.@clairevo at @lennysan & friends summit: "Whose's shipping more than ever in the last year?" *many hands go up "Whose revenue is going up proportionate to the amount of PRs?" *crowd laughs "That's the fundamental problem we're facing here!"

.@awealthofcs; “Life — and investing — would be a whole lot easier if there were a group of soothsayers who could tell us all what’s going to happen next. Nobody knows what’s coming next.” A sampling of receipts of prior forecasts by “experts”:

“Zuckerberg personally helped recruit Signal’s founder to make Muse’s virtual computer private. He says he and Nat Friedman recruited Moxie Marlinspike to work on the confidential virtual machine behind Muse.” @alexeheath talked with @finkd:

PISA results are out: The reading scores of American 15-year-olds are near their lowest point in 25 years American math scores are also among the lowest since the test began in 2000 Only 8% of American teenagers scored at the highest levels in math on the PISA, compared with 37% in Singapore, 23% in Korea and 22% in Japan The share of American teenagers who failed to reach even a basic level of proficiency in reading and math has risen over the last decade

Great to see Stripe’s platform and agent for knowledge work, Kai, get featured on Claire’s show! My favorite use case was asking it questions to slice and dice Stripe’s enormous dataset daily. In fact, 5000 sessions daily are about data analysis across the company! “When Account Executives use Kai, they produce 2x the sales activity, create 17% more opportunities, generate 26% more revenue opportunities, and close 39% more deals when compared to the same sellers in weeks they don't use it. In aggregate, Kai has helped shift 25,000 hours per year from administrative work, to revenue generating work.” (from:

I did it with Grok Bot. You gotta try Instinct. Send it to your Townie.Put it in Work mode. Give it to Cowork. It’s just Hatch. Tandem can do it. Give it to Juno. Nudge it to Pip. Dude just use Manus. I got a Duggie invite. OpenClaw on a Mac mini can handle it. Crundle is goated.

I don't see anyone pointing out this Grok Bot innovation, but I think it is actually a big deal for mass adoption. How much time have you spent trying to figure out how to securely give your keys to your agent? Most people give up before they figure out how to build and store an .env file for their agent to access and use. Grok Bot's solution is simple, and most important of all, easy!

100% Agree @GavinSBaker. Now, I'm going to debunk every single piece of mis-information about data centers that I've ever seen online: > DISINFORMATION: Data centers use a lot of water. FACT: Most AI data centers are closed loop dry cooler design that barely consume any water at all. A 20MW 10,000 GPU cluster needs 20,000 gallons to charge and doesn't use material water after that. That's less than 1/4 of the amount of water used to raise the amount of beef the average American consumes in a year. That means one of the largest data centers in the world, at 2GW, consumes less water than 20 people's annual beef consumption or three American's total water footprint (@ ~600k gallons per year for the average American). > DISINFORMATION: Data centers increase electricity prices. FACT: Data centers bring down a community's average electricity bill because they spur development of new power generation. Most data centers bring their own power generation, pay fees to the utility to build more power plants, or bring their own power storage to actually reduce the cost of energy in their community. Northern Virginia has some of the most data centers per capita and has low power costs. See research from the Electric Power Research Institute and >DISINFORMATION: Data centers don't create jobs FACT: Data centers create hundreds of jobs at construction and a high number of exceptionally high paying jobs (many over $120k/year) for their ongoing operation and maintenance. No, they're not similar to an automotive plant in terms of the jobs / MW but they are phenomenal additions to an industrial park and community. > DISINFORMATION: Data centers are constantly super noisy FACT: Data centers are one of the quietest industrial buildings in the world. Drive by a data center in your city and roll down your window. They are very quiet. In fact, a metal mill is FAR louder than a data center---up to 10,000,000 more sound energy is produced by a mill and perceptually a mill can be 128x louder than a data center. > DISINFORMATION: Data centers emit noise pollution from diesel engines running all the time. FACT: Emergency generator sets are almost never turned on unless the grid connection goes out. This would be less than 0.5% of the time! > DISINFORMATION: Data centers are surveillance systems FACT: Data centers actually just host computers owned by private companies that are used to make phone calls, access the internet, run ChatGPT, Claude, X, Instagram, Facebook, Google, play multiplayer video games, and every thing you ever do online. That's it. > DISINFORMATION: Data centers make water dirty FACT: AOC held up a bottle of dirty water and said this is what data centers do. Completely false, well water disruption is a rare side effect of EVERY construction site in the history of humanity. This is not at all unique to data centers and is a complete red herring. > DISINFORMATION: Data centers get massive tax breaks and drain tax dollars from towns FACT: Data centers pay massive amounts of tax and often times huge % of an annual budget of a county or town! It's an absolute bonanza for the towns that are lucky enough to welcome a data center. New schools, new roads, new services are all paid for. Even if there is a sales tax rebate we're still talking tens of millions of new tax revenue. In 2022, Virginia’s data centers collectively generated $1 billion in local tax revenue and $640 million in state tax revenue! That was 2022. Feel free to reply here if you have any other question you'd like answered about data centers happy to provide actual facts.

this is a really excellent piece about the importance of focus in public transit policy---by asking transit to solve so many different problems, we are making it worse at its core mission