Are we the woolly mammoths? Progress ep06 is live with @justinkan, co-founder of Twitch. Mammoths built the grassland they lived on, then changed it too fast to survive. Justin thinks we might be next. We talk AI job loss, his bet on a Mamdani-style president in 2028, and what selling Twitch for $970M didn't fix.

Are we the woolly mammoths? Progress ep06 is live with @justinkan, co-founder of Twitch. Mammoths built the grassland they lived on, then changed it too fast to survive. Justin thinks we might be next. We talk AI job loss, his bet on a Mamdani-style president in 2028, and what selling Twitch for $970M didn't fix.

This week on @Divotdotorg I speak with one of Silicon Valley's most thoughtful people @justinkan. We talked about why money and fame don't create happiness, why Justin isn't chasing the AI gold rush, and the habits that rewired his brain. 01:40 — Justin Kan’s Tattoo About Gratitude 02:46 — Why Success Still Creates Comparison 03:36 — Why Money and Fame Don’t Create Happiness 06:55 — Why Achievement Only Feels Good for a Moment 10:51 — The Habit That Rewired Justin’s Brain 16:39 — AI, Mental Health, and Social Media 18:10 — Why Justin Isn’t Chasing the AI Gold Rush 21:49 — The Founder Trait Justin Looks For Most 23:19 — Why Justin Invested $8 Million After a Cold Plunge 26:20 — Why You Shouldn’t Chase the AI Crowd 26:44 — The Next Big Frontier After AI

Will Reddit be the last human stronghold? Progress ep03 is live with Steve Huffman, founder and CEO of @Reddit We discuss why the future looks a lot like the past, why death might actually be good design, and why scientists may one day have to apologize to the hippies. Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 01:30 Steve's weirdest idea: we should all die and be forgotten 04:37 Scientists owe the hippies an apology 05:35 Einstein sounds like a Buddhist monk 08:04 Reddit as an empathy machine 09:23 What Facebook got right, then abandoned 10:30 Cities are the only organism that scales superlinearly 12:25 Diagnosing inefficient institutions 13:35 Institutions need to die too 17:07 The policy mistake behind housing, college debt, and healthcare 18:21 America's doctor cap vs. Asia's approach 20:43 Fatherhood and the long view 22:12 Will Steve's kids have jobs? 23:38 Steve's case for Universal Basic Income 27:23 Saying please and thank you to ChatGPT 29:00 Vibe-coding a home automation bridge in two days 30:22 Scott's guilt about jailbreaking Claude

Today, @editframe emerges from stealth. Agents need video. Editframe Agent Skills: npm create @editframe@latest Just prompt Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex and get a working video or a full interactive GUI. This video was created just by prompting 👇

I'm writing a cookbook for connection and launching the first recipes → For 15+ years I've been the friend people texted at 11 pm before a big life thing. "I'm walking into my first board meeting tomorrow, how do we build trust in the first 10 minutes?" "I'm designing my 35th, help me make it more than a bar night." "I'm going on a trip with my parents, how do we actually connect?" "We're designing our intercultural wedding, how do we make it magical and not formulaic?" 🍽️ They each wanted a "recipe" for how to design an experience. I'm sharing some of the meaningful ones that helped them (ingredients, steps, and a little science explaining why it works). 👨‍👩‍👧 What I learned is that people wanted to connect with the most important people in their lives, but were stuck. Holidays with parents, date night with their partner, a cousin's trip, a team offsite, a birthday, a baby shower. We default to the same script and wonder why the night felt okay but not great. It's usually not a lack of love in the room. It is a lack of inspiration about how. 🍚 In the same way you pull up a food recipe when you want to cook something great for someone, I believe we need inspiration from recipes for the experiences we host. Magical recipes to teach people how to host, facilitate, and create the "vibes". I will share a new recipe every Monday ( Comment 👇: What recipes would you want to read? Who do you want to deepen connection with in your life?

In the latest Social Radars we talk to Justin Kan, who has spent his whole adult life around startups. He's seen it all, and because he's so candid, he tells it all too. We had fun talking to him, so this interview should be fun to listen to.