On hypercompetition When you look back at how startups used to get built, it often started with a few friends in a garage, tinkering on something no one else had quite figured out. There was a lot of friction: getting parts meant scouring catalogs or driving across town, and learning how to code involved dusty books from the library. That friction created space. It let ideas simmer, and sometimes, by accident, you'd stumble into a goldmine. A side project could turn into something huge because not everyone had the same shot at it. But now, things are different. We've smoothed out so much of the world that competition isn't just fierce—it's everywhere, all at once. We've entered an age of hypercompetition, where everything is so efficient and transparent that the random joys of discovery start to feel like they're fading away. Hypercompetition transcends increase in number of competitors per se. I mean fundamental changes in how the economy and society work. Continuing the conversation about friction and complexity—society got what it wanted. Airline tickets can be bought from a phone, AI writes code for programmers👨‍💻, and knowledge that people accumulated over years of experience is available in the first response from a neural network. But reducing friction doesn't always just simplify things—it amplifies them and leads to the emergence of new ones. Simplifying search led to the appearance of Google's monopoly, which has occupied its niche so firmly that the company's name became a verb. Despite all this progress, people haven't started working less. As soon as something becomes cheaper, there's more of it. Cheap coal leads to greater demand from people who can afford it at the new price (fakepixels.substack.com/p/je…), and greater demand leads to intensified competition. Fast-forward to today: AI makes coding 10x faster, but does that mean engineers work less? No. Expectations rise. Now you need to build 10x more features, iterate 10x quicker. In the end, to stay in place, you have to run even faster—welcome to the Red Queen’s race🏃‍♂️. Then there's Radical Transparency. Information long alpha became beta (notboring.co/p/hyperlegibili…). Everyone bends over backward to share the numbers used to be kept private👌. Venture funds publish their theses online to attract founders and capital. Companies post ARR numbers on Twitter. Even personal "user manuals" explain how to work with someone. Why? Because attention seems to be the only scarcity. In a sea of noise, you have to make yourself legible to stand out. Which leads to a dominant strategy of being transparent. Strategies that worked in opacity fail in the light. Look at the broader world dynamics, as @nntaleb points out (nntaleb.medium.com/the-world…): Connectivity supercharges winner-take-all effects. It is not bad in itself, but it makes it difficult, and sometimes almost impossible, to compete with leaders who have settled at the top. The only possible way to disrupt the status quo is to create new markets, as ChatGPT recently did for AI. Hypercompetition forces innovation🧪. Entrepreneurs might pivot to depth over breadth—focusing on human elements AI can't touch, like trust or authencity. Or redefine success: not dominance, but joy. Touch grass, as they say. Build not for scale, but for meaning. In the end, you can always try to create the new market and stick at the top. As we have learnt today, it is a good place to be at.

Hard no is always the best answer after hard yes.

Amazing results shown on video, I only wonder if it is a cherry pick or not. Regardless — congratulations to the team, lots of work done to get so far in any case!

Love to have a perspective

Homeless, unemployed and happy.

How close are we to the Singularity? I only notice how fast the harness around AI products is evolving through tiny shifts in my own user experience. There’s already a background mode where @claudeai waited on its own for DNS to cut over to Cloudflare — then quietly went back to working on the task. If it's not the Singularity, it certainly feels like one to me. What a time

Taking on risk is the price you pay for challenging the status quo.

Rare things makes a girl happier than a date. Especially if you’ve not been on a date as a couple for some time.

Slate is a good concept. This is the direction I can imagine the progress might flow — heavy usage of networks on device where apps become wrappers for local models. #AI #Selfhosted

that feeling when you are saving Fable tokens on Wednesday bc limit resets on Thursday

Skill is an ability to perform well regardless of the available resources, conditions and circumstances.

Total blackout in Georgia. Whole country is without electricity.

I'm curious how privacy-centric app + self-hosted landscape looks like now. Wanna learn more if modern tech can help to build products which work in the interest of a user (and ultimately society). #ai #selfhosted

5 years ago @k06a inspired me to join crypto which brought much joy, fun and dear friends into my life. The least I can do now is to wish him success with his new endeavour. @tier_xyz

— Master, can I smoke during a meditation? — No — But those guys are smoking and meditating — They are meditating while smoking

What’s the reader for iPad you use? Native Books app keeps offloading books when I need them most.

New Year is not the best time to get out of you cocoon and start living. Best time is today.