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Top global artists on Spotify this decade: 2020: Bad Bunny 2021: Bad Bunny 2022: Bad Bunny 2023: Taylor Swift 2024: Taylor Swift 2025: Bad Bunny

The #1 way to spot a vibe-coder.

The reason why Anthropic is winning in product is precisely because they decided to FOCUS on: - Enterprise - Coding & helping people get work done They didn't try to go after consumer or compete with Google on multimodal or build hardware devices, other apps or whatever. Also the smart people I know seem to genuinely enjoy working there. Just my observations.

A lot of people are DM’ing about how to replicate Cursor’s hiring motion. These are the conditions required: - bottoms-up roadmap - genuine trust in your ICs - team beyond founders has good taste in people - allocate 30% of company time to recruiting Basically you need to have the discipline to actually “get out of the way” of the great people you work your butt off to hire.

I’m a fan in theory of hiring highly paid ‘chief storytellers’ but this isn’t going to be a successful strategy without it being a tops down initiative. And as long as metrics are king, storytelling will be subservient to anything that can be tracked and delivers a short-term win.

When I see laptops full of stickers nowadays it looks kinda cringe to me It was normal though 10 years ago I wonder what exactly changed in culture to make it cringe?

Can't believe websites like this still exist in 2025 Feels like opening a time capsule I love it

A Call for New Aesthetics: https://newaesthetics.art.

And just like that, a meme is born

Been warning yall - AI everywhere - dead internet - real is increasingly scarce online and thus increasingly valuable

I’m really very happy to share that I’ve joined the editorial team at Anthropic I’ll be keeping comms weird and good, working closely with the societal impacts team, and teaching new hires the jhanas here’s a photo of my new commute home

The reason “vibe coding” continues to grow and be successful is that the alternative to vibe coding is not “elite engineering”. It’s: the project wasn’t born, the idea didn’t get communicated, the app didn’t ship. Elite engineering is very scarce and will continue to be in extremely high demand. (We’re hiring elite engineers!) The gap between what top engineers and agents can do still exists. Not just that.. when those people use AI, they also gain superpowers.

Was listening to a famous tech podcast Not gonna name names but someone big here I’m 45 minutes deep Interviewer asks “What are you reading?” Interviewee says “I don’t have time to read books” Well I just wasted 45 minutes of my life Immediately turn off podcast and lose respect for interviewee I don’t have time to take advice from people who don’t have time to read books These are the same type of people who will talk about “the importance of storytelling in Silicon Valley” and they haven’t read fiction in a decade Fake smart idiots.

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X really is the Forum Romanum of our time I think A place where anyone can post anything and if it resonates it rises to the top of the global conciousness And then it gets debated by other people, and if they have good counter arguments, those also rise to the top And everyone learns in the process It's rapid collective iterative thought development on a global scale

went to an indie hackers meetup in Paris last night what I liked most was the conversations - with the people building, breaking, and figuring things out in public met my friends and some genuinely sharp builders, shared what I know, swapped stories, and left with way more energy than I expected I’m not very social by default, so this kind of surprised me lol it was super fun (I had to run out a bit early for family Christmas diner )

Four years ago, I couldn't hold a job longer than a year. Today, I've been at @every for 14 months—and I'm doing the best work of my career. I wrote about how AI made that possible, and what we miss when we measure technology by output alone.

Overcommunicate at your startup. Your team cannot read your mind.

It seems that almost every tech founder in the world wants also to be a media figure. The same isn’t true in reverse.