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Digital depth inside #BrewedFromWithin delivers expansive value. Welcome to this interactive library that mirrors the new book!
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Crypto is at a pivotal moment.
As Congress debates landmark market structure legislation, Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon discuss the decisions that could shape where the next generation of financial infrastructure is built, and whether the United States remains the global leader in crypto innovation:
00:00 Intro
05:31 From crypto subculture to financial infrastructure
08:37 Why crypto needs rules now
12:20 The regulatory war on crypto
15:41 How CLARITY could prevent another FTX
22:42 Why criminals using crypto may be easier to catch
26:20 Privacy, blockchains, and the invention of HTTPS
30:41 Government ethics and crypto
34:52 The banking lobby’s stablecoin fight
37:05 Why every major bank is building on blockchains
41:04 Developer liability as a killshot
45:23 How CLARITY provides oversight
49:30 What happens if CLARITY fails?
50:50 Regulation vs. innovation
54:12 Why America should lead
55:36 What CLARITY could unlock
@pmarca @cdixon @rhackett
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Brewed From Within is my new book that energizes our entrepreneurial lifestyle!
Explore 125 remarkable riffs in four timeless sections, meet 20+ contributing authors, and secure signed softcovers with an eBook companion at BrewedFromWithin.com.
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New podcast with @garrytan, @farbood and Daniel Francis.
Live in the Future!
00:00 Guest Intros
02:35 Live in the Future
03:58 Will AI Outsmart us?
07:43 In the Anthropic Breadline
09:59 The Tech Genie Is Out
12:33 We Invested in COVID?!
14:25 Good Writing Is Novelty
18:50 Living Like It’s 2028
24:32 Truth dot ai
30:18 Does China have the Weights?
35:38 Everyone has AI Anxiety
39:32 Have Your Agent Talk to My Agent
42:01 What if Open Source takes the Lead?
44:03 The Sun is Setting on Google
48:00 Ride the AGI
50:46 Will There be Startups?
54:05 Defending Taiwan
1:00:05 The California Empire
1:01:26 If the U.S. Falls
1:03:11 Universal Basic Robot
1:06:01 Humans as AI Handlers
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Day Zero is May 5, 11am-1p CT! The whole event lands on agentic payments & the infrastructure underneath them. + we're shipping webhooks. 5 live stablecoin demos.
Event is free to customers & community. Register -> v-sum.com/events/day-zero-06
DM here or Brale team for password.
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"We're tool builders. And every tool that we've ever built has helped us progress as a human species or individually, whether it's art or the wheel or whatever.
And I can't believe the scale at which we're at now. It's absolutely unbelievable. And I think what's shocking to me is that the collective has not caught on yet."
lots of fun chatting with @signulll!
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Here's my conversation with Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, the most valuable & one of the most influential companies in the history of human civilization. It is the engine powering the AI revolution.
This was a fascinating & inspiring conversation, in parts super-technical on engineering of every part of the AI stack, memory, power, supply chain (TSMC, ASML, etc), in parts about leadership & psychology, and in parts personal & philosophical about life, consciousness, mortality, and human nature.
It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment).
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:33 - Extreme co-design and rack-scale engineering
3:18 - How Jensen runs NVIDIA
22:40 - AI scaling laws
37:40 - Biggest blockers to AI scaling laws
39:23 - Supply chain
41:18 - Memory
47:24 - Power
52:43 - Elon and Colossus
56:11 - Jensen's approach to engineering and leadership
1:01:37 - China
1:09:50 - TSMC and Taiwan
1:15:04 - NVIDIA's moat
1:20:41 - AI data centers in space
1:24:30 - Will NVIDIA be worth $10 trillion?
1:34:39 - Leadership under pressure
1:48:25 - Video games
1:55:16 - AGI timeline
1:57:29 - Future of programming
2:11:01 - Consciousness
2:17:22 - Mortality
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New podcast on vibe coding - A Return to Code.
A Return to Coding 00:20
The Personal App Store 03:17
Vibe Coding Is a Video Game with Real-World Rewards 06:22
Pure Software Is Uninvestable 10:33
A Place for Each Model 14:22
AI Is Eager to Please 17:57
Why Math and Coding? 22:10
The Beginning of the End of Apple’s Dominance 24:17
Coding Agents As Customer Service Reps 27:55
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We’ll see all you bookworms at this year’s #DSMBookFestival on May 2nd in Des Moines 📚 I’ll be signing #YDNTB and may have a few early author copies of the new book inside the @PourOverPress booth at 1PM. #BrewedFromWithin
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INTRODUCING THE NEW BOOK!!
Brewed From Within: Energy for the Entrepreneurial Lifestyle lands this May, with timeless riffs on Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Technology, and Life & Happiness.
🚠 BrewedFromWithin.com
Cover Reveal ☘️ St Patricks Day
PREORDER OPENS 🛸 APRIL 1ST
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Here's my conversation with Peter Steinberger (@steipete), creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent that has taken the Internet by storm, with now over 180,000 stars on GitHub.
This was a truly mind-blowing, inspiring, and fun conversation!
It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment).
Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode highlight
1:30 - Introduction
5:36 - OpenClaw origin story
8:55 - Mind-blowing moment
18:22 - Why OpenClaw went viral
22:19 - Self-modifying AI agent
27:04 - Name-change drama
44:15 - Moltbook saga
52:34 - OpenClaw security concerns
1:01:14 - How to code with AI agents
1:32:09 - Programming setup
1:38:52 - GPT Codex 5.3 vs Claude Opus 4.6
1:47:59 - Best AI agent for programming
2:09:59 - Life story and career advice
2:13:56 - Money and happiness
2:17:49 - Acquisition offers from OpenAI and Meta
2:34:58 - How OpenClaw works
2:46:17 - AI slop
2:52:20 - AI agents will replace 80% of apps
3:00:57 - Will AI replace programmers?
3:12:57 - Future of OpenClaw community
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🦞 The OpenClaw community is something else.
Meetups popping up everywhere — SF, London, Hong Kong, Vancouver, Seoul, Austin, Miami, Nashville, Monterrey...
Y'all are building this thing together and it's beautiful. Find one near you 👇
luma.com/claw
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The Pi515 AI Challenge gives students the opportunity to explore the power of AI and apply it to real social challenges impacting communities across Iowa.
📚 Register here: ow.ly/FwLW50XL4c1
🙌 Volunteer: ow.ly/RKym50XL4c2
#pi515 #iowa #aichallenge
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Applications are now open for the 2026 Pitch Competition at the Athene Beyond Boundaries Business Summit!
Applications are open through Monday, Feb. 9. Learn more: wdmchamber.org/bbbs-pitch-co…
