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Truth Debt (noun): the debt accrued when operating on versions of reality that aren’t truthful👇🏽

@aishdoingthings @WendiYan5 @jwmares @stuartbuck1 huge! congrats!!

Delighted to share our new fund: researchrevival.org > Soviet papers from the 50s! > Antimalarial drugs from Mao’s China! > Buried research on reality and consciousness! Led by @WendiYan5 and seeded by @jwmares and @stuartbuck1

@arrtnem beautifully written, thank you for sharing

advice like “say yes to everything for the first three months” and my body does that little laugh that isn’t funny. Because it sounds clean on a screen. Like friendship is a vending machine. Insert extroversion. Attend enough events. Meet one new person per night. Wait for the network effects. Then boom - you have a friend group, a brunch table, people who text you memes at 22:37 like they’ve known you for years. And I get why it works for some people. I really do. There’s truth in it. But the part nobody says is how humiliating the first months actually feel when you are the new person. I remember my first week in a new city. It was 19:18, cold air, the kind that makes your hands ache before you even realize you’re tense. I had one lamp on in an apartment that still smelled like cardboard and strangers. I was sitting on the floor eating something cheap out of a container because I didn’t have proper plates yet. My phone kept lighting up, not with invitations, but with the silent noise of other people’s lives continuing without me. Group chats back home. Photos of familiar places. People casually existing in rooms where I wasn’t. And that’s when the loneliness hits. Not as sadness. More like that thin, fizzy panic in your chest that says, nobody knows me here. So you do what the advice says. You say yes. You open the apps. You find an event that seems normal enough. Some meetup, some talk, some random class. And you go. You show up early because you don’t want to walk into a room when everyone already has someone. You hover near the edge like you’re pretending to read something important on your phone, but really you’re scanning faces like a hostage negotiator. You’re trying to find one person who looks as lost as you feel so you can latch onto them without looking desperate. Then you do the thing you hate. You introduce yourself. Hi, I’m new here. New is a strange word because it doesn’t mean fresh. It means unclaimed. New means you don’t have context, you don’t have history, you don’t have inside jokes, you don’t have the comfort of being known. New means you can leave the room and nobody will notice the hole you leave behind. It means you can walk home at 23:40 and realize you spent three hours smiling at strangers and still don’t have anyone to text “made it back” to. And you tell yourself it’s fine because you’re doing the right steps. You go again. And again. You say yes to things you don’t even like because you’re scared that if you say no, you’ll turn into someone who stays home forever. There was a month where I could barely remember what I actually enjoyed, because every week was a rotation of trying to be likable in new rooms. Coffee with someone who was “nice.” Drinks with someone you didn’t fully click with but you’re trying to build momentum. A gallery opening where the art didn’t move you but you needed to be around humans. A gym class where you smiled too much and laughed at jokes that weren’t funny because you wanted to be invited to the after thing. the uncomfortable part, the part you don’t admit out loud, is that you start treating friendship like survival. Not “I want people.” More like “I can’t stand being invisible.” That’s when you become extra polite. Extra agreeable. Extra easy. You become the version of yourself that will not create friction because you’re terrified of losing the tiny thread you just built. You let conversations stay shallow because shallow is safer. You don’t say the weird thought. You don’t say the honest thing. You don’t say “I miss home” because you don’t want to make it heavy. You keep it light. Then you go home and feel empty anyway. The advice also skips the weird social math of adulthood. People are busy, yes, but it’s more than busy. They already have their circles. Their routines. Their history. You are a new file on their desktop. They might like you, but they don’t know where to place you yet.

@ankurnagpal yes please!

This is the last call for my tax planning guide I break down every single tax saving strategy that I wish I knew 3 years ago in a 30,000 word Notion guide Most of these need to be implemented by December 31 to save money RT / comment below and I'll DM you a free copy

opus 4.5 is bonkers good. it feels like i'm painting software with words

yutori: japanese concept that means spaciousness, room to breathe. conscious act of slowing down to find mental and emotional space

👋 We’ve been working on something new & we’re finally ready to let people play with it. It’s an “app for AirPods” called BeeBot – think of it like a social city guide emceed by an AI-powered radio DJ. I wrote a giant blog post (manifesto!) about it here: dens.medium.com/say-hello-to-d…

@solmarkp @poofnew @0xBilalShahid @legitamit hell yeah, congrats!

I’m excited to announce I’ve joined @poofnew to help lead growth and push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI + blockchain. I can’t wait to relentlessly lock in with @0xBilalShahid and @legitamit to help bring wild ideas to life.

what used to take months & a team of experts in the crypto world now takes *minutes* on your own what you DON'T worry about: databases, crypto contracts, security audits, coding, deploying, hosting what you DO worry about: your product idea so excited for the poof team and all the new apps & experiences that'll come out of this

@joshm @diabrowser just wanted to say i'm loving it - it makes all my e-errands way less daunting

I’m on a flight. AMA about @diabrowser!

Looking to build your first onchain app on @solana in record time? New updates just landed on Poof to help you out! Check them out below 👇

@ephemeralapps would love to test this!

Write SwiftUI in your Browser. No Xcode, No Builds, No Simulators Required.

you want consumer crypto apps? come build consumer crypto apps

Meet miniboop; I spent 10 min to build a boop.fun clone using @poofnew, try it out here! …-59ff-4e77-ad71-484fbc262907.poof.new I'm a big fan of the viral mechanic boop had of launching a token on their platform being how you claim their airdrop, and this is a basic version with a similar mechanic made simple in poof.

@pitdesi @Detour @dens

One app I really miss: @Detour It was an immersive podcast experience that blended storytelling with location- you’d walk through a city while an amazing narrator (like Ken Burns) guided you, syncing their voice to your exact position... you could do them at your own speed, the audio would work even if you walked faster. It felt like being inside a documentary, with local voices, hidden histories, and personal anecdotes unfolding as you moved. It was founded by @andrewmason (post-Groupon)... at the time (10 yrs ago) it was one of the best demos I’d ever gotten. Intimate, place-based audio. I think it probably struggled as a business (not sure how you acquire customers for a travel app like this), was acquired and shut down by Bose in 2018. No replacement has captured that magic for me since. They spun out the tech that they used to build it, and it became @descript (audio & video editor) You could make a better version today with AI, personalized to the user. Imagine: NYC, by Lin-Manuel Miranda Mumbai, by Suketu Mehta the sounds of Reykjavík, by Bjork A foodie tour of Rome, by Massimo Bottura Mexico City Taco Truck Tour, by Rick Bayless

@bnj @variantui would love access!

We raised $5.9M to build @variantui: code generation with taste, range, and room to explore Invites start rolling out today, reply for early access

@jadefranson @sawpex yes please i'd love this!

@sawpex not atm, but would you? 👀

boy do i love plants

Exciting things brewing with Poof! A few more beta spots are opening soon, what would you build? 👀

i’m amazed by the condescending replies here. what incentive do crypto veterans have to gate keep? what they have to win is obvious: easier onboarding > more adoption > profit