CTO @ Verso AI // 1x exited founder // family-safe tech // member of @ch_jesuschrist
Joined October 2023
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Lots of fun building alongside other @AforeVC FIR founders last week in SF
We'll be back soon!
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This would be a clear winning move.
Jensen Huang just resigned from Nvidia. What if Elon ends up hiring him to help with Terafab (as well as other things) and together they make America the greatest producer of advanced chips in the world?
The most entertaining outcome is the mostly likely, right?
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Nobel prize-winning economist, btw.
Credentials don't mean anything when it comes to predicting the future.
The key variable is whether you've been able to extract the general principles from your specialized knowledge.
Many otherwise impressive people fail this test.
Those who are claiming that AI is not going to accelerate are like Paul Krugman talking about the internet in 1998. There may be bumps along the road, but the future is AI.
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Problems with Gemini 4 Carbon in @cursor_ai:
- it's really freaking slow
- lifecycle bugs ("error continuing...", "rate limit..." when I definitely haven't hit provider rate limit, etc)
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In literature, a "Stupid Sacrifice" is when a character sacrifices themselves unnecessarily. They go out with dramatic flair when they could've easily stuck around to claim victory.
A lot of startup founders make Stupid Sacrifices.
Rather than lay your humanity on the altar of your business, lay your performative, Stupid Sacrifices on an altar to God, and pray for discernment.
Specifically, pray to discern the single Most Critical Thing™ that you need to do today.
Then, do that thing to completion, viciously rejecting distraction.
If you were to do this - and only this - once each day, you would accomplish more in 6 hours than the average founder accomplishes in 16 frantic hours of unfocused obsession.
If you were to do it twice each day, you would be a world-class founder who still has time for dinner, romance, kids, creativity, and sleep.
This is the point of life. To master your obsessions, not to let them master you.
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This is why I reject suburbitopia and live in the country with chickens and a garden. Land should produce.
"Waa waa grass is more fun to play on" literally go to a park and meet humans.
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Hey @GinaHinojosaTX you should talk about what kind of test scores Alpha School students achieve.
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The core failure of Christianity-inspired leftist politics is to assume that that which Jesus commanded us to do voluntarily for our neighbor should become a matter of legally-enforceable public policy / tax code.
Laws that force open borders, redistribute wealth earned by the financially sophisticated, allow geopolitical threats to grow uncontested, and foment a culture of moral agnosticism ironically beget the collapse of law, order, wealth, safety, and tolerance, at the limit. It is the mathematics of incentives and the natural result of weak men.
I STRONGLY believe in serving/loving our neighbor - as individuals and private organizations. But the effort to translate this into law (before Christ comes, anyway) is the most insidious web Satan ever spun. It will not work.
If it continues, our adversaries will gain ground. They will trespass our borders. They will kill our righteous, strong men while clothed in false virtue, and those deaths will be celebrated. They will decimate our economy. And the world will fall into chaos.
Unfortunately, this is all prophesied, but I take heart in having voted my conscience and in the promise of safety for the righteous, even as times worsen:
"66 And it shall be called the New Jerusalem, a land of peace, a city of refuge, a place of safety for the saints of the Most High God;
67 And the glory of the Lord shall be there, and the terror of the Lord also shall be there, insomuch that the wicked will not come unto it, and it shall be called Zion.
68 And it shall come to pass among the wicked, that every man that will not take his sword against his neighbor must needs flee unto Zion for safety.
69 And there shall be gathered unto it out of every nation under heaven; and it shall be the only people that shall not be at war one with another.
70 And it shall be said among the wicked: Let us not go up to battle against Zion, for the inhabitants of Zion are terrible; wherefore we cannot stand."
I like Brandon Gill. However, one note:
If our country's demographics are shifting, and Democrats are the only ones running on "a streamlined path to legal citizenship", we're in for a rough time in 2028.
I think Republicans should crack down hard on illegal immigration WHILE ALSO creating a streamlined path for the world's best people to come to America LEGALLY and contribute. We want ALL the world's greatest minds and top contributors to elevate the American Brand.
This is an incentives engineering problem, and we can solve it.
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Rep. BRANDON GILL (R-TX) reelected to Congress
THANK GOD!
We CAN'T lose this absolute rising star 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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"Everywhere the left runs its propaganda, we need to be there. Fund films. Produce TV series. Build media. Create a counterculture. Tell different stories: stories of builders, of responsibility, of merit, of freedom, of progress."
Yes - we underestimate the power of stories.
Charlie Kirk was assassinated by the left. Yet people still voted for it. Says a lot.
Shaun Maguire wrote that last night. And he's right about something essential: a vote like that can't be explained by logic. It can only be explained by culture.
I talk a lot about institutional capture. And I think a lot of people in business still haven't understood what it actually means.
Institutional capture is what allows a political camp to lose every debate on the facts and still keep winning elections. Because people don't vote with spreadsheets. They vote with the stories they've been told. In school, in college, in movies, in TV shows, in the media. And for fifty years, those stories have been written by one side.
So I want to speak directly to every billionaire and millionaire reading this.
You know the world is going off the rails. You see it. You talk about it in private, at dinners, in group chats.
But you tell yourself: this doesn't concern me. I build my company, I pay my taxes, I stay out of politics.
I'll be blunt: if you keep doing that, you will be dispossessed within the next 10 to 20 years.
Here's what you need to do.
Play the same game.
Everywhere the left runs its propaganda, we need to be there. Fund films. Produce TV series. Build media. Create a counterculture. Tell different stories: stories of builders, of responsibility, of merit, of freedom, of progress.
The left understood a century ago that culture comes before politics. It invested generations in storytelling. We invested in products and left the narrative to others. That's the mistake we have to fix.
Why is it urgent?
Because if you don't, here's what will happen.
The globalist project will come back. And the left will bring in its wealth taxes.
Make no mistake: these taxes are a Trojan horse. It starts with billionaires, at a rate sold as "symbolic" and "one-time." Then the threshold drops. Then the rate rises. Then the exception becomes the rule. The end goal isn't to fund hospitals. It's to dispossess owners.
And this isn't theory. Last night, California voted on a one-time 5% tax on billionaires' net worth, with a residency date set retroactively to January 1, 2026. For now, it looks headed for defeat. But only because builders decided to fight and put more than $300 million on the table.
That proves two things. The threat is real. And when we play, we can win.
But we can't win every battle with last-minute checks. If we don't change the culture, there will be another tax, then another, then another. And one day, we'll lose.
Wake up. We have two horizons in front of us.
The first: a 1984-style techno-communism. All-powerful technology controlled by a state that decides what you own, what you say and what you think.
The second: a technological future where we finally apply common sense. Where abundance liberates instead of enslaves. Where those who build get to keep what they built.
The choice between these two futures won't be made at the ballot box. It will be made long before that, in people's minds.
And right now, they're the ones writing the stories.
It's time we picked up the pen.
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