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I asked you to name my AI editor. You delivered. A while back I told you my AI video editor was getting so good it needed a real name. I asked you to drop ideas in the comments, and I promised to call out the winner. So I sat down with Jessica to make the call. First, a shout-out to Jonathan Mast. He's the one who said he'd love to see a weekly show, so now there is one: the best moments of the week, five or six minutes, on YouTube. My AI editor even made the thumbnails. The first ugly ones got no views at all. The new ones changed that. Jessica's take: "It really feels like you're watching a show and you know it's going somewhere." Then the big one. Ray Edwards left this comment: "Kubrick (or Stanley). Or... BLADE." Jessica had never heard of Stanley Kubrick. Stanley reminded me of a vacuum cleaner. She said, "Oh yeah, the Stanley Steamer." Kubrick doesn't roll off the tongue. But Blade? "Just has a cool factor sound to it." It cuts through the noise. And editing is all about cutting. I let Jessica make the final call. Blade it is. Then I asked her one more question: is Blade a guy or a woman? "Ooh, a woman." So meet Blade. She's our awesome editor. Thank you, Ray Edwards. Did we pick the right name? Reply Yes, or start your comment with "I'd have gone with…" 👇 Press Start: The Road to 3,000. #SocialMediaExaminer# #SMMW27# #AIVideoEditing# #ContentCreation#

Training human brain cells for compute got me into the @ycombinator S26 batch! Solve really hard problems and change the world I am also looking to grow the team, if you love RL leave a comment and DM me so I see it!

I got into @ycombinator I'm 18, solo founder, and 3 years ago was studying 10th grade at a random city in Iran (Qazvin, love it). In Iran, I had to build my own VPN to access UK curriculum material, then got myself into a boarding school in Oxford, paid the tuition by selling my AI thing, and then got a full-ride to study AI at Rice University. After I got in the US I did some more things that led to Magma. I don't have much to say for advice as I'm unlearning a lot recently. However, as an observation, the laws of physics seem to be flexible enough that you can simply do things; anything in fact. Human brain just evolutionarily underestimates that flexibility. PS: Repost and I'll send you the full application that got me in.

Jake Retzlaff discussing whether he had another year of eligibility on @espnthefan: Q: I love that insight because fans never get to hear those stories. If you had another year of eligibility, would you have followed Coach Sumrall to Florida? Retzlaff: That's a tough question. There's no doubt it would've been really tempting. If I were entering the portal again, Florida would've been an incredible opportunity. Playing in the SEC under Coach Sumrall would've been exciting. He's an unbelievable coach. I've said before that Coach Sumrall reminds me a lot of Kalani Sitake. They're similar in a lot of ways. Sumrall is probably a little more Southern and rough around the edges, but they're both authentic leaders who build great cultures. One difference was definitely the language. At BYU, because of what the university represents, the environment naturally keeps things pretty clean. Down South, it was a little different. I think we literally had pass routes named after curse words. That was a culture shock for me. I definitely had to work to keep my own language the way it had been in Utah. Q: Speaking of toughness, let's go back to your time at BYU. Against Oklahoma State, you threw an interception late in the first half, hustled back to make the tackle, and then looked like you were in a lot of pain. Everyone watching thought your shoulder might be seriously injured. Then BYU came out in the second half, ran the ball 10 straight plays, and the first pass afterward was a touchdown to Keelan Marion. Take us through that moment because you showed a lot of toughness throughout your career. Retzlaff: I appreciate that. One thing fans don't always realize is that the only time a football team is truly healthy is before Week 1. After that, everybody is dealing with something. Hopefully, during those early nonconference games, you can stay relatively healthy, but once the season gets going, everybody's managing injuries. Even in my first game against Southern Illinois, I rolled my ankle because the turf gave way while I was running near the goal line. From that point on, you're constantly trying to get as close to 100 percent as possible, knowing you'll never actually get there. That hit against Oklahoma State hurt. I remember running into the locker room trying not to show how much pain I was in. Our trainers and team doctors did a tremendous job getting me ready. The biggest thing I learned is that being healthy is just as much mental as it is physical. If you don't believe your shoulder is healthy, it doesn't matter what the doctors tell you—you won't play freely. Coming out in the second half, after we'd established the run, my first throw was that touchdown to Keelan Marion. Mentally, I had to trust that I was okay and just let it rip. Credit to our medical staff. They got me ready to go, and once I convinced myself I was good, I was able to play my game. Link to interview: 📸: @TulaneAthletics

This is a really interesting chart. I attended the TrendForce San Francisco roadshow yesterday, and this chart got me thinking about a lot of things. China is now expected to localize more than half, or close to half, of most equipment categories, excluding lithography and track. What does this mean? It means China can now expand mature node capacity far more easily than before, using equipment made domestically within China. Mature node foundries are booming right now, right? That's thanks to the AI supercycle driving demand for PMICs, power semiconductors, and so on. Samsung and TSMC shutting down their mature node capacity has also helped a lot. But here's what I imagine... that China could oversupply mature foundry capacity. Think about it. If China can be self sufficient in equipment, there's no limit to how far it can expand capacity. Then are companies like TI, with large revenue exposure to China, really safe? I think it's time to take another look at Western mature foundry companies with a high share of China revenue. Of course, I'm not saying sell TI right now. I'm just saying we should think about whether it makes sense to hold them for 10 years or more, like Coca Cola. If you have a different view, please feel free to share it. I’d love to learn.

I've been revisiting the thesis behind PUMP. I've said this before: I don't like memecoins, but I know they're not going anywhere. So owning the infrastructure makes sense to me. @Pumpfun has also been generating very consistent revenue, which is what got me looking deeper into its buybacks. Their website used to suggest 100% of revenue went into buybacks, but @DefiLlama 's data showed something closer to 60–90%. Now that figure is down to 50%, with the other half reserved for "growth". Apparently, that split is locked until April 2027. What interests me is what happens after that. Could they go back to using 100% for buybacks? I'd love to see it, although some reports suggest the team might actually reduce the percentage. Another thing worth watching is how many tokens they're actually buying. In April, buybacks absorbed 15.4B PUMP. Based on October's pace, we're now at less than 5B per month. I like the business, but as solana:pumpCmXqMfrsAkQ5r49WcJnRayYRqmXz6ae8H7H9Dfn appreciates and buybacks absorb fewer tokens, I'm paying more attention to how much of that revenue flows back to holders.

1/Q: How did you first find THORChain, and what made you stick around? "I first noticed THORChain when I heard about it in a community. At first I didn't pay it much attention, but subconsciously it stuck with me. Then I saw these pumps, these pumps had a force like no other pump I'd seen. That got me interested in the project (this was 2021), but at the time I didn't yet feel the ethos, or rather, I hadn't thought deeply enough about it. Over time everything became clearer to me, and I fell in love with THORChain."

Do images really matter on social media posts? As a writer, I've been wrestling with this. I don't think they should, but do they? If Instagram is not your playground and you prefer LinkedIn or Facebook or X, you've seen it. Some marketers who like to write, always include a photo. They're sipping coffee, on a stage, or in front of a waterfall... But hidden beneath each well-crafted picture is a story. Why not just let the story stand on its own? I get the concept: an image is worth a thousand words. But my words should be powerful enough to stop the scroll and keep people reading. Right? Plus, I think, "I've got nothing worthy to show." After all, I am a fledgling software founder. What am I gonna do, show my split test results — boring. Those other people obviously have professional photographers and beautiful sets. All things I don't have. So what do I do when I'm writing about concepts and struggles faced by marketers? Recently, I started to hear a different story from my podcast guests. They explained how the algorithm works through the lens of YouTube. On YouTube, we all know the thumbnail is the key to getting the play. Could that insight carry over to text posts on other platforms? Well, it turns out that concept on LinkedIn opens a door. If you take a vertical selfie of yourself, it shows the whole darn thing in the feed. You get a few lines of text and then the more button. So it got me thinking… How about employing a pattern interrupt? Could I actually just take a selfie of myself working with NoteGo software, wearing my sweaty baseball cap in the morning? Of course I could. And then I thought, I don't wanna limit this to socials, I will also embed it in an email. And here's the key: my audience is a lot like me. They work behind a screen and are not always camera ready. So just maybe, there's something here. Will an image help get my stories read? I think so. Will the writer in me revolt? I know so. Is it worth an experiment? Absolutely. What do you think? I'd love to hear from you.