1.25xed through Elon Musk + Lex Fridman (youtube.com/watch?v=Kbk9Bi…) Part I relate to the most - 5 step framework (1) Dedumb [Requirements] (2) Delete the [unnecessary and then some] (3) Optimize (4) Speed up (5) Automate (in that order) Less succinctly ... (1) Pick the right

Sensational headlines that shame a founder on his apparel versus support them on their net contributions is everything that is wrong with media (social and press) Today's trending news: Unacademy CEO Announces No Appraisals While Wearing $400 Burberry T-Shirt, Internet Reacts

Global Open Banking is long long overdue. Consumers own their data. Consumers must have the right to programmatically access it. It opens the door to consumer choice, lower cost credit, credit health improvement, open and fair competition IMHO this philosophy should extend to

Deep review of Deepseek exponentialview.co/p/deepseek-eve…

Deepseek is evidence that Overfunding can often result in substituting Creativity with Cash. Constraints are a forcing function for creativity

Started using Deep Research (eg chatgpt.com/share/67a85ed3…) The biggest benefit I find is going through the citations of the report. Its like having a super smart person with API access to the worlds knowledge do all of my google searches and create a document of excerpts with the

Impact = f (Problem Statement, Time, Resources) Resources = f (Intelligence, Capital, Resource Efficiency) For any given Problem statement, Intelligence and Resource efficiency were constrained by the number of "humans" working the problem, and the capability of those humans

Stoked to share that Zeta has secured a new strategic investment, pushing our valuation to $2B! Huge thanks to our customers, partners, investors, and the incredible Zeta team. techcrunch.com/2025/02/10/zet…

Hiring is the one thing a Founder never ought to delegate completely. It is the highest ROI activity I can perform. (until AGI replaces humans at which point I will likely be spending most of my time prompt engineering ... (until I train AGI to prompt engineer effectively ... at

"Excellence is the capacity to take pain" - Isadore Sharp

Who said India cannot build Global Consumer Internet Products?

The last few days in AI is insane 🤯 12 most incredible developments from Google, OpenAI, Alibaba, Unitree, Manus and more 1/ China unveils new Quantum Computer ‘Zuchongzhi-3’—a 105-qubit machine that performs calculations one million times faster than Google's Supercomputer.

As I continue my deep dive into longevity and healthspan improvement, it is perplexing to me that the tooling and sophistication level of measuring, reporting and visualizing human health metrics is not even 1/10th of what we have for measuring server health The similarities are

In the age of AI Strategy >>> Execution Historically Execution mattered as much as Strategy, because execution requires people and people require recruitment, training, retention, time With applied Generative AI, 90% of the execution is/can/will be done by AI. Ideas and

highagency.com - someone from my team sent this. Worth reading

Spain and Portugal are offline!! Massive power failure across the country

Growth in demand for tokens in the AI wave will be unfathomably exponentially larger than growth in demand for bandwidth in the Internet wave

Fintechs have a high failure / low profitability rate because most fintech founders fail to recognize the below 8 harsh truths 1. Each Cohort must be profitable - Tech startups acquire users at a poor LTV/CAC with the intention of consistently improving LTV of new and past

A WIP list of behaviors I imbibe, respect and expect Delete and Simplify --------------------- * Question everything. No requirement, no matter where it comes from—even me - should ever be accepted without scrutiny. * Seek the "why." Understand the intended purpose of each

I do not know why bank and card settlements still can't occur on weekends and bank holidays. Settlement systems should not depend on people for the most part except for exception processing, transactions and spends occur 24/7, so why does most settlement processing only occur on