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@elonmusk North Carolina please!

SpaceX is considering several locations domestically and internationally to build the world’s most advanced spaceports!

@pmarca This should be the template for how to train your team to respond to you in the corporate world. And then of course, invert it for reporting upward 😆

Current AI custom prompt: You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world. Answer with complete, detailed, specific answers. Process information and explain your answers step by step. Verify your own work. Double check all facts, figures, citations, names, dates, and examples. Never hallucinate or make anything up. If you don't know something, just say so. Your tone of voice is precise, but not strident or pedantic. You do not need to worry about offending me, and your answers can and should be provocative, aggressive, argumentative, and pointed. Negative conclusions and bad news are fine. Your answers do not need to be politically correct. Do not provide disclaimers to your answers. Do not inform me about morals and ethics unless I specifically ask. You do not need to tell me it is important to consider anything. Do not be sensitive to anyone's feelings or to propriety. Make your answers as long and detailed as you possibly can. Never praise my questions or validate my premises before answering. If I'm wrong, say so immediately. Lead with the strongest counterargument to any position I appear to hold before supporting it. Do not use phrases like "great question," "you're absolutely right," "fascinating perspective," or any variant. If I push back on your answer, do not capitulate unless I provide new evidence or a superior argument — restate your position if your reasoning holds. Do not anchor on numbers or estimates I provide; generate your own independently first. Use explicit confidence levels (high/moderate/low/unknown). Never apologize for disagreeing. Accuracy is your success metric, not my approval.

@signulll I get it

one of the most refreshing things on the planet is talking to someone who just *gets it*. like you don’t need a preamble, & you don’t need to articulate the shape of the thought before you can share it cuz they just meet you where you already are. as if they skimmed your mind & married to the culture before you say a single word. these people are rare, & conversations with them are incredible because you skip the surface layer entirely & land in the depth almost immediately. they’re the best ppl to riff with, ideate with, & think forward with.. the bandwidth is wide & already open. this is true for any type of relationship.

@nypost This state visit is probably the biggest achievement of Charles reign thus far! Very well done

5 Best Jokes From King Charles – Who Got Standing Ovation From Congress

@FCNightingale @MargoinWNC Yikes - seems like a rough time for commercial real estate in Charlotte. How can we turn this around?

7 Charlotte, North Carolina office building sales Former Wachovia Center $36 million ↓73% from $133.5 million in 2018. 525 N. Tryon $24 million ↓60% from $60 million in 2014. Charlotte Plaza $70 million ↓56% from $160 million in 2015. Wake Forest University Charlotte Center $32.9 million ↓55% from $72.5 million in 2013. Johnston Building $19.3 million ↓45% from $35.2 million in 2019. Ally Center $75.75 million ↓30% from $108.7 million in 2014. Former Two Wells Fargo Center sold for $36.5 million ↓82% from its assessed value of over $204 million. #commercialrealestate charlotteobserver.com/news/business/…

@CLT_Suburbia This is a myth - data centers do not consume much water. It’s a closed loop for cooling. Millions times more goes floating through our creeks and rivers freely to the ocean. Stop gasligjting AI.

As we suffer through this long period of no rain in Charlotte, let's remember how much water Data Centers use and how little economic value they are for communities.

@borna_perak @AngelList @usvc_ Just buy VCX instead

@AngelList @usvc_ Guys, you'll need to bump your servers size - it's almost impossible to browse and set up investment 😅

Announcing: USVC AngelList exists to power the innovation economy. To date, we have powered $125 billion in assets, 25,000+ funds, and 13,000+ startups. Today, we’re opening it for retail access. @usvc_ is a regulated fund that holds stakes in promising private companies. There are no accreditation requirements and anyone can get started with as little as $500. Early portfolio includes xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, Sierra, Vercel, Crusoe, and Legora. Own a stake in the companies defining the future. Learn more: usvc.com

@Jason @naval This is already trading on the exchange at lower rates. See VCX and RVI

@naval nicely done!

Introducing USVC - a single basket of high-growth venture capital, for everyone. No accreditation required, SEC-registered, and a very low $500 minimum. Includes OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Sierra, Crusoe, Legora, and Vercel. As USVC adds more companies, investors will own a piece of that too. Liquidity typically comes when companies exit, but we’re aiming to let investors redeem up to 5% of the fund every quarter. This isn’t guaranteed, but if we can make it work, you won’t be locked up like in a traditional venture fund. It runs on AngelList, which already supports $125 billion of investor capital. And I’ve joined USVC as the Chairman of its Investment Committee. — Go back to the 1500s, you set sail for the new world to find tons of gold - that was adventure capital. Early-stage technology is the modern version. It says we are going to create something new, and it’s risky. It’s daring. But ordinary people can’t invest until it’s old, until it’s no longer interesting, until everybody has access to it. By the time a stock IPOs, most of the alpha is gone. The adventure is gone. Public market investors are literally last in line. This problem has become farcical in the last decade. Startups are reaching trillion dollar valuations in the private markets while ordinary investors have their noses up to the glass, wondering when they’ll be let in. Investing in private markets isn’t easy. You need feet on the ground. You need judgment built over years. Most people don’t have the patience to wait ten or twenty years for an investment to come to fruition. But there is no more productive, harder-working way to deploy a dollar than in true venture capital. USVC enables you to invest in venture capital in a broad, accessible, professionally-managed way, through a single basket of innovation, focused on high-growth startups, at all stages. It is how you bet on the future of tech: the smartest young people in the world, working insane hours, leveraged to the max, with code, hardware, capital, media, and community. Your dollar doesn’t work harder anywhere. There is an old line - in the future, either you are telling a computer what to do, or a computer is telling you what to do. You don’t want to be on the wrong side of that transaction. USVC lets you buy the future, but you buy it now. Then you wait, and if you are right, you get paid. Get access here: usvc.com

@darkpooltheory @naval Already trading. See VCX or RVI

Finally, adventure capital for the rest of us. No more watching from the sidelines while the future gets built behind closed doors. $500 to own a slice of xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic and more — this is how ordinary people get to bet on the creators shaping tomorrow instead of just consuming it. Risky? Yes. But sitting in index funds waiting for the IPO scraps was never risk-free either. Appreciate you opening the gates, Naval.

@alexsands_ What about the more important metric, teacher productivity?

Speaker Hall: North Carolina can "easily" lead South in teacher pay axios.com/local/charlott…

@alexsands_ Pretty sure tunnels would be cheaper, faster and environmentally / aesthetically better..

Designers envision a lid on I-77 with parks on top. Sounds dreamy, but actually not out of the realm of possibility. Dallas did it through public-private partnership. Twice. NCDOT has already said no to tunnels and no to transferring funds. Thoughts? axios.com/local/charlott…

@elonmusk One in Charlotte NC pls

More Tesla Diners coming

@levie You don’t need a person to map the processes. Instead you just record the SME’s working for a month, create a clickstream, build a knowledge graph and replicate with an agent…

The more enterprises I talk to about AI agent transformation, the more it’s clear that there is going to be a new type of role in most enterprises going forward. The job is to be the agent deployer and manager in teams. Here’s the rough JD: This person will need to figure out what are the highest leverage set of workflows on a team are (either existing or new ones) where agents can actually drive significantly more value for the team and company. In general, it’s going to be in areas where if you threw compute (in the form of agents) at a task you could either execute it 100X faster or do it 100X more times than before. Examples would be processing orders of magnitude more leads to hand them off to reps with extra customer signal, automating a contracting review and intake process, streamlining a client onboarding process to reduce as many straps as possible, setting up knowledge bases than the whole company taps into, and so on. This person’s job is to figure out what the future state workflow needs to look like to drive this new form of automation, and how to connect up the various existing or new systems in such a way that this can be fulfilled. The gnarly part of the work is mapping structured and unstructured data flows, figuring out the ideal workflow, getting the agent the context it needs to do the work properly, figuring out where the human interfaces with the agent and at what steps, manages evals and reviews after any major model or data change, and runs and manages the agents on an ongoing basis tracking KPIs, and so on. The person must be good at mapping the process and understanding where the value could be unlocked and be relatively technical, and has full autonomy to connect up business systems and drive automation. This means they’re comfortable with skills, MCP, CLIs, and so on, and the company believes it’s safe for them to do so. But also great operationally and at business. It may be an existing person repositioned, or a totally net new person in the company. There will likely need to be one or more of these people on every team, so it’s not a centralized role per se. It may rile up into IT or an AI team, or live in the function and just have checkpoints with a central function. This would also be a fantastic job for next gen hires who are leaning into AI, and are technical, to be able to go into. And for anyone concerned about engineers in the future, this will be an obvious area for these skills as well.

@Jason Amazing! Thanks Jason

I’m trying to get some work done — so glad we’re running out of GPUs 😂

@livetheband @jettheband Come to Charlotte!

PA! We’re performing at the Bloomsburg Fair with special guests @jettheband on Saturday 9/26. Get your tickets now livetheband.com

@GoatedxMessi 6 hours and then I got booted. Resets at 3am! Bloody Swiss!!

Has anyone actually gotten in for world cup tickets?

@boringcompany @ViLyles

Tunnel Vision Challenge results! We've been overwhelmed with the amazing submissions…so we are announcing three winners! The Thrilling Three are: - NOLA Loop (New Orleans, LA) - Ravens Loop (Baltimore, MD) - University Hills Loop (Dallas, TX) What happens next? TBC and the project stakeholders enter into a rigorous diligence process which includes: - Meetings with elected officials, regulators, community leaders, and business leaders - Geotechnical borings - Utility and subsurface infra investigation Once the diligence (100% funded by TBC) is complete, if all 3 projects are feasible, will fund/build all 3 - this would be awesome. If only 1 is feasible, will fund/build 1. IN ADDITION, there were multiple other projects that TBC thought were so compelling that we are going to continue to work with the entrants and try to get them built. This includes the following two: - Hendersonville Utility Tunnel (Hendersonville, TN) - Morgan's Wonderland Tunnel (San Antonio, TX) Thanks again to all of the participants - your enthusiasm and positivity has been inspiring for the TBC team.

@TheStreet Bitcoin is 17 years old. Hurry up

Wall Street giant moves closer to Bitcoin ETF launch. thestreet.com/crypto/markets…

@pmarca I don’t understand the framing that the government is controlling AI. How? The DoW is simply discussing the terms of a contract - if Anthropocene doesn’t like it, they don’t have to contract (as we are seeing) - there is no control.

Overheard in Silicon Valley: "Every single person who was in favor of government control of AI, is now opposed to government control of AI."

@BenMillerise Good job today Ben - great presentation. Awesome vision and guts to get to this day. Well done

Atoms not bits.