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New financial term to remember: guppy level death. 🐟 Yikes

Well played.

Can someone help me understand why dog owners litter these paper bags all over the trails and just take the time to grab the poop, but then leave the bag? That’s actually worse than just leaving the poop. What gives?

The best iPhone keyboard right now is a third-party app. Apple still can't solve the keyboard, and we expect them to win AI? Agree or disagree?

I’m seriously wondering if I need to upgrade and I’m thinking Not. I had the plaid. And the launch mode was an exciting thing for a few days/weeks. Then everyone , me included, got over it. I also got over burning up my tires and also the risk of a serious ticket hitting 130mph plus not on a race track. And last- there is ZERO Storage space inside the Thrust version when it’s full of nitrogen tanks. Seems like the Performance edition might be the more “practical” option. Thoughts?

So why are you on X on a Friday night? Me? My wife is watching Ms Congeniality and I’m waiting for the end. X is better entertainment anyway.

Yesterday banks totally freaked out about bots in their system. Amazon and many other retailers are actively blocking all bots. I think they're totally wrong and will end up on the wrong side of history with this. They're basically fighting against inevitable progress to their own detriment. Consider: Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975—then buried it so it wouldn’t kill their film cash cow. They spent years fighting their own future and still filed for bankruptcy in 2012, destroyed by the technology they created. Blockbuster laughed off Netflix and doubled down on late fees and physical stores instead of owning the shift to mail and streaming. Customers fled the friction they protected, and the company was gone by 2010. Nokia once owned mobile phones, then dismissed the iPhone and clung to hardware and aging software while the real game moved to platforms and apps. By the time they reacted, the market had already left them behind. All these companies failed to lean into progress. Instead they should have embraced. Banks and Amazon should figure out a way to authenticate our agents. They can also figure out a way to make money off the situation instead of circling the wagons. My friend linkedin.com/in/robertseolas… is actively building new technology that enables agentic buying. And he has an amazing angle. If you want to be part of a new startup that has some serious tech and traction going, DM me or him about it. Don't miss this wave. These big tech waves come only every 10-20 years. Do you think that banks and companies should be actively blocking agents?

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Why do we always hear about rogue AI agents and they only ever take money out of an account or cause havoc? Why aren’t any of these agents depositing money or helping Optimize my site?

New phrase of the day: rogue agents

How bout banks and Amazon and other sites just work on verifying an agent as MINE? They don’t need to shut off this amazing capability. That’s going backwards.

AGI is already here. It just can't get out of the building. That's Chamath's take on Moonshots. He says the models are ready and the infrastructure isn't. I'd add a second bottleneck. My AI agents can run a whole workflow end to end in four minutes. Then they wait nine hours for me to read the output and make a decision. Is it just humoring me and acting like it needs me still?

Once you realize what FSD does for you, you don’t go back.

This is not the local Tesla dealership. Just an awesome sushi place called Wasabi in Draper. Birds of a feather flock together isn’t that what they say?

The sauna is the only place left where I can't work. And I hope that never changes. My days are pretty frantic. I've got AI agents running parts of my businesses, calls stacked up, and usually three things going at once. Even on the sailboat, I bring Starlink. I really do try to check out out there, but the internet is always sitting right there if I want it. The sauna is different. Nothing works in there. You can't bring a laptop, your phone won't last, and there's no one to text back. It's a device-free zone whether I like it or not. So I just sit. Sometimes alone, sometimes with a friend. I can think, but I can't do anything about what I'm thinking. No replies, no messages, no quick check of the markets. I'm off the grid for a minute, and I really like that. I think a lot of us count on willpower to unplug, and willpower loses to a buzzing phone almost every time. Sometimes the only thing that works is going somewhere the phone can't follow. Where's your device-free zone?

Serious question: how do people named Chad or Karen feel about their name?

In other words, sorry, anthropic. We’re actually not going to be able to deliver the compute we talked about.

That ought to definitely pump the stock price. Already bought this week!

I like hurry mode on my Tesla for so many reasons. But I definitely don’t like how it wants to skip the whole line of merging traffic and cut in at the last minute. That’s not hurry mode. That’s a$$hole mode.

Why are people on X so kind hearted and decent as humans?