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I've been wearing Meta glasses every day for the last 6 weeks, and I'm totally convinced that: 1) I will be using one form of AR or another for the rest of my life 2) AI is going to participate in our lives 24/7 3) Decentralization, self-custody / sovereignty are essential

My mom recently tried to transfer a few hundred dollars to my uncle over Zelle. Transaction rejected. Call support. Talk in circles. Whenever someone tells me they don't need a new payments app, the reason is usually a variation of, "What I have already works." Does it?

My app after tomorrow

Anthropic is a leading AI lab while claiming safety is its top priority. That feels under-discussed. The usual story is that caution slows progress and the winners are those who move fastest despite the risks. Why hasn’t that been true here?

Prepare for West Wing levels of reality distortion and Newsroom levels of smugness as Hollywood takes on the only thing it hates more than Trump: tech. The heroic whistleblower, a disgruntled Facebook middle manager who was 37 when the events happened, is played by Mikey Madison, a gorgeous 27-year-old Academy Award winner. The evil industrialist, a tech founder who was also 37 at the time, is played by Jeremy Strong, 47, best known for playing the high-strung, hyper-serious, morally burdened striver. The casting itself is the thesis: it manufactures a generational conflict that didn't exist. The leaker is made luminous and young; the founder is made older, grotesque, and spiritually exhausted. In reality, they were the same age. One was a middle manager at Facebook. The other built Facebook. And critics will praise this as “complexity.” Even if this depiction had any relationship to the reality of the 2021–2022 post-Covid, Big Tech scandal era, the world has moved on. Facebook didn’t collapse. The “social media is destroying democracy” machine has been reprogrammed into “AI is destroying democracy,” and the same slopulists who spent years moralizing about Facebook have simply found a new technology to fear. This is what frustrates me about Sorkin’s writing. It’s not that founders should be above criticism. It’s that building is always treated as pathology, ambition as corruption, and scale as guilt. We should be excited about technology and working tirelessly to build a better future. Instead, we keep feeding the rage machine with prestige-drama rocket fuel: slandering the people who build things and lionizing the people whose main contribution is trying to stop them. And as if that weren’t enough, they didn’t even bring back Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. At least let the rage machine have a good beat.

It’s surprising that this isn’t common practice in 2026. In the television era, it made sense that, with limited channels and only a few hours of prime time, the public could only watch short clips. But our default expectation in the Internet age should be full access.

Canada is coming onchain 🇨🇦🌐

Just got home from Bitcoin Las Vegas, and these signs were the first things I noticed when checking out at my local CVS. Let me repeat what Miles is saying: IF WE DON’T DEFEND OUR RIGHT TO USE CASH, WE WILL LOSE IT.

Hard money creates good times

💯💯💯 You’re exactly right. Apple Pay feels magical because all of the friction has been removed. Why make the user review the amount being paid when it’s already displayed on the terminal and the fees are negligible? Why force the user to confirm again when they’ve already done so implicitly via Face ID? Crypto wallets generally have way too many multi-step flows with lots of advanced options. I’m still haunted from my first experience with MetaMask when I had to manually set the nonce to replace a stuck transaction. What Apple is so good at is understanding the user’s context and intent. If you’re standing in front of a cashier with your phone out, your wallet open, and a card selected, we can be 99.99% sure that you’re ready to pay, so they make the rest fast and painless. It sounds small, but I think that’s where the magic comes from - when you use an Apple product you feel understood; it feels like someone cares about you. Apple Pay is so smooth that the flow can be completed unconsciously. No thinking required. It just feels natural like a handshake. Steve was right when he said the goal is to make these devices and apps feel like an extension of ourselves. The bar is high. More work to do!

I’m on Spirit, and the reading light has a timer 25¢ per half hour

How it started vs how it's going

The time to believe in something is now!

The same could be happening at every business here in New York! But instead we’re focused on punishing Ken Griffin for moving to Miami! Keep up the great work @KathyHochul @NYCMayor !