Shayan Mashatian

Reposting, just for the fun of it.

Looking at Dubai and what’s happening to Persian Gulf countries, I wonder maybe @elonmusk was right that money (alone) can’t buy happiness.

$6B: budget needed each year to keep 756 rural hospitals open that are at risk of closure. $80B: Meta spent on Metaverse, to shut it down in June. Yes, with $80B, you can keep 756 hospitals open for more than 13 years. What does that mean to see 756 hospitals off the map? Read on… Current 2026 data indicates that approximately 756 rural hospitals—roughly one-third of all rural hospitals in the U.S.—are currently at risk of closure. Of these, over 300 are in immediate danger due to severe financial strain, often cited as a combination of inadequate reimbursement rates (including Medicare and Medicaid) and high uncompensated care costs.  If these 750+ hospitals were to close, the impact on patients and the healthcare workforce would be massive: Impact on Patients • Total Patients Affected: Over 10 million rural residents currently rely on the services provided by these at-risk facilities. • Increased Travel Distance: Patients in affected counties often see their travel distance for emergency care increase by 20–40 miles. For time-sensitive conditions like stroke or heart attack, this delay has been linked to an 8.7% rise in inpatient mortality.   • Expansion of "Care Deserts": Closure of these hospitals typically results in the total loss of specialized services in the region. Recent data shows that more than 300 rural hospitals have already eliminated obstetrics, and 450 have ceased offering chemotherapy.  Impact on Healthcare Jobs • Direct Job Losses: While a specific total "job count" for all 750 hospitals varies by facility size, recent economic analyses show that a single hospital closure typically results in a 13.8% reduction in total healthcare sector employment within that county.  • Economic Scale: A modest reduction in revenue across the rural hospital sector (such as the projected 15% Medicaid/Medicare revenue cut) is equivalent to the loss of more than 21,000 full-time hospital employee salaries nationwide.  • Physician Drain: Closures trigger a "brain drain" where physicians and specialists leave the community to find stable employment elsewhere, which further worsens existing Healthcare Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs). At WoundScribe.AI we aim to use the technology and extend care to remote areas, still, thinking that the fund Meta wasted to sell bunch of electrons sitting in the servers somewhere, could keep 756 hospitals open for 13 years is staggering! There should be a way to channel those funds for a better use and still find a way for the companies to benefit from it. lnkd.in/guJ3ww2v

@ThreeAcres @jasonfried @meetgranola @openclaw That’s the value proposition, show me the usecase and ROI

@shayanrm @jasonfried @meetgranola @openclaw I assume you've never used the claw thing then. It's more a programable automation tool that can use the power of chat gpt to make some decisions. Not a fad, more a new style of software.

We sell Basecamp and HEY, but mostly we give away all our work for free in the form of open source software. Here are 31 distinct open source releases just over the last five years, all from the crew at 37signals: gist.github.com/jorgemanrubia/… Pay or free, we make everything for the same reason: We need it, we want it, and we think we've found a better way. And if we do, surely others do, so we do this for them, too.

@ThreeAcres @jasonfried @meetgranola @openclaw I am skeptical about MCPs and the claw thing. I would rather wait for the dust to settle so that we can determine which one offers real value or utility. It feels like everyone creates hype around something AI, everyone rushes, tons of flaws, and low ROI, etc. Reminds me of NFTs!

@jasonfried @shayanrm I've been using this for a couple of weeks. @meetgranola mcp + Basecamp CLI makes for a very efficient @openclaw

“Plans to become a global hub for data centres may need to be revised.” That’s what I was thinking about, and whether, after recent events, the $T investment in AI will hold in the Persian Gulf countries. The data c wrees still need to be build somewhere, but need for regional centers for befwe and easier access won't go away.

@uiux_harshit We need some sort of design benchmarks to compare these outputs.

Google Stitch vs Claude vs Human Pick your winner

@GoogleAI @stitchbygoogle @GoogleLabs Does it accept screenshot samples for dew shot learning? So I tell it what kind of design I have in mind?

Today, we’re evolving @StitchbyGoogle from @GoogleLabs into an AI design canvas transforms natural language prompts into production-ready front-end code. Some highlights from what’s new: 1. A complete redesign of the Stitch UI, which can now ingest multimodal references (text prompts, images, or code) as creative seeds for your design ideas 2. A brand new, context-aware design agent that can share feedback on builds, generate PRDs, and ask questions to better understand your vision. You can even talk to the agent if you prefer a verbal sounding board 3. A new agent-friendly markdown file, DESIGN.md, which you can use to export or import your design rules to or from other design and coding tools Whether you’ve been designing for decades or you’re whiteboarding your first software idea, Stitch can help you turn concepts into prototypes in minutes rather than days ➡️ stitch.withgoogle.com

It makes me think there is a root cause in taking the wrong direction and failing in execution that has led to its failure in AI too. It’s interesting that no matter how much money you spend, even if you pay $20 salaries, you can still fail if you are going in the wrong direction or your decision-making process is flawed.

The most expensive experiment in history: Meta spent $80 billion on the Metaverse. It will be shut down for good in June. $80,000,000,000 just gone.

Effectively there is 0 net job creation in the private sector!

This is crazy! 60% jump in one month, and 7%+ in one day!

@zaheerbaloch @jasonfried and the business model. There are conversations to migrate from the seat model to the cost epr transaction, role-based (Agent vs human hiring), etc. I was curious what's you take on them.

@jasonfried @shayanrm I guess the question was about companies having access to AI to build their own Basecamp instead of buying it. IMHO, SaaS is not just code but also responsibility about CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability) which customers pay to SaaS companies to manage.

I think I am entitled to post whatever every hour to maximize my blue check mark monthly payment.

Before AI coders, I had 2-3 unfinished projects at any given time, now I have 7-8.

99% of investors are like banks: I invest if you show me you don’t need money.

@BrandonLuuMD I read an article a long time ago about how writing by hand engages more areas of the brain because it requires signaling the hand and fingers to control the pen; therefore, higher levels of brain activity lead to better, more sustained learning.

Students who took notes by hand scored ~28% higher on conceptual questions than laptop note-takers. Writing forces your brain to process and compress ideas instead of copying them.

I am so behind, I still use an iPhone 13 and it works just fine!!

@thejobchick Algorithms are designed by people, of course passing the responsibility to an algorithm is not acceptable. Even if you design an autonomous algorithm to make decisions, that’s your decision to pass the decision to an algorithm!

HOLY F: Workday just lost the argument that matters most. A federal judge said their AI hiring tools can be challenged for filtering out applicants over 40. “The algorithm did it” is NOT a defense. If this holds… every company using automated hiring just stepped into legal risk. You’re not crazy... if you’ve applied to 50, 100, 200 jobs and heard nothing… The system itself may be filtering you out. The decision means the plaintiffs may continue pursuing claims that Workday’s technology had a disparate impact on applicants age 40 and older. - SHRM Judge Lin dismissed some California claims and one disability claim, but gave plaintiffs until March 27 to revise and refile.

@fatuogwuche I think it was creepy. What’s the point? The artist wanted to stay anonymous, his audience was happy with it too, what purpose did it serve to find out who is he? It was like tabloid gossip style reporting.

I don't know how I feel about Reuters exposing Banksy's identity. I always enjoyed the idea that he could be sitting beside me on the tube or randomly walks by me, and I'm none the wiser. They should have allowed that man maintain his public anonymity.