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Japan Debut Alert! Recorded live at Tokyo Beer Lab, Shibuya, Tokyo on 02.01.2026.
Fun fact: As my set was winding down, I glance up at the huge window opposite my decks only to see Snow (for the first time ever) - soft, unhurried - falling through the glow of a dim street light outside. I couldn't believe my eyes. It was Tokyo's first snow of the winter on my last day in Japan. Life is truly mysterious and abundant.
And so it goes.
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We need to move away from what i call “launch slop”
Fast cuts, black and white, historical film, rocket ships. Clips of some
philosopher talking.
It was cool when founders fund did it. Now it looks like shit. Every YC company has the same video. We need a new aesthetic.
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I was drawn to Silicon Valley because of people's healthy relationship to work.
connection to mission. friends. ambition. financial security. hard work. but also free time. positive sum vibes. pride in being a part of it. joy.
this is no longer the case. my friends have gone mad. and there's almost nowhere to hide.
refusing to accept this fate, I went searching for safe havens.
I found (at least) one in ottawa and spent the last 6 months with @turbopuffer where they've got silicon valley chops, canadian kindness, and danish sense of humor. it's been the perfect medicine.
I wrote about it in @colossusmag
The people of Silicon Valley are unwell.
If you work at a frontier lab or decacorn, you’ve got it bad. You haven’t seen your kids, your girlfriend’s annoyed, invites from friends to hang out are waning, even weddings are on hold. This is the time to make your mark and make your money, after all.
If you’re building a startup that’s trying to compete with or be one of these companies, you’ve got it bad. Maybe you passed up a job offer at one a couple years back, which means you left $100M on the table, you fucking idiot. Being an underdog isn't as fun as you thought.
If you’re working on a pre-AI startup, you’ve got it bad. Not too long ago you were the belle of the ball, but now your 30% year-on-year growth doesn’t feel like growth at all. It feels like death.
"Too many of my friends are spiraling," Brie Wolfson writes. "I don’t know how we’re supposed to live and work like this."
It’s all too much, too fast. Too much money, too much growth, too much power, too much change. Every month, a new frontier model is released. Every day, a new unicorn is minted. Seriously. 300 days into the year 2026, and 311 unicorns have been minted so far.
So what’s left for the sane ones? Brie went looking for teams playing a different game. She found one in Ottawa: a search infrastructure company that many of the AI darlings rely on.
It's growing fast, and its people are well.
Read @zebriez’s latest company dispatch from inside the sane asylum of turbopuffer.
colossus.com/article/sane-as…
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Instinct on the Action Button
You can now make Instinct your iPhone’s Action Button. Press and hold, say what you need, and Instinct will take it from there, without you needing to leave the app you’re on.
To set it up:
1. Go to app.instinct.com/voice-short… and tap Add Shortcut
2. Go to Settings → Action Button → Shortcut → Instinct.
This is available to all Instinct users on an iPhone 15 Pro and newer.
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I think everyone’s lost the plot with dating tbh
You’re looking for home. That’s the only point of any of it. A flickering hearth, a bountiful table, a passion that will wax and wane as unalarmingly as the moon. Deciding to love a person ideally involves the same simple blend of logic + intuition that goes into choosing a place to live: you have a short list of what you absolutely need, some things that are nice to have, but mostly it comes down to if it feels immediately instinctively NICE.
When you’re paying attention to how you feel that recognition comes pretty quickly imo. People overcomplicate it a lot, mostly by trying to look to others to figure out what they should care about.
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Every company's goal should be to reach Lana Del Rey-level brand clarity.
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Quick thought: don't accept jobs with long feedback loops (especially early in your career!).
Many years ago, I was interviewing for a few roles, one at an indoor farming startup that had yet to commercialize, and another was to help with the LA Olympics 2028 bid.
Especially early in your career (but also later too), you want to optimize for learning. When you join a company that is still heavy in R&D or has many years to go until the event itself, you lose infinite cycles of feedback that are crucial in your growth and development.
Instead, I joined a company called Candid that started e-commerce and wanted to launch a retail business. They wanted to open up a lot of stores in a very short period of time. Putting aside whether or not that was a good idea, it did actually teach me a lot -- quickly.
Go places where the pace is high, the people are great, and the feedback loops from what you are doing and the impact you are having is fast. That way you know what works, what doesn't, what you're good at, and where you have to improve.
By the way, @Clay meets that criteria ... come join us ;)
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Rant that no one asked for:
My general take about consumer AI is that 99% of the things we've seen so far are super far-removed from reality
Most people feel like they don't have money to spend right now, so the use-cases around agents booking flights or trips or booking reservations or shopping just don't appeal to the average American consumer
I would argue that things that consumers purchase or "do" frequently enough (like ordering on Amazon, or calling Ubers, etc.) were obvious/annoying enough/frequent enough use-cases where we built amazing software UI/UX over the last decade that's been optimized to near ultimate efficiency that adding AI or agents on top would actually be making it *less* efficient. Like really *worth-it* use cases are generally "one-clickable" by great consumer products/platforms already
There's a lot of magical moments/wow factors/sci-fi things with agents that come from super annoying workflows (like booking flights or wrangling personal errand stuff in gmail or etc.) but are just not frequent enough for the average person. They're actually the long-tail. For example, 20% of the world's population has flown on an airplane at least once in their lifetime, meaning 80% of people globally have never set foot on a plane. Only 11%-15% of the global population flies in any given year!
This is not me saying that consumer AI is dumb, I'm actually extremely excited and optimistic, but it kind of goes back to things we've always known about consumer, which is:
1. Save/make consumers money
2. Make consumers entertained or famous
(And, of course, vices)
Even like, regardless of your views on prediction markets/sports betting, I think you have to understand that comes from a place of the average person feeling like they 1) don't have enough so 2) they want to do what they can to jump the socioeconomic rungs
Anyway, there's an extremely *wide* space of opportunity and I'm very excited to see the absolutely insane new AI/innovative stuff that builders come up with, but also I really want to see things that aren't just dressed up versions of 2010s prosumer/productivity software (and the problems that came with it)
P.S. The 90/10/1 rule still applies to consumer: most consumers want to *consume* (and lurk) rather than create!
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chat, we're hiring.
the avengers have assembled but we're a few heroes short: a taste-rich, musically inclined product designer, a frontend engineer, and a backend engineer. if you know one of the mad ones, send them our way.
here's our hiring link: docs.riffle.studio/hiring
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i refuse to engage in taste discourse with men whose bookshelf is just the entire stripe press catalog
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You guys are getting too obsessed with storytelling.
Talking about your company in compelling ways is marketing. Always has been.
A terminally online manic pixie dream girl is not your silver bullet to standing out on the timeline.
It’s substance in your product and team.
