Skye Aspden

@desireefixler FFS. I take it all back: x.com/MarvinTBaumann…

@desireefixler Love you, Desiree, but give us a win for once. This legislation was championed by the startup industry and some truly talented individuals. This is a win for them and for all of us. It proves, too, that grassroots movements can work to steer even the Titanic!

Ursula von der Leyen says she’s making Europe easier for startups. Yes - by regulating them into the United States.

I’ve been looking for this video since I saw it a while back. It’s one of the most joyous things you’ll see today. Discovering music you’ve never heard before for the first time. There’s nothing like it…enjoy…

[explaining the baghavad gita to a16z] so it’s kind of like a podcast, but they’re on a chariot

The “AI CMO” is an oxymoron If you look at the best CMOs like @JeffMillerTime, @catferdon, @kate_rouch; their value comes from: 1. Narrative: crafting distinct and un-obvious stories 2. Taste: ensuring quality, not just quantity, of content 3. Focus: picking your spots, not trying to do everything 4. Credibility: building trust with other humans AI will of course become more capable, quickly. And having an “AI CMO” will potentially be better than having nothing But it’s hard to see a great CMO being replaceable anytime soon

Emotional suppression costs you about 30% of your working memory. Measured on fMRI. The anterior cingulate cortex processes emotional pain and cognitive control through overlapping circuits. When you shove emotions down instead of processing them, your prefrontal cortex burns glucose on inhibition. That’s glucose not available for decision-making, planning, or execution. The brain doesn’t have separate budgets for “feelings” and “performance.” It’s one pool. The military figured this out the hard way. After decades of “push through it” culture, SOCOM funded research into emotional regulation for tier-one operators. The finding: operators who named and processed emotions before missions had faster reaction times and better decision-making under fire than operators who suppressed. The Special Forces pipeline now includes psychological flexibility training. The historical record confirms it. Stoicism, the philosophy most often cited to justify “stop talking about feelings,” literally requires examining your emotions in writing every single day. Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations as a private journal. Epictetus taught students to dissect their emotional responses in granular detail. The entire Stoic method is structured emotional processing, not emotional avoidance. What actually kills performance is rumination, looping on the same thought without resolution. The fix for rumination is more processing, not less. Cognitive behavioral therapy, the most evidence-backed intervention, works by teaching people to articulate and examine feelings with precision. The highest performers process fast and move. They don’t skip the processing step.

I'm dying 😂

AI is making CEOs delusional

Marc Andreessen is a fucking moron and i'm tired of pretending otherwise him and the rest of the Silicon Valley VC midwits like garry tan and so on are some of the most insufferable "intellectuals" i've ever seen and that's why you'll never produce any writing of high quality yourself Marc, that's why your "techno optimist manifesto" reads like it was written by a 12 year old boy Marc goes on to quote this saying "read Nietzsche" as if Nietzsche supports his point - Nietzsche literally wrote entire books moaning about his feelings the reality of the matter is that the greatest men and women of history were highly emotional, and the fact that you are too incompetent to even read that says everything about your understanding of humanity Alexander the Great was one of the most emotional leaders, known for throwing temper tantrums Napoleon was known for being highly emotional and moaning about his feelings The Epic of Gilgamesh about the first great ancient king of history is literally about him rolling around in the wilderness moaning about his feelings... i could go on and on and mention more kings and philosophers and how they were ALL highly emotional but i don't think you would understand i don't think you're competent enough to understand what the mind of a great man actually looks like

7 more finals to go, let’s win this title.❤️

Seen this clip a million times, but today is the first time I saw the reaction of some Spurs fans behind 😭😭😭🔥

it’s actually funny how Marc /is/ on to something, sorta our culture+economy is being completely rewired to favor those with no “introspection” in a way no thinking, just action, just do things, think about consequences and morals and plans later. make a fuss. go viral. piss people off. lie. raise tons of money with no plan. don’t think things through just DO. and this is why we will falter and, potentially, fail completely.

Arteta and Jover on the touchline watching Rice and Saka launch corners.

@paulg @davidsenra @pmarca Marcus Aurelius. Case closed.

@davidsenra @pmarca What? That's not true. Do you not feel that Charles Darwin, for example, was among the great men of history?

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.

@davidsenra @pmarca Marcus Aurelius. This is such a dumb hot take.

If you didn’t know from his fawning of Moscow’s train stations, Tucker is, in fact, a useful idiot.

If the US is asking European and Asian allies to send their navies to the Strait of Hormuz, they should consider demanding an immediate cessation of all US tariffs on them in return. I don't think Trump would hesitate to make that demand, if the situations were reversed.

FOMA (noun) — Fear of Missing AI /ˈfōmə/ FOMA is a persistent fear that you are "falling behind" on AI and every minute you're not prompting, building agents, or vibe-coding brings you closer to inevitable replacement in the post-AGI economy. FOMA is exacerbated by listening to VC podcasts, reading clickbait articles about Open Claw, and refreshing your X feed like it's your ex-girlfriend's Instagram. Remedies to FOMA include: touching grass, talking to humans who don't know what an MCP is, actually trying to use Open Claw and realizing it's a total piece of shit, and watching as your vibe-coded masterpiece breaks eighteen different ways by Tuesday.

LLM that keeps telling people to break up because it’s been trained on relationship advice subreddits

A real sign of creeping middle age is the growing desire to just move to Switzerland and not deal with the pointless aggravating bullshit rampant in the rest of the world.