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Almost eight years ago, I texted @Jobvo: “Look, I just quit.”
I’d just told my CTO I had to go do my own thing. It was emotional for both of us.
Later, Job’s wife sent me a video of him coming down the stairs, half shaking, while she narrated: he’d just spoken with his CEO. He five months pregnant. Job had a nine-month-old baby. My wife told me, “Look, we’ll manage. We were never big spenders. If this goes sideways, we’ll have enough.”
We said we’d take a couple of weeks off over Christmas before starting @Remote. We didn’t. We started coding immediately.
It’s never a great time - if we had postponed it, it would have just been us going back and forth on the decision. You commit and go.
I’d just told my CTO I had to go do my own thing. It was emotional for both of us.
Later, Job’s wife sent me a video of him coming down the stairs, half shaking, while she narrated: he’d just spoken with his CEO. He five months pregnant. Job had a nine-month-old baby. My wife told me, “Look, we’ll manage. We were never big spenders. If this goes sideways, we’ll have enough.”
We said we’d take a couple of weeks off over Christmas before starting @Remote. We didn’t. We started coding immediately.
It’s never a great time - if we had postponed it, it would have just been us going back and forth on the decision. You commit and go.
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It’s agency and grit.
The next decade won't reward tourists. It will reward people who combine audacity with discipline. Who understand that technology cycles come and go, but that building enduring companies requires clarity of purpose and consistency of execution.
Venture has always been about backing outliers. That hasn't changed. If anything, it matters more now.
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ok this is just ridiculous
Introducing Inkling 2 Small. Scoring 31 on the AA Intelligence Index, it's a big jump over its predecessor.
Inkling 2 Small is available for fine-tuning and inference on Tinker today, with full weight release planned soon.
thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2…
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We just launched @remote Expense Cards for Remote EOR.
Virtual cards, limits/rules set up front, receipt in the app.
remote.com/blog/introduci…
Virtual cards, limits/rules set up front, receipt in the app.
remote.com/blog/introduci…
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It's not every day that you partner with the largest payroll company in the world. Today is not every day.
Super excited to partner with @ADP to bring EOR to all Workforce Now customers!
Super excited to partner with @ADP to bring EOR to all Workforce Now customers!
Great talent can come from anywhere, and now hiring can, too.
We're excited to introduce ADP® Global EOR, powered by Remote, giving ADP Workforce Now® customers a new way to access and hire talent globally.
Organizations can hire and employ talent around the world without ties, helping them move faster, helping them stay compliant and reducing the complexities of international employment.
Hire globally and keep your workforce connected in one place.
Learn how ADP Workforce Now customers can unlock new hiring opportunities worldwide: bit.ly/4i8fh00. @remote
#GlobalTalent #GlobalHiring #FutureOfWork #WorkforceStrategy
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This is average across all engineers. The top decile is crazy
74x more AI tokens.
4.2x more shipped.
66% cheaper per merge.
+820 engineers' worth of output, zero new hires
We've also built an internal harness that in the pilot project puts shipping at 44x instead of 4.2x - more to come from our team at @remote.
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I've always wondered about this. It's widely known that you get a massive amount of radiation when flying.
Guess we have no choice but to line airplanes in lead.
Guess we have no choice but to line airplanes in lead.
One of the most underdiscussed recent cancer studies:
Pilots and flight attendants die more from radiation-related cancers.
Ground crews don't, and, the risk of other cancers isn't heightened.
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When you work from home you miss out on having your own massive building with your brand on it in a big logo. But you still get to see it in a lot of other places: San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, London, Paris, Madrid, Frankfurt, Amsterdam.
Congratulations to everyone who rebrand. Whenever we say we’ll launch with a bang, it’s hard to go more bangish than this. I’m very proud.
Congratulations to everyone who rebrand. Whenever we say we’ll launch with a bang, it’s hard to go more bangish than this. I’m very proud.
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People keep shitting on Brussels leadership for issues in Europe.
In my experience so far it’s member states and parliament that come up with hurdles and insane clauses that renders europe wide fixes useless.
Usually because of status quo lobbists or incentives to never change anything m.
No idea where @euacchq got this file from, as this stuff in usually not leaked, but to read for yourself.
(And council doesn’t even come up with the really crazy change requests, Parliament does.)
PS: welcome to my hell lol.
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In my experience so far it’s member states and parliament that come up with hurdles and insane clauses that renders europe wide fixes useless.
Usually because of status quo lobbists or incentives to never change anything m.
No idea where @euacchq got this file from, as this stuff in usually not leaked, but to read for yourself.
(And council doesn’t even come up with the really crazy change requests, Parliament does.)
PS: welcome to my hell lol.
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Ladies & Gentlemen, we have managed to get the @EUCouncil ' EU Inc files. The ones that matter. The ones where we see the position of Each Member state: including who pushed the notaries' agenda.
Buckle up and Repost. 🍿 Now if you are from those Member States, make some noise.
Directly or through associations, politicians. Enjoy the thread 🧵 1/
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Despite:
85% gross margins (H1 '26)
21% FCF margins (H1 '26)
8% FCF ex-SBC margins (H1 '26)
8% GAAP Operating Margins (Q2 '26)
$134b of cash today after raising $141b in total (and yes, this includes the converts)
There are STILL people who want to pretzel brain the "Anthropic isn't profitable" narative
85% gross margins (H1 '26)
21% FCF margins (H1 '26)
8% FCF ex-SBC margins (H1 '26)
8% GAAP Operating Margins (Q2 '26)
$134b of cash today after raising $141b in total (and yes, this includes the converts)
There are STILL people who want to pretzel brain the "Anthropic isn't profitable" narative
If this is correct, Anthropic is not nearly as close to profitable as many folks seem to believe.
Instead, it appears they relied on a huge (but presumably not perpetual) subsidy from Amazon.
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Sad story: my kids never even had a plastic straw. They were complaining that straws always get soggy.
“Well, not all…”
“Well, not all…”
Paper straws worse for the environment than plastic ones, says study trib.al/TEphuYk
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I built two benchmarks at @remote to measure how good AI is at payroll (Paymark) and employment law (HRmark).
Tested across 50 countries and 12 models from 8 providers.
The best model got 69% on employment law. On payroll, the best got 26% of payslip items fully right.
Tested across 50 countries and 12 models from 8 providers.
The best model got 69% on employment law. On payroll, the best got 26% of payslip items fully right.
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"University researchers built a satellite that tracks people from low Earth orbit and dispatches a 5 kg payload to within .1 meter of their position, traveling at Mach 25 to anywhere on Earth in under 5 minutes. They suggest it could be used to deliver greeting cards."
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI. x.com/tokufxug/statu…
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I don’t use Figma anymore.
For the past six months I’ve been uploading my consciousness directly into the ether and allowing the work to manifest through minor disturbances in the electromagnetic field. You think you are seeing the aurora borealis that's actually my brain waves.
It’s a much more intuitive process. I sit completely still in my office until a founder somewhere develops a sudden inspiration for their brand positioning but in reality it was me clipping them in their brain stem, smiling down on them like one of God's children.
People keep asking what tools I’m using. I understand the question. I used to think that way too. But asking me what tools I use is like asking a glass of water what software is wetness. Its a meaningless question.
I don’t design anymore. I am the pixels. I am the logo. I am the little bit of space between the 'r' and the 'n' that you better make sure is kerned properly. When you increase the font size I experience physical growth. When you cut a vector point, my consciousness goes into quantum superposition.
This is where the industry is going. If you're not on board, you're going to get left behind.
My entire design system now lives in the collective unconscious. There’s no documentation. Your team will simply wake up knowing the button radius. If someone uses the wrong shade of blue they’ll hear a high pitched ringing sound until they correct it.
Developer handoff has been so smooth since I started working this way. My effigy appears at the foot of the engineer’s bed and I open my mouth. The CSS comes out at a frequency only their fillings can receive. We’ve eliminated all meetings.
I no longer send clients presentations. I enter their dreams as a white horse with an already complete interactive brand guidelines. They’re free to leave feedback by speaking into a bowl of room temperature water. I receive it immediately and disagree with it on a cellular level. Transcending this outdated material plane is my standing Tuesday meeting.
Some people are uncomfortable with this. A procurement manager recently asked whether I could provide an SVG of the logo and I just told her to close her eyes and remember the first time she felt truly understood. She looked annoyed and just said their print vendor needed an SVG by today.
A big adjustment has been personal. My wife asked if I could help bring in the groceries. I explained that I now exist simultaneously across every customer touchpoint.
I think there’s a lot of fear right now about what happens when designers stop needing tools. But the people who adapt will be fine. You just have to be willing to let go of a few outdated ideas. Like having a body. Being legally distinguishable from a gradient.
Anyway I am open for new branding projects this quarter.
For the past six months I’ve been uploading my consciousness directly into the ether and allowing the work to manifest through minor disturbances in the electromagnetic field. You think you are seeing the aurora borealis that's actually my brain waves.
It’s a much more intuitive process. I sit completely still in my office until a founder somewhere develops a sudden inspiration for their brand positioning but in reality it was me clipping them in their brain stem, smiling down on them like one of God's children.
People keep asking what tools I’m using. I understand the question. I used to think that way too. But asking me what tools I use is like asking a glass of water what software is wetness. Its a meaningless question.
I don’t design anymore. I am the pixels. I am the logo. I am the little bit of space between the 'r' and the 'n' that you better make sure is kerned properly. When you increase the font size I experience physical growth. When you cut a vector point, my consciousness goes into quantum superposition.
This is where the industry is going. If you're not on board, you're going to get left behind.
My entire design system now lives in the collective unconscious. There’s no documentation. Your team will simply wake up knowing the button radius. If someone uses the wrong shade of blue they’ll hear a high pitched ringing sound until they correct it.
Developer handoff has been so smooth since I started working this way. My effigy appears at the foot of the engineer’s bed and I open my mouth. The CSS comes out at a frequency only their fillings can receive. We’ve eliminated all meetings.
I no longer send clients presentations. I enter their dreams as a white horse with an already complete interactive brand guidelines. They’re free to leave feedback by speaking into a bowl of room temperature water. I receive it immediately and disagree with it on a cellular level. Transcending this outdated material plane is my standing Tuesday meeting.
Some people are uncomfortable with this. A procurement manager recently asked whether I could provide an SVG of the logo and I just told her to close her eyes and remember the first time she felt truly understood. She looked annoyed and just said their print vendor needed an SVG by today.
A big adjustment has been personal. My wife asked if I could help bring in the groceries. I explained that I now exist simultaneously across every customer touchpoint.
I think there’s a lot of fear right now about what happens when designers stop needing tools. But the people who adapt will be fine. You just have to be willing to let go of a few outdated ideas. Like having a body. Being legally distinguishable from a gradient.
Anyway I am open for new branding projects this quarter.
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Very cool
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