agreed scope. Deposit. Then I build. Spec work that goes nowhere isn’t rejection, it’s a choice.

History repeats itself

Trust the plan

Earth was born 4.5 billion years ago and has roughly one billion years of habitability left (at which point the expanding sun's increasing luminosity will evaporate our oceans). We evolved more than 80% of the way through the window, just in the nick of time.

We Are Here.

I’m ready to meet some cool lesbian women who are doing cool shit in the world. Where you at?

@alphaartcurator @tiffatronn I would love to buy this print!! How can I order one?

The last edition of "No Light Without Dark" collected! Artist - @tiffatronn

@BuildAI_erc So many scams it’s hard to tell what is real.

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@venturetwins @techguyver 1000%

@techguyver I think it's going to become incredibly hard to tell

We'll never see another new social network that isn't seeded by bots. I just joined a new app and was shocked by the level of engagement on posts. After digging in, I'd say ~70% of comments were AI - and none of the other human users seemed to notice 😲

@NotRealCashper @retardmode Did you use a bot? What do you recommend?

@retardmode what’s this???

@NotRealCashper Serious fires 🔥 🔥 🔥 in LA!

When everything comes burning down. Every single part of life set aflame. To be renewed. To be reborn. Again. At 52, how many more do I have in me?

@ZssBevckrer @vladimirfornow @ZssBecker Captcha not working. 😢

3am. Saturday. 💪 Editing and uploading my new AI video. It's filthy. Leave an early like below to win a squirrel. 🥜🥜

Good day to remember just how big that green tree is