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It's MAGIC 🪄 • An AI (Claude) creates a design • Claude creates an import file so the design can be used on PageMotor... in one step... in minutes Idea ➡️ Prototype ➡️ LIVE SITE in a few minutes 🤯 The future of web design is already here ⬇️

@unusual_whales You can just announce things

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced plans for New York City to build 200,000 new rent-stabilized homes over the next decade, per NYPost.

@data_atx One thing’s for sure: No white person will be considered

In the discussion today about Cesar Chavez renaming at city council, it was said that Dolores Huerta doesn’t actually want it named after herself. She prefers either named after farm workers generally or one of the farm workers killed during strikes

This is an IQ test There is no universal standard to define a "bad landlord" It's an arbitrary baseline As such, it will be defined by however those in power want to define it Capriciousness is not System Design

@breccastoll Now define "bad landlord" Arbitrary games sure are fun!

NOW: Mamdani says his admin will transfer ownership from bad landlords to non-profits. “For buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Stewards that include community land trusts, non-profits, or even the tenants themselves.”

@WillieCok You're obviously a player, so I hesitate to say anything at all, but... Looks like a tiny bit of EE getting that club face squared up/closed too soon I think you just need a little pressure shift left to initiate the downswing, and that left miss will disappear 🫡

Weird left misses the last week or so. Usually cut the driver, as I was trying to do here. Please advise, open to discussion. (Ball hung up on left creek bank, chopped it out to 20 feet from 140 and made birdie btw) Anyways, Willie needs some thoughtful insight. Discuss.

@gregisenberg Items 1, 3, and 4 are absolutely PRIME for PageMotor Rebuilding business tech with an agent-first foundation is the key to the future; PageMotor makes this easier and more accessible than anything else. The train is steamrolling ahead 🚄

I just got back from SF and I FEEL INSPIRED. I spent 5 days with frontier AI model teams, AI startup founders, and 3 billionaires. My takeaways: 1. I had lunch with 3 billionaires. All of them are buying SaaS companies and rebuilding them agent-first. They were deeply inspired by Bending Spoons and Ryan Cohen's eBay deal. Buy the company, cut the headcount, rebuild the tech, add agents, add features, make more valuable experience, raise prices. 2. The frontier model companies are hungry for usage data from the field. They can see API calls and token counts. They can't see the actual workflows. If you're deep in a niche using these models in ways the model companies haven't seen, that understanding is incredibly valuable. Usage intelligence is the new alpha. 3. Consumer AI is massively underbuilt. Every billboard in SF is either B2B inference infrastructure or vertical agent companies. The entire city is optimized for enterprise. Meanwhile you have companies like Cal AI doing $50M ARR in 18 months as a consumer app. I met with a cool few teams doing consumer AI (@paulscherer / @ekuyda) 4. MCP came up in literally every conversation. The companies exposing their product as MCP endpoints are getting pulled into deals they never pitched for. The ones that aren't are becoming invisible to agents. This is the new SEO. If agents can't find you, you don't exist. Building products for agents is the new zeitgeist in general. 5. Not uncommon for hot seed rounds to be $25-50 million valuations. I saw a Series A at $450 million 6. If I had a dollar every time someone mentioned "forward-deployed engineer" this trip I could have funded a seed round. It's the hottest role in SF right now. The person who sits between the agent and the customer, making sure everything actually works. 7. The mood around open source shifted. A year ago it felt like open source was chasing the frontier models. Now founders are telling me Gemma and DeepSeek are good enough for 80% of what they need at a fraction of the cost. The "which model do you use" conversation is being replaced by "which model for which task." Model loyalty kinda feels dead. 8. Voice agents came up more than I expected. Multiple founders told me voice is the interface for the next billion users. The billion people who will never type a prompt will absolutely talk to one. 9. The Obsidian community in SF is weirdly intense. Multiple founders showed me their vaults unprompted. Like showing someone your home gym. It's a flex now. The quality of your knowledge base (second brain?) is becoming a status symbol among builders. 10. Maybe it was just the people I met but the age of the founders is shifting. I met more founders over 40 this trip than any trip before and more founders under age 21 than ever before. Founders getting older and younger at the same time. 11. I spoke to a lot of fast-growing startups, VCs and frontier models who are hiring content creators right now. 12. The restaurant scene in SF is actually better than it's been in years. Founders are going out more. Alcohol is out, not surprisingly. 13. SF doesn't feel like the only place anymore. We all have access to the same frontier models. We all read the same X feed. A founder in NYC or Lagos is calling the same APIs as a founder in SoMa. So in the past it felt like SF was always lightyears ahead, doesn't feel that way anymore. It's okay not to live in SF and have BIG DREAMS. 14. The coworking spaces in SF are half empty but the coffee shops are packed. People want to be around people. I had a few startup ideas here.... 15. Walking around the Mission I noticed something: the street-level businesses, the taquerias, the barbershops, the laundromats, none of them use any AI at all. 16. I heard the phrase "agent debt" for the first time. Like technical debt but for agents. When you hack together an agent workflow fast and never clean it up, the system prompts conflict, the memory gets polluted, the tools overlap. 6 months later the agent is doing weird things and nobody knows why lol. 17. Met a few people who carry two phones now. One for personal. One that's basically an agent terminal running Telegram or iMessage connections to their agent fleet. It's always amazing to get that dose of inspiration in SF. I FEEL INSPIRED. But I'm so happy to be back home, locked in and building. We're 12-18 months into a shift that will take 15 years to play out. The urgency in every conversation was real. What an incredible time to be building.

Skill and Systems issue

People are reading this and taking it seriously 🤦🏾‍♀️

@drifand Longtail personified

@karrisaarinen 100x is happening in my lab daily Results compounding for now, will be like a nuclear blast upon full release

We keep hearing about 10x or 100x productivity gains in engineering and knowledge work. But outside the model labs, I haven’t seen the corresponding 10-100x revenue growth across the market or increase in quality. So where is the productivity going?

It’s called we do a little aeration while cupping the pourover 👀

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video. Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments. The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times. Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it. Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone. The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

@MikeSigers Thank you, somehow turned into a 45-year old 🥂

@thepearsonified Happy Birthday buddy! 🙏🏻

Wife goals:

@activbristol Never been more irrationally angry in my life Curses to whoever made this video (they know what they did)

Pure Tetris nostalgia

@nickgraynews I am very attached to each tear Hate to throw it away 🫡

I think you can tell a lot about how someone spends money and thinks about money by how they use paper towels.

@TotalProSports Mike Tyson and Lawrence Taylor, I will not be hearing any other opinions

Pick one... 🤔

@ryanmouquegolf NO ONE is more excited about golf than the guy who just broke 80 for the first time

The day after breaking 80 for the first time, my student Lucas was straight back into it with a zoom session today These are a great addition to online coaching. It gives us the opportunity to do a live lesson, talk through some things, train correctly, etc Imagine having the ability to message your coach any time you want, have unlimited coaching, plus jump on a zoom call with them... Golf is a poorly taught sport. One lesson every 1-3 months is just ridiculous. Ongoing communication & coaching is the way forward If this sounds like something you would benefit from, DM me & we can chat about coaching options 👊

@MarcLobliner Hell yes I was FEELING that big pause before you tipped back for that first rep (the set on that first one is always the hardest part for me)

Barbell bench press is the universal test of upper body strength. I’ll argue that controlling dumbbells, the equivalent of a full 150lb human in each hand, that’s the true test. I try to do this every few weeks to see where I’m at, and getting 7 reps is okay with me! Katie was being nice trying to prevent me from dying, but I knew I had that rep so I politely declined the spot. Watch til the end for the real feat of strength!

@Breaking911 POV: 36 hours into a meth-fueled edge sesh

WATCH: A meteor streaked into Mayon Volcano in the Philippines as the volcano was erupting.

@OlgaPechnenko Gotta hit the kingdom with the queen from time to time to make sure everything is as it should be 😍

Celebrating @thepearsonified birthday with a little staycation across the place where met 15 year ago.🎂 Happy Birthday to a coding legend who makes me laugh a million times a day and is an incredible daddy to all of our kiddos! 🥳 I love you & doing life with you!😍❤️🥂