Let me know when a Tesla does a Musty … then I’ll be impressed. 👊🏼 @amustycow

My dad is 98. You can do the simple math on how many conversations and visits you get with an elder parent... and I'm well into the bonus numbers which I deeply appreciate. I bought the email-to-book life story products for both my parents... neither finished it and the roadblock I've heard from others was that they felt it was a chore or the answers weren't great. We want to preserve our family stories but the method isn't great. I built a Voice AI for checking in with the elderly and after several thousand minutes of calls a common feeling from elders was "I loved when I got to share more of my life story" … so I shifted my focus to using Voice AI and a thoughtful, curious and engaging voice to capture a life story and a persons important memories, experiences and values. Irv (named after my childhood therapist who was a great listener) calls weekly to help record important life stories: - The question isn't a generic question from a list. - It's not a daunting blank canvas they have to start with. Irv finds personal questions that reflect your life, places you've lived, people you care about and feelings you've shared... and if nothing easily flows from a question Irv helps redirect to another angle or topic. Each week the audio is edited into what feels like a short family podcast episode, which children and grandchildren can hear and engage with. (They can also be kept as a private archive too) If you have a life story you want preserved, or if you want to save a parents or relatives… WonderLifeStory.com

RIP Moats. AI has killed nearly all software moats. If you're building a digital product, SaaS, App, etc... You have no moat. Anybody can create your product in hours with a few hundred bucks in tokens. Sure, your full technical architecture and the robustness of your product would be harder to replicate... but a potential customer doesn't know or doesn't care. Well they probably do care, but now they're bombarded with so much well produced marketing slop, they're a bit option-exhausted and skeptical of everything. Vibe Code Slop vs Handcoded Technical Precision is indistinguishable to a customer. The quality of short animation ads (I just made one, it's great) that are possible with Opus 5.5... the big budget cinema quality ad you can create with Higgsfield... the fully automated sales funnel of personalized content... everybody is getting it now, everywhere, all the time. Even the plumber in your rural town 6hrs from you is getting startup ads and outbound sales calls/emails. GTM has never been harder. That doesn't mean it can't be done, but it points to an incredible irony that's happening in tech. Some companies like Instinct will rocket to billion dollar valuations in minutes... doing mostly what other agents can do with some new experience, using the latest model unlocked interactions... likely to be Poked off the top step without a Clue as to why in a few weeks when something new takes the hype-title. But the tried and true still work for customer validation. Talk to your customers. Do founder led sales to find your first 100 customers. Do the things that don't scale that teach you about your customer and how to better serve them with something useful that adds value to their lives. When people use something that "just works," is priced fairly and is from a brand they have grown trust and have affinity for they'll stick around longer. What is increasingly true now is there is nothing more important for a startup than distribution and unless you have an unfair advantage to reach your target customers it's going to be very hard for you to clear the clouds with enough usage and engagement to scale into a meaningful company. Trying to become influential in a space is going to take a lot of time and effort because just like the noise in the product marketing space, all that noise is mostly coming from influencers pumping out content to farm any engagement they can get... and every influencer can automate slopthoughts and AI avatar captioned reels. We're both in a time where nothing has ever moved faster, and yet maybe, the slow and steady will win over time. So sure, take a big swing, build your ideas, get customers... but be honest about the AI at the gates.

I made the scenes in ChatGPT. Gave Astra the prompts like: "We are creating background environment scenes to create a short film with AI. You are creating the static image references for the AI to compose into a live video scene. The concept for the video is set in a zombie apocolypse. To start we need the scene for the first dark end of days environment. Once view facing where he will be so looking towards the doorway of an old broken down house, dirty walls broken windows, old military blankets draped over the windows haphazardly. It is a dark scene so maybe some light outside thru the windows or door crack. Feeling should be very dark cinematic, HD, very detailed" "Now the opposite view, looking into a partially destroyed kitchen, fridge knocked over dented, rusted, cabinet doors partially missing broken, broken dishes. Same exact aestehtic of the previous scne but looking into the home from the perspective of where we just created"

For my fellow fathers @garrytan @paulg @zack415 @alexisohanian @awilkinson @aaron_epstein @scottbelsky @bryce @ArjunDArora ❤️

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I resigned from the Batcave today. I spent the last three years doing vigilante work at both Gotham City and Arkham Asylum. Neither is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

Today's lesson in over-optimizing comes from real-life... two moms, an old man and a shrunken head. I had a blood sample I needed to have drawn at a local site and it's first-come first served and I got there 2min after they opened and still drew number 9... meant I was going to wait for a while. Then a founder friend said hello as she was also waiting. We were chatting about startup life and then a woman gave up waiting and gave my friend her her ticket number so now she was number 3, up from her number 4! Her son was holding their cards so I negotiated with him to trade me my 9 for card 4. He did and now I had moved way up! As I waited I was looking at the mother who was also waiting with two very young children... I wasn't going to cut in front of her, so I went over and asked if she wanted my number, I could trade her and she gave me her 5 and I gave her my 4. On my way back to my seat and old man overheard and asked if I could trade with him as well he'd really like to go sooner... so I gave him my 5 and he gave me his 8. So now I was back at my seat, being one number sooner, exactly in the same place had I not traded and 4 was just returned to the pile as it would have done anyway. Can't help but feel like the over-optimizing agents & workflows I've tried to do several times over the past couple weeks was another version of this. The risk of using agents to "improve" a system feels too easy, when in reality you may end up spending much longer trying to improve the system, when you could have just been doing slightly less optimized good work. Be careful how you over-optimize, as your may end up right back where you started, and or worse you end up back there with a shrunken head you have to now deal with.

Somebody make this and I send them all my money… I got some haymakers I need to deliver to Claude. *speaks last message dumbass message on repeat for 2min*

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