Crypto / Blockchain

sequoia put out a blog post called "services is the new software" look at this map of over $1T in

sequoia put out a blog post called "services is the new software" look at this map of over $1T in services being replaced by AI agents https://t.co/aFmDGhysfl

Mar 31, 2026

Huh, so that's why text is called a string https://t.co/TaZB9wqocE

Mar 31, 2026

These circles aren’t moving at all, yet your brain swears they’re spinning wildly! Math and stripes

These circles aren’t moving at all, yet your brain swears they’re spinning wildly! Math and stripes just broke your eyes with this wild motion illusion. Can't unsee it? https://t.co/iJPI5uRDGG

Mar 31, 2026

Your brain is telling you there are more dots on the right side. The reality is that there are just

Your brain is telling you there are more dots on the right side. The reality is that there are just as many dots on the left side. (The Extinction Illusion) https://t.co/V9u6DSQX3W

Mar 30, 2026

Top 100 of 80s games or not? Personally, I think Archon (1983 by Free Fall Associates) is still one

Top 100 of 80s games or not? Personally, I think Archon (1983 by Free Fall Associates) is still one of the best and most unique games ever made. And above all, even 40+ years later it still has an inc

Mar 30, 2026

Major cheat code for life: Increase your recovery speed. You will get rejected. You will lose money

Major cheat code for life: Increase your recovery speed. You will get rejected. You will lose money. You will embarrass yourself. The goal isn't to avoid the fall. It's to shorten the time between the

Mar 30, 2026

I know you're all getting mighty tired of seeing typography on your timeline today! But here's a pr

I know you're all getting mighty tired of seeing typography on your timeline today! But here's a pretext.js demo that (hopefully) isn't a crime against justification and indentation. https://t.co/Vwzc

Mar 29, 2026

The patterns of trigonometry https://t.co/YgUqLSLqWs

Mar 29, 2026

this is what it looks like to traverse all the zip codes sequentially: https://t.co/PwhO3c7pin

Mar 28, 2026

A CEO from one of our portfolio companies shared this with their team. I’m re-sharing it with their

A CEO from one of our portfolio companies shared this with their team. I’m re-sharing it with their permission, because it resonated and reflects what all founders and CEOs should be communicating. --

Mar 27, 2026

In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.” It ha

In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.” It has 18M+ views for a reason. His frameworks: • Your ideas are like your children • The 5-minute rule fo

Mar 27, 2026

A MIT professor taught the same lecture every January for 40 years, and every single time it was sta

A MIT professor taught the same lecture every January for 40 years, and every single time it was standing room only. I watched it at 2am and it completely rewired how I think about communication. His

Mar 26, 2026

Neat. This will make things more interesting. I'm launching a free complete curriculum built on her

Neat. This will make things more interesting. I'm launching a free complete curriculum built on heritage learning materials that made America great 100 years ago. Any school, learning pod, or homescho

Mar 26, 2026

Great software engineers aren’t just hammering out code with AI anymore. They’re now building the s

Great software engineers aren’t just hammering out code with AI anymore. They’re now building the systems to automatically write and review code.

Mar 26, 2026

In the 1920s, researchers walked into Western Electric's factory in Chicago to test a simple theory:

In the 1920s, researchers walked into Western Electric's factory in Chicago to test a simple theory: Better lighting = better productivity. They cranked up the lights. Productivity soared. Then they d

Mar 25, 2026

I use Word when I'm writing, but it has never been as good as the old WordPerfect. I write longhand

I use Word when I'm writing, but it has never been as good as the old WordPerfect. I write longhand when I’m planning the story, but once the outline is finished I type. Here’s a page from my notebook

Mar 25, 2026

What people will soon realize is that the Singularity is not near, there will be no 20% permanently

What people will soon realize is that the Singularity is not near, there will be no 20% permanently unemployed underclass, their will be no AI existential apocalypse and AI will not be doing all the j

Mar 25, 2026

𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗞𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗼��

𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗞𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 Knuth is now 88 years old. He wrote The Art of Computer Programming start

Mar 25, 2026

Heading to Texas tomorrow to meet the amazing folks who created the greatest public school reading l

Heading to Texas tomorrow to meet the amazing folks who created the greatest public school reading list I have ever seen. All students read these texts in their entirety. This is how we save civilizat

Mar 24, 2026

Isaac Asmiov on the one rule he followed in writing: "I made up my mind long ago to follow one card

Isaac Asmiov on the one rule he followed in writing: "I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing—to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symboli

Mar 24, 2026

> watching classmates get AI jobs > they're throwing around "transformers" and "embeddings" &g

> watching classmates get AI jobs > they're throwing around "transformers" and "embeddings" > I nod like I understand > I don't understand shit > been faking it for 4 months, got nowhere > found Stanf

Mar 24, 2026

When PCs started becoming ubiquitous, many futurists imagined that everyone would become a programme

When PCs started becoming ubiquitous, many futurists imagined that everyone would become a programmer, programming their own custom software. Because why not? In principle they could, so why wouldn't

Mar 24, 2026

Asked the AI to make a fun slide about potential de-skilling from AI use. Need to specify more clear

Asked the AI to make a fun slide about potential de-skilling from AI use. Need to specify more clearly what I mean by "fun". https://t.co/yA1vGZMfvk

Mar 24, 2026

Famously (there is a beautiful Works in Progress piece on this) in 2016, Geoffrey Hinton told an aud

Famously (there is a beautiful Works in Progress piece on this) in 2016, Geoffrey Hinton told an audience in Toronto that medical schools should stop training radiologists, since AI would soon outperf

Mar 24, 2026

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Mar 23, 2026

decided to stop using modern Office and installed Office 2010 instead seeing these views make me so

decided to stop using modern Office and installed Office 2010 instead seeing these views make me so sad everything is so clean, compact, efficient https://t.co/qNz4ID8dIV

Mar 23, 2026

As I continue research for my Computing documentary, I am dismayed by the volume of AI slop through

As I continue research for my Computing documentary, I am dismayed by the volume of AI slop through which I must wade, vomitus chunks of misinformation amplified by mindless multitudes of agentic slop

Mar 23, 2026

The moment the West decided evidence no longer mattered — if it got in the way of utopia. Melanie P

The moment the West decided evidence no longer mattered — if it got in the way of utopia. Melanie Phillips (former Guardian journalist): “Objective evidence was cast aside because it was too inconveni

Mar 22, 2026

John Taylor Gatto was named New York State Teacher of the Year. Upon receiving the award, he quit an

John Taylor Gatto was named New York State Teacher of the Year. Upon receiving the award, he quit and spent the rest of his life writing devastating critiques of the educational system he had mastered

Mar 22, 2026

possibly the sharpest VC marketing move I've seen... @garrytan ships 15 claude code skills, the repo

possibly the sharpest VC marketing move I've seen... @garrytan ships 15 claude code skills, the repo hits 37k stars and 4.6k forks, then -- only after delivering real value - drops the pitch, bravo 👏

Mar 22, 2026

Resolving boredom through our incessant attention to our devices has, according to New York Times be

Resolving boredom through our incessant attention to our devices has, according to New York Times bestselling author @arthurbrooks, also brought an end to our willingness to let our minds wander – inh

Mar 22, 2026

Just stumbled upon a 1000 good books for children list from 1914. Link in comments. https://t.co/7gp

Just stumbled upon a 1000 good books for children list from 1914. Link in comments. https://t.co/7gpzs3mQT0

Mar 22, 2026

@euronationalizt You misunderstand minimalism. It’s not self-denial or living without. It’s about

@euronationalizt You misunderstand minimalism. It’s not self-denial or living without. It’s about getting rid of noise that doesn’t bring you joy to gorge on what does. It’s mildly hedonistic and it’s

Mar 22, 2026

In 1999, calculating 3D lighting required doing 1 / sqrt(x) millions of times a second. CPUs back t

In 1999, calculating 3D lighting required doing 1 / sqrt(x) millions of times a second. CPUs back then would completely choke on this math. so the developers of Quake III used this literal black magic

Mar 21, 2026

C. S. Lewis’s advice to a young schoolgirl on how to become a better writer: https://t.co/Lzh6Vva1Gb

Mar 21, 2026

Happy “Agony of Defeat Guy” Day if you’re observing it. 56 years ago today, March 21, 1970, a 22-

Happy “Agony of Defeat Guy” Day if you’re observing it. 56 years ago today, March 21, 1970, a 22-year old Slovenian ski jumper Vinko Bogataj took the iconic spill at the World Ski Jumping Championship

Mar 21, 2026

It appears circular, but the balls are really moving in straight lines https://t.co/HawsQTlwIZ

Mar 21, 2026

"In 1994, American literary critic and Yale professor Harold Bloom published the book The Western Ca

"In 1994, American literary critic and Yale professor Harold Bloom published the book The Western Canon. In it, he defended the very concept of a "canon" by discussing 26 of its central writers. At th

Mar 20, 2026

Here are 13 things learned after making a big push to integrate AI into our companies: 1. We haven’

Here are 13 things learned after making a big push to integrate AI into our companies: 1. We haven’t replaced a single external SaaS tool with something we built internally. 2. We have refrained from

Mar 20, 2026

I ACCIDENTALLY OPENED MY CTO'S PERSONAL NOTION WORKSPACE AND NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY HE SHIPS 5X FASTER

I ACCIDENTALLY OPENED MY CTO'S PERSONAL NOTION WORKSPACE AND NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY HE SHIPS 5X FASTER THAN THE REST OF US. He is 48. I am 26. He manages 3 products and never works past 5 PM. I work 10

Mar 20, 2026

How the children's books industry works: 1. People are way less likely to read children's books on

How the children's books industry works: 1. People are way less likely to read children's books on a Kindle. 2. Children's books generally have a longer shelf lives than adult books. If they're a hit,

Mar 19, 2026

A remarkably consistent set of values that Steve Jobs held dear: https://t.co/CdIZRShsVP

Mar 19, 2026

One of the loneliest and most brutal stretches as a founder is holding unbreakable belief that you'l

One of the loneliest and most brutal stretches as a founder is holding unbreakable belief that you'll make it... when you have literally nothing to show for it. 2–4 years of: - Zero traction - Telling

Mar 19, 2026

I’m 100 percent convinced the Art Deco design of Hoover Dam is America’s greatest ever public projec

I’m 100 percent convinced the Art Deco design of Hoover Dam is America’s greatest ever public project and we’ll probably never come close again https://t.co/ytLIQZqNnh

Mar 19, 2026

"When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a s

"When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match."-Rene Girard

Mar 18, 2026

A must-read for teachers: https://t.co/vbBRUoXfcf

Mar 18, 2026

Descobri um site MUITO daora hoje! Ele permite criar posteres de mapas pra imprimir, olha que legal

Descobri um site MUITO daora hoje! Ele permite criar posteres de mapas pra imprimir, olha que legal 100% client-side, open-source e gratuíto! https://t.co/XZJzLe1ZlA

Mar 17, 2026

I spent 5+ years curating The Book of Elon. The biggest unexpected outcome wasn’t an increase in kn

I spent 5+ years curating The Book of Elon. The biggest unexpected outcome wasn’t an increase in knowledge, but an increase in my imagination. Studying Elon’s ideas, companies, and products revived my

Mar 17, 2026

This animated globe by @tylermorganwall gives us a rather immersive view of global population. I par

This animated globe by @tylermorganwall gives us a rather immersive view of global population. I particularly love how clear the "empty hemisphere" appears. https://t.co/d4in1h35pO

Mar 17, 2026

"It is remarkable, and wildly counterintuitive, not only that the question "Who is in charge of the

"It is remarkable, and wildly counterintuitive, not only that the question "Who is in charge of the supply of bread to New York?" has no answer, but that the supply of bread to New York is better mana

Mar 17, 2026