Who's doing interesting olfactory work? IMO scent is the underrated sense. It's so potent and arresting (often the first thing we describe about distinctive places -- e.g. the smell of the ocean rather than its appearance), but most spaces treat the aromatic dimension as an

Patrick Collison please ping me or Alex Wiltschko we spun Osmo out of Google last yr and he has been making magic to both detect + generate odors. shazam for smell and upending the economics of the flavor + fragrance industry, plus medical + military applications that both sectors want

Patrick Collison Alex Wiltschko Osmo 100%. our most evolutionary salient scent from Proust (in search of lost time) to Shazam for smell. we teamed w/Alex Wiltschko to spin out Osmo from GOOG last yr team are geniuses + already 'teleported' 1st ever smell... how it works x.com/wolfejosh/stat…

Patrick Collison Amazing primer is Harold McGee’s book Nose Dive a.co/d/8Clc3Cp

Josh Wolfe Patrick Collison Alex Wiltschko Osmo i think you're the only vc i'm genuinely jealous of. the amount of cool shit & cool founders you get to meet/see is fucking awesome

Patrick Collison Osmo AI (Alex Wiltschko) seems to be doing great work in olfactory applications! osmo.ai

Murakami, what a line

“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.” - Feynman

Me and Claude trying to create a billion dollar app

1/ THIS 👇is the future of human-computer interaction Directional Arrow of Progress––non-invasive brain 🧠💻machine interfaces From Lux family co CTRL-Labs founded by our partner TR Reardon + acquired by Meta new paper in nature + covered in The New York Times by Cade Metz

It seems like most progress in AI is happening on problems which are hard to solve, but easy to verify. Progress is stalling out directly in the areas where verification is becoming wishy-washy or hard. This is a belief both born from experience and ingested from others, and I

If you’re building a hard tech company in 2025, you should prioritize getting a massive diagonal elevator platform installed in your HQ to make it easy to descend into the lower levels and access the underground portion of your facility.

John Collison's level of tenacity:

Agree! From 2023…and around the time we funded Osmo out of Google led by brilliant Alex Wiltschko PANTHEON scene from s1 episode 6 SCI-FI <>SCI-FACT x.com/wolfejosh/stat…

Something fun we discovered: you can use #Genie3 to step into and explore your favorite paintings. Here's a short visit to Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks".