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Honestly the problem is hiring teams -- they have created this whole issue. They ask for a resume and cover letter. Fine. But don't make applicants put in the work if you're not even going to provide a response, or any sort of feedback -- even when the position stays open for months. The result is that people looking for jobs have to submit huge numbers of custom cover letters, and tweaked resumes, with no feedback, all within a vacuum. Hence the feeling that they need to "pump up" their resume, just to get over the initial gate.

The world is a better place for this app. Wonderful!

The fact that this won't go "web scale" seems to be its strength. The idea of local/human/authentic trust ecosystems is super powerful. "Proof of personhood" is fraught with issues, but it seems that lightweight trust algos like this do a nice job of treating trust as a human-first emergent thing, rather than trying to be a PKI style "infrastructure". Pretty cool!

Then, there's "VC twitter". . . .

I had to look. This tickled the copywriter in me: "Mission: To extend human reach by giving everyone the code to leverage their life." so you can leverage your life? never thought of that.

You really didn't want to see Titus Pullo fighting the Picts??

But I think the HBO series Rome captured exactly this, or at least as much as it could in brief span. The life and struggles of freemen and slaves, not just the emperor. One of the greatest TV series ever, and cut off in its prime after only 2 seasons. Full set of Rome built on Cinecittà studios!

I was at a bitcoin conference in 2018. One guy in the booth told me that the company had set up a $100M fund to fund startups that agreed to build apps on their blockchain. I wonder where they are now?

I just switched to Codex after using Claude Code (heavily). The main advantage is that usage/pricing is MUCH more transparent. It's slower but generally more thoughtful. Claude Code has that bad habit of slapping together duplicates, fallbacks, mock data. Thus far, Codex is doing a bit better, but I still use (and pay for) both.

Exactly what Buffett put into Bank of America in 2011. Not sure what that means, but. . . data points:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/warren-buffe...

I always believed in Bryan, but the day i heard the buzzword "cloud repatriation", I know there was a market.

Me too! Much rather have herds of these than fleets of cybertaxis.

Attorney and legal commentator Tristan Snell, via X: "Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter was financed by borrowing money. He used his Tesla stock as collateral. If Tesla stock keeps crashing, the banks/creditors could repossess Twitter."

Totally! Probably for a restaurant menu or something. . . It also seems likely that they added Jeffrey Goldberg, (the Atlantic's editor-in-chief) to the chat as the outlet, so the whole thing would become public. . . .

This is a solved problem. My 2009 4Runner has the perfect temp control. I couldn't tell you how it works. But my hand knows. Which is perfect tool design.

Great article -- showcasing some stuff from the p99 conference. . . .