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I hope @apple nails it and take lots of my $$ next week. Home IoT still isn’t perfect.
I've known @kanjun & @joshalbrecht since the early @spc days. Truly exceptional founders and people.
Imbue is their bet that the world needs sovereign OSS collaborative environments and I agree. Check out Studio at imbue.com.
“Gotta blame it on something… blame it on the rain…”
youtu.be/BI5IA8assfk
Annotating the edges of the human graph... now possible with @Cosign. Nice work @eriktorenberg, @david__booth and crew.
Excited to introduce @Cosign: the curated professional network for the startup community: cosign.co
Our goal is to create the following:
- A comprehensive startup directory of investors, companies, and operators, including what they worked on and who they worked on it with.
- Cosign graph: Who shaped your career? Who were you actually in the trenches with? Who would work with you again? Who thinks you’re someone to watch?
- Durable reputation: Great endorsements happen every day on X and disappear into the feed. Cosign attaches those signals permanently to people and companies.
- Discovery: Who are the best fintech angels? Which AI companies should I watch? Who are the best designers?
- Intent network: Privately signal “I’d invest in them,” “I’d hire them,” “I’d work with them,” or eventually even “I’d acquire this company.” Match people when interest exists on both sides.
Imagine if Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and OG AngelList had a baby. Though Cosign is a community, not a business.
In order to join, you need to be cosigned. Or you can apply directly.
David Booth and I started this idea 7 years ago but didn’t have the firepower to make it work. Now we do.
No one has really touched LinkedIn in 20 years. Excited to take a swing.
cosign.co
Aaron Batalion retweeted
@androowoo has a really excellent piece on @Alphaschool , entirely sane, without hyperbole.
I especially love this quotation by @jliemandt , focusing on the part that matters,
“Liemandt says the Alpha model is roughly 10% technology and 90% motivation.”
Yeah - been pretty disappointed with the discourse especially in recent weeks. There are so many things to improve in education - let's support those who are trying!
I wrote a bit more here: curiositylabs.com/p/what-alp…
Ever want to add a feature to a product you pay for?
Request-for-Pull-Request:
You suggest an idea. You pay (or raise $$) for the tokens. The company accepts the job into their code sandbox. Their harness builds the feature. They get a fully formed PR.
All that’s left is permission.
Looks like this concept just launched as a product today. decimal.app/ Very similar idea, more bug than feature related... but that must be coming soon.
Aaron Batalion retweeted
The world is going to be alright, guys.
Keep having kids, loving your family, and starting and building businesses and institutions. Don’t live in fear.
Leaders have big responsibilities and challenges ahead, but it doesn’t help to scare everyone. We are on top of it.
Aaron Batalion retweeted
We believe that schools, when partnering with parents, can unlock kids’ potential.
I’m an Alpha dad and my son is in this bootcamp.
The “receiving critical feedback” exercise worried me at first, but that's not how it played out.
He came to me with deeply personal questions about who he was becoming as a young man and how he could grow... questions he hadn't exactly asked me before. Sure, we should all have difficult conversations around the dinner table every single night. If you do, congrats. I don't always succeed.
But this exercise? It led to a multiple hour long conversation between us where I answered critically but did so also with kindness and a focus on growth. Very little of what I said was shared with the school and even less was shared in the class.
The heart monitor was probably meant to make the exercise feel like a game. While I can’t speak for every family, all I know is that this brought me closer to my son.
For that, I am grateful.
Could Nvidia’s HuggingFace acquisition have accelerated the “let’s pause” AI CEO narrative?
Sure seems like accelerating open models would accelerate regulatory capture efforts.
But a decrease in Nvidia revenue too, no?
I’m an Alpha dad and my son is in this bootcamp.
The “receiving critical feedback” exercise worried me at first, but that's not how it played out.
He came to me with deeply personal questions about who he was becoming as a young man and how he could grow... questions he hadn't exactly asked me before. Sure, we should all have difficult conversations around the dinner table every single night. If you do, congrats. I don't always succeed.
But this exercise? It led to a multiple hour long conversation between us where I answered critically but did so also with kindness and a focus on growth. Very little of what I said was shared with the school and even less was shared in the class.
The heart monitor was probably meant to make the exercise feel like a game. While I can’t speak for every family, all I know is that this brought me closer to my son.
For that, I am grateful.
In recent weeks, the high school students have been participating in the Alpha High School Boot Camp, designed to foster 18 different life skills as they start their school year. You can learn more about it here. alphahigh.school/bootcamp/
Replacing most, if not all, of what an employee does is inevitable,
@blader says start with your CFO. Ready. Set, Go.
Post IPO, frontier AI companies will stop releasing “versions”.
The eval dashboard will just update daily.