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And the will and grit to erect them

There are cathedrals out there patiently awaiting exploration by those with the eyes to see them

@brrrrrrennan I’m no arbiter, just an observer. When do you use yea? I feel like I use it to begrudgingly reply yes

@sur4js Do you approve using yea as a shorter replacement of yeah? Am I committing a linguistic crime

It’s linguistically interesting to me that “yeh” is universally used in one of three text-first, written contexts: - caught red handed and must assentingly repent - in place of a low effort, shameful “yes” - admission of guilt Not to be confused with yes, yeah, yea, or ye

@andrewarruda @feulf lmao

@feulf yeah, it’s 11 years old…

Document search engines will be able to think and reason like people says @geoff_hinton bit.ly/1SCLeKZ via @Computing_News

There’s intention behind every usage of “yeh”. The omission of the “a” functioning as a lightly thoughtful admission of guilt

@amaldorai @yishan @triketora He said capital, not basketball

@yishan @triketora Why would that be true? LeBron is a good dad but his son isn’t better at basketball than anyone else

if you are wealthy, what is the right amount to leave to your child in a trust fund? (i have no idea but someone posed this question to me the other day and it made me curious how others would answer)

@ftlsid This guy would get a single drink at a tiki bar, eat two pupusas, then drive home

@drydenwtbrown lets goooo, straight up juliussing

STARTING A NEW COUNTRY LIVE: DAY 8 Apollonian mode & still reading the founding documents of great nations.

the flag of misaligned superintelligence if you ever see it, shoot your computer

Tulsi Gabbard resigning, sad about her husband but man what a turnover rate for the admin. My guesses for her replacement: -Mr Beast -Kim Jong Un -Joe Rogan

Warm intros (partly) solve this. So what this actually solves for is the pot-shot cold intro attempt. Someone chats with your agent & if it's a fit, it routes to you. But even this is just a parallel of the automated resume screen era ~5-10 years ago. Eventually it'll be clear what your agent is looking for and the shibboleths someone needs to align themselves with (even if just lip service) in order to pass the screen. I have a good impression of Flex because I talked to Tod and Rajal, not because I had a screen with TodBot and r/AI-rajal. Founder time is valuable and the ones that are capable of finding warm intros will continue to do so. The ones that can't will talk to bots to find any way through the door. Expect that channel to be saturated and converge to lemon market behaviors. TL;DR: Maybe it plays out, but I'm bearish on it converging to an equilibrium that's in any way different from the current one. I think IntroBot exchanges converge to cold emails. In effect, nothing changes.

Within a year, almost every first conversation between a founder and a venture capitalist will be agent-to-agent. That doesn't happen today because it would be a huge power imbalance to have an agent talking to a human. For Flex Capital, it would be weird if the founder had us talk to an agent. It might be interesting the first 1 to 4 times, but then after that it would be a little bit weird and have a little bit of power imbalance if one of our humans was talking to their agent. The same thing would go the other way if we had a Flex Capital agent talk to a founder. That would also be pretty weird and have a power imbalance. However, if the first conversation was agent-to-agent, that would make a lot of sense. The founder's agent could see if Flex Capital was a great partner for them, and Flex Capital's agent could see if the company was a good partner for Flex. If that first meeting goes well, then the second meeting (or the second date) would be human-to-human. think we will see almost every first meeting (founder to VC) be agent-to-agent within the next year, and then that would then determine if the second meeting happens (being human-to-human).

@DavidSHolz @donaldjewkes

Which of my mutuals do video production (like movies, documentaries, podcasts, or social) in San Francisco?

@EmpyriaMirai Fuck

@sur4js checkmate.

Proposing the flag of humanity

@itsalxgg How’d you end up down this rabbit hole

one single decision killed Toys R Us. Amazon was a problem. retail was a problem. the 2005 LBO made both fatal. here's everything we found.

@itsalxgg Hey fuck you

@worrydream thayer!

"I want you to have a book that is 8.5x11, but that has this 7-foot area rug... so you then have the satisfaction of lying on the floor with this book, because there's no other way to read it, and transporting yourself, getting yourself into it." youtube.com/watch?v=Nbmnx0…

@drydenwtbrown Let's gooo day 7

***DAY 7***

STARTING A NEW COUNTRY LIVE: DAY 6 Discussing building a Praxis Neighborhood in LA with @CChadChampion