Once, I told a librarian that she'd be out of a job because all books would soon be on the internet. I was 8. San Francisco via Chicago via Costa Rica.
Joined November 2008
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Jan 5
Just posted my annual reading recap.
Traveling from SF to Mexico City, Vienna, Budapest, and South Africa, I circled one theme: ideas rewrite the world.
Standouts: Zweig on collapse, MacKenzie on financial models that shape markets.
Link to the blog below. What did you read?
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Jun 2
An interesting side effect of working with AI agents for personal projects is they force you into professional workflows, even for solo and throwaway projects.
New blog post - link below
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May 20
Bragging about how much software you’re shipping with AI is like holding down the shutter button and bragging about how many photos you took.
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May 19
The fine folks at @BloombergBeta hosted @tab_delete and @add_hawk back-to-back last week, which felt like a maliciously targeted diagnosis of San Francisco's new ambition-induced AI psychosis.
New blog post: faingezicht.com/articles/202…
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May 5
Now do Robinhood, and every other brokerage.
Insane stat: 0.1% of the accounts on Polymarket have earned 67% of the profits.
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May 4
AI collapses roles, but not coordination costs.
It pushes them outward, to smaller, faster teams.
Building is cheap. Alignment is still expensive.
New blog post: faingezicht.com/articles/202…
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Apr 25
Long overdue pics from my honeymoon in South Africa last year. This post is the first half, covering Johannesburg and our Safari near Kruger.
Check out the full set in the link below.
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Apr 23
Very proud to have led the engineering behind this effort. Onward!
Apr 22
Announcing: USVC
AngelList exists to power the innovation economy.
To date, we have powered $125 billion in assets, 25,000 funds, and 13,000 startups.
Today, we’re opening it for retail access.
@usvc_ is a regulated fund that holds stakes in promising private companies.
There are no accreditation requirements and anyone can get started with as little as $500.
Early portfolio includes xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, Sierra, Vercel, Crusoe, and Legora.
Own a stake in the companies defining the future.
Learn more: usvc.com/
Community note
The post may imply more direct access than the filings support. Per the fund’s own filings, liquidity is board-controlled, fees include up to 3% sales load 1.00% management fee acquired fund fees, and exposure may be via SPVs/VC funds, not direct stakes.
usvc.com/documents/USVC…
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Apr 22
LLMs can work for users instead of platforms
They can search harder, remember preferences, coordinate, and negotiate. In markets where incentives are not aligned with ours, that could unlock real value: e.g. insurance, trades, medical tourism and financial advice
New post below
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Apr 21
I left @AngelList a couple of weeks back. I am proud of the team and products I built, and grateful for the people I got to work with.
Reflecting on the lessons from the last couple years, I wrote a piece on tiny teams, customer incentives, and agency.
faingezicht.com/articles/202…
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Apr 15
Start with 100 people w/$100. At each step, anyone with money gives $1 randomly, and we get a strikingly unequal society. That does not explain inequality, but it does rule out lazy explanations.
I have time for side projects again! Check out the simulation in the link below:
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Mar 18
Catching up on my photos, here's a set across SF, Chicago, Vancouver, Napa, New Hampshire, and hikes around Northern California.
Link to the blog in the next tweet. Enjoy.
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Mar 12
SF's problems aren’t monocausal, but housing scarcity makes almost every problem harder.
Wrote about the city's zero-sum politics and its painful anti-growth nostalgia, w/nods to @devonzuegel @conor64 @kimmaicutler @Noahpinion @ConorDougherty @namisumida @NickKristof
Link below
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