We instituted an official AI Writing Policy at @Clay. Massive thanks to @sophiebits on our engineering team who wrote this. Originally this was just for eng, but other teams found it so helpful we expanded it company-wide. Here are the four guiding principles: 1. You must stand behind every idea and sentence It is your responsibility to make sure that the entire document is representative of your own thoughts before you share it. 2. Writing is thinking Spending time on the writing process teaches you more about your topic. If you circumvent this process, you will walk away with a poorer understanding of the subject matter. 3. More time should be spent writing a document than consuming it If you generate a document from a short prompt then ask your readers to go through the longer output, you are disrespecting their time. They can talk to ChatGPT themselves if they want to. 4. Longer is not better AI makes it easy to generate long docs, and it loves padding them with sentences that say nothing. If you're producing docs from a short prompt, consider just sharing the prompt. You can read (and borrow) the full policy below. Hopefully we all communicate a bit more clearly now :)

I have a hot take about Clarity that I'm surprised I'm not seeing on the timeline. In the last election, the industry was left with two very bad choices. The Dems were politicizing all things crypto at the behest of Warren/Gensler and unfairly targeting them for god knows what reason -- a political power play? Being paid by China to ensure the US is no longer at the frontier of tech and finance? Only God knows. In comes Trump, promising to be The Crypto President, promising the crypto community that if they vote for him, he will get rid of Gensler, create a bitcoin stockpile, protect self-custody, etc. But come on, how many people didn't know, based on his track record, that this would be a deal with the devil? And if they didn't know it then, then how many people still didn't know it after he launched a memecoin during the Crypto Ball and became the Max Extractor in Chief? (Also, let's not forget about solana:FUAfBo2jgks6gB4Z4LfZkqSZgzNucisEHqnNebaRxM1P.) The fact is that if the President and his family hadn't done so much crypto self-dealing during this administration, then Clarity would have had much better odds of passing. In fact, I would dare say it likely would have passed. The last time Kristin Smith was on my show, she said at this point, all the details about crypto had been worked out, and the main issues left to negotiate had to do with ethics. Basically, the remaining issues had to do with the president, and not crypto or Clarity itself. So, did the crypto industry shoot itself in the foot by throwing its lot in with Trump? I'm not saying that Kamala would have for sure been the better choice, but I do think it's worth asking this question.

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I'm torn internally when people take time off. Is this normal? On the one hand, I want people to relax, enjoy time with their families and take a break. I genuinely want it. On the other hand, it pains me so much when I know we could move faster. I don't understand how you can take time off knowing that a competitor is not. In the end, I much prefer the latter rather than the former. I just struggle to admit it.