fell into a TikTok IQ-maxxing brain peptide Russian nootropic rabbit hole and I'm trying to side eye it all but keep getting more interested

Just axed a plumber bill replacing this bad boy myself. AMA 🪈🛠️

Few things more therapeutic than a visit to the deep country with my folks ❤️

prompting ... looping ... token maxxing Meanwhile this university admin just looked up someone's contact info in Outlook, wrote it down on scratch paper, ripped it from the notepad and handed it to us. we're early, back, AND in a bubble 🤗

new linkedin title. creative director. 😂

“you have to approach the job search like it’s a job.” - @LawrenceDCodes simple structure: daily blocks for applications daily blocks for outreach daily blocks for follow-ups

For the next Twitter Space, we're chatting with @davidfowl, a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. He ships production-grade .NET at scale with AI, but he's very clear that building production software with AI is NOT the same as building demos with AI. So he’ll share: ✅His actual daily AI workflow ✅How he redesigned entire workflows instead of just going faster ✅ Why agent readiness is one of the best signals of codebase health Link to the twitter space in the thread 🧵

Ken’s right, you can just grow things

We’re already 60 days away from the biggest Tech Week the Southeast has ever seen. We'll be taking over the city August 9-14th, will you be there? Explore more and get plugged in at atl.tech.

The CYC lineup this year is BONKERS in the best way. I'll be in the house. How about you 🫵🏾

Let’s learn tmux x.com/i/broadcasts/1vJpPPpwB…

FANG was about fast-growing tech stocks. Can't even buy OpenAI nor Anthropic yet 🤷🏾‍♂️ So yeah great VC narrative, likely CS grad targets, useless as a public portfolio play. Also, beyond the chip maker, I don't think they're all going to make it

Engineers writing corporate tweets FTW

Just wrapping a fantastic NY Tech Week, packed with startup and VC events. My 6 takeaways on AI, startups and relationships— and a prediction for each. 1. IRL IS KING The most valuable thing this week wasn't on a screen. The more our days run through feeds and inboxes, the more a room of real people becomes something you can't fake or scale. People are increasingly craving "real" moments– and this is a big opportunity for building community AND growing business. ➡️ Prediction: the more we automate, the more we'll seek each other out. The gatherings that bring people together for real become the moments worth protecting. 2. AI AGENTS ARE TRUE TEAMMATES Agents went from demo to default. A year ago, a party trick; this week— every vertical, every workflow, someone's shipping one. The shift I'm watching: from agents you operate to agents you delegate to. And as they take on long-horizon work, the bottleneck stops being capability. It's joint teamwork. ➡️ Prediction: winners won't have the smartest agent — they'll have figured out how to work with it as a trusted teammate. 3. PARTNERING UP Partnering up is 1 1=100. We hosted a Google DeepMind Google for Startups Google Cloud day for founders. 3,000 applied. By pooling across teams, we brought the best of Google into one room for the best startups. Alone, none of us could have pulled that off. ➡️ Prediction: the organizations that show up as one — rather than shipping their org chart to the world — will win. (One Google FTW!) 4. AI FOR REAL USE CASES The best founders I met aren't chasing the tech — they're bridging real business needs with the edge of what's now possible. Companies like InstaLILY AI, Simular and Rehearsals start with the problem, then pull emerging AI forward to close the gap. Not technology in search of a use case. The use case, pulling technology toward it. ➡️ Prediction: the breakout companies won't be the ones with the flashiest tech — they'll be the ones pointed at problems worth solving. 5. STORYTELLING STILL WINS When everyone's slides look great, taste becomes the last moat. Gamma hosted one of the best events of the week — Malcolm Gladwell, Mike Birbiglia, Bobbi Brown — pairing gorgeous visuals with live spoken-word storytelling. When great production gets effortless, the story is the diffentiator. ➡️ Prediction: as content becomes infinitely remixable, the premium on crafted story and delivery goes up. 6. RELATIONSHIPS WIN New connections expand you; old ones ground you. The magic is doing both. Tech Week throws you into rooms full of new people — and that energy is real. But some of the best moments I had were the stolen coffees and late dinners with founders, partners & friends I've loved for years. ➡️ Prediction: those who continue to expand in both breadth and depth of relationships will be the ones living the good life. Thanks to our partners at a16z. And… wild to see the Knicks fan party at MSG!! 🏀

Why do popup vintage markets end up being alternative people beautiful people conventions 🤗

I have this thing (we probably all do) where when I hear someone define something, I verbally freeball my own definition and compare. So with AI I typically think 1. Skill - capability you give an AI system. Could be a function call, script, or other 2. Harness - varying degrees of infrastructure for an AI system. May include memory, state, rate limits, and more. "harness" on the horse 3. Agent - What I call "AI systems". Starts w/a model then add what you like: may include a harness, suite of skills, and loop-powered self-directed execution How do you see those three?