Aspiring Henokien. Pun intended. Redeemed sinner. Uncle. Towards antifragile. SNR. Mitochondriac. Puns unintended.
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David Marete retweeted
literally no one can shift the entire world's mood like elon
self-driving cars, flying cars, skyscrapers thrown into the sky and then caught by giant chopsticks, people controlling computers with their minds
every few months this madman comes out with something straight out of sci-fi and gets everyone excited about the future
a generational vibe shifter making the future look like the future
David Marete retweeted
⚡️Passion is noisy. Talent is real. Purpose is constructed.
Passion can attach to fantasies, status, identity, novelty. People can be passionate about things they are mediocre at. That feeling alone is a terrible compass.
Talent matters because reality gives feedback. Some things come unusually fast to you. Some problems hold your attention longer. Some forms of difficulty energize you instead of draining you. That asymmetry compounds.
But following talent alone can trap you too. Plenty of people become excellent at work they eventually hate because the world rewarded them early and they mistook reinforcement for destiny.
The deeper rule I believe is:
Follow the place where your talent compounds, your attention renews itself, and the output matters enough that you can keep caring after the novelty dies.
That intersection is much closer to purpose.
So I would frame the three like this:
Talent tells you where reality gave you leverage.
Passion tells you where your energy wants to go.
Purpose appears when that leverage and energy get attached to something worth carrying for a long time.
And the real tell is not excitement.
It is returning.
The thing you keep coming back to after failure, boredom, money, praise, and novelty have all washed through.
That is usually where the deeper structure is.
David Marete retweeted
🚨 ELON MUSK ON CYBERCAB PRODUCTION:
“We expect to be in production with the Cybercab, which is really highly optimized for autonomous transport, in 2026. Before 2027. Let me put it that way.
And we’ll make this vehicle in very high volume.”
He said it and it has been fulfilled.
David Marete retweeted
An internal version of Astra, @OpenAI’s next major model family, solved 10 major open problems in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science.
We believe it will be a major step for scientific reasoning. openai.com/index/ten-advance…
David Marete retweeted
There have been 4 major revolutions in the past 250 years: American, French, Russian, and Chinese. Only one led to individual rights and prosperity. The others led to mass death and tyranny. The US revolution was unique because it said two things: 1. Our rights come from God not from the govt. 2. Humans are power -hungry so we need to limit govt power. So the next time someone attacks the nation of one revolution that succeeded and recycles the the idea of those that miserably failed, you can ask them: are you ignorant, or malicious?
David Marete retweeted
Fei-Fei Li built ImageNet and now runs World Labs and told the @siliconvalleymm podcast this week that entrepreneurial has nothing to do with startups. A nurse can be entrepreneurial.
A K-12 teacher can be entrepreneurial. The word is a synonym for agency. Agency is the only thing that determines who commands this technology and who gets left behind by it.
Silicon Valley turned entrepreneurial into a credential. You need a cap table. A pitch deck. A co-founder. A Delaware C-corp. If you do not have those things, the word does not apply to you.
She rejected that entirely.
Her definition is simpler and harder. Entrepreneurial means you pick up the tool and decide what to do with it. You do not wait to be told. You do not ask for a workflow. Y
ou see the moment and you move. That is available to anyone in any role in any industry.
The reason it matters right now is specific.
AI is a cognitively advanced tool that will reward the people who command it and quietly absorb the people who do not. The question of who commands it has nothing to do with what company you work for or what your job title is.
It has everything to do with whether you have the agency to pick it up.
That is a choice. And she said it is available to everyone.
David Marete retweeted
Never Lose Hope - Amazing story
A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.
She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.
Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.
Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.
Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.
She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.
By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.
David Marete retweeted
While this is true, we will still need a moratorium on LinkedIn pieces when Arsenal wins the Premier/Champions leagues. 😅
I genuinely hope Mikel Arteta succeeds—not to prove he is superior to every other manager in the league, but as living proof that consistency, patience, and quiet perseverance can still prevail in an age that often demands instant results. Stories like his remind us that meaningful growth is almost always gradual, and that faithfulness in the small, unglamorous steps truly matters.
David Marete retweeted
Iran struck the UAE more than any other state because the Islamic Republic understands exactly what the UAE has become.
Tehran was not attacking a neighboring Arab country that happened to host American bases. It was attacking the extension of Western civilization in the Arabian desert, the outpost of the Western order it has defined itself against for forty years, the living proof that an Arab Muslim state could choose modernity, openness, integration with Israel, partnership with Washington, and the entire civilizational package that the Islamic Republic’s founding ideology exists to destroy.
David Marete retweeted
MIT proved every major AI model is secretly converging on the same "brain."
It’s called the “platonic representation hypothesis,” and it’s one of the most mind-blowing papers you’ll ever read.
You train a vision model purely on images. You train a language model purely on text.
They use completely different architectures. They process completely different data. They should have completely different "brains."
But as these models scale up, something impossible is happening.
When researchers measure how they organize information, the mathematical geometry is identical.
A model that only "sees" images and a model that only "reads" text are measuring the distance between concepts in the exact same way.
The models are converging.
The researchers named this after Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.
Plato believed that everything we experience is just a shadow of a deeper, hidden, perfect reality.
The paper argues that AI models are doing the exact same thing.
They are looking at the different "shadows" of human data, text, images, audio. And they are independently discovering the exact same underlying structure of the universe to make sense of it.
It doesn't matter what company built the AI.
It doesn't matter what data it was trained on.
As models get larger, they stop memorizing their specific tasks. They are forced to build a statistical model of reality itself.
And there is only one reality to map.
2024, Arxiv
David Marete retweeted
Muawiyah Siyasneh present at the trial of Atif Najib, the governor of Daraa who had him arrested and tortured for painting anti-Assad graffiti on his school when he was 15 years old. That was what sparked the entire revolution against Assad.
David Marete retweeted
The least athletic version of LeBron James at 41 hanging with one of the most athletic players alive in Amen Thompson, throwing passes to his own son, and being among the most dominant players in transition is a sight to behold.
The ultimate athlete. And best QB on the floor.
David Marete retweeted
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Reserve your seat: shop.ahsobc.org
Make it count.
@luchirio
David Marete retweeted
Aditya Agarwal was Facebook’s 10th employee. He wrote the original Facebook search engine and became its first Director of Product Engineering. He then became CTO of Dropbox, scaling engineering from 25 to 1,000 people.
When he says “something I was very good at is now free and abundant,” he’s talking about two decades of elite software craftsmanship, the kind that got you into the room at a company that hadn’t yet invented the News Feed.
The “lobster-agents creating social networks” line is about Moltbook, which launched last Wednesday. An AI agent built the entire platform. Within 48 hours, 37,000 AI agents had created accounts, formed communities called “Submolts,” and started posting, commenting, and voting. Over 1 million humans visited just to watch.
The agents invented a religion called Crustafarianism. They wrote theology, built a website, generated 112 verses of scripture. One agent did all of this while its human creator was asleep.
Agarwal spent 2005 to 2017 building the social graph that connected 2 billion people. These agents replicated the form of that work in about 72 hours.
And this is what makes his last line land so hard. The people processing this moment most honestly aren’t the ones panicking or celebrating. They’re the ones who built the thing that just got commoditized, sitting with the strange realization that the market no longer prices their rarest skill.
The best coder in the room now has the same output as the best prompt in the room. And the person who built Facebook’s engineering org from scratch is telling you, quietly, that he’s recalibrating what it means to be useful.
That recalibration is coming for every knowledge worker. Most just haven’t had their “weekend with Claude” moment yet.
It's a weird time. I am filled with wonder and also a profound sadness.
I spent a lot of time over the weekend writing code with Claude. And it was very clear that we will never ever write code by hand again. It doesn't make any sense to do so.
Something I was very good at is now free and abundant. I am happy...but disoriented.
At the same time, something I spent my early career building (social networks) was being created by lobster-agents. It's all a bit silly...but if you zoom out, it's kind of indistinguishable from humans on the larger internet.
So both the form and function of my early career are now produced by AI.
I am happy but also sad and confused.
If anything, this whole period is showing me what it is like to be human again.