Sahar Massachi 🟣

"Inside every cynic is a disappointed idealist" Sometimes when I argue against something, it's not because I don't want it to be true, but because I desperately wanted it to be true, tried to make it true, but learned through bitter experience it was false But the people I'm arguing against don't know that. They don't know that they are basically past-versions-of-me pre-bitter experience. They think I just don't get it. I do get it! I just had the experience they haven't yet had. I wish there were some way to communicate this nuance

CNN: A massive police presence that we're seeing there in Bloomfield Hills. Local police have responded to reports of shots being fired and a car being driven into Temple Israel

It’s not just Iran. It’s Lebanon. In less than 2 weeks, Israel has killed 570 people and displaced 750,000 — over 10% of the entire country. Residential buildings are being bombed with no warning. The U.S. cannot continue to be complicit in Netanyahu’s wars.

I met Nick Land a few weeks ago. He mentioned that many people in his circles were anti-LLMs. Someone asked why he thought so many people were. His answer was better than anything so short I thought of: “People like to exist critically with respect to something.” This I think accurately characterizes a lot of people whose outputs and inputs primarily consist of “discourse” about rather than direct contact with the reality at hand. Existing critically with respect to something makes it easy to seem cool, sophisticated, above something, hard-to-impress and therefore worth trying to impress, especially to others who also don’t have contact with the phenomena itself. And for that reason I think it’s cheap. And to someone who has an inside view of what is being discussed, it’s always so transparent and boring and compressible. I’m far more impressed by someone who is capable of loving something and showing others why it’s beautiful or good. Doesn’t have to be LLMs, but anything at all.

It’s hard to picture a world without corporations as we know them today, but AI seems poised to changes things more fundamental than that. If agents dramatically reduce transaction costs, the pattern “a corporation” may no longer be economically adaptive and disappear.

the most underrated hire right now is a great product person. when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that. i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it. & the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start. the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled. before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.

The JCPOA absolutely did not prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. In fact, it basically allowed them to do so after a relatively brief period. The retconning of that objectively shitty deal is infuriating. The only way to stop Tehran from getting nukes is to use force.

BEAM is the correct virtual machine for agents, and Elixir and Gleam are the correct languages. The future is massively concurrent