Evan

Wow he's right, the unexamined life is more alive

Every vice was once a virtue

Overrated or underrated?

Wow - 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa lack access to electricity - which is ~48% of the region's population - and ~85% of the world's total unelectrified population

The amf is NEVER a good idea cue the interstellar meme

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What made Talleyrand, Franklin, and Kissinger such extraordinary diplomats? Somehow they balanced state allegiance with the extreme pragmatism needed to be well-liked across totally opposing ideological borders: Talleyrand staying invaluable to the monarchy, revolution, and Napoleon in succession, Franklin charming republics and monarchies, Kissinger triangulating between the US, China and USSR

If a model consumed all markets simultaneously (prediction markets, equities, credit, options, commodities), could it reconstruct the latent global belief state of humanity?

I built an open source wispr flow for silent mouth-reading. This is what Q.ai, the AI company bought by Apple for $2B, is solving It's shitty right now because Visual Speech Recognition is actually incredibly difficult, even SOTA is wrong 20% of the time under perfect settings. But will likely be useful later when open source SOTA advances! github.com/evanhu1/telepa…

skipping lunch is insane you save money, have more time to work, and live longer

every single "Ava, the AI SDR" is a bespoke package of schlep stapled together and constrained tighter and tighter on all sides until they find the narrow feasible path through to the SLA. I believe 99% of these top down AI systems will drown in the rising tide of frontier models

In consumer there is no standard interface, workflow to automate, service to integrate, data source to build an adapter to, like in enterprise. The future of consumer AI will be idiosyncratic

vibe coding is not about what happens when people can write software, its about what happens when agents can write software. as usual, the bad takes are just the first order takes

Each new round of model releases is an interest rate cut on tech debt

keep asking yourself what 10x more outrageous demand can you make of your agent

@gregisenberg @SahilBloom This is pure midwit arbitrage 😂

@SahilBloom I like it. More ideas like this on ideabrowser.com

There's an opportunity right now to build a $100k per month side hustle as an AI Concierge. And you don't even have to be *that* technical to do it. Just high agency. There are probably millions of people out there who see all of the latest AI innovations like Claude Cowork, want to take advantage of them, but have no idea how to actually do that. I know, because I'm one of those people... I had dinner last night with the CEO of a multi-billion dollar tech startup. He was telling me about the full digital assistant/employee he just hacked together over the weekend. All of the things it's doing, how it's been an unlock for his workflows and life. I told him I'd gladly pay him $5000 to come to my house and spend the day building me one using the same approach. He laughed that he'd happily do that (though obviously won't given his day job). There's a real, high cash flow opportunity for a hustler to launch a services business as an AI Concierge for the tech curious. Ideally they would physically show up and build out a tool (or suite) to help an individual leverage the latest for their business and life. I bet you could charge $5-10k for the initial upfront work and then some low ongoing service fee to keep the thing up to date (if the person wants that and needs help with it). 5-10 clients per month and you have a meaningful cash flow engine. All comes down to the quality of what you deliver long term, but my guess is people would see a Month 1 positive ROI on the investment and referrals to their friends would drive the entire business. Just a thought...

Agents eat all front-ends

Looking for software-shaped problems is not nearly ambitious enough when codex and claude code now effectively dual wield code and the internet to do basically any digital (physical soon) task. In this sense Codex, ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Poke, are all converging lines

Folded under zero pressure