Open Source entrepreneur since 2003. Founder at Lightmeter. @ycombinator & @esmtBerlin alum. (Quoted text may have been paraphrased for clarity and brevity).
Incredible news. Potential turning point against the shape-shifting villain behind the global pandemic. In the multi-bn-year arms race between cells & viruses, this would be a historic step. sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
🧠 The world's first AI-designed "universal" coronavirus vaccine has entered human trials. In a study of 39 volunteers, the experimental jab was found to be safe and triggered immune responses against multiple coronaviruses. 🔗 cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-…#HealthNews#Vaccines#AI
ALT World's first AI-designed 'universal' vaccine enters human trials
This week I learned: in outbound analysis, your AI BI agent needs your bias. Turns out analytics is downstream of ontology. LI post: linkedin.com/posts/sam-tuke_…#Deliverability
“She started by laying out an array of pornographic images across his desk.”
Inspiring leadership: a woman tackling a dodged and buried issue with practicality. Solving for, not moralizing. Production of and mass exposure to degrading #porn causes harm. theguardian.com/society/2025…
Yes! Enable Dumbphone mode via a hardware switch: kill distractions and dopamine farming in an instant. That huge innovation plus the revolutionary supply chain they've developed over years. Amazing brand and product that's leading by example.
A new smartphone blends repairable hardware, privacy-focused software, and sustainable production. Can it create an ethical rival to iPhone and Android devices? eu1.hubs.ly/H0lgdRW0
Two of the most reliable forecasters of past financial crises now put the odds of a 2008-level collapse in the US and other G7 countries at 65% within 5 years. Not a fringe take. Worth hedging against? archive.ph/74kX2#MacroEconomics#FinancialCrisis#RayDalio
"Watch a pride of lions hunting. They don't use language but are coordinating intelligently. If language is not fundamental to intelligent behaviour then pursuit of #AGI via language processing is hopeless" - nice illustration of the #EmbodimentProblemarchive.ph/wlNDD
Sad: Android has a *hardcoded* 256KB clipboard limit while iPhones are constrained only by memory. $1k Android phones with 12GB RAM can't copy/paste long articles, but years old iPhones can copy megabytes. 90s Throwback. Open ecosystem, you say? #Android#iPhone#FreeYourAndroid
Shared a new AI prompt with the Lightmeter team: Immunity to Change Mapping. Helps surface why you’re stuck. I used it to unpack why I sometimes pick slower paths even when faster ones are clear. It came down to fear and identity. lightmeter.notion.site/Immun…#FounderLife#SelfWork
TIL: mirror life, made from right handed proteins and left handed sugars could coexist on earth as an alien ecosystem. Touchable but biologically invisible. In Thalidomide: one mirror version of the drug healed; the other harmed. Pasteur discovered via light bending left vs right
Convenient, well designed tool for surfacing your personal #values in 20 minutes. I recommend setting a timer. Focus on what you /choose/, for yourself and for others. Not what life has chosen for you: think2perform.com/values/#coaching
“The only way to build a moat is to keep shipping. Product velocity is everything - Al is moving so quickly that people always want the latest, greatest product. And shipping supercharges distribution.”
Our team at @a16z spends all day studying the future of consumer AI.
We just dropped an hour-long podcast with our learnings so far and what we hope to see from startups.
Takeaways, clips, and link 👇
This album is incredible, and not on streaming services. If you like Beach house, Warpaint, Broadcast, or Ariel Pink, check it out. Artist: Cindy Lee. Album: Diamond Jubilee. youtube.com/watch?v=_LJi5na8….
Also on Bandcamp.
1/ New Administration, same goal: Win on AI
Our ad in the Washington Post, January 21, 2025
After spending the weekend in DC, I’m certain this Administration has the AI muscle to keep us ahead of China.
Five recommendations for the new administration 🧵
I'm speaking at @BerlinMotionLab on Feb 11! Theme: early stage startup sales & pivoting. I love the venue: it's a manufacturing co-working and hackerspace that's been home to some of my best friends' startups, incl. Bearcover & @truemetricsioeventbrite.co.uk/e/fireside-…
As the adoption of GenAI increases and models get smarter, the value of human intelligence is decreasing daily. All my async negotiations are now probably empowered by #GPT or #Claude on both sides. Whoever brings more human smarts, has a devalued advantage Vs themselves in 2020