i always find it funny when someone offers to pay me to come on my pod obviously the correct response is "absolutely not" but also i have to eat, and you're offering me money to ask you increasingly invasive questions for an hour always tempted, but delayed gratification is undefeated

one of my life's longest side quests has been earning my way into the chinese cabal today i got added to a wechat group that's exclusively in chinese i understand absolutely nothing, but i'm choosing to believe this means i've officially been adopted

we've gone from "what if google does this" to "what if anthropic does this" to "what if nvidia does this" i've heard all three versions over the years and the right answer has never once been to not build the thing

every night before sleeping i send 20 cold dms i've been doing it for 6 months that's ~3600 messages into the void the podcast, the community, the events - all came from maybe 50 replies most underrated growth channel and it costs nothing

just interviewed someone on my pod who's been early to every major tech cycle - ecommerce, fintech, crypto, now AI and not just early, he picked the winning companies in each one 40 mins of the best psychology lesson i ever got, coming soon 👀

"I welcome all pull requests, good and bad. Let them all compete in the market" Miko Matsumura from Gumi Cryptos Capital on why AI slop on GitHub doesn't worry him at all "About four to eight percent of GitHub commits are authored by Claude, not just AI but just even one vendor, so it really is a seismic impact. Not all pull requests generated by Claude are better software, some of them are much worse, but it's fine" "GitHub is one of the last bastions of the virtuous internet, because there's so much peer review and so much scrutiny, and bad code tends to just die. It's the Darwinian matrix for software. People complain about things like slop, but that's fine. Human only, human plus AI, AI only, just let it all go, let's see what is good software"

4-8% of all github commits are now written by claude. I interviewed @mikojava from @GumiCryptos, who watched the same thing happen to software once before from inside sun microsystems, where he grew java's developer community from thousands to millions. We talk about everything from java, dot-com bubble, crypto, singapore's model of ownership, and why he welcomes AI slop. 07:31 - the java fund: sun, kleiner perkins & vinod khosla 09:21 - silicon valley's boom and bust cycles 12:35 - growing java from thousands to millions of developers 23:33 - has crypto lost the plot 32:57 - a generation locked out of ownership 41:52 - what he's investing in for 2026-2027 45:35 - AI is writing 4-8% of github

in the 90s, sun microsystems created a programming language called java my latest guest, @mikojava was the chief java evangelist who took its developer community from a few thousand people to a few million people then he pivoted into becoming a crypto investor @GumiCryptos we talk about the rocket ship years at sun, the pivot, and whether he still believes in crypto as an industry trailer out now, full episode coming soon!

another day, another event 😉 i'm hosting an event with @claudeai SG to bring together ai investors, founders, researchers, operators for a night of good conversations and drinks 📍 singapore 📆 august 6 🔗

i was an early employee at two companies that became multi-billion dollar brands ran their media and events before anyone knew their names now i'm doing the exact same thing for myself pays way worse, but 10x more fun working on so many exciting things bts, can't wait to share

very excited to have my podcast Off the Record be a community partner for the UK AI Agent Hackathon with @OpenAI, @ElevenLabs, @Lovable, @ethereum, @superteam and other ai leaders s/o to @iclblockchain for putting the hackathon together!

🎙️ Community Partner Announcement: Off the Record with Tanya @iamtanya338 We’re excited to welcome Off the Record with Tanya as an official Community Partner of the UK AI Agent Hackathon. Off the Record is a podcast built around honest, unfiltered conversations with the people behind ambitious ideas—exploring the stories, decisions and challenges that often remain unseen. Together, we’ll help bring the voices of founders, builders and emerging talent to a wider audience, while sharing what is really happening at the frontier of AI agents. Discover more upcoming events from AI Agents Lab at

my biggest pet peeve is someone having the most recycled take of all time, and expecting me to think it's so profound "it's all about the people" - wow "consistency beats talent" - incredible, tell me more "attention is the new currency" - someone get them a ted talk