Marques’ reach is a function of telling the truth. He didn’t always have 18 million subscribers, but he had his integrity from the beginning. Expecting him to abandon that is the only thing that is “distasteful, almost unethical”.

I've said this multiple times (more times on Farcaster than here):

A lot of the ideas from crypto are going to make their way into the mainstream; but without the crypto.

Some of the patterns are good... brilliant, actually — even if it's often not apparent due to poor UX or…

Europeans aren't poor. They are illiquid. Much of Europe's wealth is stored in safe streets, nice parks, public transit, 'free' healthcare, etc. which, it turns out, are too socially expensive for Americans to maintain. Americans take the money instead. The rest is only natural.

I remain convinced that much of the AI doomer community

is a set of people who’d previously respond to the economic anxieties of others with jeers of “LEARN TO CODE”

finally feeling a bit of that economic anxiety themselves

and couching it in apocalyptic language

IMO humane pin is a pretty good product, it’s better than alexa or any smart home speaker.

I think they messed up their market positioning by trying to “replace the smartphone” and set everyone’s expectations too high

quoting Paul Graham ‘s essay here to prove my point

oh.

consumer social founders need to think like party promoters.

the #1 rule of events - girls make the party

if there are no women on your platform early on, it isn’t going to hit like you think.

My mother used to be a sponsor in AA meetings and I used to go as a kid for the free snacks but the more I went, the more I listened and learned that every single hour and day of sobriety counts. Some people celebrated 1 week, even 1 day. Every day counts.

Start a DEI program so people can blame all failures on it. Let the culture war take care of your shortcomings

Getting pretty obsessed thinking about how we build software products today versus how we will be in 10 years.

your average dtc:

90% online
5% retail (mostly popup)
5% b2b

your average entreprise:

40% retail (b&m)
30% b2b
20% online/marketplace

Pretty impressive from SpaceX perplexity.ai/search/SpaceX-…