Roote retweeted
day 2 YC Hackathon
Introducing Swarm
I waste 80% of my time manually doom-scrolling Instagram to find viral reel formats for my 12 marketing clients. Traditional scrapers hit CAPTCHAs and break. Single AI agents are just too slow.
So I built a self-healing, multi-agent hive mind that runs 9 concurrent browser agents across every platform.
@browser_use #browser_use
Roote retweeted
luck is just probability × proximity.
you can’t control probability. but you can engineer it through proximity.
if you feel "unlucky," you are probably just isolated. you’re the smartest person in a room that is too small.
we built null fellows to fix the density problem for European builders.
don’t leave your environment to chance. watch this.
nullfellows.com
Evergreen.
One of the underappreciated secrets to winning in any new sector is: just stick around.
If you just stick around long enough, the losers blow up early. Then the winners retire early. So eventually you win by just doing the work when nobody else can or wants to.
When people ask me how we built Dragonfly to became one of the biggest VCs in crypto, this is mostly the answer. We didn’t start with a big brand or any obvious advantages. Few people in the crypto world knew who I was before Dragonfly.
But we just kept doing the work. While others got too rich and retired, or just got bored or distracted, we kept doing the work. For 7 years.
It’s kind of that simple.
(This insight shamelessly stolen from @naval)
Evergreen.
After 7 months of writing, I finished my essay!
I think agency might be the most important idea of the 21st century
highagency.com
Roote retweeted
Announcing Progress Conference 2025
Hosted by @rootsofprogress together with @abundanceinst @foresightinst @JoinFAI @HumanProgress @IFP @TheIHS and @WorksInProgMag
Speakers include @sama @tylercowen @pahlkadot @bscholl @jasoncrawford
Berkeley, CA • Oct 16-19
🚨 Cool opportunity alert. 🚨
Apply by Apr 28! 👇
Works in Progress is hosting Invisible College again this August – a residential seminar in Cambridge for people aged 18–22.
If you fit the bill & would enjoy a week about the scientific method, the history of economic growth, & similar subjects, apply!
worksinprogress.news/p/apply…
Great question from a Rootie:
"I feel like I've been outsourcing a lot of my thinking to AI, which I find quite unhealthy. I'm curious to what extent AI is present in your life & your thoughts on where it's acceptable to delegate 'thinking tasks' to AI."
Thoughts?
Excellent article on universal flu vaccines from Jasmin :)
Imagine a world where flu is no longer a constant, unpredictable threat.
My latest piece with @RyanDuncombe on the quest for developing universal flu vaccines now live @AsimovPress
From the looming threat of H5N1 to the yearly burden of winter flu, why are we still stuck in a reactive cycle—hoping that the next viral mutation doesn’t trigger the pandemic?
The relentless pursuit of pan-influenza vaccines must define the next frontier in human health.
Evergreen.
For the last decade, I’ve sent this post from my friend @hunterwalk to new grads wanting to work in tech. It remains the best advice for new grads, period. Evergreen post.
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